Beach Education- be responsible, be safe!

On Tuesday the 5th of December Room 19 will be visiting Long Bay Beach and be engaging in Beach Education activities. It's going to be an EXCITING and ACTION packed day. As always, the more prepared we are, the more enjoyable and successful the day will be. Here are a few reminders about what you need to bring with you on the day.



 Show you know before we go activity.

 

Be RESPONSIBLE

Follow these two ideas about how to be responsible person.

Be healthy

It is really important that all try to be healthy. If we look after our bodies, we will be healthy and happy people ready to learn.

Students practice being healthy now, develop good habits and you will become a healthy adult too.

Feeling Fabulously Fit- Fitness-a-thon

Everyday this week the whole school participated in the Fitness-a-thon. Each day every student and teacher participated in a different form of fitness for approximately 25 minutes.

Monday- continuous running. Students ran around the school, seeing how many times they could make it round.

Tuesday- Jump Jam in the hall.

Wednesday- Agility. We had activities such as; shuttle runs, weaving through cones, hurdles, ladders, and cone flip.

Thursday- Boot Camp. Burpees, squats, lunges etc

Friday- Yoga/stretching.

Thank you to everyone who helped make this week a great one!!!

Angles everywhere

During the last two weeks we have been learning about angles. The students have had the opportunity to EXPLORE to know MORE, by engaging in the learning sites, viewing videos and playing learning games about angles.

We are currently in the process of creating our own DLO (Digital Learning Objects) to SHOW what we KNOW.

Here is just one of the very catchy songs about angles that the students have watched.

Be Organised!!!

Our focus for the next couple of weeks is Be Organised.

This term is a very busy one. Culture groups, Athletics and Year 6 graduation preparation are just a few of the special things happening this term.

By following the steps above, students will always hear all of the important information and receive  important letters/newsletters etc.

I hope that you enjoy this quote by A.A Milne

Hat and Water bottle please.

It's time now to bring a hat and a water bottle to school. As the weather gets better and the days get warmer, it's important to protect ourselves from the sun. Keeping hydrated is always important and WATER is always the preferred drink at Owairaka District School.

Learning together- Our first focus for Term 4

Welcome back learners to Term 4. This Term will be ACTION packed, lots to do and very little time to do it! That's OK because  if we can learn together and support each other, then we will be fine.

Mindcraft the musical-Kauri Team Production

Fantastic, Marvelous, Awesome are just a few of the words that people used to describe the Kauri Teams performances of this musical. There are just too many names to mention, as it was a momentous undertaking but the outcome was totally worth all of the effort.

As members of the Kauri Team, we had to put into practice all of our school foci to collaborate and communicate effectively.

To all of the whanau that watched the shows and especially those who helped us with props or costumes etc......THANK YOU!!!!!

To all of the students, you all have a talent that can make a production a successful one. Whether you are a main character, costume designer, props designer or a marketing whiz.

Who let the dogs out?...........   Miss Mills did!!!

This wonderful musical was written by Rachel Sutherland. In association with 'takeabowproductions.org" 

Practising being Kaitiaki- Green week Term 3, 2017

Celebrating Green Week reminds us of the pledges we made to be kind and caring Kaitiaki. These values and actions remain the same regardless of our setting (home, school and our wider community).

Today Room 19 and Room 24 had the opportunity to help Mrs G with racking up some leaves etc, by our compost bins.

Congratulations to Megan for receiving our Green Week Merit Award.

Aroha ana  Megan for demonstrating how to be a Kaitiaki within our classroom and always giving that extra effort towards keeping our learning environment clean. 

Be caring!!!

It is very important for us all, children and adults alike to care for all that surrounds us. 

Over the next two weeks, as well as focusing on all of the points made in our focus Room 19 will have a closer look and discussion based around the first one 'look after people'.

Celebrating Book Week 2017

What an exciting week!!!! They say a picture says a thousand words, so please enjoy this slide presentation.

On behalf of Room 19 and myself, I would like to say THANK YOU to everyone who was involved in making this week a truly enjoyable one.

Financial literacy- Money, money, money, moneeeeeey Money!

Today Room 19 had the opportunity to learn about how we use money and get some advice about how we can make our money grow. We had three wonderful people from BNZ share their expertise with us, challenging us to think about how we access and use money.

Here are a few photos........

We learnt about the Bank cards, ATM's and we discussed what was the best way to look after money.

Thank you very much to the wonderful staff at the BNZ for taking the time to educate us today. 

BE RESILIENT

Life is full of challenges and to overcome them you will need to BE RESILIENT, During the next two weeks, we will be discussing what RESILIENCE looks, sounds and feels like. It's not going to be easy, but the RESILIENT learners in Room 19 will get the job done!!!!!

Congratulations to.......

Congratulations to Rania for receiving this fortnights Merit Award. I have been very impressed with her high level of persistence and focus during learning time. I am very proud of you Rania, continue to keep that strong work ethic!!!

Maths Week was AWE- SUM!!!!

Everyday we worked together to solve a Daily Challenge Question. We had to write our name, room number and the answer to the question on a slip of paper, to enter the daily challenge. Mr Faulder and the AWE-SUM students from Room 16, kindly collected all of the entries, made the draw and delivered the prizes. With Persistence PLUS Focus, we DIVIDED up the question in to parts, SUBTRACTED the words we didn't need to solve the problem, EQUALING problem solving success for us all. Room 19 had MULTIPLE winners during this week.

Please enjoy our presentation.

Independent learning

There are times when we need to work on our own or with a peer. This is a great time to practice being a PERSISTENT learner, as we have to stay focused and on task without someone reminding us. Here are two Room 19 learners who are demonstrating this persistence during independent maths time.

Be PERSISTENT!!!

Everyday we face challenges and everyday we CONQUER them. Overcoming something that is a challenge or if we are really tired sometimes and it all seems a little harder than before, requires us to be persistent in order to achieve.

Follow these great ideas about how you can demonstrate PERSISTENCE everyday.

Being SUPER organised!!!

We have just completed our first 2 weeks of Term 3 and lots of students are demonstrating their ability to be an ORGANISED learner. There was one SUPER ORGANISED member of Room 19 who truly deserves this weeks Merit Award. She is so ORGANISED that she helps me to be ORGANISED. 

Thanks Salome for being a very well organised learner in our room.

Welcome back learners for Term 3 !!! It is your responsibility to Be Organised for school life.

At school we have routines. Routines are very helpful as we know what it is we are doing and what tools we will need to have in order to successfully complete learning tasks. As a member of our school it is your RESPONSIBILITY to follow these simple but very IMPORTANT suggestions about how you can Be Organised.

Manners really do matter!!!!

This week we have been thinking about having good manners and why it is important to have them. This is a brief presentation that three students in my class collaborated on to complete. I must say that, when you are working with others (collaborating)  it is important to have GOOD MANNERS so that you can work well together.


                   

Thank you to these students for this GREAT presentation.

I would like to take this opportunity to say THANK YOU to my learners for all of their effort they have put in this term. I am looking forward to term 3.

Thank you to all of my students parents/caregivers and whanau members who have taken the time to catch up with me both in person and over the phone. Your support is very much appreciated by both myself and the students.

Manners matter!!!!! Focus for the rest of the term. Practice them for the rest of our lives!!!

Please try to use your manners where ever you go. Thank you to those of you who stop, look and listen to the speaker. If you need to talk to someone, wait politely and then say "excuse me".  Remember that you can also say "excuse me please" when you would like to get past someone.

Our trip to MOTAT (Museum Of Transport And Technology)

On Thursday this week (22nd June, 2017), Rooms 19, 23 & 24 went to MOTAT. We had an AWESOME time exploring and engaging with the exhibits. Have you heard the expression "A picture tells a thousand words" before? Well it's true. Please enjoy viewing just a few of the pictures that were taken on this FANTASTIC day.

In the beginning..........

All 3 classes in the Dome, to meet our teacher for the day. 

Then we were set free to EXPLORE and LEARN more!!!!!

Wow our classroom is really
different compared to this one!

We visited heaps of different buildings and then it was our time to have our lesson with Ben & Abby.

Ben was telling us about the different
types of bridges there are.   

Ben and Abby building bridges
while explaining the science behind them

Then it was our turn...................................... to build bridges..................................................

This activity required TEAMWORK!!!

Great suspension bridge boys!
Engineers of the future.

So we learnt that bridges are made out of steel, wood and concrete. Thankfully, full scale bridges are not really made out of K'nex.

      

EXCELLENT team work everyone!!! You built a fantastic ARCH bridge.

On behalf of the Room 19 students and myself I would like to thank the teachers who organised this learning experience for us, the whanau who came along and supported a group and the staff at MOTAT for sharing your wealth of knowledge with us. Last but not least, the students for really engaging in all of the AWESOME exhibits.

        

It was just to hard to pick only 1 AMAZING student to receive this Merit Certificate this week so......

 

Fantastic Friday- Certificate time.

Week 7 ended in a FANTASTIC way. Kauri team had and assembly and certificates were awarded. As always, it was tough to pick just two worthy students but I did it.

Congratulations to;

 Salome- for being a wonderful student in our class. Salome is new to Room 19 and she has settled in well.

Mazerick received his certificate for offering support to another new student in our class.

As a teacher I feel very proud to have the opportunity to celebrate these young people and their many great qualities.

Have fun and PLAY FAIR! Our focus for weeks 7 & 8

Kaitiakitanga

This week we have been learning about Kaitiakitanga and how to be a Kaitiaki.

This is a small sample of what we did during this week.

                 

 We had a lot of fun creating something new from something old. Check out some of the Room 19's students blogs for photos.

Be HEALTHY!!!

This is our new focus for the next 2 weeks. 

How many different ways can you show that you are trying to BE HEALTHY?

Life Education

Room 19 really enjoyed their time with Michelle and Harold learning about how to develop healthy Relationships with others. We learnt about EMPATHY and how we can say NO to someone in an ASSERTIVE manner. We also discussed how the CHOICES we make have either a POSITIVE or a NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCE.

Demonstrating confidence.

How do you demonstrate confidence? These two students confidently ask questions when learning, help others that may need it and are not afraid of challenges when learning.

Be CONFIDENT

It is really important to be CONFIDENT! Being a confident person shows others that you have a great sense pride and self belief.

Week 2 - Merit Award Recipient...........

Welcome back learners to TERM 2.

It's time to get back in to learning and demonstrating all of our school foci. For weeks 1 & 2 we will be focusing on how we can demonstrate being responsible citizens while we are at school. Remember that what we learn while we are st school, can help us be positive members of our community and the world.

Softball lessons

Room 19 was very lucky to participate in 2 softball sessions during the last two weeks of the term.
We learnt how to bunt the ball and then we played two games; softball and target practice.

Great learners- Whole school focus for the remainder of term 1.

In order to achieve the best possible outcome when gaining knowledge, we must strive to be GREAT LEARNERS. If we strive to do the what is mentioned on our poster below, then we will also be be showing respect for ourselves and other learners in our class.

Stand up for unity- Race Relations day 2017

What an amazing day! It was fantastic to see students dressed so proudly in their cultural attire and sharing their cultural food. Here is just a few photos of Room 19's students cultural dress along with our shared lunch with our buddy class Room 10.

It's not always easy to do, but it is something that we must always strive to do!

It's really important that we strive to get along with others, doing this helps us to create a happy and healthy community. The good news is, it doesn't cost you anything to get along with others and the rewards are priceless. 

Green Week in Room 19

This week has been all about being GREEN. The following is just one example of what we have been learning about. We have been discussing the beautiful parks and other community areas that we enjoy visiting. Then considering how these areas promote kotahitanga within our wonderfully diverse community. The final task, is to create a space that we would like to see in our community.

What would you create if given the resources to do so?

             

Be caring!

Our focus for weeks 5 & 6 is 'Be caring'. This focus ties in nicely with our upcoming Green week and it helps us to remember to care for everything and everyone around us.

All about us!

It's taken us a little while to make this post but when you are creating a presentation about VIP's, you want to make sure that it is truly awesome. Please enjoy getting to know us. We look forward to getting to know you, through visiting your blogs and reading your comments.

Well done Christian!

This week I am very proud to say that I had a very hard time trying to choose just one student to award the Merit Certificate to during our whole school assembly. The recipient from room 19 was chosen because he demonstrated all of  our 'learning together' foci during our Garden To Table time.


                                   

Celebrating our focus- Learning together.

Every odd week, all of the Kauri classes gather together to have a team assembly. They are always fun and a GREAT opportunity for us all to acknowledge some of the amazing learners we have in our classes. Each teacher can award two students a Duffy caught being good certificate and those lucky students can select a book to keep.

This week, Faavesi and Kingston received Room 19's certificates because they have both been very focused on their learning and always help others.

EXCELLENT work boys, Keep it up!!!!!

Garden to table (G2T)

We had our first Garden to Table session for 2017 today. Our class was split into 2 groups; 1 in the kitchen and the other in the garden. Here are some photos from the garden group today.

  

The garden group explored our school gardens and learnt about a lot of things to do with vegetables and flowers.

First day in Room 19. The class of 2017!!!

What a fantastic first day. The students in Room 19 are; AWESOME, WONDERFUL, HELPFUL and ENTHUSIASTIC young learners. I am so excited about being on this learning journey with them as senior students in our school.

Our focus for the next 3 weeks is;

This is a very nice focus to begin with as our overall theme for the year is 'Kotahitanga' - unity, solidarity, togetherness. If you would like to know more about our learning theme, please ask your child or you can visit our class.