Walk to School Week

What a fun week we have had for Walk to School Week.

On Monday we had crazy hat day.

On Tuesday we walked to school in our funky shoes.

Wednesday was funky hair day. 

There were some very imaginative hair styles on show. 

Thursday was 
twins day.

We finished the week with a giant walk. We had wonderful buddies from Room 3 walking with us.

Koru Whanau Assembly

Room 10 was very proud to present their work at the Koru Whanau assembly on Friday. 

Everyone stood up and showed the weaving patterns they had persevered to make. 

                          

 

Some children described their patterns to the audience and they spoke confidently with clear voices so everyone could hear them. 

Pink Shirt Day

We had a great day yesterday dressed in our pink shirts and accessories for Pink Shirt Day. Don't we look gorgeous?

 

Pink Shirt Day is a time to focus on spreading aroha and kindness with everyone and we've certainly been doing that in Room 10. Let's spread aroha and kindness everywhere!

Kelly Sports

We had Kelly sports today with coach Sophie. 

We started with some fun games. Then we learnt some techniques to use when we jump. We have to swing our arms, spring with our legs and land like we are on a motorbike. Here's some photos of us in action. 

Poetry

We love doing poetry in Room 10. 

We have a new poem to learn and enjoy every week. Reading poems helps us develop our oral language. We learn to read smoothly with rhythm and phrasing and this helps us when we read books. The more often we reread our poems the better we get at reading. 

Here we are reading poems we already know from the big class poem folder and our own poem folders.

Reading poems also helps us notice rhyming words and develops our phonics skills. This helps us when we are writing as well as reading. 

At the end of each week we create our own responses to our poems by illustrating them. 

Then we take our poem folders home to share with our families over the weekend. 

Making Patterns

During mathematics this week we have been making patterns. We have been learning to make a pattern, continue a pattern and describe a pattern. Understanding and using patterns will help us understand and use number concepts and mathematical operations. This will then lead us into using algebra. 

First of all we made lots of patterns using all sorts of mathematics equipment. 

Next we made patterns by weaving coloured paper. We found that it was really tricky trying to weave the paper. We definitely experienced what it feels like to be in the learning pit. 

But we are good at helping each other in Room 10 so we worked together to complete our weaving. 

We persevered and we finally succeeded. 
Our weaving patterns look very bright displayed on the wall.