Blue Bubble Learning, T4

Blue Bubble Learning

Room 7 has turned into a mixture of room 6 and room 7 and we are called the magnificent blue bubble. Check our blog for daily updates on all the fun things we are getting up to.  

 

Book character parade

On Friday we had book day. We dressed up as our favourite book characters because it was book week. We started the day off by going around the classrooms and listening to stories. Some of the people who read to us were Mr Johnston, our principal, Whaea Mele, Carlo's mum and a teacher at the kindergarten, the Panmure librarians and Mr James. After that we went to the hall for a special book day / Samoan language week assembly. There was a big surprise and Spiderman showed up. Spiderman jumped up on the stage and he was asking questions and all of them were about him. Next, all of the classes went to have lunch with their buddy class. With our buddy class we read books and ate our lunch. The last thing we did was take photos of ourselves in the Thing 1 and Thing 2 board. The day was fantastic!

Library trip

  

We went on a trip to the library for book week. We walked to the library and we got library cards. We got to get some library books to take home. There are some rules about library books. If the book has a hard cover you have to read it on the table so you don't break the spine. You aren't allowed to keep the books but you can have them for 28 days. I got a book called Black is a colour it is about a rainbow where there was black and some people thought black isn't a colour but it is. 

Author: Amarley Ryan                                                                                          

Blood Moon Writing

Ikeli and Juni have been working very hard on their learning. Today they wrote wonderful stories. You can see how proud they are by the smiles on their faces. Good work boys!

 

Last night the moon was red. - Juni

                                                            

I saw a moon in the sky at night, it was cool. It was red. - Ikeli

P.E - Netball

 

Today we learnt some netball skills. We learnt to push a ball from our chest , how to bounce the ball and how to catch the ball without it dropping. At the end of the lesson we played ball tag and dodge ball to see if we could put some of our skills into practice. We had a lot of fun. The hardest part was throwing the ball straight.

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?