Friday September 18th

Our Classroom

The children in the Middle Room have been making lots of comments about how bright and colourful their classroom is looking.  Miss Ward has been putting lots of things up around the room that cover all areas of our learning!

Check out the photos of our class below, the Middle Room is a pretty cool place to be!

Our class!

Inquiry wall and some writing we did to thank our Educator from Otago Museum on our overnight stay this week.

Overnight stay thank you writing.

Wow, look at how bright our classroom is!  We like to show off our learning!

Even the windows are getting covered as Miss Ward is running out of room to put things!

Thank you PicCollages for the parents that came on our overnight stay.  Lovely to see the sun out too!

Another area in our awesome Middle Room!

Wednesday September 16th

Numeracy Night and Disco

Last Friday we had our Numeracy Night and Disco.  Parents were invited along to listen to a presentation about Numeracy (maths) while the children danced the night away at a disco.  Thanks to Mrs Ramsay for organising this fabulous event.  We have had wonderful feedback from the parents that came and the children loved the disco!  The Numeracy presentation was relaxing.  The audience joined in, playing some simple games while enjoying nibbles and refreshments.  Each family got a pack of games to take home to play and we are pleased to hear that some families have been playing them!  Thanks to everyone who helped out with this night in any way and all those that came along, it was a huge success! 

Here is a copy of the presentation that was shared.

Friday September 11th

Fire Safety Visitors!

Following on from our lessons on fire safety, we had Aaron a fireman from Dunedin and Craig a local fireman (and Dad!) come and visit our school.  We all had a lesson with Aaron about the importance of knowing what to do when there is a fire and how to prevent them and then we visited Craig outside with the local fire truck.  He explained what lots of the things on the fire truck do and then we got to go through the back of it, from one side to the other.  After that Craig let us have a go at using the fire hose...we loved this!

There could be a few budding fire fighters in the Middle Room!

Fire Truck Visit with Craig! on PhotoPeach

Tuesday September 8th

Fire Safety

This week we have started learning about Fire Safety as part of our inquiry unit on 'How Safe Are You?".  We did some mucking in with the Junior Room about our ideas on Fire Safety.  Today we have a visit from some Fire Officers and we even get to go to the Fire Station for a visit...exciting!

Here are some photos of us doing Fire Safety yesterday...

Tayden sharing some brainstorming.

Esther sharing some brainstorming.

Georgia sharing some brainstorming.

Chloe and Leah-Rose doing their mucking in activity.

Everyone working hard to muck in.

One of the activities we had to do.  Organising photos into groups that go together was what we had to do.

Lincoln busy getting his photos stuck on in their groups.

George working hard to get his activity done.

Thursday September 3rd

Speeches

Today we presented our speeches to our family and friends in the church. We have been working hard on these speeches for a few weeks and have put a lot of effort into them. We chose the topic of 'my special place'. We focused on having an introduction that hooks the audience in. To do this we made the reader guess where our special place was by giving clues. During the week we have been practising the delivery of our speeches. Some of the things we had to remember were having a loud clear voice, making eye contact with the audience, standing still and using expression. We all did such a great job at presenting our speeches, even though we had a few nerves! The teachers were very impressed.

Here are some photos of us presenting our speeches.

James

Cooper

Julienne

Maddie

Bree

George

Savannah

Esther

Chloe

Tayden

Taylor

Georgia

Nic

Courtney

Iara

Wednesday September 2nd

Art

For art we have been doing drawing. After looking into observational drawing we then moved onto cartoon drawings. First we practised doing several drawings using step by step tutorials where we added in a little piece of the picture at a time. We then had to choose a cartoon character and draw our own characters using our step by step guides. Check out our finished products!

Georgia, George and Cooper with their drawings.

Taylor, Esther and James with their cartoon characters.

Courtney, Maddie and Chloe with their finished pictures.

Julienne, Iara and Savannah with their pictures.

Bree, Nic and Tayden with their drawings.

Monday August 31st

Sports Activator

Today we had a visit from Rory who came to take us all for some touch skills. We really enjoyed doing touch and learnt some great skills. Our first activity was to practice running and passing from a position we learnt is called dummy half. It was quite hard at first but we were soon speeding through this drill. Once we had mastered this, we were able to play a game. Some of the rules we had to remember included:
-Stay behind the person with the ball so there won't be a forward pass.
-After each touch the defenders have to go back at least 5 metres
-When rolling the ball between our legs we have to be facing straight on with our goal line.
-Remember to spread out so there is more space.

We had a lot of fun. Check out some photos of us practicing all our touch skills!

Rory explaining how to do a drill. 

Julienne ready to pass.

Esther making a big run.

James is quick off the mark.

Savannah showing good skills!

Red team sorting themselves out ready for attack.

George trying to get around three defenders! 

Taylor playing a quick ball. 

Cooper making a break!