CHOIR

Please remember that there are Choir rehearsals this week.
Also, if tickets are wanted, they can be purchased from the office.
They sound great!!

Cross Country

Congratulations to all of the Room 14 children who competed in the South Zone Competition in Halswell Quarry earlier in June.
An especially great congratulations to Fenella who came first in her year.

Waiting for the race to start

At the start line

Coming to the end of the run

FIRST place!!!

Nearly there!

ROOM 14 - WELCOME

Welcome to our Room 14 blog.
My apologies for having taken so long to get it up and running - but, better late than never.
Unfortunately, it comes down to transferring accounts etc when changing classrooms, which can be a bit messy.

Term 1 was incredibly busy - as usual!
We worked on introducing our new writing concept to the children - storytelling.
You could ask them about how they produced their writing on the 'Freedom Bird' and 'The 3 Billy Goats Gruff'.
We now follow a method of Hear, Map, Step and Speak to develop the children's oral language first.
They then continue on with writing as a class, then substituting certain characters, settings, plots etc to make it their own.
During Term 2, our first story will be about Daedulus and Icarus.
The following video shows a version of the story:

We will be looking at multiplication for maths during this term, followed by algebra and geometry.     

With regards to art, we will be focusing on creating a piece of work for the Cultural Festival - more details to follow when received!   As we only have a limited amount of chromebooks/i-pads per class, a focus for using these will be on keyboard skills.  I have joined the class in a typing club in order for them to be familiar with a computer/device keyboard - hopefully you will hear about this from your children in a couple of weeks time.        

Hope everyone is enjoying these two weeks off.

Will see everyone on Monday 1st May - have a great holiday.                                                                                                                                           

About Our Planet, Earth

This term we are studying Kiwiana. We are starting off by looking at where in the solar system we are.

Monday - please go to this link to watch the National Geographic film about how our planet was formed.
National Geographic

Tuesday
Here is a link to a website with information about our planet earth. The Tigers and the Cows are going to read this information and answer questions.
Planets for Kids

Rube Goldberg Machines

Room 14 had a lot of fun designing complex Rube Goldberg machines. The project required creativity and perseverance. The children had to work together and accept failures, working to improve their machines to make them successful.
Here are some videos of the machines:

Queen's Birthday Weekend - Who is the Queen?

Follow this link to find out about Queen Elizabeth II:
Queen Elizabeth

Good Art Ideas

Corner Bookmarks

3D kitten

Bookmark ideas

Snakes Reading Activity

Hello Snakes,
This is a link to the iMax films you are reading about. Enjoy!
IMax Deep Ocean

More Maths! Basic Facts for the ipad

Please follow this link to Prototec Basic Facts...
Prototec Basic Facts

Maths Videos

Kia ora mathematicians,

Follow this link to watch your maths lessons.

Teacher Tools

Eels

This is a video about eels migrating from Te Waihora (Lake Ellesmere) to the sea. The Snakes reading group is learning more about eels after reading a School Journal story.
River Monster

Basket Ball Video

This is a link to the basket ball video we watched together. We were talking about The Power of Yet and that if at first you don't succeed, then try and try again. After you have watched it, you can post a comment. A comment could be something like, "He was really serious about practicing," or "Even though he didn't win, he...." Comments such as, "This is awesome," aren't very interesting.
Basket Ball

Kiwi Kids News

Want to learn more about the world? Look at this website for kids that covers news, science, animals and lots more:
http://kiwikidsnews.co.nz/

Growth Mindset - making our brains stronger.

Watch these videos again about Mojo. How can you make your brain stronger?
Mojo videos

We watched some videos about people who had to carry on after making a mistake, or who tried really hard even though life was tough. You might like to watch these again or share them with your family.
Heather's Race

Never Give Up X Factor

Being creative!

After reading the book The Tin Forest, we made our own forest out of cardboard junk. When Aayden brought in a tube that was too thick to cut with scissors, it was time to bring out the saw!

The Newbies!

Caroline, Latasha and Jesse all enjoyed their Mihi Whakatau and felt very proud to be welcomed to Opawa School.

Welcome to Room 14!

Welcome to Room 14. Follow our blog to see what we've been up to and to leave comments on the learning we are doing.