Prize Winners in Room 16

At the 2016 Prize Giving Room 16 was represented by Hinemoa for Citizenship, Hamza for Effort and Jin for Academic Promise.  Well done the three prize winners.

Jin, Hinemoa and Hamza.

Our October Birthday Buddies

We have 5 birthdays to celebrate this month at school.  Marius, Tumanako, Vika, Jin and Temalisi got birthday certificates at Team Assembly today with Jin and Temalisi sharing a birthday today.

Jin, Temalisi, Marius and Tumanako with their birthday certificates. (Vika was absent)

Loud Shirt Day

In support of the hearing impaired people we had a loud shirt mufti day.  Room 16 supporters had some beautiful "loud" clothes on right down to matching "loud" shoes.

Adrianna, Jeyda, Khyani, Temalisi, Savanah in the front with Jin standing and Tevita kneeling at the back.

Adrianna is her beautifully matched "loud" outfit.

End of Term Treats

We had a special treat for morning tea on the last day of term.   It was fun to celebrate the end of term by munching cookies along with our fruit.

Savanah, Vaha, Te Ao, Jeyda munching cookies.

Jeyda, Temalisi, Adrianna, Marius, Jin.

Wheels at School

On the last day of term we had a "Wheels Day" when the children were able to bring their "wheels" to school.  Bikes, scooters and skate boards were brought to school and the children had great fun whizzing around the school on their wheels.

Khyani and Jeyda on their scooters.

Marius and Jin get set for some scootering.

Team Work to Measure.

It took quite a few children to build a high Duplo tower but with team work anything is possible.

Charlotte, Tevita, Jeyda, Savanah and Jin building a giant tower

For motivation in writing we looked at a picture of a grey and white cat who obviously liked eating up all his dinner.   He seemed to be sitting in the gutter watching what was going on around him.  Jin and Marius have used some good language such as "lounging" and "watching the view" to indicate how he was sitting and from the size of him what he liked doing.

 "A kitty cat is lounging in the gutter.  He must be warm.  I will hug him and give him a cuddle. Meow. Meow. Meow." By Marius

"Kitty Cat was resting and he was watching the view.  He ordered a pizza.  He loved pepperoni pizzas every day."  By Jin

The cat who liked pizza.

BN2 da GG + W

BE NICE TO THE GRASS AND GARDENS PLUS THE WALLS

With all the rain we have had there is a lot of mud around the school grounds so the Friday message at assembly was "BN2daGG+ W".  This motivated some of the students to write and draw about their experiences.

By Jeyda

"We have lots of muddy puddles at school.  Watch out and keep dry and keep your shoes clean."  By Jeyda

"BN2daGG+W There is too much mud on our field.  We don't want mud on the walls or people."  By Hinemoa

"We need to be careful where we play and where we walk."  By Khyani

"I was running to the park.  I fell on the ground and I went to the office because I got so muddy."  By Jin

Writing to Harold

Harold and Lynn are going to another school to teach more children how to be fit and healthy.  We enjoyed going to Harold's special classroom to learn about what we should do to keep ourselves healthy.  We decided to write and thank them.  This is what Jin and Adrianna wrote:

 

Dr Rabbit's Visit

"Dr Rabbit gave us a tooth brush and tooth paste in a pack and he showed us how to brush and clean our teeth every morning and every night."  By Jin

"In the weekend I got my tooth brush and I brushed my teeth.  It is healthy.  I went to sleep."  By Jarra

A Pirate Adventure to get the Key

"Watch my pirate story to see how the pirate managed to get something for his Mother on Mother's Day." By Jin

The Paper Bag Monsters

Room 16 recently enjoyed the book "The Night of the Paper Bag Monsters" by Helen Craig.

Jin wrote," I think they are getting ready for a ghost party and they won the ghost challenge.  They won the trophy."

Jeyda thought "the monsters were scary and colourful."  She drew a picture of one of the monsters on her iPad which sure looked scary with its horrible sharp teeth and yellow eyes.  I think I would have been scared meeting that monster on a dark night!

Measuring a Tower

We have started a new topic in maths about measuring.  Vaha and Jin wanted to measure their tower and see if it was as tall as they were.  Just a few more bricks and it would be as tall as you boys.

Vaha (left) and Jin measuring their tower against themselves.

Touching The Clouds

Last week we had a foggy start to the day which provided us with a great motivation for our writing.

"I saw funny clouds.  They looked beautiful.  I liked them because they looked soft and fluffy and white.  They were so close I could touch them.  They were wet and cold."  By Charlotte

"The sun touched the clouds and made it all foggy." By Tevita

"The fog was all around.  It covered the slide and made it wet." By Hinemoa

Jin thought the fog "was like when you are cooking and there is a lot of steam."

Tumanako said he felt "the low cloud made things disappear.  When you are running around you feel as if you are touching the sky."

Fiafia Jump Jam Group

The Jump Jam Group wore glow in the dark accessories which were very effective on the night. Jin,
Savanah and Jarra enjoyed being part of the Jump Jam group.

    
Jump Jam from Team 5 PES on Vimeo.

Learning How to Duplicate

Learning how to duplicate from Team 1 PES on Vimeo.
We have been using our iPads to learn about doubles in Maths.  We needed to learn how to duplicate the beans so that we had the same amount of beans on each side of our equation.  Jin was very excited to be able to duplicate the beans and showed some of his group how to do it.

Sliding Fast

After playing at the park Jin and Tumanako wrote a story about sliding down the slide.

"I went down the bumpy blue slide as fast as a flash of lightning."  By Jin and Tumanako.

Vika enjoying a slide.

Hinemoa coming down the  bumpy blue slide. 

Healthy Milk Drinks

Twice a week we have milk to drink.  It comes in cartons with a straw.  We are learning to "Drink it dry.  Fold it flat.  Send it back."  We help each other with the folding as this is tricky for small hands.  Thank you Fonterra for a heathy treat. By Room 16 

Temalisi and Adrianna "drinking it dry.".

Vaha showing Jin how to "fold it flat."

Charlotte has her carton ready to"send it back."

Drawing Bubbles with Kid pix

Today we began using Kid pix by learning how to draw a circle and close it up tight like a bubble.  We had to go into the colour swatch, choose a colour and then a pencil before using the mouse to make a bubble.  That was the tricky part but we all had a turn and managed to draw some beautiful bubbles.

"I made lots of bubbles on the computer.  I was practising making bubbles that were closed."  Dictated by Marius

Marius drew plenty of bubbles.

Jin drawing his bubbles.

Reading Activities on an iPad

Marius, Jin and Charlotte were able to do their reading activities on an iPad.  They had to find the text in their reading book.  The clue to help them was a small part of a picture which they matched with one in their book. After finding the correct page it was down to work of sequencing the text correctly on their iPad and read it out to see if it made sense.  Marius, Jin and Charlotte did a good job working as a team to help each other with the tricky steps

Charlotte finds the first word.

Jin and Marius discuss what comes next.

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