Well done to all those children who gained places in events. The Year 4-6 place holders are off to the inter-school athletics held next week. Good luck!
Wednesday, 18 November 2015
Athletics Day
The weather was kind to us and we finally had our day on the field. Some of us participated in field events that we had been preselected for in previous weeks while the rest of us played tabloid games. We all participated in the sprints.
Tuesday, 10 November 2015
ROC Day 2015
Last Friday was ROC Day at our school, ROC stands for Respect Our Community.
We are split into groups of children from across the school and participate in a different activity during each of the three blocks. The teachers all run different programmes for the day, some take art and others, team building and sports activities. During the middle block all the Middle and Senior Syndicate children go on long walks around our community, picking up rubbish along the way and discovering new parks and walks they could do with their families in our community.
Mrs Hanson ran an art lesson during the first and last block and the children in teams H and R helped to make two wonderful trees using packaging from lunch boxes in Rooms 14, 15, 16 and 17 collected through the week.
We are split into groups of children from across the school and participate in a different activity during each of the three blocks. The teachers all run different programmes for the day, some take art and others, team building and sports activities. During the middle block all the Middle and Senior Syndicate children go on long walks around our community, picking up rubbish along the way and discovering new parks and walks they could do with their families in our community.
Mrs Hanson ran an art lesson during the first and last block and the children in teams H and R helped to make two wonderful trees using packaging from lunch boxes in Rooms 14, 15, 16 and 17 collected through the week.
Monday, 9 November 2015
Symmetrical Creations
Well done to Joshua K and Oliver who made these amazing symmetrical creations!
Wednesday, 4 November 2015
Rebus Stories
After the holidays we wrote a personal recount and then published it as a rebus story. This means that we replaced some words with pictures or part of a word with a picture. For example if we wanted to write the word 'I' we would draw an eye instead or 'house' we would draw a tiny picture of a house.
It was pretty tricky copying our edited work from our draft books and remembering to draw pictures instead of words! Mrs Hanson thinks we all did a great job though.
This published work is by Quinn, Ben, Fay, Thomas and Joshua H.
It was pretty tricky copying our edited work from our draft books and remembering to draw pictures instead of words! Mrs Hanson thinks we all did a great job though.
This published work is by Quinn, Ben, Fay, Thomas and Joshua H.
Monday, 2 November 2015
Welcome Back to Sunny Bee!
At our singing assembly on Friday afternoon Room 17 were so fabulous that we won Sunny Bee! He gets to spend the next few weeks in our classroom. We all had perfect assembly manners and were singing our hearts out to receive Sunny Bee!
Mrs Keeley also discovered that Sunny Bee has a squeak! What a surprise! Sunny Bee has been around Sunnybrae for a few years now and we have only just discovered his sqeak (at the top of his right leg).
Well done Room 17, Mrs Hanson is very proud of you all! :)
Mrs Keeley also discovered that Sunny Bee has a squeak! What a surprise! Sunny Bee has been around Sunnybrae for a few years now and we have only just discovered his sqeak (at the top of his right leg).
Well done Room 17, Mrs Hanson is very proud of you all! :)
Friday, 30 October 2015
Certificates Galore!
It was a busy day for certificates in Room 17 at our assembly last week. Some children were awarded Outstanding Citizenship awards, ICAS Mathematics awards and school certificates.
Well done to:
Outstanding Citizenship Awards
Henry, Nuri, Emma and Gloria for being such outstanding citizens and representing our school values of Respect, Independence, Cooperation and Excellence so well.
School Certificates
Ruby, Jerome, Zavier and Oliver for all working so hard to receive a special effort award.
ICAS Mathematics Awards
Thomas - Credit
Nicole - Credit
Henry - High Distinction
Well done to Thomas, Nicole and Henry who all participated in the ICAS mathematics examination and doing so well. Henry also received a special principal's award from Mrs Stewart for gaining a mark of High Distinction, a great achievement.
Well done to:
Outstanding Citizenship Awards
Henry, Nuri, Emma and Gloria for being such outstanding citizens and representing our school values of Respect, Independence, Cooperation and Excellence so well.
School Certificates
Ruby, Jerome, Zavier and Oliver for all working so hard to receive a special effort award.
ICAS Mathematics Awards
Thomas - Credit
Nicole - Credit
Henry - High Distinction
Well done to Thomas, Nicole and Henry who all participated in the ICAS mathematics examination and doing so well. Henry also received a special principal's award from Mrs Stewart for gaining a mark of High Distinction, a great achievement.
Monday, 19 October 2015
Spot and Bo
Meet Spot and Bo from Room 17!
Every Friday Mrs Hanson decides on two special people to take home either Spot or Bo for the weekend. We are all very excited on Friday afternoon and sometimes we even guess who the special people might be! We have sometimes also noticed how hard someone has been working all week or whether they have been demonstrating our school values of Respect, Independence, Cooperation and Excellence.
As part of taking home Spot or Bo we also take home their diary and write an entry about what we have done over the weekend with Spot or Bo. Some of us include photos or pictures we have drawn. On Monday morning we share the diaries with the class and have them available in our class all week to look at and read.
Every Friday Mrs Hanson decides on two special people to take home either Spot or Bo for the weekend. We are all very excited on Friday afternoon and sometimes we even guess who the special people might be! We have sometimes also noticed how hard someone has been working all week or whether they have been demonstrating our school values of Respect, Independence, Cooperation and Excellence.
As part of taking home Spot or Bo we also take home their diary and write an entry about what we have done over the weekend with Spot or Bo. Some of us include photos or pictures we have drawn. On Monday morning we share the diaries with the class and have them available in our class all week to look at and read.
Wednesday, 14 October 2015
Our Wonderful Witches
During the last two weeks of the Term 3 Mrs Hanson read two stories to us about witches, 'The Witch with an Itch' By Helen Baugh and 'Badjelly the Witch' By Spike Milligan. We completed some different language and vocabulary activities about both these stories. We finished off these activities by creating some amazing witches!
We sketched our witches, made a paper mache face and 3D nose and then decorated their dress using packaging from our lunch boxes. These were mostly chip packets and muesli bars wrappers that we had collected as part of our ZeroWaste unit. This packaging can't be recycled and would end up in landfills, so we recycled ours through our art.
We all think our witches look amazing! Here are some or our creations.
We sketched our witches, made a paper mache face and 3D nose and then decorated their dress using packaging from our lunch boxes. These were mostly chip packets and muesli bars wrappers that we had collected as part of our ZeroWaste unit. This packaging can't be recycled and would end up in landfills, so we recycled ours through our art.
We all think our witches look amazing! Here are some or our creations.
Tuesday, 22 September 2015
The Waitakere Transfer Station
On Tuesday last week we had a class trip to the Waitakere Transfer Station as part of our 'Zero Waste' unit. It was so interesting and we learnt so many facts such as: each week Auckland creates enough landfill waste to fill an entire rugby field right up to the goal posts!
Look out for some future posts about our Zero Waste unit.
Look out for some future posts about our Zero Waste unit.
Monday, 21 September 2015
Bruce Potter
Last week Bruce Potter visited our school as part of Literacy Week. He is an amazing artist and author and demonstrated to us the power of doodling on a piece of paper and using our imaginations!
Monday, 14 September 2015
Our Wonderful Tiger Sketches
This week we learnt how to sketch using only a pencil. We were learning how to shade and make our pencils shout and whisper.
Mrs Hanson told us we were not allowed to use a rubber and this was our only copy, so no draft copy first. Initially we didn't think we would be able to sketch without making mistakes. But Mrs Hanson showed us how to start very lightly and then add layers to our sketches so that the focus is taken off any errors.
We were all so amazed and proud of what we produced....and so was Mrs Hanson!
Mrs Hanson told us we were not allowed to use a rubber and this was our only copy, so no draft copy first. Initially we didn't think we would be able to sketch without making mistakes. But Mrs Hanson showed us how to start very lightly and then add layers to our sketches so that the focus is taken off any errors.
We were all so amazed and proud of what we produced....and so was Mrs Hanson!
Thursday, 10 September 2015
Sustainable Coastlines
On Tuesday we participated in a presentation about sustainable coastlines and how to look after our oceans so that we can protect the marine life. We learnt about all the rubbish that is found on our coastlines and inside many fish and seabirds. Most of this rubbish is plastic and it was really sad to see how many different types of plastic can be found in one marine animal once if dies.
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