W is for winning!

Yah for winning the best class in assembly!  Well done Room 6.  The children did a great job of showing their RED values at assembly - sitting up nicely, listening to the items and enjoying singing.  AND the very lucky thing was it was noticed by the mystery teacher and spies.

B is for busy.

We were busy in Room 6 today!  It is the start of Book Week at Redwood School and our theme this year is Let Books Open Doors For You.

We have started the week with a visit from a local author and illustrator Ruth Paul.  We love her books and she gave a great presentation.  It was very inspiring.

We also had our class and individual photos taken in the school hall.  The photographers do a great job, and it is quite fascinating how they put the class photo together.

We also worked on decorating our door, we did reading groups, and had a special visit from Mrs Hughes who came in and read to us.

Wow and this is only Monday!!

A is for Assembly

This week Room 6, along with our buddy class hosted the whole school assembly.  It was a big responsibility and all the children did a great job.  I was very proud of their behaviour.  Hannah and Nelsson were very brave speaking and announcing each item.  

Room 6 shared their poem of the week and some art we did that went with it.

C is for counting

We are counting each day we come to school until we get to 100 DAYS.

Each day we practice our place value and counting skills as well as solving a problem.

Last Friday was Day 49 and we had the following problem to solve -

The children had to work in groups - one clever group came up with the answer by making up groups of 7.  Well done!

We plan on having a big party when we get to 100 days - almost half way there!

B is for Bannocks

Thanks so much to Kerri and Will, Tia's parents who came in today and shared with us about their home The Shetland Islands.  We learnt lots of cool things about Shetland and it was a real treat to taste the bannocks.  Yummy, Thanks!

If you would like to learn more about these interesting islands check out this cool webpage that Tia's family prepared for us.

Shetland Islands

M is Mihi

A Mihi is a Maori greeting. I am so proud of the children in Room 6, who have worked hard to learn their Mihi. We will be continuing to work on them, check out our progress so far...

Room 6 Mihi

S is for sharing.

We have been enjoying our topic - My Space My Place this term.  In class we have been working on our Mihi and the children have been doing a great job.  We are also starting to learn about the different cultural make up of our class members.  Thanks everyone for the information you shared.

Yesterday we were lucky enough to have Nelsson's Mum Tina come and share a Samoan song with us.  It was lots and fun and we will keep working on it.  Thanks Tina.

Sa-vali-vali means go for a walk
Tau-tala-tala means too much talk
Alofa ia te oe means I love you
Take it easy, fai-fai le-mu

Tei-ne ma-na-ia means pretty girl
Ta’a-milo-milo means around and around
Whisper to me means musu-musu mai
Oi aue, means my, oh my

H is for hockey

We have had some super hockey lessons over the past two weeks.  Thanks Dane from Small Stix who came and taught us how to hold our sticks, dribble a ball, stop and tackle.  We had fun playing "Rob the Nest" to practice some of these skills.

F is for fun that is funny!

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!  This week has been a load of fun.  We celebrated Dr. Seuss's birthday with the rest of the school in our pajama's on Monday!  It was an awesome day.  How lucky are we that our principal came and read to us - she was in her pajama's too!

Our focus for the week has been the Cat in the Hat - one of the books that Theodor Seuss Geisel wrote for children using only 223 easy to read words.  
We did all sorts of fun things with this book - in maths we worked on our repeating patterns making stripes for the Cats Hat!  

We enjoyed these cute little cupcakes Miss Gargan had heaps of fun making!  You've gotta have cake for a birthday!

I love the art and stories that the children produced - so cute and clever!

We finished the week off with some Dr Seuss activities in our Discovery Time, we had activities from One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish, The Lorax, The Foot Book, Cat in the Hat, Horton Hears a Who and Bartholmew and the Oobleck - so much fun!

Fantastic first week!

Room 6 had a fantastic first week at school.  We were busy getting to know each other and starting to establish some of our classroom routines.

We enjoyed reading some of the Greedy Cat books together.  This motivated us to write stories about Greedy Cat and create some wonderful art.

We had a very important job on Friday of hosting the first Kiwi and Tui Assembly for the year.  The children did a great job presenting the assembly and shared their Greedy Cat work.

Well done Room 6.