Jellyfish Day

 Today has been a big day. We started off with phonics, we did the 'sh' digraph. Some of us did word finds (it was a hard word find) and others cut out letters to make words, some super speedy learners were able to do both. After morning tea we made jelly which wobbles like jellyfish. We put it into the fridge to cool, we are hoping it will be set before we go home. Next we read a fun book about Jellyfish, it was all about being helpful. When the book was finished we got to do some jellyfish art using water colours. It was super fun and pretty easy too. While the jellyfish art was drying we read a jellyfish poem and read it to three of our friends. 

After lunch we got to go for a walk to the eels at Johnson reserve. We had to do zombie arms and put sunblock all over us because it was so HOT! We wore our sun hats too. The water was a bit yucky today so it was hard to see the eels but we will go back later this week and hopefully they will all be there. When we got back to school we were SO HOT so we all had a cup of ice cold water and read a book in the shade. It was a cool day. 

Scientist Friday

Invisible Ink

Materials

- Lemon Juice

- White paper

- Cue tip

- Light source (the bigger the better)

To do this experiment you don't need must, just the four things above. You dip the cue tip into the lemon juice and write your secret message onto the paper. You shine the light onto the paper and it will reveal your secret message. 

Scientist Pryde demonstrating the invisible ink.

 

Athletics Practice

It was a beautiful afternoon so we got outside to have some fun races. We split into two teams the blue team and the red team. You have to walk with the egg on your spoon to the cone. When you get to the cone you throw four bags into the hula hoop. If you miss you have to pick it up and try again. When you get them all in you pick up your spoon and egg and run back to tag the next person in line. 

 

Learning to take photos

Micaela and Ava are learning what makes a good photo and what makes a bad photo. Above is some examples of 'bad' photos. The first photo they have their finger in the way and the photo is blurry. The second photo they aren't looking at the camera. The third photo they have lots of people behind them and the photo is unfocussed. 

To take a good photo you need to remember to have a background without distractions, the photo needs to be focused and the people need to be looking at the camera and smiling. Don't forget to keep your fingers clear of the camera lens.

Learning Through Play

The last few weeks Room 7 has been learning a range of new and different games, with a focus on card games. This helps us with number recognition, fine motor skills, social skills and is just a lot of fun. Below is some photos of our students learning through play.

Amarley and Ahea worked together to complete a puzzle. Later in the afternoon Rawiri joined in to help out. 

Two groups played Go Fish. We focused on waiting our turn, listening to others when it's their turn and identifying numbers to 10. Next time we might use harder numbers. 

One group played a new game called memory. Our focus was taking turns and paying attention to the numbers people were flipping over and trying to remember where they were. In the photo below you see Khit holding up a pair of fives, he was very excited. 

Isaac and Ziv took to the whiteboards. They took the roll by writing down all the names of the students that were in class and they wrote down all the class rules. Awesome writing skills guys! 

Freedom and Aryah played Pop up Pete, a wonderful game for fine motor skills. It was a bit of a shock to the whole class everytime Pete popped up.

What are your favourite games to play at home with your whanau?

Distance Learning - Thursday 4th March '21

Oat the Goat

Aanya is one of our three students on campus during alert level 3. She has been completing her distance learning tasks here at school and getting plenty of digital practice. Today Aanya watched the Oat the Goat video, drew a picture on her iPad of the goat then wrote a story to go with it. Aanya is practicing inserting pictures, using background colours and text boxes and is beginning to add things to her blog. Lots of learning, awesome work Aanya. 

Scientific Friday - Making Sime

 

On Friday Scientist Pryde came to Room 7 and we did chemistry by making slime. Chemistry is putting two or more ingredients together to make a whole new thing. We used food colouring, glue, borax and water to make slime but it didn't work. We are not 100% sure why it didn't work but we think it is because the ingredients were out of date. Have you got any good slime recipes that we could try?

Author: Myah 

Get Set Go!

Sports Coach

On Wednesday we did some balancing. When the coach said, "stop" we had to try balance on one leg with airplane arms. We sit down and listened to the coach, the coach picked someone to be the tagger. He gave them a pool noodle and the tagger had to run and tag everybody. When the person got tagged they had to stand like a starfish. To be back in the game, someone had to crawl through your legs. The tagging game was my favourite game because I liked tagging people. 

Author: Jeremiah, room 7

Room 7 has been enjoying Get Set Go which is a physical education program that incorporates all sorts of gross motor skills and balancing techniques with good old fashion fun. 

Story above orally titled and written by Jeremiah, room 7.

Life Education

Room 7 had their second session with Harold and Nicole today. The students got an opportunity to talk to Harold's puppet friends about their worries. We are getting good at sharing our feelings in the different colour zones. The blue zone is sad, yellow zone is worried, green zone is happy and the red zone is angry. When we have identified what zone we are in, we work together to find ways back to the green zone. This looks different for each student.

We also had a think about if we got lost and what we would do. We talked about our addresses and how it's important to know them so we know where to go if we do get lost. We are writing letters to our parents and are going to send our letters to our parents using our addresses. This ties in with our Inquiry topic, safety. 

Taekwondo

This term our students have been learning Taekwondo. We learnt that Taekwondo is a Korean martial art. We have to say some Korean words. It is important to listen to the leader because he teaches us how to punch and kick properly so we don't hurt ourselves. You don't use it in the playground though. Taekwondo is for self defence which means you only use it if you're in danger. 

We loved trying out our new skills on a bag and making all the fun sounds that go with it. At the end of our lessons we are going to get to kick a board in half. We're pretty excited about that. 

If you have any questions for us let us know. 

Making Musical Instruments

Todays creating challenge was to make an instrument. This is part of our inquiry about sound. Miss Pryde gave us a pile of old boxed and tubes then she let us go on an adventure hunt for anything that could help us make an instrument. We found lots of noisy things. We found leaves that go crunch, acorns that can make a rattling noise, sticks that can make lots of different types of noises depending on size and how you use them. We all came up with some very different ideas for musical instruments. We are a talented group of musicians. 

Egg Carton Creations

Today Room whitu did some creating. We used egg cartons, eyes, pipe cleaners, pompoms and glue to make insects or animals. Three of our brave boys chose to make crocodiles which after a lot of hard work turned out amazing. Some other creatures that are features are caterpillars, lady bugs, whales, bunnies, butterflies and turtles. How clever are we? What would you have made?

Learning from home - Vaingalo

Vaingalo has been doing some awesome at-home learning. For one of his writing tasks, Vaingalo had to find a tree outside his house, draw it, and write a story about it including the five senses. Vaingalo chose to draw an orange tree. I like how his family videoed him explaining his drawing. Good work Vaingalo, keep up the hard work.

Learning From Home - Vili

During this unusual time, our kiddos have been learning from home and what wonderful learning is being done. Vili is working his way through his own challenge sheet. For this challenge, he had to find something in his house that started with every letter of the alphabet. How awesome is his bubble for doing such a wonderful job? He couldn't find anything in his house that starts with an X, can you think of a word that starts with X?
Awesome learning Vili.

Library Forts

At the library room 7 read a book about how to make forts. We worked in groups of 5 to make our own forts. We had to work as a team. We used sheets, pillows, chairs and tables. One of our groups turned their fort into a library, another group chose to make a boy's room and girl's room. The final group made two rooms, one with pillows to make the ground comfortable. This is the room where you read softcover books. The other bedroom was empty and was to read hardcover books. The reason for this is because we have a rule that hardcover books have to be on the floor or on a table in order to protect the spine. This group also incorporated the library computers into their fort as their office. We thought this was pretty cool. All three groups worked wonderfully together and had such wonderful ideas. Tino Pai room 7.

Our Best Adventures

In room 7 we like to celebrate our learning. Below are three learners that worked very hard today. Ka rawe Vanessia, Kendric and Zahra. 

We Love the Library

We love library time! Our library has lots of fun books and so many fun places to read them. Our teachers always reads us a book at the start of library time then we get to go pick our own to take back to class. What is your favourite place to read? We really like reading outside.

Maritime Museum

On Friday, room 7 went to the Maritime Museum with room 2 and room 3. We learnt all about adventuring and exploring and what that looked like back in the 'olden days'. We got to see lots of boats, both big and small. Lee showed us some of the things you would take on a boat when you go on a big trip. We thought it was pretty cool how he talked about the Pacific Islands and how they found New Zealand.

Flying Fives

Today was our first day at flying fives for 2020. We go every Thursday and we love it. There is something for everyone and we never get bored. Sometimes we play by ourselves, sometimes we play with people and sometimes we just work alongside one another. Whatever we are doing, we are having plenty of fun and learning plenty too. What is something you enjoy playing with?

The Santa Claus Show

The Santa Claus Show

On Thursday we went to the magical Pumphouse on a bus. We went there to watch the magical show, it was amazing. Kelly wanted lots and lots of presents. Holly just wanted a white balloon for the girl who did not get a balloon. My favourite part was when the balloons all fell down.

Author: Eli, room 2

The Christmas Show

Yesterday room 2 went on a trip. We went to the Pumphouse Theatre. The show was made by Tim Bray. We went there by bus. It was like 100 degrees in the bus. The show we were watching was the Santa Claus show and it was hilarious. My favourite part was when the elf picked up the papers but the papers kept falling out of his arms.

Author: Malosi, room 2

The Santa Claus Show

On Thursday after morning tea we tucked in our shirts and we lined up outside for the bus. We were waiting to go to the Pumphouse! When we got to the Pumphouse we sat down on the chairs. At the start Elfy checked the list. The first rule was no electronics when the movie is on. Rule two is always sit down or you will get lost. Only stand up if your mum or teacher says you can stand up. My third favourite part was when Santa showed Kelly Santa's toy work shop.

Author: Jacob, room 2