We were very lucky with the weather on the 19th of November and we were able to have our athletics afternoon! It was very windy but lots of parents came to support our runners and everyone tried their hardest!
Well done to everyone who competed! In Room 7 we had lots of winners!
Saluselo came 1st for the boys Year 4 50m and 75m
Jackson came 2nd for the boys Year 3 50m and 75m
Elisha came 3rd for the boys Year 4 50m and 75m
Sharlom came 2nd for the girls Year 4 75m.
Three of our other girls ran very well and took out the 1st, 2nd and 3rd spots in the girls Year 4 50m and 75m races too!
We have some awesome runners in our classroom! Well done!
Wednesday 26 November 2014
Thursday 13 November 2014
Angela's Bike
Angela was super lucky to receive her bike, helmet and t-shirt from the Variety Children's Charity on Tuesday! We are so proud of her! She has always worked hard in class and been a deserving student. Hopefully she gets to ride it a bit more when the weather is better.
Friday 31 October 2014
Get Set Go
This term we have the lovely Nicola coming in from Get, Set, Go to teach us PE every Thursday afternoon. We're so lucky to have her and we really enjoy her lessons. We've been learning all about balancing the past few weeks and played lots of exciting games. We've gone away and practiced between her lessons and have always had lots of fun and learnt new things.
Perhaps you could leave some comments about your favourite games?
Perhaps you could leave some comments about your favourite games?
Life in Samoa
In Week 2 and 3 we kept going with our inquiry topic on Samoa.
In Week 2 we looked at shelter in Samoa. We looked at the types of materials that could be used to build houses and decided that they use lots of natural materials, like wood and leaves from the trees. We also decided that we should design a house and label it. We used things like coconut husks, coconut leaves, wood, hay and sometimes metal called corrugated iron for the roof. The walls were usually made out of wood. We worked in groups of four to practice our team work skills and use each person's different ideas. We then talked about the buildings we had drawn and decided what sort of tools they would use to build them. We didn't think they would have electric tools like drills and we thought about how people would put things together and cut down the trees. Some of our ideas were saws, hammers, screwdrivers and axes.
In Week 3 we looked at clothes. We thought about Samoa and used what we already know to guide us. We knew that the weather is hot in Samoa all year, because people from New Zealand go on holiday there during our winter. We used this and pictures and our own experiences to come to the answer! We decided that people in Samoa wouldn't want to wear thick clothes, they would like to wear thin clothes. Some people in our class are from Samoa and they told us all about wearing a lavalava or an ie. We also found out that girls wear a type of dress called a puletasi. There is also a special dress code on White Sunday in Samoa. Everyone buys new white clothes and wears them to church to celebrate childhood on the second Sunday in October.
This is a Samoan puletasi.
In Week 2 we looked at shelter in Samoa. We looked at the types of materials that could be used to build houses and decided that they use lots of natural materials, like wood and leaves from the trees. We also decided that we should design a house and label it. We used things like coconut husks, coconut leaves, wood, hay and sometimes metal called corrugated iron for the roof. The walls were usually made out of wood. We worked in groups of four to practice our team work skills and use each person's different ideas. We then talked about the buildings we had drawn and decided what sort of tools they would use to build them. We didn't think they would have electric tools like drills and we thought about how people would put things together and cut down the trees. Some of our ideas were saws, hammers, screwdrivers and axes.
In Week 3 we looked at clothes. We thought about Samoa and used what we already know to guide us. We knew that the weather is hot in Samoa all year, because people from New Zealand go on holiday there during our winter. We used this and pictures and our own experiences to come to the answer! We decided that people in Samoa wouldn't want to wear thick clothes, they would like to wear thin clothes. Some people in our class are from Samoa and they told us all about wearing a lavalava or an ie. We also found out that girls wear a type of dress called a puletasi. There is also a special dress code on White Sunday in Samoa. Everyone buys new white clothes and wears them to church to celebrate childhood on the second Sunday in October.
Here are some children dressed for White Sunday.
This is a Samoan puletasi.
Tuesday 21 October 2014
Samoan Food
In week one we were looking at food cross the Pacific Islands. We are focusing on Samoa! We have lots of students from Samoa in our classroom so we're really lucky to have lots of our own knowledge.
We shared our knowledge about the weather and how it would affect the food that could grow in Samoa. We decided that we would find lots of tropical foods like coconut and pineapple, because the weather was warm all year. Foods like that wouldn't grow well in New Zealand. We know that Samoa is an island and has water all around it and so people in Samoa eat lots of fish because they can easily go fishing!
We all wrote a little fact sheet and talked about it with our syndicate in our sharing time on Thursday. We learnt lots about Fiji and Niue from Room 6 and Room 8A when we arrived after our PE slot!
Friday 17 October 2014
Welcome Back for Term 4!
I hope you guys all had a great 2 weeks holiday and are ready to get back into it! Term 4 is going to be super busy with lots of great stuff happening! We've got our athletics afternoon, culture groups, Get Set Go PE lessons every Thursday, Christmas Crossover and so many other exciting things happening!
We're all learning about Pacific Cultures in our inquiry and Room 7 are going to be looking at Samoa and sharing our new learning with the rest of the junior school. We're going to be looking at food in week 1, clothes in week 2, shelter in week 3 and myths and legends in week 4. Perhaps you could ask your family if they know anything about these topics, or if you have anything from home you could use to help you learn?
In Writing we're continuing with explanations and using paragraphs to sort our ideas and then we're going to move on to letters, reports and descriptions. Remember that you need full stops, capital letters and ALL your words in your writing! Keep practicing your spelling every night to help you become better than before and a superstar speller!
In Reading we're concentrating on our skills to use while we're reading and how to think about the text we've read. Room 7 are great readers and can find out what the words say and mean, but we're going to be better than before at predicting what's going to happen in the text, thinking about the characters in stories and how they can make a story different, AND getting better at reading the book and making decisions about what the story is really telling us in it's hidden meanings! Get better than before by reading your book EVERY night at home and GET YOUR NOTEBOOK SIGNED!
In Maths we're looking at fractions and problem solving. We all need to be able to use fractions and name them when we're done! For problem solving we're going to need all of our skills from the year to answer questions using adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing - so make sure those basic facts stay super fast by practicing! Mrs Dunne is going to be doing different Maths and looking at position and orientation and talking about directions, as well as probability.
You're going to have so much to do this term so make sure you're sleeping enough, eating the healthy food your body needs and concentrating hard!
From,
Miss Walters
:)
We're all learning about Pacific Cultures in our inquiry and Room 7 are going to be looking at Samoa and sharing our new learning with the rest of the junior school. We're going to be looking at food in week 1, clothes in week 2, shelter in week 3 and myths and legends in week 4. Perhaps you could ask your family if they know anything about these topics, or if you have anything from home you could use to help you learn?
In Writing we're continuing with explanations and using paragraphs to sort our ideas and then we're going to move on to letters, reports and descriptions. Remember that you need full stops, capital letters and ALL your words in your writing! Keep practicing your spelling every night to help you become better than before and a superstar speller!
In Reading we're concentrating on our skills to use while we're reading and how to think about the text we've read. Room 7 are great readers and can find out what the words say and mean, but we're going to be better than before at predicting what's going to happen in the text, thinking about the characters in stories and how they can make a story different, AND getting better at reading the book and making decisions about what the story is really telling us in it's hidden meanings! Get better than before by reading your book EVERY night at home and GET YOUR NOTEBOOK SIGNED!
In Maths we're looking at fractions and problem solving. We all need to be able to use fractions and name them when we're done! For problem solving we're going to need all of our skills from the year to answer questions using adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing - so make sure those basic facts stay super fast by practicing! Mrs Dunne is going to be doing different Maths and looking at position and orientation and talking about directions, as well as probability.
You're going to have so much to do this term so make sure you're sleeping enough, eating the healthy food your body needs and concentrating hard!
From,
Miss Walters
:)
Monday 6 October 2014
End of Term 3
Term 3 has come to an end! Well done to all of Room 7 for their hard work and I hope you all have a good two week break and you come back rested and ready to go for a jam packed Term 4! I know I will be looking forward to seeing all the smiles back in our classroom! Stay safe and see you on Monday 13th October, bright and early! :)
From,
Miss Walters
:)
From,
Miss Walters
:)
Cross Country
On Wednesday 17th of September Ruapotaka School held a cross country running event. Room 7 had been practicing for this by running lots in fitness each morning and were getting to be good runners. We had a few winners in our classroom!
Jackson came 2nd in the 7 year old boys race and he went off to the Interschool Cross Country on the 24th, with two of our 8 year old girls, who ran very well in their race at school too! Tyron also came 3rd in the 8 year old boys race.
Congratulations to our winners and well done to everyone who raced - keep up the good work and be fit and healthy!
Jackson came 2nd in the 7 year old boys race and he went off to the Interschool Cross Country on the 24th, with two of our 8 year old girls, who ran very well in their race at school too! Tyron also came 3rd in the 8 year old boys race.
Congratulations to our winners and well done to everyone who raced - keep up the good work and be fit and healthy!
Duffy Role Model Assmbly
On the last Thursday for Term 3 we had a special Duffy guest come to visit us. His name was Tony 'Balloney' Williams! He talked to us all about his life as a writer, showed us the books he had written about the All Blacks and gave us some very important messages. He said that we need to always, always, always read and to be on the look out for new information and ask questions to help us become better than before.
We also got our Duffy Books and Tony presented Elisha with his, because Elisha was the most hard working student in our class for the term!
We also got our Duffy Books and Tony presented Elisha with his, because Elisha was the most hard working student in our class for the term!
Music of Joy Assembly
We had a great last week starting off with Music of Joy coming to visit us and giving a special assembly. We listened to their music, learnt new things and even got to join in with some of the songs. We felt super happy after we listened to their music. Check out their performance below!
Speeches Term 3
For the last 4 weeks of term we were working on our speeches and trying our best to write amazing speeches to give in the finals. We worked hard on using interesting topics and writing using introductions and conclusions. We practiced them every morning at school.
We worked on giving a speech correctly and we knew we needed to remember lots of things! We remembered how to stand - with our feet still, hands behind our backs and looking at the audience. We spoke clearly and when we weren't giving our speech we were an excellent audience and listened carefully!
We sent four Year 4 students and one Year 3 student and it was very difficult to choose! Here are some video's of our speeches.
Here is Angela:
Here is Angela:
Dance Display
In Week 5 of Term 3, the Junior syndicate held their dance display. The other classes looked amazing and we really enjoyed watching them. In Room 7 we were inspired by a song from a movie called Grease, so after we tried some other dances we chose to do the Hand Jive. We got really good at in class and made up a routine.
Some of the girls wore skirts and the boys wore ties, just like in Grease!
Check out these photos!
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