Week 6 Blog

Hi everyone,

This term is going so quickly!!!  We have been working very hard, so that has made the time seem to go faster.

Here are a couple of important events for this Friday:

~Ara Pakeke Assembly, 1pm

~Ara Pakeke Disco.  Starts 6.30 pm, finishes 7.45. Please pick children up from the Hall..  The theme is "Game On". Dress as your favourite game character, or a game piece...use your imagination!!!  What a fun way to end the week.  We have been practising the "Continental Drift" dance for Friday, and there will be prizesfor the best dancer. Will it be a Room 8 person???

Here is a link to the dance moves for anybody wanting to get REALLY GOOOOOOOD


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMuJxd2Gpxo


Writing;
We are really getting into our Persuasive Writing now. We have just finished a persuasive argument about whether or not Rm 8 people think homework should be banned. Mrs de Jong was really encouraged to read that most of the people in Room 8 think homework should NOT be banned! That tells her that Room 8 value their learning a lot, and are already starting to think about their futures.  What an amazing group of learners Room 8 are.

  Mrs de Jong has noticed that some Room 8 students who were finding Writing tricky are starting to find it easier and enjoy it more when they follow the Writing Process, because "it gives me ideas on what to write, and helps me when I'm stuck".  (Moutaz)


 Here are some photos of  some of us as we were working through the Writing Process to produce our  persuasive work:

Reading:
A lot of us are really proud of the progress we are making in Reading, and so is Mrs deJong. Some of us are REALLY close to moving up...to help us get there we have to READ, READ, READ. And that means taking Choosing Books home.

Some of the boxes are a bit empty though, because people have been fantastic at taking them home, but are forgetting to return them to the box at school, so other people are missing out.  Let's have a good hunt at home and bring back the books that are hiding under our stinky socks, our cat's bed, under magazines on the coffee table, or in parent's cars. Thank you!!

Mrs de Jong has found other fun things for us to read at home to keep our skills growing... check out these great videos that we can read along and practise with:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zt6GSoouja0


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrlXLPP7c0U


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X7GaRCw5HA


Maths:
As well as fractions, we are looking at Measurement in our Strand Maths. We have been deciding what the best benchmarks would be to measure things with.
We had fun with our discussions when we worked out that it's probably best not to try and measure a nose in KMs, a car in MMs or the Sky Tower in CMs!!!
We have been estimating then checking the measurements of objects around school, and thinking carefully about the benchmarks we would use.

Topic: 
We are right into making our prototypes now, it's really exciting! Mrs de Jong's Board Games group will need to remember to bring along any bits and pieces that they want to use to decorate their boards with, or make game pieces with.
The strong card for the base boards and card for use in the game will be supplied by Mrs de Jong.

Parent Interviews:
The next interviews will be in Week 10.

Bye for now!!