Three Lunchbox Heroes

Last week Room 16 had three representatives with their names pulled out of the lunchbox heroes box of names.  Meria got some baked beans, Bavin got a coconut and Elena got a bunch of bananas.  I hope you managed to share your goodies with your families.

More Maths Measuring

When we wanted to find out who was the tallest person in our class we just compared our heights.  So when we wanted to find out who had the longest name in our class so we wrote our names on a piece of paper then tried to compare them but we found a problem.  Some people wrote in lovely big letters and some had small writing.  This made a long name look small and a small name look big.  What could we do to make a comparison seem equal?  Then someone remembered that to measure two things, the units of measurement need to be the same - if we all wrote in the same size squares then we could count the squares.  It didn't matter if the writing was big or small!  Rataimore had the longest name as she needed 9 squares to write her name.

Bavin pointing out some names looked big and some looked small

Elena counting squares to see who had the longest name

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

Team Assembly Certificate Day

We are finally back to having team assemblies again!  It was nice having Thursday certificates again to reward the children who have been working hard in class.  It is always hard to decide who to give certificates to when everyone is working so hard but Ms Hockly says - just two!  This week Bavin has been planning his stories and trying to use his letter sounds to write words that he doesn't know.  Elena has done some exceptional work in Maths.  When I tested her she really thought hard before answering and in class discussions she was able to add more information and help other people see why she thought an answer was a better one.  Well done for your hard work this week Bavin and Elena.

Bavin second from the left and Elena third from the left holding their Team Assembly certificates

Literacy Learning Activities

When the children have finished their reading and writing activities they are able to chose a literacy activity.  Joelle and Bavin chose to recognise and match up some high frequency words while Eli and Samson chose to say the letter sound and find a matching letter.

Joelle and Bavin

Eli and Samson at work.

Bavin's Duffy Certificate

Bavin has a great attitude towards his learning and is prepared to do extra learning at home so he was awarded the Duffy Certificate for Room 16.

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."

Sports Rotation

On Friday afternoon we have our sports rotation.  The children enjoyed getting outside and playing three different games.

The three teams enjoying a throwing activity.

Jacob throwing the quoit over the cone.

Bavin jumped over the last hurdle

Jacob running with the baton

Up and over the hurdle

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