Whanaungatanga day karaoke

 We had a whole school Whanaungatanga day which included a talent quest. Room 3 had heaps of entrants for karaoke and did an amazing job up on stage. Here are the videos:

Year 6 Transition

The Year 6 students spent a morning at Kaikohe Intermediate School this week. One of the activities was a place value game:

Reading to - The Jumbies

 

We have been reading The Jumbies in class. It is 'an inventive twist on a classic Haitian folktale' [Goodreads] and we are really enjoying it.  As the year is disappearing quickly I am not sure we will finish the book. Fortunately, you are able to read this online - just click on the link.

Assembly and T-Ball

Room 3 were on Assembly this week. Manakitanga, Calaise and Ahzaria-Lee made us proud on the taumata kōrero. 

We have been practicing Touch and T-Ball for the interclass competitions starting next week. We are lucky to have Yvonne helping us. The improvement from when we started is huge!

Soccer Skills

 We had a great time on Wednesday learning soccer skills with James and Max. They knew lots of challenging games to keep us moving.

Performing plays and writing them!

 Last term we all gave feedback on what we liked and didn't like about reading:

The main thing we discovered is that a lot of us like reading and performing plays. So this term we have had a strong focus on reading scripts. This has transferred into our writing and last week we wrote our own plays and presented them to the class.

'tion' suffix and charging station

 We have been learning the tricky suffix 'tion'. Room 3 could think of lots of words that have this ending. Here are some of them: 

Every morning we check in to let our teacher know how we are feeling. We stand on the charging mat and put our token into the box. If we are feeling Great we take a Green card - there are ideas for us to help others. If we are feeling OK there are ideas to help us feel better on the Yellow cards. And if our token goes into the Red box it means we are feeling Low and would like some help to solve our problem. We can fill in the form and Mrs Bingham knows to catch up with us during the day. Here is what our charging station looks like:

Poetry - similes & metaphors

 We have been writing poetry using similes and metaphors, based on the model text The Red Pencil Sharpener by John Malone.

 

Fraction museum

We made a fraction museum in class to show our understanding of fractions. One third of the glue sticks are yellow:

Lockdown reflections and descriptive writing

Our first couple of days back we had stories to share about lockdown. Most of them included lots of food! We made a display to show what lockdown was like for us:

Cannon has been working on using more descriptive language. For writing, he made some boring sentences more interesting in our modelling book:

Lockdown

Well, that was a shock to suddenly stay home for 3 weeks! Thanks to technology we were able to keep in touch and check on each other. 

Here is one of the many Zooms we had while we were in Lockdown:

We played games, went through our work for the day and shared our daily lives with each other. 

He aha te taima?

We have  been learning how to talk about time, weather and seasons this week in Te Reo Māori. 

Self-Esteem and Unconscious Bias

As part of our Self-Esteem unit from School Kit we are learning about unconscious bias. We chose a portrait from DigitalNZ and wrote about them based solely on their appearance. Then we asked "how is this person different on the inside from how we see them on the outside?"

Olympics mahi

 Tamati's reading group have been reading about the Olympics and learning some vocabulary. He designed a medal for our school. Tino pai Tamati.

Bling Bling Toi Marama

 Room 3 learned how to make beaded insects and lizards for our contribution to the Kaikohe West School display at Bling Bling Toi Marama.  Ahakoa he iti he pounamu.

Whanau evening and Kapa Haka

We had our whānau evening on Wednesday and Room 3 did an awesome job performing with Room 2 and Room 11. Here is the haka we did after our two waiata:

Computational Thinking - Mū Tōrere

This week we learned to play Mū Tōrere. It is a 2 player board game. Lots of steps are needed to decompose the game to be a winner.

We are achieving: Computational thinking Progress Outcome 1:

I can figure out how a simple task can be broken down into a series of steps (called decomposition).

Basketball and non-chronological reports

We finally had some fine weather on Thursday so we headed out for a game of basketball. Luckily, we have Matua Ryan in our class so he could teach us some skills.

We also completed our hot task non-chronological report for korero ki te tuhi. Here are some photos of us innovating on the model text and researching our chosen planet:

First rocket launches

 On Wednesday we finally got to test our rocket prototypes. The results were interesting! Check out the videos  below. We will be doing some more theory next week - Newton's third law of motion. Then we will modify (and repair) our rockets so the launches will be even more spectacular next time.

Injury Prevention

Whaea Jo from St John Ambulance came to teach us how to be safe at home and at school. The main message was 'slow down'! We learned how to put bandages on (and roll them up neatly when we had finished). Room 3 were great role models for Ngatahi ai te Mahi during this lesson.