SPCA Mufti Day

Last Friday Room 13 helped raise money for the SPCA by dressing up on mufti day. Thank you also to those families that donated old blankets and towels or food. Room 13 knew this was especially close to Miss Rooke's heart as we've all talked about my rescue dog, Daisy.

And last but not least a very special congratulations to the children who received Ka Pai awards this week:

Ngaia and Sovian.

Our first four weeks

In Room 13 we have been hard at work establishing our class routines and rules so that we can all feel safe, happy and ready to learn! You can see here that during week 1 we brainstormed our ideas for class rules and turned them into a treaty, complete with our signed handprints. 

Our focus has been on the PCS values - being polite, considerate and sensible. We're lucky that Room 13 is a whole class of kind, well mannered students! 

Here are some snapshots of what we've been learning about in our curriculum areas: 

Reading - Identifying the beginning, middle and end of a story, summarising and finding adjectives. 

Writing - Recounts and information reports.

Handwriting - Writing tidy letters that sit on the line. 

Topic - Fijian culture, geography and history. 

P.E. - Small ball skills. 

Maori - Tikanga and talking about ourselves. 

Here's a photo of Room 13 working with whae Paea on the flags that they have been designing. This ties in with their work on the Treaty of Waitangi which has also been reflected in our class treaty. 

In maths we have been learning about addition and subtraction. On Tuesdays we do statistics and have been learning about how gather data to make graphs, as well as how to read and interpret the data shown on different types of graphs. 

Don't our bar graphs look great? 

On Fridays we do problem solving for maths. Room 13 has been looking at how to decode word problems to find the maths that needs solving. Below you can see us hard at work trying to work out how to buy the most items with our 30 counters. 

And a special congratulations to those children who have been awarded Ka Pai awards so far this term: 

Week 3: Leaam and Nayleigh. 

Week 4: Noah and Shreya. 

Week 5: Raul and Amanda. 

Ka Pai Week 8

Morena,
The Ka Pai's for Week 8 are Gideon Lotaki and Iman Sabani. Congratulations.