Week 7 update

First up, THANK YOU to Kevin and Mel Maxted and everyone else who made the mystery bottle stall a huge success at this years Monster Fair. I wanted to pick a stall that wasn't going to be too daunting for parents who are new to the school this year ;)

Athletics day

• We are set for a fun day on Tuesday. The norwester looks like it will be turning up in the afternoon. We often complete all the events before 3pm and your family are welcome to exit school early on the day.
• Half filled water bottles iced in the freezer the evening before can be a nice treat during the heat of our athletics day. The tip is to avoid filling the bottle completing the night before and then completing filling the bottle the next morning with tap temperature water. I have seen too many children waiting until the middle of the day for the contents of their drink bottle to melt. It's a South Island issue ;) The children will have their drink bottle with them at each activity.
• Parents get to race in the afternoon.

Ladybird Maths

fun counting and matching games

Oral Language Activity / Lets talk and talk and talk

This morning we worked in small groups and rotated around the classroom to read and discuss the pictures and questions that Mrs. Robertson had prepared. Each card contained a who, when, why, what or a, how question

Johnny - To bring some flowers to a wedding.
Gabby - Because they are beautiful.
Thomas - Mum would plant them.
Tyler - They might go a shop and sell them.
All great, valid and creative ideas. Children need opportunities to develop their oral language. Strong oral language skills help develop great writers. We all need to discuss what it is we are going to write and as adults we manage to do this in our heads.

Room 7 Presents Artwork to Mrs. Warren

Room 7 was selected to create some artwork for Mrs Warrens office.
Each child created a flower and we collaged these to the canvas prepared by Emily, Matthew and Dakota

Off to see Mrs Warren

Mrs Warren was busy so we waited in the staff room and shared which teacher we were pretending to be

Perfect position sought.

We hope you like the artwork Mrs.Warrren and back to Room 7 we will go.

Monster Fair Roster

There is now a roster up in Room 7 for parents to fill in when they can help during our Monster School Fair.

A great way to build your child's understanding of place value

Children need to be exposed to this concept quite a few times. Today we added up our house points and we looked at the difference betwen the green and blue house totals. We are building our understanding of H=hundreds, T=tens and O=ones.

Room 7 Reviews, Friendship is Like a Seesaw

Today at our weekly library visit Mrs. Robertson shared a new book called "Friendship is like a Seasaw" Read what Room 7 thought about the book...

It is a good book about friendships and friends agree on the rules, they do nice things for each other. Sometimes one friend can be up and one friend can be down. When the seesaw is out of balance there is a problem. We can fix it by taking a break from a friend for awhile or working it out and doing nice things for each other.