And suddenly it's week 9, term 4, 2017 - Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from Room 10 :)

Happy, safe, fun holidays everyone!!  

See you in 2018, from Room 10 2017 xxoo

Thursday - An emotional (for Ms Trow!) final prizegiving saw 4 certificates given for academic achievement and Stanley Avenue Values.  Nerro and Malcolm won year 5 and 4 academic awards, Ella and Taranpreet won Stanley Avenue Values awards.  Ms Trow is very, very proud of all her Room 10 classmembers - you are a wonderful, fun, fantastic - fabulicious (oh, ah), group of beautiful young people.  I look forward to hearing of all your future successes and achievements. xx

Monday of week 9 we had our school trip to Te Rapa pools.  A fun (but exhausting!) day had by all.

Weeks 7 and 9 in Room 10....

Week 8:

In week 8 we prepared to farewell Sandie after 25 years teaching... we made videos, a scrabble board with pictures painted dedicated to Sandie and 25 words describing her, and we re-wrote a Bryan Adams song for her :) Reports went home. A new student started.  End of Year certificates finalised and preparation for prizegivings next week and moving classroom next Thursday.  End of term is zipping towards us!!

Week 7:

This week we have been making Christmas decorations and Christmas advent calendars and bookmarks.  We also finished our Christmas hat decorations and our tech challenge Christmas decorations.

At the weekend Ms Trow was parent help at the Aspire Dance Academy show in Putaruru... She found Ella there - Ella dances hiphop with Aspire and was in the Lady Gaga dance.  Awesome work Ella - you were fantastic on stage!!! :)

Week 5 and 6 in Room 10 :)

Week 6:

On Tuesday we had sun umbrellas put on our picnic tables outside our classrooms in the Middle and Junior Syndicates.  They are amazing and we really needed them this week with the awesome sunshine heating up for Summer - HUGE HEARTFELT (rather than 'heatfelt'!!) thanks to the PTA for supplying them for us :) Here are some photos of the tables outside Room 10 and 9 :)

On Monday we held a Middle School Technology Challenge block.  We split into teams and we had to construct a tower that would support a basketball - using only newspaper, a section of sellotape and some staples.  We had a design brief that we had to fill in before we constructed our towers.  We had 2 rounds of challenges to see who created the winning tower.  First it had to support the basketball for 30 seconds at least - then it had to be the tallest tower...  

Woohoo!!  Congratulations to our winning team:  Chloe, Casey, Saskia, Greer, Chloe and Taranpreet:

Then we played Colour Tag around the school in our houses - Congratulations to Hauraki who one :) Here are some photos of our tower creations and Colour Tag game:

Middle Syndicate Tech Challenge & Colour Tag on PhotoPeach


On Friday we started our School Kit 'Curiosity' mission...  For this mission we have to research a famous New Zealander - can be famous for anything we choose - and we have to work out if we have any connections to them.  Then we have a set aerogramme type letter to fill in... then the fun begins!!  Our challenge is to pass the letter on to someone we know who passes it onto someone they know until it reaches our famous Kiwi... 

If you log onto the School Kit website:  http://www.schoolkit.co.nz/ you'll see all the information and some cool responses some of our fellow School Kit schools have received so far! Very cool work!!  Already we've found some exciting connections!  We'll update our blog as we begin sending our letters out.  

(Note, these can be posted but they have to be put in an envelope and have a correct NZ Post stamp attached - you can only post to someone you know as well - no cheating and posting direct to your Famous Kiwi... that doesn't count!)

So put your thinking caps on and see what connections we have out there - and how small the world really is!! :)


And speaking of post.... Ms Trow posted the first big envelope of letters to Santa on Friday :)  We've put our own home address for Santa's reply - so they should go direct to your homes :)

Our joke for the week is from Nerro:

How do you know everyone wants to go the graveyard?

- Because people are dying to get there...

Week 5:

We visited the Junior Big Day Out - its was awesome to support the Junior's in their fun events... lots of us remember doing the events last year!! :) Here are a few photos of us at the Big Day Out:

Room 10 and 9 visit the Junior Big Day Out on PhotoPeach

Congratulations to Casey, Talia and Charlie who won prizes for our Recycled craft projects at the Te Aroha A & P Show recently. Well done girls :)

We have been busy finishing projects and starting new Christmas based ones :) Here we are making 3d pop-up Christmas Trees :)

Beginning our Christmas Craft and Art Work 2017 :) on PhotoPeach

Week 3 and 4 Term 4 in Room 10 - Athletics Day!! :)

Monday is our school Athletics Day!!!! We will be kicking off at 8:30 in our classrooms and then walking to the park at 8:45. First activities start at 9:15 - remember your House colours top, drink, lunch, hat, sunblock and smiles - its going to be an awesomely fun day!!! :) Everyone (parents, family, friends) are invited to come join us - or even help if you would like - we'd love your help to make this an awesome day :)

          Ms Trow will post some photos here when she has them ready :)

See you there!! :) Go Mokena :) !!!

Joke of the week from Charlie:

What did the knickers say to the bike?

I do better skiddies than you....

(Disclaimer from Ms Trow:  the class votes for the joke of the week, not Ms Trow - the amount (of lack of!) humour in the joke is down to the sense of humour of the students of Room 10 only.... 

and Charlie, this is a bad one lol hahaha)..... 

Camp week in Room 10 :)

WOW Camp Week snuck up on us fast!!  What an awesome, exciting time we had at Lakes Ranch - and then back at Camp Classroom (for the year 4s)...

We had the chance to experience so much:  orienteering, mud run, kayaking, rock wall climbing, glow worm walk (which was totally amazing!), buma trail, horse riding, slug gun, archery... and the camp was great with trampolines, loads of space to play, and swimming pools.  We had such an awesome time team building with our groups and others, and trying new things!

Thanks to Ms T and Mr Spicer for all the hours, wrinkles and hair raising planning and arranging, and to Mrs Haddock, Miss Malone, Mrs Knevytt, Mr Muir and all our awesomely fantastic parents who helped with parent help on camp and transport.  A huge heartfelt thanks from us all!  Without you we wouldn't have had the wonderful camp experiences we've had :)

At Camp Classroom we made tents in our groups (inside and from tarpolines), we filled in our Camp Journals, we played camp games and drama games, and challenged each other with Just Dance.  On Friday Keyarn's mum brought in their baby bunnies for a visit - sooooo cute!!  If anyone is interested they have some free to a good home :) . Then Mr Muir came to see us and we had lots of cool team building games and activities in the Rec Centre.

As year 4s, we can't wait for our next full camp in Year 6!!!  :) Here are some photos from our Middle School Camp Week 2017:  (NOTE:  YOU NEED TO RUN ADOBE FLASH PLAYER TO PLAY THE VIDEO RUN OF OUR PHOTOS)...

Year 4, 5 and 6:  From Lakes Ranch (Tuesday and Wednesday):


LAKES RANCH FUN (TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY) on PhotoPeach


Year 4s:  Camp Classroom (Thursday and Friday):



Cool Times at Year 4s "Camp Classroom" on PhotoPeach

WELCOME TO TERM 4 IN ROOM 10!!!! :)

WOW!!!  Term 4 has started fast and exciting!!!  This term is filled with all sorts of exciting and inspiring events - as well as testing and report writing!!  This week we have had an exciting Tuakana Teina buddy session with Room 1 and Mr Spicer - starting our display work (see here for more details as the very cool display (prepared by our clever Mrs Rendell :) ) - takes shape!!) Here are some photos of us working with our buddies:

We have started athletics training ready for our Stanley Avenue Athletics Day in Week 4.  Because we have limited time to train with Camp in Week 2, we are training in two different sections:  Relay, Running, and Fitness activities = Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and field events:  High jump, shot put, discus and long jump = Tuesday and Thursday afternoons.  Here are some photos of us training this week in our house groups:

Next week, week 2, we are going on our first ever Stanley Avenue School Middle Syndicate Camp!! :) Year 4, 5 and 6s will be going to the awesome Lakes Ranch Camp in Rotorua on Tuesday.  Year 4s will stay one night and return to school Wednesday evening, while everyone else will stay on and return to school Friday afternoon.  Loads of cool activities and challenges are planned, including:  buma trail, night glow worm walk, mud run, kayaking and much more!  We have been working in our camp groups this week organising our camp journals and our camp skits.  We are really excited (and nervous, but more excited!) to go on this amazing experience.  Thanks to Miss T and Mr Spicer for all their organising of the camp - they have put in a lot of hard work and time finalising every detail to make this camp truly fantastic for us all.  Year 4s will carry on with camp based activities and challenges at school Thursday and Friday too :)

Here are some photos of the whole Middle School Syndicate in 'camp planning mode':

And on Thursday we had our school photos.  This year we had the class photos taken outside, it was a lovely 'fresh' day, and we had a beautiful gust of spring blossoms swoop over us as we were having our photos taken - added an awesome, cool touch to the moment :) . Here we are getting ready for our class photo:

Have an awesome, fun and safe Labour Weekend everyone - the joke of the week is from Alize:

What did the sushi say to the bee?

- Wasabi (whats up bee) :) 

Term 3, Week 9 and 10 in Room 10....

And so we zoomed through to the end of a terrific, tasty and timely Term 3... happy holidays everyone and see you back for a fast, frantic and fantastic Term 4 :)

Here are some photos of us learning and experiencing new things through the term (once I get the hang of how to download there here - just a few technical glitches lol)...

Some more of our talented Room 10 gymnasts with their awards - well done girls :) :

Term 3 fun - random pictures :) on PhotoPeach

Squash skills with Kay :) on PhotoPeach  

Spring art and craft with Room 9 :) on PhotoPeach

Term 3, Week 7 and 8 in Room 10 :)

WOW!!!! Week 7 already!!

A huge CONGRATS to our school Winter Olympics team who competed last week.  In particular the team cheer which was awesome!!!  And we won best cheer :)  Well done team - we're super proud of you all!!! :)

Last week we had a group of us and Ms Trow go to Morrinsville for the annual Gymsport Festival. Ms Trow will be posting photos later in the week - and certificates will be handed out at this week's assembly.  Well done team!! :)  and big thanks to Lori and her awesome team for all their dedicated, talented and patient coaching!!

This term we have been working on our speeches.  We will be holding our speech session with Room 9 in the middle block on Friday.  Our speeches are to be 2 minutes long each.  These will help prepare us for our future senior speeches - which are for years 6 and up :)

Ms Trow will post more photos here this week - we're having a few technical issues :)

Please feel free to call in and see our speeches :)


Joke of the week from Casey:

Knock, knock!

Who's there?

Barbie.

Barbie who?

Barbie-cue 

:)

Our Joke of the week for week 8 is from Ella:

What do you call a brownie that's sad?

- A frownie :)

Term 3, week 4 in Room 10

This Thursday afternoon is our school cross country event!!  We will be starting the races around 1pm across the road at Boyd Park.  If you can be there we'd love to see you :)  we have been training hard and we aim to do well in our running :)

We will decide at morning tea if the event is cancelled due to weather - and the save day for the event is the following day (Friday)...  we have to run it this week as the District event is next Wednesday.

PLEASE let your child know to let Ms Trow know if you will be collecting them from the event afterwards - as all class and cloakroom doors will be locked in the school while the event is on.  If you are collecting your child from the event they will need to take their school bag over - otherwise their bags will be locked in the cloakbay until we return.

Fingers and toes crossed for a beautiful day :)


This week we are finishing our class persuasive writing projects on whether we are for or against zoos.  At the end of this project students will start their own speech writing for our class speeches.  These can be either persuasive (to debate an opinion on a topic) or informative (to discuss a topic).  The Senior school speech finals will be held in Tuesday of Week 8 with the winners competing at the Rotary speech finals in Week 9.  As the Senior Speech Finals are for years 6 and up, Rooms 9 and 10 will be having class speeches and finals between them - with the finals being in front of some of the other Middle/Senior classes :)  (This is to help prepare the students to be confident in speech writing and speaking).

Last week Room 10 held 1 minute 'on the spot' speeches on topics Ms Trow picked.  All the students spoke very well with some very confident, funny speeches being shared.  To speak in front of an audience with no preparation is a very important skill to have and builds confidence in the students abilities to communicate :)

In maths we are moving onto geometry (shape, position, orientation and transformation), and finalising our learning using adding/subtracting using a part partitioning strategy.  We will be moving onto solving equations with a missing middle number (addend) once we are all confident in subtracting.

Here are some photos from our sugar in food research - our graphs and findings will be on display in our classroom next week :)

Sugar in our foods maths research photos on PhotoPeach


In reading we have been reading persuasive/debate articles to help with our writing, as well as working on our book reviews.  We hope to have our book reviews completed and on display next week.  This week we also started some more chapter book readings.  Next week we hope to have some cool new chapter book sets to read through as Ms Trow (with Ms T, Mrs Haddock and Miss Malone) will be meeting Jenny at the RTLB rooms to source some sets to use in class.  Jenny has some awesome cool book sets - so Ms Trow is looking forward to bringing these into the class. We will also continue to use School Journal articles in our reading as well.  Our focus is on identifying and summarising the main points in our reading and looking at character, plot, setting etc.

Thursday afternoons we have started our Culture time when the Kapa Haka group has been practising.  This will move back to Wednesday middle block after cross country has been held.  We have 4 options running that students have selected:  Kapa Haka (preparing for the upcoming festival), Dance (hip hop), Singing, and Rad Rhythm.  We will be performing from these groups at the end of term Performance Assembly :)

Week 3, Term 3 in Room 10

Week 3 Term 3 already!!!  This week we have continued training our cross country - reminder:  the school cross country is on Thursday next week (week 4 - 17 August)!!!  The spare day is the following day (Friday) and we have to run it that week as the District's are on the following week, on Wednesday (23 August).

In Week 3 we learnt about the Sugar in our drinks with Mr Muir - here are some photos of us learning with Mr Muir.  We also completed some booklets and had a leaflet to bring home telling parents and caregivers all about the amounts of sugar in common drinks - we were shocked by how much sugar is in some of our yummy drinks :(

Learning about the sugar in our drinks with Mr Muir on PhotoPeach


In maths we have been researching and gathering data on how much sugar is in different foods that we eat.  We also compared the sugar amounts to the saturated fat content in the foods (these are the bad fats).  We are currently displaying our group findings - and we were very shocked at some of the results....  We will put on some photos of our findings when we have finished our display.

This week's joke is from Charlie:

Is your refrigerator running?
       Yes..... well you better catch it!!!

Term 3, Week 2 in Room 10 :)

This week we showcased our dance item at assembly.  We were so nervous but really excited to show the hard work we've been putting in to learning and practising our dance :)

Miss T videoed it for us, so Ms Trow will have it here for you when its been uploaded - but we were awesome - FABULICIOUS even :)

This week Mr Muir took Room 9 and 10 for some running training fitness - with our upcoming School Cross Country coming up quickly (Thursday week 4).  We have been training through the wetlands Tuesday and Thursday.  (Ms Trow is hoping to get fitter participating in the training each day too).

Here we are training with Mr Muir:

Fitness training with Mr Muir - Week 2 on PhotoPeach

Next week we have Mr Muir coming to talk to us about the sugar in our drinks.  We will be able to compare these with our maths statistics study graphs about the sugar in foods we have in our pantry.  We have been researching different foods in our groups and will be putting our data onto graphs next week.  We will be showing the grams and the teaspoons of sugar in our servings...  very scarey amounts!!!

Our writing this week has been finishing our rhyming winter poems - it takes time to write a good rhyme :)  these will be on display next week... and they look awesome :)

We did our term spelling test on Friday and Ms Trow has marked those - please remember you only have to focus on 5 words in your spelling list each week and aim to pass the master as soon as you think you can spell the whole list. :)

Our joke of the week is from Taranpreet:

What do you call a dog in the sun?

     - A hot dog :)

Week 3's Winter Olympics $2.50 School Lunch will be hot chicken bun - yum!!!   Remember to order them by Wednesday to ensure you get one Thursday :)

Jayson's Holiday Space Research

My Space Study - by Jayson

In the holidays I studied space and everything about it like:

• In the middle of the galaxy there is a black hole in every Milky Way.

• Without a Black Hole in the middle of the Galaxy, there will never be a Galaxy.

• Black Holes have a gravitational pull .  This pulls everything to it - like the gases from the Galaxy, this holds everything in the Galaxy together.

• Black Holes are also important to the Galaxy as they have a dense gravity.  The Galaxy needs this to support it.

• A Black Hole is made by a dying star that then forms into a Black Hole.  The fragments of the exploded star collide together and form the Black Hole.

• How are Supernovas made?  A star collapses on its core and two stars collide together to form a Supernova.  These have to happen together to form the Supernova.  Supernova’s are very common.

• Gamma Ray bursts are made with a Supernova.  The Gamma Ray is formed from a star that is spinning faster than the speed of light which then explodes and makes a Supernova with a laser firing out of it.

Made by Jayson thanks for reading my research.

Greer's holiday :)

In the July school holidays, Greer and her family had an awesome holiday in Sydney.  Here are some of her favourite holiday pictures, and a story by Greer about her amazing holiday :)

In the photos below, Greer is having a yummy breakfast (the pancakes are as big as her!!), she saw turtles, baby crocodiles and stingrays at Manly Sealife park, she patted a kangaroo at Sydney Wildlife park, she cartwheeled on Bondi Beach, she climbed a HUGE crane (very large), and she visited a prison (very small) and a power station at Cockatoo Island, her family role played in the Titanic (very scarey!!, Richie was in 1st class, Dad and Greer were in 2nd class and Mum was in 3rd class).  Greer also met the Queen, Princess Katherine and Prince William - and she sat on the Queen's throne!!!  They are lookalike statues - but don't they look real!!! Prince Harry was there too but he didn't make the photo :)  

My holiday by Greer

In the holidays I went to Sydney.  I had to get up up at 3.00 am. We flew out at 7.30 am. We got to Sydney at 9.00 am and caught the train over to Central where our motel was.

First we went to Darling Harbour. We went to Sealife. There were dogfish and sharks and more.  We went to Wildlife I got to hold a koala.  It was fluffy. I also held a snake and a baby crocodile.  We went to Manly Sealife. I got to swim with sharks.  We went to Madam Tussauds.  The Queen was there.

I went to Cockatoo Island. We went to the jail and the power station.  

For breakfast we had buffet every day, but not Thursday.  For tea one night we had Chinese.  Another night we went to an Italian place and another night we went to the steak house.  Two nights we had tea at the motel.  

I went to the Opera House.  We went on a boat to Circular Quay  and we went on a train and a bus.

We went to a beach just out of Sydney.  I didn't swim.  It was too  cold.  

We went to a shopping centre.  We went to a chocolate shop there.  We got 11kg of Lindt chocolate for only $11!

There was a Nike shop there too.  I got nike pro shorts.  I got gold and grey and pink ones.  My mum got two pairs of shoes.  My dad got five tee-shirts.  My brother got nike air shoes.  

On Thursday we left our motel to go to Sydney Airport to fly home.  We had to get there at 3.30pm. We flew out at 6.30pm. It was a 3 hour flight to get to Auckland.  We got to Auckland at 12.30am.  We got home at 2.30am.

Thanks Mum and Dad, I had a fun holiday in Sydney.  Love from Greer.

Charlie's published writing :)

Our Charlie has had an article published in the New Zealand "Fishing and Outdoors" newspaper for June 2017!!!

Here is a photo of her awesome article about hunting deer, pig and boar.  The photo is of her and her sister Olivia when they were hunting.

We are super proud of our published class journalist!! Well done Charlie!!! :)

End of term 2 in Room 10 :)

WOW!!! Its the end of term already!!!

At the end of the term we were lucky enough to have the awesome Mr Muir visit to talk to us about Healthy Eating and Projos Lunchbox.  Here's some photos of us working with him.
Here's photo from our first session with Mr Muir. We did this session with Room 9. Justin was our walking organ diagram, and Senator shared his 'super banana man'. :)

Term 2 our first session of Healthy Eating with Mr Muir on PhotoPeach

Term 2 Session 2 Healthy Eating with Mr Muir on PhotoPeach


Thursday night of week 10 was our PTA disco with a pyjama party theme.  It was a really cool night!! :)

The last few weeks we have been practising our Middle and Senior Syndicate jump jam sessions - our performance assembly will feature a special dance we had been working on to wow you all with :)  Here's some photos from our Jump Jam sessions - and a special session on Wig Day Wednesday, when quite a few 'famous' celebrities (their hair anyway!) joined us....

Jump Jam - Middle and Senior Syndicates :) on PhotoPeach


And that brings us to the end of an awesome, exciting Term 2, and the end of having the sensational, super, Mrs Spooner in the office... We wish her all the very very best for a fantastic retirement, we thank her with all our hearts for always being their for us and for all she does for us.  Mrs Spooner, you are simply the best, lots of love xxxooo  (here's a video of Room 10's thank you notes for Mrs Spooner - we snuck into her office while she wasn't there and had photos taken.... Ms Trow quickly put a Mrs Spooner wig on for her photo - stick to blonde Ms Trow, stick to blonde haha)...

Thank you the sensational Mrs Spooner!! We'll miss you!! on PhotoPeach

Week 5 and 6, Term 2 already!!! :)

Wow!!  This term is just flying by!!!

This week we continued with our Jump Jam, and started a Recycling unit of learning with the lovely Kathy - we will be continuing this over Week 6.

We have been working on finishing our Pirate theme with plays, poems and our "boat in a bottle" art.  Ms Trow will post photos once we have completed our projects :)

Our Joke of the Week is from Malcolm:

Why did Malcolm eat his homework?
- Because Ms Trow told him it was a 'piece of cake'!! hahahahaha...  :)

Week 3 and 4, Term 2 in Room 10

This term we started whole school Jump Jam in the Rec Centre - 9:10 till 9:30 Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.  Some awesome jump jam talent coming through - and not just from the students :)

We now have our Te Reo Feeling Emoji art on display in our cloakbay area - thanks again to the clever display skills of Kathy :)   And also our ANZAC display is up in our class.

We have also finished our Kiwiana art and acrostic poems - these will be displayed shortly in the classroom.  They look amazing :)

This week is our School Bookfair in the Library.  Our exciting theme this year is Pirates.  Ahoy there mateys - arrrrr arrrrr, it'll be a fun week to be sure!!  Dress up day will be in Pirate theme on Friday - for a gold coin donation.

We will be doing different Pirate based learning through the week also to get into the Bookfair Pirate spirit :)

We will also be starting a 'Survivor' style unit where we work in teams with daily problems and challenges to concur - the team 'surviving' at the end of the competition are the winners :)  Room 9 have already started their team work and challenges last week - we may do some challenges against them in this time too.


Our Joke of the Week is from Casey:

Why did the whale cross the road?
  - To get to the other TIDE :)

Welcome to Term 2 2017 in Room 10 :)

WOW!!  Term 2 is here already and Room 10 is busy and active with lots of learning and fun!! :)

Week 2:

This week we are finishing our Anzac activities with Room 9 and will have our Te Reo Emoji, Anzac and Tapa Cloth work displayed - we will post photos when these are completed, and so far they look amazing!! :)

On Tuesday we will start whole school Jump Jam 9:10-9:30am.  Room 10 will be hosting Jump Jam in the Rec Centre at this time Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, plus practising in our Room Monday and Friday.  We are Jump Jam sensations!!! :)

This week is ROAD SAFETY WEEK!!  Students will be discussing and practising their Road Safety Skills.  Please ensure all students use the Safety Rules - especially using the School Kea Crossing when cross the road to/from school :)

Home learning this week includes Reading, Maths, Writing and Spelling practise.  Remembering that our spelling tests are every Friday :)

This week's School Value is Kaiwhiriwhiri - Inquirer.  Room 10's 2 top Inquirer's will receive certificates at Friday's assembly.

Reminder:  Stanley Avenue School Assembly = 2:05pm every Friday in the School Rec Centre.  Look forward to seeing you there :)


Week 1:

Starting the term we are finishing our Anzac activities with Room 9.  We will put photos of our finished art and learning when we are finished - but we are having a great time doing our Anzac activities.

This term we start using our new Stanley Avenue School Values Certificates for Friday's Assembly Certificates.  Each week we will focus on one of our 4 School Values, and this Value will be celebrated in the certificates awarded to 2 students each Friday :)

Week 1 we are focussing on Whaia kia u - Striving to Succeed.  Students will look at what this means and what this looks like, and teachers will be awarding the certificates to 2 students displaying this Value throughout the week.

Term 1 - weeks 9-11 in Room 10 :)

Week 11:
School holidays are nearly here already!!!  This week we finished off a lot of our display work, started our Anzac Day remembrance activities, and had fun with our Easter celebration work...  (we'll post a video of our processes when we've finished them.... but they look awesome!!)... watch this blog :)

Here we are with Shay, from Te Aroha College, having fun and working hard :)  Thanks for your awesome help Shay - what an awesome teacher-in-training :)  You're welcome back to Room 10 whenever you like :)

Week 10:

This month (April), Warehouse Stationery is holding a post postcards promotion - you can post as many postcards as you like for free in April - anywhere in the world!!!! :)

We have been working with our buddies in Room 9 making and creating cool collage emojis of different feelings.  We will display these in our rooms with the Te Reo Maori translations for the feelings.  They look amazing so far!! :)

Te Reo Maori Emoji feeling collages with Room 9 :) on PhotoPeach

Home Learning this week - the students will have the basic facts sheets for their maths level to practise.  Being able to remember their basic facts instantly helps students to quickly and correctly solve mathematical problems and learn new strategies easily and successfully :).

This Friday is our Performance Assembly - we look forward to sharing our syndicate singing item with you.  Assembly will be from 2pm Friday :)


Week 9:

For Tuakana Teina #3 we learnt how to make cool word art with our Room 1 buddies.  Here we are learning and creating our word art, using the tagul.com website:

Tuakana Teina #3 - Tagul word art with Room 1 :) on PhotoPeach


Congratulations to Shavonne and Taranpreet for gaining the Principal's stickers for their FABULICIOUS Kiwiana art work... We are also creating and publishing acrostic poems that we will display with our cool Kiwiana art work :)  Look at their awesome art work!  Well done girls - you worked hard and created awesome posters!!! :)

Joke of the week - from Casey:

What do you call 2 open banana skins on the road?

- a pair of slippers :)

WE ARE ROOM 10, 2017 :)

With Kathy :)

With Kat :)

Term 1 2017, Weeks 5-7 in Room 10 :)

Wow!!!  This term is flying by!!!

The last few weeks we had our Parent Teach meetings (PaCT) - if you didn't get chance to come in, feel free anytime to pop in, or make a time to see me - our classroom door is always open :)

Here are our very proud Jayson and Senator after they took their awesome quote work through to Mr Byers:

Rooms 1 and 10 had an impromptu second Tuakana Teina afternoon - here's some photos from that:

Tuakana Teina #2 with Room 1 on PhotoPeach



We've had Rippa Rugby skills training with the awesome Bill.  Here we are practising our skills and getting ready for a game:

Room 10's Rippa Rugby skills with Bill on PhotoPeach

We've been hard at work learning and having fun - here's some photos of Room 10 creating our class treaty with the very clever, amazing Kathy:

Home learning is given to students every Monday - due back the following Monday.  Home learning consists of reading (minimum 20 minutes a day) and writing with small activities based on our current learning intentions;  maths with a practise activity for the week; inquiry with a topic based activity; and spelling with students practising 5 words from their spelling list (a copy of which I will try to put on the blog).


Two jokes for the week...

From Taranpreet:

What does a monster eat after it's been to the dentist?

The dentist

From Talia:

What do you call a one-legged kiwi?

Not even bro...