End of the year - key messages

Hi families

As the year draws to a close there are lots of fun things happening at school.

Please note the following:

• No more home reading books sent home

• Swimming every Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday until the end of term

• Thursday 13th December - Reports go home

• Tuesday 18th December - 2019 class visit (during school time)

• Wednesday 19th December - Prizegiving in the hall 11.30am

** SCHOOL FINISHES AT 2PM WEDNESDAY 19TH DECEMBER **

We love swimming!

We were lucky enough to have 2 days of swimming this week. Well done Room 15 for being so organised with your togs.

We will be swimming on these days until the end of the year:

• Tuesday / Wednesday - Swimming Lesson

• Friday - Fun Friday Pool Party!

Also, a big thank you to all the families who turned up to FAMILY FUN NIGHT. It was great to see so many families enjoying the afternoon together.

Cultural Festival 2018

Cultural Festival at Rocket Park tomorrow. Please see times above. Room 15 are excited to watch:

• Lokkie, Charlie and Elaina in the Niuean Group

• Alex in the Scottish Group

• Evie, Safiyye and Nida in the Japanese Group

• Dev, Cartell and Avyukt in the Junior Paskifika Group 

Kiwi Ball comes to Owairaka!

Room 15 have loved our Kiwi Ball sessions with Coach Marko. Here is Cartell ready to bat!

Hip Hop Lessons!

The YMCA is running Hip Hop classes at our school. Room 15 is lucky enough to have lessons on Wednesdays. We had so much fun in the first session and can't wait for this Wednesday.

Welcome to TERM 4!

Some reminders for the term ahead:

• All children need a named hat at school every day

• All children need a drink bottle filled with WATER ONLY 

What to expect from Term 4 - a fun term ahead!

• Rimu athletics practice every Tuesday after lunch

• Rimu athletics day on Tuesday 4 December

• Swimming - More details to come

• Hip Hop lessons - Beginning Wednesday Week 2

• Cultural group practices and cultural festival on Saturday 17 November 

Today we started some new learning in Maths - MEASUREMENT. Enjoy these photos of Alex and Nida using different objects to MEASURE the area of a leaf... A fun term of learning is ahead of us!

Bubble Art Fun!

We had so much fun doing bubble art for our calendar art work. Come into class to see our creations and make sure to fill in your calendar art order forms.

Room 15's animal enclosures

Our term long inquiry came to a very exciting end! We shared our animal enclosures with Rimu team. It was exciting to talk about our learning and share what we have learnt about animal habitats.

Malo 'aupito Hamida!

Today we were lucky to have Hamida join us in Room 15 for some Tongan language week learning. We learnt new phrases such as "Ko hoku hingoa....." which means "my name is..." After morning tea Hamida helped us to create some beautiful Tongan art work. Enjoy these photos!

Cross country super stars - Well done Room 15 and Rimu team!

Cross Country Practice *** Race Week 7 Tuesday 4th September ***

Fraction fun!

Today we started our learning about fractions. We found half of different objects:

• A piece of string

• A glass of water

• Some counters

• Marshmallows

• A piece of paper

Week 4/5 Update

Hi families

Sorry that Room 15's blog has been hard to view lately. Hopefully all is resolved now, please let me know if you come across any more troubles.

This week was a fabulous week of MATHS. You would have seen your child's result of their math week challenge come home on Friday afternoon. Please remember that all donations for the math-a-thon are due by 27 August. Your support is greatly appreciated.

Looking ahead to next week...

• Cross country practice every day (please make sure your child wears running shoes to school)
• Green Week (dress up on Friday in green or as your favourite animal)

More photos to come now that our blog is back in action!

Have a great weekend,

Hannah

Rimu trip to the Zoo!

We got to travel to the Zoo on a double decker bus!!!!

We explored the Zoo and we had a great classroom session with Kirsty. She taught us about insects!

We had so much fun at the Bug Lab!

We headed back to school with great stories to tell. Thank you SO much to our parent helpers Fiona (Louie's Mum) and Margaret (Lokkie's Mum). You were amazing. 

After the trip we did some follow up learning. Enjoy Deema's recount and Louie's art work below.

Deema's writing. We are learning to write recounts.

Louie's art work.

Welcome back to TERM 3!

Here are some photos of our first week back at school.

These photo shows Alex learning about even and odd numbers. Did you know that even numbers have a partner, and odd numbers don't have a partner? We used the counters to figure out which numbers have partners and which ones do not.

This photo shows Safiyye, Dotty and Lokkie using their imaginations during play based learning. They built a tent using a parachute and chairs. 

On Friday, we started a new activity called problem solving. We will do it every Friday with our problem solving groups. Today we learnt that there a 4 key steps to problem solving.

1. Read the question and circle the important information
2. Discuss different ways to solve the problem e.g. using counters, drawing a picture
3. Have a go at solving the problem with your group
4. Share your thinking with other groups 

Mrs O'Shea was so proud of our first attempt at problem solving. Here are some photos of us in action!

Remember - Our Zoo trip is next week on Wednesday 1 August. Children will need to bring a healthy lunch and snacks, a drink bottle filled with water only, a rain jacket and comfortable shoes for walking. We are looking forward to a very fun day!