Sunday, September 8, 2013

If You Want to Know the Score

Music with Mrs Corke

Rm 13 really enjoy going to Music with Mrs Corke. We have been learning about beat and tempo and have been practicing changing tempo in a song. Check out this video of our Music lesson.

Thursday, July 4, 2013

Nonsense Poems

We have been writing poems during draft writing here in Rm13 for the last couple of weeks. Today, we had a go at writing nonsense rhymes. Here are a few to share with you.

Almost every day,
I eat pickles in a stack of hay.
Every day right at one,
I eat pickles in the sun.

Almost every morning,
I eat pickles with a warning.
Every day right at six,
I eat pickles with lots of licks.

By Bella.
 
Almost every Monday,
I eat pickles while I play.
Every day right at eight,
I eat pickles with a mate.

By Veeral

Almost every midnight,
I eat pickles with a light.
Every day right at three,
I eat pickles when I agree.

Almost every morn,
I eat pickles with corn.
Every day right at seven,
I eat pickles stacked to heaven.

By Nandani

Almost every day,
I eat pickles with hay.
Every day right at eight,
I eat pickles- they're great.

By Simraj

Almost every night,
I eat pickles while I bike.
Every day right at nine,
I eat pickles because they're mine.

Almost every night,
I eat pickles while I write.
Every day right at three,
I eat pickles up a tree.
By Amber

 Aren't they great? Perhaps you could try writing one, too!


Sunday, June 30, 2013

Learning to say a Mihi

The class has been working really hard in to learn to say their mihi. To help remember it, everyone wrote their own mihi down on a strip of paper. And now they are displayed in our class... so anytime anyone wants to practice their mihi they can take it down from the wall and say it. Ka pai, Room 13! Whaea Kara will be so impressed next time she comes to our class!

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Reading new words

In  Room 13 we have been looking at all the different things good readers do when they get stuck on a word. This poster shows how you can use strategies to help you figure out how to decode a new word.

How long is a minute?

On Tuesday, we started an investigation into how long a minute is.
We began with all of us standing up and sitting down when we thought one minute was up. Some children sat down way too soon and some stayed standing for over two minutes! But at exactly one minute, Gurnoor, Joanna and Inderveer all sat down. Good estimating from these three!
I asked how they knew when to sit down and Gurnoor and Joanna said it was because they counted to 60. Well done guys... but let’s test that. So, Gurnoor turned away from the class and the clock and counted to 60 but this time she finished her counting at just 35 seconds. So we tried counting bananas. One banana, two banana, three banana, four bananas and so on.... But we couldn’t get that quite right either. It will take a bit of practice to get that right and you will have to be good at counting, too!
Next, we tried to guess how many  beads we thought we could thread onto a string in a minute.
“59” said Veeral.
“15” said Jason.
“30” said Caleb.
So let’s get threading! Anusha, Hafsah, Andy, Sahibdeep and Jason all threaded as many beads onto a string as they could in one minute. Everybody threaded between 17 and 26. Caleb explained it was because it would take longer than a second to thread one bead. Gurnoor worked out that it would take around two minutes to thread 60 beads.
Okay then, so how many hops do you think you could do in a minute?
“60” said Anikesh.
“25” said Nandani.
“30” said Aayush.
“50’ said  Bhavik.
Alright, let’s find out. We chose Simraj to hop as we know he is very fit. We set the timer to one minute and Simraj started hopping.  At first, we all counted together but Simraj was so fast that I had to take over. In one minute Simraj hopped 153 times! At the end, he was very tired. And so this how we discovered that some things can happen in much less than a second. (Our athlete Simraj nearly did three hops in a second!)
It was really interesting finding out how even though a minute is always the same amount of time you can do more of some things and less of others!

Thursday, May 23, 2013

Honesty

This term our value is HONESTY. Honesty is so important- if you aren't honest then people can't trust you. You should always be honest in everything you do as telling the truth is always the best policy. We also are making sure to mean what we say and not tell lies or mis-truths (eg "I'm going to tell on you" when you don't mean to. We also are learning not to "fess up" when we do something wrong as people would always prefer to hear the truth than not know who is responsible. We feel proud of ourselves when people think we are trustworthy.

Term 2

Term 2 2013 is well under way and we have been very busy in Room 13. We have been learning about our schoolwide topic of Waste Not, Want Not and have learnt a lot about ways to care for our planet by remembering the Three R's (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) We were very interested to find out what happens to paper when it gets recycled and how we can help to save the trees by recycling paper that we have used. We have even tried reusing old newspapers to make baskets (photos to follow) Later in the term we are going to be finding out about Fiji. Every class in the school has chosen a Pacific Island to study so you will see lots of interesting displays all around the school about the different Pacific nations. We would love it if any of our parents are able to share some of their knowledge with us or bring in any items to show us from Fiji. It's going to be a busy term!

Thursday, April 11, 2013

Auckland Museum- Trip Day!!!

Yesterday was a day we have been waiting a really long time for! Trip day! We went to the wonderful Auckland Museum and had a fab day learning about all sorts of stuff... so much to see and so little time... After we arrived and had our morning tea we had an hour or so to do a self-guided tour. It was really interesting and we learned so much more about New Zealand. We loved seeing how big a moa was and looking at the NZ native birds. Here we are with a moa skeleton. And here are Gurnoor and Simraj checking out the moa reconstruction.

Thursday, March 21, 2013

Super Spellers

We have been working hard to improve our spelling. We have a spelling test every Monday and get new words each Monday as well. Our score gets recorded on our class chart and at the end of the term there will be prizes for the best spellers.

Race Relations Day

Race Relations Day, 21 March,  marks the international day for the elimination of racial discrimination and is celebrated around the world.

Schools and Race Relations Day

This day gives New Zealand teachers and students an opportunity to discuss and celebrate the fact that New Zealand is home to many different peoples, from the Maori tangata whenua to the generations of settlers who have come here from many parts of the world since the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840. The day is an opportunity to celebrate of all our different languages, beliefs and cultures, and our common belonging to a unique and diverse nation.


Wednesday, March 13, 2013

We Make the Right Choice

This term we are focusing on being PCS. We know that in our school everyone is Polite, Considerate and Sensible at all times.
We have been discussing what it means make and keep a friend and how we can  be a good friend. 

And we have been working super hard to Make the Right Choice at school. We have chosen our class rules to help us.

To Make the Right Choice we:
  • Speak nicely and with a calm voice
  • Listen to the person who is speaking
  • Be fair
  • Be PCS
  • Be ready to learn
  • Keep in our own space
  • Respect all property.
We Know that if we remember these rules we find it easy to  
Make the Right Choice!
 
 

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

2013!

Hello and welcome to the class blog of Room 13 2013! We are so pleased that you have found us! We invite you to join us in our learning journey... Check in every week to see what we have been up to and feel free to post a comment. We look forward to hearing from you.