I'm freezing

The last two weeks at school we have been investigating temperatures. We have made our own temperature gauges and have looked at pictures of hot and cold places. We have put our hand into water and decided if it was warm, cold or freezing!

This week we will use ice-blocks to find the hot spots and cold spots in our classroom and will dress up for hot or cold weather.

At home you could do the same experience. Use the melt-times of ice-cubes to help your child find the hottest spot and coldest spot in your house. These need to be spaces you can stand in so the oven or freezer can’t be used.

This term we have also focused on positional language.  Here we are using our positional words to go over an obstacle course on the senior playground.

Congratulations to the people that received certificates in the school Assembly on Friday. We also say goodbye to Ismaiah and her family at the end of the week. We have loved having you in Room 5. All the best at your new school.

Production Snapshots

Congratulations to all of our wonderful, amazing Ants!!  You did an awesome job and worked as a team to make our show amazing!!

You can now have a rest until our next big adventure!

Andy's Garden Junior Production 2016

Maori whanau and a sneak peek...

Each week we have a lesson exploring Maori words, phrases, waiatas and culture.
At the start of each lesson we sing this waiata as a greeting.  This is the link for you to practise with your family if you would like to. Greeting waiata

We have learnt how to say our name in Maori and are now learning the names of our family members.  You can practise with you child saying: Ko (name) oh (My name is ....)

Practising with our friends

Maori whanau chart

We have been hard practising for our production. Here is a sneak peek...

See you at the show!!

Maths Challenge

Congratulations to those people that completed a maths challenge activity last week for Maths Week. We had a variety of items and it was great to see the children taking responsibility for their own work when they shared it with the rest of the class.

As production practising is taking up a lot of our time, we have been focussing on positional language, ordinal numbers and the language of probability during maths time.

Assembly

Well done to Room 5! 

 Everyone did an excellent job of learning how working together requires a range of different skills.

 Next week we will continue this idea as we start seeing the different skills that the Year 1 and 2 classes will bring as we practise for our big school production. 

Please mark in your diaries September 6 and 8 for our evening performances.

Here we are practising our different parts for Friday's Assembly.

Our feelings

Children's Voice: This week in writing, we wrote about our feelings as a follow up to the Life Education Van. Here are some of our stories that we will illustrate and put into our published stories folders.

I am happy when I go to the supermarket.

By Albert

I am happy when I am going in my Mum’s and Dad’s car.

By Bella

I am feeling excited because I’m going to have an ice cream.

By Ismaiah

I like talking about bees.

By Alea

I am happy when I am playing.

By Mason A.

I am happy when I am dressing up.

By Veronica

I am angry when mosquitoes are biting me in bed.

By Archer

Last week we read the book Greedy Cat. Here is our version of it. Have fun reading it with your child.

Teacher Voice: Please check you child's book bag on a regular basis to retrieve notices.  I hope you saw the notice about bringing in a black top and bottom for the Production costume.

We are getting excited about being on stage with Room 8 for this Friday's assembly at 2:15.