Wonderful Writing Week 8

 Have a look at some of the awesome pieces of writing below produced by Room 16. We have been looking at the game 'granny/ Kuia' went to market and creating our own scenarios where the children and a friend have been to the shop. 

Madden has been working so hard to improve his writing and his confidence is soaring too. Well done Madden!

Te Aupouri is working very hard to practice her handwriting and her writing as well as remembering the date! Phew, that's a lot of things - Good job Te Aupouri!

Luke has been experimenting with writing his own sentences which are a little different to our big class sentence. In this story he and his friend go to the Animal Land! What an amazing adventure.

Well done everyone!

School Expectations - Our Positive behaviours in school!

 This week we have been looking at our School Expectations again and how we can use our positive behaviours. 

We are working together to understand our expectations and doing an awesome job! Have a read of our book on expectations below  on this link 

Term 3 Week 7

 Kia Ora everyone!

Have a look at our superstar certificate holders for this week; Luke, Aarav, and Heidi. Anaya also won the Duffy award but was excitedly collecting her book whilst we snapped our picture!

We also celebrated Pajama/ slippers day on Friday which helped to raise money towards the senior camp trip. There was some very funky pajamas going on!

Roundup of the week (pictures to follow):

This week we have been reading the story: Weta went walking. 

We have based our Writing around it and the children have produced some awesome stories!

In Maths we have been finishing our topic on addition, ready to move onto subtraction. Many of the children are starting to see the number bonds to 5 and 10 which is really helpful for them in their quick addition skills. Next week we will specifically be looking at the '1 more' and '1 less' ideas.

In Handwriting the children have settled into the routine of filling in one page of their handwriting books first thing on a morning, and practicing a letter in their 'how to write' books each afternoon.

In Topic we are continuing to create our product for the upcoming craft market. We are keeping it a little bit secret so that we can finalise it but next week we will be beginning full time creation of our product so you will start to see lots of picture appearing.

Finally, in Te Reo we have made a very positive start in learning a little bit of Maori and a little bit of New Zealand Sign Language. We talked about how important languages are to us and how useful it is to know other languages. Room 16 have been learning to say hello/good morning to the register in different ways as well so thank you to all the adults who have encouraged this too- I am not surprised anymore when the children are teaching me a different way to say hello! 

Thank you all the Room 16 adults for your support in the transition back to school. 

Miss Rayner

Successful learners Week 2 of Online Distance Learning

 Everyone has done such an awesome job again this week that I found it so tricky to work out who to give our awards to... lucky for me it means I already have my eye on lots of children for a certificate next week so don't worry if you haven't had a certificate yet! 

Here are two lovely girls who have been going above and beyond with their work this week. 

Waris has been joining in all the google meets as well as the majority of our maths meets. She has also been doing lots of extra work at home with her mum and thinking hard when it comes to her writing.

Our second person is Aquarius! Aqua has been doing such a fab job this week using our home learning packs and coming up with fantastic and creative ideas. She has also been taking part in our science experiments online and trying them out at home.  Well done!

Well done Room 16 for your learning over lockdown. I am very proud of every one of you (and your adults!) for trying your best even though things are a bit different! I will see you on Monday by 8:55 in the classroom. Remember you get to walk through the big gates all by yourself now but watch out for Mrs Futcher who will be there to welcome you in. Miss Rayner will be in the classroom ready and waiting.

Kia Kaha everyone.

Week 2 learning

 I have been so impressed with all of the learning Room 16 has been doing this week, you've been sending me so many pictures I haven't had time to collect them altogether!

Here are just some of the amazing things Room 16 children have been up to this week:

Awesome job developing your understanding of the book 'Oh, no!' Rara. You've really challenged yourself to read it and I'm very proud of you!

Waris has been up to a multitude of things including building her own fort/castle and practicing her 'oo' sounds. She has been joining in with lots of meets as well. Well done lovely!

Robert has been doing lots and lots of work over our online learning. He is so excited to try our science experiments that he sometimes even does them in our online meets! Here is some of Robert's maths work from our maths afternoon session on Tuesday Robert (alongside Waris) helped me to work out how much $4 + $4 would be and what we could buy with it!

Here is Boston's science experiment! He is doing our experiment from when we added food coloring, oil, and water together. It looks like it was a big success, awesome job Boston!

Here is Aqua doing her science experiment at home too. It turned out beautifully and Aquarius looks like she was concentrating very hard. Brilliant job!

I know a lot of you are working really hard at home both online and on home learning packs. Thank you all the adults and lovely children for putting in such a lot of effort and pulling together to make our ODL awesome!

I can't wait to see you all on Monday.

Te Aupouri Home Learning

 Hello everyone!

Have a look at this wonderful work done by Te Aupouri over online distance learning. She has been working really hard alongside her sister to get all the work done. Well done Te Aupouri!

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