After a busy day out of class testing Room 8 kids on their reading, it was lovely to come back to this note left by our wonderful reliever Mrs McGregor:
It's so great to know that you are your usual amazing selves in class, even when I'm not there. Way to go Room 8! :) From Miss Bedford
This week room 8 had some special visitors! 19 year 2 and 3 children and 4 adults from Sunny Hills Primary, came to learn about the recent art we did for our school art exhibition.
They are doing some art in their own school and hope to create some big murals of the birds that represent the different houses children belong to at their school.
They saw our art on the internet, and were inspired by what we created. During their visit we shared a presentation of our learning with them, then we got into small groups and the children from Sunny Hills asked us some questions about our work
At the end they sang us a lovely waiata.
It was so exciting to have another school come and visit ours, and so great to know that we can inspire others in their learning!
We are excited to see the art work that the beautiful children from Sunny Hills School create and we wish them all the best.
We planted flower seedlings for our classroom flower gardens and flower and vegetable seeds for our outdoor school garden.
Some of the vegetables we planted were spinach, leeks, lettuce, parsley and silverbeet.
We also planted foxgloves which are a flower that will help attract bees. We couldn't believe how tiny their seeds were. They were about the size of a grain of sand.
We will be watching carefully to see our seeds germinate and pop out of the soil as little seedlings.
Last Friday the senior school took on the challenge of cleaning up our community by picking up rubbish in the streets near our school.
We left after lunch armed with rubbish bags, buckets for glass, and a wheel barrow for picking up large items.
We were on a mission! No rubbish left behind! We did our best to sort which items should be recycled and brought it all back to school to be weighed and sorted.
We felt sad and angry at the amount of rubbish we picked up, especially after our recent learning about the effects litter, particularly small pieces of plastic, are having on our environment.
We also felt proud that we had made a difference in our community.
Way to go senior school! Let's hope we inspire others to make a difference too.
Thursday, 12 May 2016
In Room 8 we are learning to write a piece of personal experience writing. Here is Savannah's first attempt. What do you think?
Waking up!
“5 more minutes,” I moaned grumpily on an early Autumn Monday
morning. The cold breeze of the wind, whooshed past my sleepy face as my Mum
opened the glass windows. While I slowly woke up, an irritating noise echoed around
my sensitive ears. I realised it was my brothers annoying singing, which was
more like torture.
The house started rumbling or was that just the whimpers of
my stomach begging for food? I rubbed my eyes as I walked through the kitchen
door way and greedily snatched my brother Brian’s cutlery and filled the bowl
with delicious sweet Nutra Grain. Next I poured new, fresh milk on it. All of a
sudden the clock struck 7:30. I was late so I rushed.
I ran until my legs felt numb into my room. Slipped on my red
and blue Bairds Mainfreight uniform along with my black leopard socks and light
grey sport shoes. I packed my usual lunch, zapped through the door and said goodbye
to anyone who could hear.
Walking proudly to school a familiar voice appeared “Wait
for me!” Brian yelled. What can be worse than him? “Hurry up!” I demanded.
Reaching for the school gate I knew it was going to be
another successful day which would fix my mood.
On Wednesday we hung out with our buddy class Room 13. We read, talked and sang together. Such a special time! We look forward to doing it again next week :)
This term the Senior School are learning about Recycling.
To get us thinking about ways humans harm and help our environment, we watched the Lorax and discussed some of the quotes from the text. This is what we thought of the Lorax's wise words:
We think that the Lorax is trying to look after the water,
trees, air and animals. We think we should be like the Lorax because he likes
to care for the environment. We should help the Lorax by telling people to care
for our world.
By Samantha, Ellen and Oka
We think that the Lorax’s words inspire us to convince the
public to recycle and stop killing trees and animals homes. In our opinion the
Once-ler was greedy and didn’t care about the environment.
By Savannah and Augustina
If no one cares for the world, it will be DESTROYED. We need
to do everything we can to take care of the world, the animals and stop people
polluting the sea.
By Jena, David and Ardyn
We are the Lorax’s messengers. Our responsibility is to care
for the environment by making good choices and to help others make good
choices.
By Hayden, Micheal and Carlito
Stop people from killing animals, sea creatures and trees.
Stop people who don’t care about the environment. Don’t just TELL them to pick
it up, EXPLAIN what will happen if they don’t.
By L.J, Jeremiah and
Kaz
In our opinion the first quote means that WE need to stand
up for the environment so we can protect it. We think the second quote means
that if people DO care for the environment things will be alright.
By Waina, Amy and Gwyneth
We can be the Lorax’s Minions and protect the Earth. We can
spread the word to people and maybe it will change their minds. We have to be
role models and help other people, help us, to save the world.
