T is for Teddy Bears Picnic

Loads of fun at our Teddy Bears Picnic today in Room 6.  We had 8 different activites going on and the children each got to do two different things.  Here's a sample of some of the finished products.

Polar Bears with Mrs Perkins.

Bear Christmas ornaments with Mrs Serci.

Teddy cards with Mrs Wilkinson.

Movable Bears with Mrs Clubley.

Bear Hunt maps with Miss Gargan.

Movable Bears.

Bear Paws

B is for Best

Yah we finally got the best class in assembly award!  Room 6 were noticed sitting with great RED mat manners last Friday.  It was a great assembly and we enjoyed the Kapa Haka performance.

Well done Room 6.

P is for Planting

On Friday we planted our Little Gardens at school.  We planted the herbs in our herb garden outside Room 11, and our vegetables into the shared garden.  It was loads of fun and the kids all enjoyed being a part of this.

L is for Learning!

We are now 7 weeks into the term and the children in Room 6 are becoming more comfortable with our new play based learning sessions.  We start the day Monday through Thursday with Investigations.

Today we spent some time looking a bit deeper into our Inquiry question of

How do our brains  think and learn while we are playing?

The children were able to give the following examples of the learning they have been doing -

By trying new things    

Learning by doing things  

By keeping on trying and having a CAN-DO attitude 

    By practicing things we have been learning (like doubles) when we do counting   

  Working out stuff by using your iniativie    

By learning from each other

We followed this by writing about how we are learning at investigation time -

I like to make swords with wood.  I am learning by building.    Mike

At investigation time I played in the family corner.  At the family corner I used it for a cafe.  We we were playing cafe's I was the waiting person.      Olivia

At investigation time I did a dance floor with Charlotte and we used lots of blocks and colour.  We were working together.  We weren't finished it because someone broke it.  We will go to it the next time.  It was fun.          Isabella

I like the building area.  I build stuff like robots with wood and blocks and hammers and it was very noisy.     Luka

I like to investigate the home corner.  I am making a cookie.  It's making my brain bigger. (with my learning)      Leila

I am learning to make a robot and you need some boxes to make the robot.  I put the boxes together, it was a little bit hard to put the boxes together because I had to glue them.  I followed my plan.

Ruby

I like to investigate duplo building a tower.  I am learning to be a builder.    Kastle

I go to the home corner and you can learn how to cook and write and go on the telephone and take in and out from the oven and use money.    Sophie

In investigation time I went to the construction area because I wanted to and I built a home.     Bella

I love to make food at investigation time.  I love making things I am learning how to do maths.   Joshua

I like doing writing at the writing table because it is good.  We write at the writing table.  I look on the classroom walls to find words.     Deandra

At investigation time I made a dance floor with Isabella.  We are still working on it by using a can do attitude.     Charlotte

At investigation time I played cafe's and it was fun.  I kept at it and I was with Olivia.  I was learning to share and work together.    Millie

I go to the writing table at investigation time and I look at the word wall when I write beause if you write you will get smarter.     Anya

I like the writing area because I can write words and I learn some pictures and I find words on the window or the wall.     Sija

I was at the tinkering table learning to build.    Shreyan

C is for Calendar Art

I love Calendar Art!  It is a great fundraiser for the school - and makes awesome gifts for grandparents!  I aways buying the cards - they look good and are good value as well.

I love doing Calendar Art with the children, however passed it over to Miss Monty who was in Room 6 today.  Here is a sneak peak of the work the children were doing and some of the finished products.

I am sure there will be information from the PFG shortly on how to order these -

C is for Can Do Attitude

We have been busy with our new Play Based Learning in Room 6 this term.

We are starting to get our new routines set up, and the children have been having fun investigating the new environment.

Along with this we have been looking deeper into what PLAY is, how we can LEARN when we play, and the type of attitude that will help us.

Ask your child about their CAN DO attitude, it is something we have been exploring lots in Room 6.

S is for smarter - one hundred days smarter!

We had lots of fun on the 100th Day of School.

I loved all the collections of 100 things the children brought in - well done Room 6.  Here are a few -

We did lots of counting and maths work in the morning and then shared our 100 cake with our Room 14 buddies.  It was the last time we will be together with them - this term we have a new buddy class.

We were all mixed up for the rest of the day doing a variety of activities -

making hats with 100 "things" on them...

making centipedes with 100 legs...

creating pizza's with 100 toppings...

solving crazy problems that involved 100...

art relating to 100 with puff paint...

pictures of what we will look like when we are 100 years old ...

Mrs Serci worked with her groups on a tree with 100 leaves that will be covered will 100 flowers...

What an awesome day filled with Maths!

M is for Matariki

We have had a great week sharing and learning about Matariki this week.  Matariki is the Maori New Year.  We shared a great book and the children did some lovely writing.

We have had lots of nice activities around Matariki

We made fish kites.

We made fairy bread in the shape of stars so we could share kai.

We did star art.

We made tiki necklaces.

We were creative with sparkly playdough.

We did weaving.

We enjoyed seeing pictures and learning about how Deandra's family celebrate the the Sri Lankan New Year.

B is for birthdays!

Not only is it Redwood Schools birthday this weekend, it is also Sija's!

We got to enjoy some lovely treats today - big thanks to Sija and her family for looking after us!

S is for Sausages

Thank you all for supporting our fundraising efforts.  Our sausage sizzle was very successful.  A special thanks to all our helpers on the day.  The children enjoyed being a part of the project.

We sold around 350 sausages and raised $564.00.  Our kind builder will use this to purchase the materials needed to work on this project.

All of the money coming in!

Busy on the barbeque!

Working in the kitchen!

Sausages, sausages and more sausages!

And the main team is rewarded for their hard work!

C is for Change

Check out the proposal that we presented to Mrs Goodin today...

B is for Book Week

What a lot of fun Book Week has been.  Our school library looks great and has been rethemed "Books are Windows into Worlds".  There were lots of fun activities this week at school, we loved having Juliette MacIver visit and share her books with us.

We were lucky to have her read her newest book Gwendolyn to us...we were the first children in New Zealand to see this book...can't wait for it to hit the shops!

We love her Maramaduke stories .. it was very cool when she sang her song to us ...
Juliette MacIver

K is Ka Pai

Ka Pai Room 6 - you did an awesome job of sharing the Korero Mai song with your buddy class,  and your Pepeha's at our school assembly.  I was very proud of you and am sure all the families who stayed were too.

Click the link below to see the slide show of the children's work.

Room 6 Pepeha

P is for Pepeha

We have had a great first week back, Term 2 has started well in Room 6.

We are busy working on our Pepeha's.  The children all have a line each to learn, you might have helped them at home.

Today we got busy doing a display.  It is still "a work in progress"

We are planning on getting these finished over the next week to have ready to display while doing our assembly presentation.

You are welcome to join us at our School Assembly next Friday 13th May in the hall at 9:10.

O is for One Hundred

Today we had a big catch up on our 100 days at school.  We have been counting each day we have been coming to school since the beginning of the school year.  When we get to 100 days we will celebrate!  We have been so busy lately that we have lost track of the day.

Miss Gargan told the children that we have been coming to school for

"one day less than 1/2 of 100" 

and we had to work it out.

We used the abacus to work out what 1/2 of 100 is.  Charlotte showed us 1/2 of 100 and it looked like this ...

We counted in 5's...5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50.

We also could show 1/2 of 100 like this ...

We counted this in 10's...10, 20, 30, 40, 50

1 less than 50 looks like this ...

So we are up to day 49!

We updated our display to show 49 in lots of different ways - 

Then we got a challenge -

The children worked in small groups to solve this problem - well done Room 6!