Sunday, August 21, 2016

Maths Family of Facts

FAMILY OF FACTS

Last week we learnt about family of facts using + and - this week we are investigating how Family of Facts applies to division and multiplication. 

If you know one fact you actually know four. 
For example if you know 2 x 4 = 8,then you also know... 
4 x 2 = 8 
8 divided by 4 = 2 
and 8 divided by 2 = 4

Here you can see Julius showing 10 x 2 = 20 and 20 divided by 10. While Lorenz is showing 2 x 10 = 20 and 20 divided by 2 = 10. 

Skylah, Urupene and Kingston B showing their family of fact number stories. 
Kingston M, Julius and Amber-Jay showing their family of fact number stories.



Week 3 Swimming Sports

During Week 3 we held our Pohutukawa Swimming Sports. It was a great day all students were well behaved, gave it their all and demonstrated great sportsmanship. After all the hard work of the races was over we enjoyed some great fun free time in the pool together. It was a fabulous day! Thanks to all the whanau who were able to join us and show support for our fabulous tamariki.

Thursday, August 18, 2016

Cook Island Language Week

We were so blessed to to have Whaea Ine and Mama Te visit Room 17 during Cook Island Language week and share with us their culture, language, stories and they even taught us a beautiful song.


Whaea Ine and Mama Te explaining the detailed
carving in this paddle made especially for a 21st gift.
Another beautiful carving made for a 25th birthday.



Mama Te showing us a traditional broom.


Check out the gorgeous symmetrical designs in the weaving of this kete. 

Whaea Ine showing us a 

Mama Te's beautiful Ukulele from Rarotonga.

A Tivaevae, traditional hand stitched quilt.  

Mama Te showing us some handcrafted flowers, these
are becoming more common in the Islands as there are a
 lot less flowers now than there used to be.
Another handcrafted flower.



Listen to one of the lovely songs they taught us, 'Kua Iti Te Marama' 

Wednesday, August 10, 2016

Duffy Theatre



We were so lucky to have the Duffy Theatre visit us at Rangikura. We were entertained by a talented  an entertaining crew who told the story of Duffy's mission back in time. Duffy went to change the course of history so that his friend's father would survive WWII and return to the family farm. This enabled his daughter to attend school and learn to read, instead of being required to stay home to help her mother run the farm.  

Check out this clip of Duffy heading back in time.


References; http://www.booksinhomes.org.nz/Home.aspx

Sunday, July 31, 2016

Literacy- Language features

Just a few excellent examples of some of the great language features evident in our writing in Room 17 this week. 

Well done for picking this up so quickly Room 17!

You're welcome on in to the classroom to read your child's writing in full. It was great to see how the students extended themselves to include a wide rage of language features throughout their writing this week. I loved reading them all!

Literacy-Language features.

In Week 1 we have been learning to make our writing more interesting by using language features to add interest for our reader and richness to our descriptions.

We Are Learning To: Use language features including alliteration, onomatopoeia, metaphor and simile in our writing.

 
Language features posters sourced from http://www.sparklebox.co.uk/6291-6300/sb6298.html#.V53d2ZN97YJ 

Monday, July 4, 2016

Class's Post on Thursday, 30 June 2016

Room 17 are loving their time in the pool enjoying learning vital water safety and survival skills!






Class's Post on Thursday, 30 June 2016


Working together weaving our kete to present our whanaungatanga writing projects.






Sunday, March 20, 2016

Class's Post on Monday, 21 March 2016

Student voice and agency, Friday afternoon game brought to us by Zak. Thank you Zak everyone had so much fun playing the game you taught us.

Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Class's Photo on Thursday, 25 February 2016


Easy Blog Photo
Today Room 17 got to spend the day with Whaea Toni, learning about whanaungatanga (a sense of belonging) they created some beautiful artwork in relation to this learning.
Thanks Whaea Toni the akonga (students had a fabulous day with you.

Class's Video on Friday, 12 February 2016


Karakia, We begin and conclude every day with our school karakia, to set the tone for a focused and positive learning environment. I hope you enjoy seeing and hearing your beautiful tamariki singing Whakataka te hau.

Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Welcome to 2016

Kia Ora. Welcome to Room 17 in 2016. I am Ms Sellars or feel free to call me Whaea Bex. I'm excited about starting a new year of wonderful learning with a lovely group of tamariki.

If you have any questions, concerns or simply want to chat please feel free to come in and see me.

Kind Regards
Whaea Bex