Reflection of Week 5, Term 4

Eloise learned that she can do percentages of whole numbers e.g.  40% of 150

1. You do 10% first and that equals 15 (I divide 150 by 10)
2. You times by the 10% amount by 4 to get 40%
3. So it's 4x15 = 60

Charlotte learned from her reading study that you can put your reading information on a reading bag.   A drawing of the character on the front on the bag.  Information about the character's likes and dislikes on the side, then the summary of information about the character by putting objects in the bag.

Ashton learned that the milk in our Milk 4 Schools programme has cheesy flavour.   He also learned a few things on Word Rocks. 

Ethan leaned about digital citizenship like not giving out your personal I.D.    

Beau and Leeland's 'Dipper' song

We have been learning about how our actions can have a positive or negative effect on other people - and ourselves.    Over the last week, we have been singing the 'Bucket Dipper' song and read the 'Bucket Dipper' story.  We looked at our own lives and wondered how we can be 'bucker fillers' instead of 'bucket dippers'.

Beau and Leeland put together this song to illustrate their understanding of what it means to be a 'bucket filler'.  Enjoy!

listen to ‘Leland and Beaus dipper song’ on Audioboo

An author visits the 19ers

We had a surprise this week with a visit from author Lucas Chisholm.  He came to present his book to our teacher, Mrs Croll, who looks after our school library.   Lucas Chisholm had a difficult time at school because he has dyslexia.  He started doodling the 'flargies' during English class in secondary school.  His mum drew the illustrations for the book; it took one week to draw some of the pages!

"It's about looking into the pictures, not at the pictures."

We felt very special to have a real author visit the 19ers.   Lucas Chisholm is an example of how you can achieve your dream if you keep trying.

Little Red Ridding Hood!


Little Red slowly pushed the creaky door open and tip toed into the room. Her eyes widened and a mysterious look ran on to her face.

She said, "Granny what big hands you have?"
Granny answered, "They're to scratch my back with."

"OK," said Little Red with a confused look on her face. "What big eyes you have?" added Little Red.
"STOP talking about me! What's in the basket?" screamed Granny

Then the wolf took off the Granny mask and Little Red realised that she was right.  It was not Granny at all.  It was the wolf.  A fight erupted between the two, like a sister and brother with ducking, punching, kicking and screaming.

Suddenly, an angry woodsman SMASHED the window clean off the hinges and killed the wolf.

Granny and Little Red lived happily ever after.


THE END
By Charlotte

Our New Road Patrollers

It's that time of year when things start getting ready for the following year.  One of the things to do was to select our Road Patrollers for 2014.  Room19ers will have Sharysse, Sophie O'S and Eloise making sure that the roads are safe for us to cross at the beginning and end of the day.

Thanks girls!

The Green-Gold Award (Week 2, Term 4)

On Tuesday, a group of visitors came to our school to judge us for the Green-Gold award.  This is the third time that our school has been reviewed and a lot of work had been completed by the EfS (Education for Schools) Review team to ensure that we were ready.  

The visitors were welcomed with a powhiri in the school hall.  After that, Keagan and Brianna (our class representatives on the EfS Review team) went to the library to show the judges a presentation about the murals that we created for the juniors and how they were made.  Then we went to the juniors' area to see the murals and the butterfly garden.  By then it was time for morning tea; we went to the staff room to have some food (it was very tasty!!).

After morning tea we went up to the top field to show the judges our fantastic Kaiawa Gardens.  We explained our interactive challenge and looked at the insect hotel made by Room 21.  It was very interesting. After that we went to see the skunk home which is next to the Oasis (after school care) room.

We had many things to show and tell our judges.  Later we worked together to discuss what learning has taken place and make suggestions for our next steps.  Ms McLeod says that we have so many brilliant ideas that we will be busy for quite a few years!

The most exciting moment of the day was right at the end when we were told by the judges that we had retained the Green-Gold award.   We were all so delighted!

Week 1, Term 4

Halberg Sports Day
This Friday we had a sports day to raise money for the Halberg disability foundation. We dressed up as our sports hero, or our favorite team.  Dylan dressed up as All Black Ben Smith, Sophie O'N dressed in her hockey uniform - she was Sophie Cock from the Black Sticks and Ryan dressed as a Springbok. Everyone caught being FERN got a FERN card and some people got a little prize.  These were some of the activities: hurdles, frisbee tag, tennis, Jump Jam and dodge ball.


Citizenship
This term our inquiry is focused on citizenship and what it means to be a citizen.  We have been contributing ideas to the citizenship window.  We have also been learning about filling buckets and emptying buckets.  This means that each time you say or do something positive, your bucket or someone else's bucket, will be filled with a drip.  If you say or do something unkind, your bucket will loose a drip.  You can take drips out of other people's bucket too if they feel upset by what you say or do.   We have watched and listened to some videos about being a 'bucket filler'. Everyone in the class likes singing to the 'Bucket Filler Rock Song.

We used window chalk to show our current thinking about citizenship and will add any new learning to it.