Yummy Cakes!

Last Thursday we all enjoyed the cake stall fundraiser that the netball girls organised.  There was a huge selection to choose from and some of us had real trouble deciding!  Here are some of Room 19 enjoying the cakes they selected.

We love Team Assembly

On Friday Room 19 joined the other classes in Team 1 in the hall for Team Assembly.  All the learners in Room 19 really enjoy this weekly event, particularly the jump jam!  Congratulations to Riverson and Jordan who received certificates this week.

Enjoying our Learning Space

Mrs Belt made a few changes to Room 19 over the holidays and we've been really enjoying the new spaces when we are doing our learning.  At times Mrs Belt gives us choices of where we can work and today some of us took advantage of our huge floor rug, our foam mat and the two couches when we were completing our activities.

Jordan enjoyed reading on the couch

Riverson & Hendrix enjoyed building blocks on the foam mat

Donya enjoyed sitting on our carpet rug

As did this group of learners

Eva, Brittany & Jezer enjoyed working on the blue couch

Amazing fun at MakerSpace

Room 19 had our Maker Space session with Mr Barks on Wednesday this week.  They had a really enjoyable session and were keen to talk about it when we got back to class.  Check out some of these photos of what they were doing.

Golfing around for the last time!

Once again we joined Room 16 and our wonderful coach Shannon for our last session of KiwiSport golf.  We enjoyed using the club and practising our golf shots before exploring using a ball with streamers attached to help us with our catching.

 

We've all really enjoyed golf and will remember these important points when we play mini golf with our whanau:

Feet together

Hands together

Feet pointing towards the ball

Heading outside ...

A beautiful sunny Auckland day and an opportunity to head outside with our iPads today!  After reinforcing the rules we headed off out under the trees.  I gave the learners very specific instructions as to what photos to take.  Our first photo was of a tree.

Photo by Whare

Learners then had to find something blue to photograph (surprisingly none of them tried to photograph the sky!  I really liked this image created by Hendrix - he carefully climbed onto a lower platform on the playground to position himself for the photograph.

Photo by Hendrix

Lastly I asked for photographs of something that was moving - it was great to see the different interpretations of this - litter on the ground, a classmate, a blade of grass, and cows through the fence.

Photo by Riverson

A Kindy visit and our class grows some more :)

We've had an exciting day in Room 19 today, with a visit from the Pt England Kindergarten.  We met some wonderful learners who will be starting at Pt England School this term.  Mrs Belt had some wonderful alphabet activities for us to complete and we all made a very hungry alligator!

Today we also welcomed Mele to Room 19 - we now have five wonderful learners and will continue to grow over the coming weeks.  Mele enjoyed her first day with us and particularly enjoyed using the iPads for maths today.  We were using teddy bears to show a certain number and taking a photo on our iPad to record and share our learning.

Photo by Whare

Room 19 is growing

Room 19 on Day 1 ... 

Room 19 on Day 2 ....

We look forward to welcoming more learners to our class over the coming weeks!

iPads for Learning

We welcomed Gabriel to Room 19 today and enjoyed our second day of learning.  For maths we used bugs on our tens frames as we demonstrated the numbers 1 - 5.

Later in the day we used our iPads for the first time.  We enjoyed the iPad safety video about how to use our iPad correctly and then took photos of our friends.  It was great to see the learners of Room 19 being careful and taking things slowly.

Photo by Gabriel

After lunch we again used our iPads, this time to take photos of our polydron creations.  This gave the learners of Room 19 a chance to create and then share their creations with whanau via the class blog.

Photo by Riverson

Blast-off .... our first day!

Mrs Belt welcomed Riverson, Hendrix and Whare to Room 19 this morning.  The boys all started school today and we've had a great day, beginning with a tour of the school.  Mrs Nua and Ms George both visited our room during the day.

During our literacy time we worked on the alphabet and did reading for the very first time.  The boys are very keen to take their books home and read with their whanau.  

We spent some time building farms and zoos for our animals and we had some great conversations as we created.   Just before lunch we had some fun with counting and writing some numbers.   After lunch we enjoyed the polydron before it was time to head home for the day.