Buddy Reading with Room 11

Today we had buddy reading with our big buddies in Room 11.

We have been focusing on the strategy of retelling.

Our buddies made up some really cool games and activities to help us focus on the things we need to remember to retell a text in detail.

Who can tell our blog visitors some of the cool things that we did today with our buddies?

 

Hero Of The Week

Our Hero this week is Fergus. Have a great week Fergus. What are some of our values that Fergus shows at school?

Cricket Skills

Room 5 loved learning about cricket. We learnt lots of new skills. Can you remember what some of them were? See how many of the questions below you can answer.

We are learning which side of the bat that we hit a cricket ball with. Can you remember which side it should be? The flat side or the rounded side ? 

What type of throw is Fergus doing? 

Peta is holding the ball a special way. Can you remember what type of hand hold this is called?

What things must you remember when you are throwing the ball ?

Karakia (for before Kai)
E te Atua
Whakapaingia enei kai
Hei oranga mo o matou tinana
Me o matou wairua hoki
Amine

See if you can learn our Karakia off by hear before our marae trip.

We are focusing on suffixes again this week in spelling. Our suffix this week is ment which means ' act of ' or 'result of '.
How many words can you think of that have ment as a suffix and mean 'act' of something or  'result' of something. Let's see who can come up with the most.

Te Kupu o te Wiki 
Our maori word of the week this week is engari which means but. Can you think of a sentence using engari ?
I wanted to go to the movies engari I didn't have enough money.

Hero of the Week ... 

Our hero of the week this week is Gibby. What are some of the things Gibby can do to be a great role model?

Te Kupu o te wiki

Happy Birthday Fergus.

Today it was Fergus's special day. He was turning eight.

Fergus's Nana brought in a birthday cake. Yum Yum ! It was lovely to share Fergus's birthday with him. Can you tell me how old Fergus is in maori?

Hero of the week.

Our Hero of the week this week is Laura. Have a great week Laura and remember to model all of our school values.

Who can tell me what our value of the week is this week?

Hero of the week ... 

Our hero this week is Matthew. He has waited a long time to finally be our hero of the week. Matthew I know you will display all of our values and will be a great role model. We love your new glasses you look like a movie star Matt!

Hero Of The Week.

Our Hero of the week this week is Peta. What positive and special things did you say about Peta?

Welcome Fergus!

We would all like to say a great big WELCOME to Fergus. Fergus is now a cool kid in Room 5.

What things could you do to help Fergus feel safe and happy in our classroom?

Hit It 

Today we had our first badminton coaching lesson with Peter. It was heaps of fun. 

Can you tell me what the main parts of a badminton racket are called?

Recount Writing in Room 5.

Our main focus for writing this term has been Recounts. We watched the story of Christian the Lion. We then recounted what happened. Here is Gibby's recount of Christian's story.
Can you identify some of the recount features Gibby has used in his writing?

Christian The Lion.
In 1969 there were two men called John and Ace . One day they went to a shop called Harrods. You could buy anything at Harrods. They saw a little lion in a cage. John and Ace thought the lion should have a better home. They decided to save up for the lion. The Lions name was Christian.
Christian was very little so he could hide under the furniture. He also liked to lie on the tables. John and Ace took Christian to a church to exercise. Christian was great at soccer but Christian got too big. John and Ace knew they would have to release him back into the wild. Christian did too.
John and Ace called a safari park in Africa. They booked a flight to Africa. The flight was fifteen hours lone.
When John and Ace got to Africa they went into the wild but Christian didn't want to go. So John and Ace had to walk him around. After a few months John and Ace left to go back to London. They were sad to leave Christian.
One year later they decided to visit Christian in Africa. Everyone said that Christian would not remember them but John and Ace didn't care they went anyway. When they arrived in Africa they went searching for Christian. After hours of searching they found a lion pack. John called Christian's name. A lion stopped and stared at him. Then John and Ace called the lion again. Suddenly the big lion came charging towards them and jumped up on them and gave them a giant hug.                    John and Ace felt fantastic because Christian had remembered them.

By Gibby

Scientists at Work.

Hit It

Hit It.

We had another awesome session with Peter learning lots of different skills to help us play tennis.

 What was this game called?

1.  What skill do you think you were learning while you were playing this game?

Hero of the Week

 Our hero of the week this week is Ryan.

How does Ryan display school values?

Hero of the Week.

                                                                         

Our hero of the week this week is Finley.

Have a great week Finley. Strive to be the very best you can be.

Hit It

 Hit It.

Thump, thump, thump! I heard as Room 5 was charging out to the basketball court. I was excited. When we got onto the basketball court we saw Peter. Peter told us that he was a professional tennis coach.  Peter said, “  I am going to teach you about tennis”.

Peter told us about the face, the frame, the neck and the handle on the bottom of the racket. 

First we did some games to warm up. Next we did this crocodile game. You had to roll the tennis balls at people. If you hit them they had to be a crocodile as well.

We learnt about hand and eye co-ordination.

At the end we played one last game. We had to throw the ball up and hit it over the net. Our team won. I was super puffed at the end of Hit It. I had heaps of fun and so did the rest of Room 5.

By Ryan Galdeman.

                                                                                                          

Room 5's Class Representative.

Congratulations to Sara Esterman who was voted by the children in Room 5 to be their class representative.

Well done Sara. We all know you will represent Room 5 with passion and pride. 

Hero of the Week.

Our Hero of the Week this week is Leo. Leo is showing that he can be a self managed learner in Room 5. What school values have you seen Leo displaying in the classroom?

Hero of the week.

Hero of the week this week if Rylee.

Rylee is really excited because she can take Jack home for the holidays. We can't wait to hear about Jack's adventures when we get back to school. 

What values do you think our hero Rylee displays in class?

Eric Carle Inspired Collages

Eric Carle Inspired Sea Creatures

Room 5's author study this term has been Eric Carle. His book the Seahorse inspired us to create our own collage sea creatures.

We painted sheets of paper with bright colours. Then we added dots, spots and patterns to them.

Then we sketched our sea creature. We then tore up the painted paper into small pieces and collaged our sea creatures shape. We used a range of different colours and patterns. Once our creature was covered we put a coat of PVA glue on to seal it. Next  on a separate sheet of paper we used dye to create a background. Finally we glued our sea creature onto the background sheet.

We hope you like them. We think they look amazing!

Hero of the week.

 

 

Our hero this week is Izabella. Have a great week Izabella.

Our value this week is Respect let's see if we  can spot any of your classmates showing the value of Respect.

 

 

 

Jack had a great time at Laura's house this weekend. He was helping to look after the environment. He helped Laura's dad make a compost bin. Way to go Jack. How was Jack protecting his hearing?