Athletics Awards

In  Room 16 most children enjoy athletics.  At assembly today four children were awarded athletics certificates - Elevina, Carnita, Attah and Pauliasi.

Elevina

Carnita

Pauliasi

                                                                                Attah

Attah's Reward

Attah was caught sitting up and listening in assembly so he received a sticker.  You deserved your sticker Attah as you tried really hard to sit still and listen.

Attah and his POD certificate

Attah is enjoying playing Rippa Rugby on a Friday night for the school.  He received the player of  the day certificate at assembly last Friday and was very excited to go up on the stage with all the other winners of certificates to show it to the school.

Cruze and Attah's Certificates

Cruze and Attah were awarded Team One certificates last week.  Mrs Fester took a photo of them standing proudly in front of assembly with their certificates.  Attah is fourth from the left and Cruze is fifth from the left.

Our Volcano Stories

Bavin with his great story of how the lava cascaded down the mountain

Attah's volcano story

Rataimore drew lots of rocks and wrote about them in her story

Elena wrote about the lava bubbling out of their volcano

Duffy Certificate Winners

Cruze and Attah were recent Duffy Certificate Winners.  They have both been working hard and were pleased to choose a book to take home and share with their families.

Cruze with his book about the Little Yellow Digger

Attah with the story book about the ANZAC Puppy 

Attah's Construction.

Attah has enjoyed using some cardboard boxes, his scissors and glue stick to do some construction work.  Here he is hard at work.

Subitizing Dot Patterns

Playing a dice game was a fun introduction to learning about subitizing.  Subitizing is being able to tell the number in a set quickly without counting.  We know that 3 dots diagonally across a dice is the pattern for the number 3 and 3 dots in two rows is the number 6.  In our game we had to place coloured counters over the same amount of dots on a picture as was shown on the dice. 

Attah and Chad checking what was on the dice and how many counters were added.

Joelle and Elena checking the number of counters they have added

Friday Fun Activities

Having fun with friends is something we miss at the moment while we are in lockdown but we can still enjoy looking at pictures of us doing things together.

Bavin and Taylor making a city with the blocks

Cruze, Samson, Taylor and Attah enjoying building a railway line

Elena and Carnita playing with the railway

"I can do it!"

Through the Kiwisport "Get, Set, Go " programme the children have been learning how to balance.  Some of the children have been finding this a difficult skill so we used our Engage skills of relaxing first and listening carefully to the instructions of looking straight ahead, not talking, aeroplane arms and gradually getting our balance on one leg then lifting it off the ground.  Suddenly there was a very excited voice saying, "I can do it!" as Attah listen carefully to the instructions.  Well done, Attah.

Attah (third from left) was excited to find he could balance

Peyton found it easy to balance

Team One Certificates For Week 3 Term 1

Attah and Meria were awarded Room 16's Team Certificates for week 3.  Meria has been trying really hard with her story writing and drawing lovely detailed pictures to match them.  Attah has also been trying hard with his writing.

Meria on the left and Attah with their certificates

Team One Certificate winners Attah is on the left with Meria beside him

 

Learning How to Use Our iPads

We have had fun learning how to use some of the tools on our iPads by listening hard and following the instructions.  We learnt how to look after our iPads, take photos in Explain Everything, put them into a new document and then close the document when we have finished.  At first the children found it hard to take a good photo but with practise and patience they are now great at making sure what they are taking a photo of is in the middle of the screen.

Peyton lines up her red item to photograph.

Olivia practising her skills.

Eli with his photo up on the Apple TV

Peyton took a lovely centred picture of her classmate after asking his permission.

Elevina manages to put 3 pictures on her page

Attah followed the instructions too.

Having Milk And Fruit

This morning we had milk delivered to our class and the children enjoyed sitting outside drinking a carton of nice cold milk with a straw.  We also had some yummy plums to eat.

Olivia finishing off her milk while Carnita folds her finished carton flat

Bavin is enjoying a yummy plum

Peyton likes the cold milk on a hot day

Chad, Samson, Taylor, Pauliasi, Tone and Cruze enjoying their milk

Tone said, "I like this milk!"

Attah said, "This milk is cool."

New Buddies for Room 16.

We have had 7 new buddies join our class.  They received their book bags at assembly on Friday and proudly displayed.

From left to right - Cruze, Bavin, Joelle, Peyton, Taylor, Attah and Eli

Beginning a New Year

A new school year has begun with a new class of 5 year olds.  It is all very exciting getting to know new classmates, learning new things and being at "big school".

Room 16 2020

New buddies having lunch together- Attah, Taylor and Olivia

Joelle remembers to put on her hat

Attah did a great job with his worksheet

Carolyna is proud of her colourful work

We can tidy up when we have finished!

All hard at work

Carolyna and Pauliasi trying to do their best writing