Today we had our speech finals! We had some great speakers from Room 6 and you can watch their speeches below! We were really proud of them for standing up in front of the large audience and speaking clearly and loudly, looking at the audience, standing still and speaking slowly! Our year 4's were Dora, Riiana and Jessica and our year 3's were Limiteti, Kotipi and Agueer. Have a look at the videos we took of each of our great speakers today! Here is the video of our Year 4's: Here is the video of our Year 3's: Limiteti was the winner of the Year 0-3 competition and she got a trophy to take home and keep for the holidays, then a special blue one will be made for her to keep forever!
I hope that next term we can keep practicing having great speakers in our oral language time! A huge congratulations to everyone in our room because they all tried their best and all improved! We are all so proud of each other.
Tomorrow is the last day of term 3 and we finish at 2 o'clock! How fast time has slipped away again! I've had a blast this term with Room 6 - we've learnt how to use a Mimio board, moved our room around so we can have the projector out more often, published a lot of amazing writing, learnt how to count coins and give change using money in maths AND become even better at reading, so much that I had to move everyone around to different reading groups because you were too amazing! Phew! I hope that you have enjoyed the term as much as I have (even when I got sick!), but are looking forward to a good, safe holiday! Spring is here so you can get out in the good weather and go to the park or walk to the pools with your family. You could check out all the posts on the blog with your families and leave some great specific comments, use the internet to access our Google Drive to do some writing or even look on Youtube for some great StoryBots videos, since you all have a great laugh watching those! You could also pop down to the library in Glen Innes and keep your reading rocket shooting up! Whatever you decide to do during the holiday, I hope you have a good rest and come back with everything (including your uniform) ready to go for our last term together on Monday the 12th of October. I'm looking forward to hearing all about your adventures and stories!
From Miss Walters :) P.S. Don't forget that the clocks go forwards an hour on Saturday night!
Today we had our final Snag Golf lesson with Shannon and this time we got to use those letters we had to remember from last week to hit really big shots. We had to remember Y for the shape our arms and club made when we were pointing it at the ball and then the letter L for the shape our arms and club made when we were swinging the club through to hit the ball harder.
We had so much fun and we practiced hitting shots to the sticky target that our partner was holding first. We got to shout SNAG if we got it stuck to the yellow or red parts of the target. Look at Limiteti catching the ball in this photo Miss Walters took below!
Then we dressed Jazer up in the sticky suit! We called him Snag Man! We all got to have a turn at aiming our ball to hit Jazer's velcro suit and try and hit the target. Don't worry, though - it was padded so he didn't get hurt! He had a big smile and thought it was great!
Then the best bit happened at the end of our lesson. We got to hit some really far shots! We had to hit the ball halfway across the field to the flag target where our partner was stood. It was really hard. Even Miss Walters wasn't very good at it! Tyra tried her best and you can see her attempts in the video below.
At the end we helped Shannon tidy up the equipment and said a big thank you to her. We made and signed a big golf ball card and told her that she took the gold medal for being the best golf coach ever!
Yesterday Room 6 led the junior syndicate assembly. We were a success! A few people were away so we had to quickly have new people to take their place, and everyone did really well.
Here we are sitting waiting to start with all of our work to share.
We showed everyone our singing and rapping of the song Team Ball Player Thing and our Zentangle art in the shape of the rugby world cup trophy. We reminded everyone to bring their books back to school from when they had been taken home and to make sure their rubbish was in the bin.
Miss Walters was especially proud of us for rapping the part in Team Ball Player Thing as we had practiced it at school and then kept practicing at home so we were heaps better and ready for assembly! Everyone in the syndicate sung along with us on the chorus and looked like they were enjoying themselves.
The video is Room 6 rapping Team Ball Player Thing.
On Wednesday 16th September our school had Cross Country and Room 6 had some winners! There are some great runners in our class! We had to make sure that our shoe laces were tied up tightly so our shoes wouldn't fall off!
Dora came first for the Y4 girls' race and Guinevere came third, then Tristan came first for the Y4 boys' race.
Kotipi was the fastest 7 year old girl in our school and Anthony came second and Jazer came third for the 7 year old boys! Limiteti was first for the 8 year old girls and Alicia was second, just behind her! Everyone ran really well and we were really proud of them and cheered for everyone as they crossed the finish line. Keep up the good running and maybe next year some other people will take out first, second and third!
Here are the 8 year old boys waiting to start their race! We are so proud of everyone in our classroom for trying their best, even if running cross country might not be their favourite thing to do!
On Thursday 17th September we were lucky to have a special show all about asthma and we even got to sing some songs!
The song we sang was all about the triggers of asthma - we learnt about pollen, smoke, viruses, animal fur, dust mites and cold air. All of these things can make your bronchial tubes get tight, fill up with mucus and make it hard to breathe! Have a look at the song below...
Then we learnt all about how to use an inhaler properly with Puffer the Fish - did you know that 50% of the medicine gets stuck in your mouth and throat if you don't use a spacer? Wow!
Tomorrow early in the morning (in NZ time) is the opening ceremony and the first game that the All Blacks will be playing for the Rugby World Cup 2015! We have been cheering them on and singing their special song in our room and we hope they play well against Argentina! If you want to see what games are coming up, who is playing and where they are being played, then you can have a look on this website: http://calendar.rugbyworldcup.com/new-zealand?global=schedule&country=NZ We will be following their progress and also looking at South Africa over the next few weeks and see if we can pick up some new language along the way! We've already created some Zentangle trophies for our art in the hopes that the All Blacks will bring the trophy home for the second time in a row. We used our mimio to make a class brainstorm on everything we know about the Rugby World Cup this year - check it out below!
Today we had Snag Golf again and this time we got to go outside to hit some bigger shots! We practiced getting it over the sticky target which we pretended was a river, and some blue mountains which were cones! Then when we were good at doing that, we had to hit the ball into some ice cream cones that our partner was holding. We learnt two new steps today - one of them was that we had to touch our club to the yellow arrow on the floor, and the other was having the lines on the club pointing straight at our feet.
Miss Walters (who said she was really bad at golf!) even managed to get 3 snags! She listened hard and she learnt too!
Dora even managed to hit her ball into the ice cream cone when Peni was really far away! Jessica said she managed to hit the ball low and Frank STILL caught it! Have a look at Tyra, Kotipi, Dora and Peni in our video below...
Well done to everyone and a big thank you to Shannon for helping us! From Room 6
In Room 6 we watched Limiteti and Kotipi practicing their speeches today! Peni was our cameraman and filmed our lovely ladies! We reminded them of CLASS - we came up with the acronym to remind everyone to.... Clear voice Loud voice Audience needs to be looked at Stand still Slow speaking Remember these five things and you'll be great! Miss Walters is picking the best speech givers to say their speech at the speech finals - they must know it off by heart for the finals! Can you leave us a comment to give any tips to help Kotipi and Limiteti be better than before?
Room 6 have been learning this great song for the Rugby World Cup to fit in with the inquiry topic for the rest of the term! We think it is a great song to encourage the All Blacks to play well in the RWC 2015 and a great way of raising money and awareness for Cure Kids and their Battens disease research.
Today Room 6 went to the music room again to practice Twinkle Twinkle Little Star as a round! We tried really hard and practised it a few times but one group always seemed to get mixed up!
We're going to practice it one more time next week, but we decided we would get some great practice by playing together as one big team and work hard so that it sounded great for our syndicate assembly on Monday! Have a listen below.
We're going to be working to put together an assembly for next week and we wanted to share a preview - we're also going to be singing a very special song that was only released 4 days ago! I wonder if you can guess what it is? Keep your eyes and ears open for more lovely music coming out of the windows and doors of Room 6!
On Friday we did a zentangle for art. We got a piece of paper and a shape. We had to pick a shape and trace around it. Then we had to make sure that they were overlapping. Next we did patterns and made sure they weren't the same patterns. Then we coloured in our art. There was heaps of colouring and I didn't get to finish it because we ran out of time. We put it in our desk safely to finish it off. We had plenty of time to colour in our zentangle. We could colour it in on a rainy day. By Anthony We will pop some photos of our art up on the blog when we've finished it off! So far it's only pencil with lots of patterns ready to be coloured but it will look something like this when we are done:
This is a Zentangle art piece by an art blogger called Angela Anderson!
Hi everyone! Just a quick message here to remind you all that Cross Country is happening Wednesday 16th September at 1.45pm. Come along and cheer us on as we run around the field and show off our long distance running skills! ALSO! Don't forget that Wednesday 16th we are having $1 sausage and bread as a fundraiser for our school. Everyone will have a notice to take home but you must order it before school on Wednesday. We are also working hard on our speeches at home through researching and writing them, and at school by listening to everyone and practicing being a great audience! I will be choosing the best few people to be entered into the speech finals on Friday 25th September, which is the last day of term. Don't forget that on the last day of term we will finish at 2pm like we always do on the last day! Remember to keep working hard on your running for Cross Country and practice your speeches lots so you are confident! Stand tall and still and speak loudly and clearly! Miss Walters :)
We have been learning how to use google drive the last few weeks with Miss Walters in class and Mr Meyer on a Friday afternoon when we go to the computer room. We each have our own file that Miss Walters set up in our class drive. We know that first we have to find our named folder and click on that before we go anywhere else, because then it will automatically save it into our folder! We tried using Google Docs and now we have practiced using Google Slides to make a class presentation with all of our facts on it! Have a flick through our slides to see if there are any facts we can teach you about South Africa! We have done lots of research using the internet and now we have created a slide show to share our knowledge! We hope you enjoy it!
Last week on Friday Room 6 went to the computer lab and went on google drive. They went onto their folders and did a google slide about South African facts. Room 6 wrote one fact each and had to write by their name. Some people had pictures and others didn't. This week on Friday they are going to share their facts with the syndicate. Then four people are going to share one fact each about South African foods. Room 6 is also going to teach the syndicate how to say the vowels in Afrikaans. Room 6, good luck! By Riiana Siilata
Hands together, feet together, toes pointing at the ball, arms straight and TICK TOCK LIKE A CLOCK!
Jessica is showing us the 5 things you need to remember to play golf successfully!
Today we had Snag Golf again and we used a tunnel and cones to practice our aiming skills. We had to set up our mini golf course with the flag post, hoops and the sticky targets as our tunnel. We practiced shooting and aiming the ball at the flag post through the tunnel and into cones. When we got it to land in the hoop we shouted SNAG!
Jazer and Peni are hitting the tennis balls into the cones to practice their aiming skills!
While doing this we also had to remember everything from last week about having our hands together, feet together, toes pointing at the ball, arms straight and our new skill TICK TOCK LIKE A CLOCK! We also had to make sure that we weren't too close to the ball or else it would be cheating and it would unfair to the other groups we were competing against.
Nowar is practicing his aim and the ball is about to hit the yellow target so he has to shout SNAG! What should he do with his feet?
Last week the lions reading group were practicing reading with loud clear voices and using expression in a play. First Jazer recorded them acting out their play, but it was far too quiet and there was too much background noise from the other reading groups, so we needed to do it again when it was quieter. Have a listen to take two below, which was filmed by Nowar! We think it could be even louder! Could you give them any other tips?
Myron Simpson is a famous cyclist and he came to talk to us about his career and reading!
He likes reading autobiographies and his favourite one was Richie McCaw's book. An autobiography is a book all about someone's personal life. Myron likes to read them because he wants to learn how to become the best athlete he can be. Myron reads all about different countries before he visits them. He told us he had visited 25 different countries because of cycling. The only continent he hasn't visited is Antarctica. That's probably because you can't race a bike on ice! He won a silver medal in Mexico in 2007 for coming second at the Junior World Championship. He must be really good!
He showed us his equipment and his special bike - his bike had no brakes! We don't think that we'd like to ride a bike without brakes, he must be very brave! Myron rode his bike fast at 110 kilometres per hour! That's faster than you are allowed to drive on the motorway in a car!
He also showed us his special shoes. They stick onto the pedals so his feet won't slip off in his races. They were made out carbon fibre so it could be really light for his races.
He also has a special helmet to keep his head safe in case he crashes or falls off his bike. You can't see his eyes and he said it helps him get in the zone at races.
He also wears a special skin suit that is very tight but very stretchy. Malia in Room 7 got to try it on and it fit her, but it also fits Myron who is much bigger than she is! Satui in Room 4 got to try on his helmet and Krista wore his medal and sat on the bike. Katrina in Room 10 tried on his special shoes! Everything he wears and rides is aerodynamic so he can cut through the wind faster. His bikes costs $15,000, even more than a car! Myron is hoping to go to the Olympics next year but he won't find out until April. GOOD LUCK, MYRON!
At the end of this term we will be having our speech competition! The competition will be held on the last day of term on Friday 25th September. The teachers will pick the people who have the best speeches in their classes to go to the speech competition and there they will see if their speech is the best for their age! This week Room 6 have started talking about good speech topics, how to give a good speech and how to be an excellent audience. We know that our speech needs to have lots of information about an interesting topic and that we need to write it at home by ourselves. Our families can help but they shouldn't do it for us! Over the next few weeks we will be writing and learning our speeches - some of us might even try using the class google drive account to save our speeches if we can get on it at home! Wish us luck!
In Room 6 we have been learning to write clear instructions - we know that we need a title, a list of what we need and clear numbered steps in the correct order. Miss Walters bought us the ingredients and equipment to make ice cream in a bag, but first we had to write instructions by watching this video: After we watched the video and wrote our instructions, we checked our partners writing and made sure it had all the steps in the right order. We put all the best bits together from our 3 favourite sets of instructions to make the most amazing instructions for ice cream that we could! Next we used our instructions to make our ice cream outside - it took a lot of shaking and cold fingers but we nearly got there in the end! We ended up with a thick milkshake-like ice cream but it still tasted awesome! Check out our instructions and photos of us making ice cream!
We had an explosion of ice everywhere and we reflected on this later on. We decided next time that we would write new instructions and tell people to put a second bag around everything so that it was extra protected!
We also noticed that our shaking wasn't fast enough to churn the mixture up like an ice cream machine would and that we could have added more ice to the bags so that it froze faster. Our ice cream was pretty runny but our ice was nearly melted so we couldn't carry on! In our evaluation we said that we would put an extra bag around everything, shake faster and add more ice! It was still yummy though and Frank took these great photos for us!
In Room 6 we have been practicing using the laptops and tablets to use a new online site called Prezi. It allows us to create a moving presentation online to show our ideas. We have mostly been using them independently while Miss Walters is reading with our four reading groups. Since we have been learning about instructions in our writing, we have been reading some instructions too! The Giraffes reading group read some instructions in their school journal and gave us step by step instructions in their own words and put them into a prezi! Have a look at the instructions they wrote after reading the text!
Today Room 6 had a grand unveiling of our masks they made a few weeks ago. I took them down from the wall and tied some string on so they could pose for a monster photo! We talked about how since we couldn't see our faces we had to use body language and be dramatic to show that we were monsters! Room 6 practiced their poses before taking the photo and showed their friends to see what they thought. Can you see what types of monsters Room 6 might be acting out? I think perhaps we might have a few monsters in our room, even without the masks! :P
Every Thursday morning for the rest of this term, Room 6 is having special PE lessons with Shannon to teach us how to play golf!
We are very lucky to have these lovely lessons and Miss Walters is going to take some photos and videos each week while we have our special lessons - perhaps we might find New Zealand's next golfing superstar in our class? See if you can spot the important things to remember when you're learning to play golf from some of our photos!
Some of our favourite things were hitting the tennis ball with a golf club so they stuck to the sticky target. We got to shout 'SNAG' when the ball hit the yellow target that looked like a bullseye. We also rolled the ball into a yellow hoop! Then we use a sticky flag target and we had to try and roll the ball onto the sticky flag target and get 2 points!
Jazer's favourite part was the challenge where we had to get seven 'SNAG's and then do our best dance moves, push ups or star jumps. Peni even challenged Shannon to do five push ups and everyone laughed together!
This term we have been focusing on multiplication and what it means! Check out our work so far on understanding multiplication as groups of objects! We understand that 7 times 5 or 7x5 means the same as 7 GROUPS of 5. Dora solved problems by using repeated addition as one way and we can also use our doubling knowledge to help us think more deeply and use our multiplication knowledge! We have come a long way since the beginning of term and we are very proud of ourselves! Watch our quick video from our maths lesson today and see if our explanation can help you to understand!
Yesterday afternoon we went to the music room and practiced playing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star! First we sang along in words while Miss Walters played it on the marimba and then we did it again singing the notes we would play on our xylophones. In case you were wondering the notes are: CC GG AA G, FF EE DD C, GG FF EE D, GG FF EE D, CC GG AA G, FF EE DD C. We practiced a few times and then Miss Walters filmed us using the tablet and sang the letters along to help us. We did really well for a first try and Miss Walters was very proud and impressed with us! Check out our video below!
This term we have Cross Country - we're already starting to practice by going for a run during our fitness time, but we need to practice lots to be able to run well in the competition at the end of this term and this weather isn't really helping! If we keep practicing until the end of the term we will be better than before! We can keep ourselves fit by running.
Remember to check your shoe laces before you run so you don't trip over and waste time stopping during running. Remember to take your big jumpers off before running - you'll all get too hot! Also remember to start off slowly, run straight and look where you are going! Good luck for your running! Miss Walters
