Week 7 Certificates

Congratulations to Anika who received the Principal's Award for Week 7. She has been persevering and working diligently, especially in her reading. 

Congratulations to our PRIDE Certificate recipients for Week 7. They are Shakshi, Dante, Tyrone, Tyrel and Christian.

Sienna-Nicole's Homework Passion Project

Sienna-Nicole brought in her first Homework Passion Projects. She completed an Art activity where she had to draw her own superhero. Here are some photos of her superhero. 

If you would like to see more of our Homework Passion Projects then click on the link below.

Draw Your Own Superhero

Certificates for Week 6

Congratulations to Sienna who received the Principal's Award for Week 6. She has been persevering to improve her writing for others to read.

Well done to our PRIDE Certificate recipients for Week 6. They are Levi, Leroy, Sequoia, Dallas and Mazzlin. They have been demonstrating PRIDE in the classroom.

Junior Swimming Display - change of date

We have now changed the Junior Swimming Display day to Wednesday 11th March (postponement date Friday 13th March).

We will be having a Junior Swimming Display on Wednesday 11th March or Friday 13th March. We invite parents and whanau to come along and share with us. Each class will show some of the skills we have been learning at swimming time and of course fun activities in the pool.

1:30pm - Room 8 - Miss Hale

1:50pm - Room 12 - Mrs Potroz

2:10pm - Room 13 and 16 - Mrs Weir and Mrs Pather

2:30pm - Room 15 - Miss Ogle

We look forward to seeing lots of people come to see how clever we are.

Junior Swimming Display

We will be having a Junior Swimming Display on Friday 6th March. We invite parents and whanau to come along and share with us. Each class will show some of the skills we have been learning at swimming time and of course fun activities in the pool.

1:30pm - Room 8 - Miss Hale

1:50pm - Room 12 - Mrs Potroz

2:10pm - Room 13 and 16 - Mrs Weir and Mrs Pather

2:30pm - Room 15 - Miss Ogle

We look forward to seeing lots of people come to see how clever we are.

Certificates for Week 5

Congratulations to Shakshi who received the Principal's Award for Week 5. She constantly demonstrates PRIDE in our classroom and was the first student from our class to complete one of our Homework Passion Projects.

 Congratulations to our PRIDE Certificate winners for Week 5. They received their certificates for their diligence and perseverance in math and reading. The PRIDE Certificate recipients are Connor, Alex, Luke, Tamzyn and Sofia.

Shakshi's Homework Passion Project

Last night Shakshi finished one of the Homework Passion Projects. She used crayons, a hot glue gun and a canvas.

You can find the Homework Passion Projects on our Learning Portal.

Earth Shake

Last week for Shared Reading we read a story called 'Earth Shake'
We talked about what we should do if we ever experienced an earthquake while in the classroom or outside.

We showed what we would do if we experiences an earthquake while in the classroom.

We also showed what we would do if we were outside and an earthquake happened.

Certificates for Week 4

Congratulations to Caleb who received the Principal's Award for Room 15:Totara. He has been persevering with his writing. You can view his story for this week on his Individual Blog.

Well done to Kade, Reece, Dalia, Madison and Joel. They have been demonstrating PRIDE by persevering in their Reading, Swimming, and Maths, as well as showing Empathy towards others.

Totara Class Treaty 2015

We have been putting together our class treaty over the last few weeks. We have talked with each other and completed many activities about our expectations. 

Here is a video we have created of 'Totara's Treaty'

Certificates Awarded for Week 3

Congratulations to Troy who received our very first Principal's Award for Room 15: Totara. He has been demonstrating PRIDE in the classroom and being a really good role model for the rest of the class.

Well done to Tristan, Caitlin and Anika who received PRIDE Certificates for their respect and perseverance they demonstrated in class.

Also congratulations to Tyrel and ConnorT who received PRIDE Certificates for their diligence in their maths.

Totara's Treaty

Over the last few weeks we have been discussing our Classroom Expectations. We have been talking about what makes a good 'rule' to help us remember what is expected of us. We are using the ipads to create posters. We have used PicCollage and Explain Everything to create our Totara Treaty. Look out for our Treaty in the next few days.

Here are some photos of us creating our posters.

Diligence Posters

Over the last two weeks we have been busy learning about our PRIDE values. We have been working cooperatively with our groups. On Tuesday we learnt about working diligently. Here are some of the posters that were completed.

PRIDE Certificates for Week 1 & 2

We have enjoyed a week of getting to know each other and learning the PRIDE values in school. Our PRIDE Certificates have been awarded for demonstrating perseverance, respect, initiative, diligence and empathy. Well done to Madison, Joel, Tamzyn, Sienna-Nicole and Aila.

Week 1-2 Writing: My World

For the past week we have been finding out about each other in Room 15: Totara. 

We have been creating a piece of writing identifying what we like to look at, listen to, smell, taste and touch.

We looked at a poem by Pie Corbett to help get an idea of how to write our own poem.

To see our poems please click on the links of our individual blogs.

Sequoia, Shakshi, Mazzlin, Anika, Sienna-Nicole, Sofia, Tamzyn, Sienna, Madison, Caitlin, Dallas, Dante, Dalia, Aila, ConnorBD, Troy, Tyrel, Kade, Joel, Caleb, Reece, Christian, Tyrone, Leroy, Levi, Alex, Luke, ConnorT, Tristan

Body Percussion

On Friday Miss Ogle organised a Body Percussion activity for our PRIDE Day 2015. Here are some of the photos and videos of what we created.

PRIDE Day 2015

On Friday we enjoyed a wonderful day of cooperative activities. Teachers planned different activities which students participated in with their cooperative groups. 

Some of the activities students particiated in were: 

PRIDE Art - Quilt, 

Mudrun/Waterslide, 

Pool Challenge, 

Parachute activities, 

River crossing/obstacle course/skateboards, 

Character Description, 

Photography, 

Chalk Art, 

Percussion, and 

Orienteering.

Below are some of the photos that were taken of 

PRIDE Day 2015.

First Day for 2015

We enjoyed our first day back at school today.

It was a very hot day but we managed to keep cool and begin some awesome work.

Over the next few days you will see some work going up on our classroom walls.

Here are some photos of what we got up to today:

We worked in groups to discuss setting up our class expectations.

For maths we are learning all about ourselves and others. Today we drew around our hands. We discussed which finger was longest, how long our thumbs were and if our palm is longer than our longest finger.

 In the afternoon we were introduced to Mandala Artwork. Below are some examples of our Mandala Art work that we are working on. Keep a look out for our finished products.

 

Welcome back to school!

Welcome...

We have an exciting year planned. I look forward to meeting all of the new students to Room 15: Totara.

Stationery 2015 - Room 15

Here is the stationery list for Room 15 for 2015:

5 x 1B8
2 x Clever Kiwi Reading
2 x Clever Kiwi Maths - Book 1
2 x 1A8

Highlighter - range of
2 x Glue Sticks
2 x Blue Pens
2 x Red Pens
2 x Black Pens
2 x Pencils
Rubber
Ruler (not flexible)
2 x Whiteboard markers
Coloured Pencils (no felts)
Sharpie