Tuesday 31 March 2015

Room 7 Week 9 Term 1 2015

Kia Ora Whanau!

By now you will have had a chance to look at your child's work in their portfolio. All of the students worked very hard to complete their work to a high standard and are very proud of it. Well done Room 7!
When you have finished looking at it, could you please return the portfolio to school, thank you.

On Tuesday we were able to present our Pohutukawa Problem Solvers outcome to the school and to the many parents who were able to come along.

We talked about our inquiry process and how we created a list of instructions for the PPS to use in the playground when dealing with conflict.

Here is our list:
1. Talk to both people.
2. Ask what happened.
3. Listen to both people tell their side.
4. Get both people to look in each others' eyes and say how they felt when it happened.
5. Get them both to say sorry, or, one says apology accepted.
6. Get them to shake hands.

We had to fill out an application form to become a PPS and then Ms H had to choose two people to be our first ones.

These people were announced at the presentation and received a certificate and their PPS lanyard with the instructions inside.

Sita and Noah were chosen! Congratulations!






We practiced and practiced!

It was worth it! What a great presentation!









This week we also got to view the Te Manawa World War 1 Timeline. It was amazing! It showed important events for World War 1.







We really liked the crosses that showed people who had lived in Mt Wellington who were killed during the war. We didn't know it was so many people. Thank you Te Manawa!

This is the last blog for Term 1 and we are very pleased to share all our work with you! Have a great two weeks break and we will be back to do it all again in Term 2! 




Tuesday 24 March 2015

Room 7 Week 8 Term 1 2015

Kia Ora Whanau!

This week Room 7 have been working very hard on completing all work for their Portfolios which go home on Monday.

We hope you will enjoy sharing their work and ask them all about it.

There was an exciting event on Wednesday! It was Judah's birthday! He turned 7 year old, Happy Birthday Judah!

We made him a special card.






Nice one Room 7!







Thursday 19 March 2015

Room 7 Week 7 Term 1 2015

Kia Ora Tatou!

What a great week of learning it has been in Room 7! 

Not only did we do Maths, Reading, Writing and Inquiry but we also did Snag Golf with Shannon!

Here are some of our best shots into the target and into the cones!

 


We listen carefully to instructions.


We do our best! Hands together, arms straight, feet together and pointing at the ball. Swing the club 'tick tock'.




Good shot David!

We have also been practicing for the presentation of our findings about World War 1. In week 4, in our Inquiry groups, we decided on a question to find out about and then we did some research. Next we chose how we would present our information. Now we will present it to Pohutukawa whanau on Tuesday at Share and Shine!
Here are our presentations.









We hope you enjoy our old fashioned way of presenting our information. We thought it was appropriate for the time of the war.

Have a lovely weekend!
















Wednesday 11 March 2015

Room 7 week 6 Term 1 2015

Kia Ora Whanau!

Big news from Room 7 this week is Snag Golf!

On Thursday we got to learn Snag Golf with Shannon.

We went up to Savage Park and all the equipment was set up for us. Shannon gave us instructions in how to roll the ball and how to hit the ball and how to hold the golf club.





We listened carefully and then we had turns!









It was lots of fun and we get to do it all again next week!




Wednesday 4 March 2015

Room 7 Week 5 Term 1 2015




Kia Ora Whanau!

What a fabulous week it has been for Room 7!

Not only have we been doing great learning, but we have been able to share it with our Pohutukawa Syndicate and with Whaea Barb too!

On Tuesday we had a 'Share and Shine' time. We shared the medals that we made after learning about the medals that were given to the brave soldiers in the war.







Whaea Barb loved our medals! She is going to show us the medal that she got last year from the Governor General and the Queen!

Later in the week we wrote notes to a buddy in Room 6 and we took our carrier pigeons to deliver them! The Room 6 people were very surprised and they even sent us a note by return pigeon!

Watch for our photos coming soon!


And here they are!