Term 3

Hi EVERYBODY!
Welcome to Term 3.  This term is very exciting - we have lots of things happening.
Our inquiry topic for this term is: Step up, step out.  Why dance?  We had a disco this week so we could have a go at dancing ourselves.  It was a lot of FUN!!
This week is also Maori language week.   We have been learning new words in Room 6.  Why don't you come by and ask us to share them with you?  We are going to carry on learning a new word a day until the end of the term - by then we will know 50 new words to say!!
Kowhai team was lucky enough to have Ronald McDonald come and teach us how to be safe around the road.  We talked about wearing seatbelts, sneaky driveways, pedestrian crossings and walking  on the footpath away from the road.  Georgia even helped Ronald to find his missing sock!  Check out the photos below.
That's all for this week, talk to you next week.
Bye!

Reading

HI everybody,
This week we want to show you what we do at reading time.  We LOVE reading in Room 6!  We read before school, after morning tea and at the end of the day.  Check out the pictures of us reading.
If you want to listen to us read, come by Room 6 before school and we will read to you in the library.  We look forward to seeing you soon.
That's all for this week, talk to you next week.
Bye!

Willy the Champ doing group reading

Charlie & Lola making word families.

Harry Potter reading in the library

Gruffalo reading from their book box

Hairy Maclary getting ready to say their play to the class

Writing

Hi everybody!
This term we are learning how to write descriptions.  This week we decided to write about an amazing principal - can you guess who? That's right - the one and only.... WHAEA BARB!!! We loved talking about what she looks like and what she does, before writing about her.  Have a read of the ones we've put below. If you like them come to Room 6 and read some more from our published writing folders.  We look forward to seeing you!
That's all for this week.....
talk to you next week :)

Samoan Language Week

Talofa Lava Everybody!
This week we celebrated Samoan Language week with an amazing assembly.  We had a very special visitor who came especially to see our assembly!  Some parts of the assembly were really funny and we laughed out loud.  We also got to see some dances from the Samoan group - they were fantastic.  We can't wait to see more from them.
That's all for this week, talk to you next week - BYE!

Aunty Tala

Mr Timo showing us how he walks in high heels

Samoan group

Samoan group performing a dance

Room 6 posing with Aunty Tala

Ready, Set, Go!

HI everybody,
On Thursday we did ready, set, go in the hall.  It is helping us to get better with our balancing.  We go to ready, set, go every Thursday.  This week we did the frog jump, we balanced bean bags on our heads, we balanced bean bags on our hands and pretended we were planes.  We crawled like a bear, we pretended to be waiters and we practiced being a bridge.  We can't wait to learn some more next week!
That's all for this week, talk to you next week.
Bye!

Welcome Back to Term 2

HI everybody,

Welcome back to Term 2 2014.  What an exciting term we have to look forward to!  
This week we started our new inquiry "Better Citizens for a Digital Today - How can I be a good digital citizen?".  We talked about what we think citizenship means and what we think good citizens do.  We watched Despicable Me and talked about what kind of citizens the characters are.  Come and check out our thoughts in Room 6!  
We also created a citizen for our class.  We named her Citizen Rose.  We list our learning around her, so she is learning to be a good citizen at the same time as us! You can come and see her in Room 6 :) 

We can't wait to let you know what else we are learning about in Room 6.
Talk to you next week.  In the meantime, check out our photos of Citizen Rose below!

Niuean Language Week

Fakalofa lahi atu!
This week Sylvia Park School has been celebrating Niuean Language Week.  On Friday we had a very special assembly to showcase some Niuean culture.

First Whaea Maxx introduced the Niuean group



The group told us about themselves

Next, the Niuean group performed a dance

After that, we watched a video about a Niuean weightlifter

Finally, Whaea Maxx's Mum helped to give out the certificates

In the end, Angelina got Room 4's certificate

Angelina felt proud!