Week 5

Here we are, almost half way through term three and what a busy learning time we are all having.

I have set up Study Ladder for Room 2 numeracy (maths class).  There are set tasks to complete in the areas we are covering in class.  Make the most of this resource and you must tell me if you have lost your password or you suspect someone may be using your details.

Here is the link (copy and paste it into the address bar or click the button on the right hand side of the screen:

www.studyladder.co.nz

We will be spending a lot of time working on Cyber Safety!  The computer world is not a safe place so this will be our focus for the next six weeks so this should make interesting discussion.

We had a fantastic finish to the school Olympics!  The photos with the medals won can be displayed in the school foyer.  Yes, Australia did take away the Gold for Sportsmanship and Behaviour!

The literacy groups have been busy with mini inquiries where groups of readers have wanted to know more about a particular reading.  Here is an example of bats!  The students even completed a venn diagram showing the differences and similarities between bats and hummingbirds.

Week 4 - Olympic Games Week

What an exciting event!  Cloverlea School held their own Olympic opening ceremony!  We followed the actual layout of the real Olympic games and we even had the (pretend) Queen and James Bond 007 who declared the games open!

LET THE GAMES BEGIN!

We have a fantastic variety of Olympic games organised - archery, equestrian, swimming, basketball ... the list goes on!

Enjoy viewing the photos of our opening ceremony ...

It was also a fantastic turnout of parents/whanau!

Week 3

Another very busy week passes us by!  We have completed our personification artwork which has brightened up our room.  Room 2 has been learning to play volleyball and all of us can serve and some of us are even spiking the ball!  It certainly pays to watch what the other team are doing!

Writing of sport, we will be organising a 'Teachers versus Year 6 Netball A Grade' game in week 7! The game will be played during a lunchtime and I think the teachers may need to have a practice!

We have settled into classroom routines really well.  For narrative writing and our mini inquiry units during literacy time, we are learning how to give constructive feedback on our peers work.  We are learning how to edit our work so when we write more we will know how to give our writing impact. We have learnt how to use adjectives, interjections (action sounds) and punctuation effectively and how it can change simple sentences to something really powerful!  We need to remember to proof read our work to make sure our writing makes sense.

On Friday we even had the opportunity to make butter.  Some of us drank the buttermilk and then we spread the butter onto bread and ate it!

Well done to Leah who received Student of the Week for consistently displaying good work habits and always trying her best.  Leah has a real 'can do' attitude!

The Super Kids could have gone to a number of sensational students this week but they went to Thomas for awesome stage work in numeracy (maths), 100% at Stage 4 and 98% at Stage 5 in number knowledge.  Walter received a certificate for being a positive role model in class and fantastic progress in all learning areas.

Next week will be another busy week as we begin our Olympic games!  the opening ceremony will be Tuesday afternoon.  The closing ceremony will be next Tuesday.  Time to be advised.  Do pop down and support the kids and if you see me, make sure you say 'hi' to me!  I'll be the lady with the green wig wearing  a cork hat standing with the winning team - "Ozzi, Ozzi, Ozzi ... OI, OI, OI!"

Have a lovely weekend!

Senorita Clark