Room 10 Nelson Central School 2016: May 2016

Sunday 29 May 2016

Week 4 Term 2

This week we have continued looking at Maori myths and legends and learnt about the story of Maui and the sun. You can watch a animation of this story on this Youtube clip below.

We have had a very active week with the start of our Cross Country training. We have been practicing one lap of the front field and next week will be moving up to 2 laps. Thanks to everyone for sending in sensible footwear for this training.

In No Child Left Inside we continued working on our dribbling skills with the basket balls, I could clearly see that some of our Room 10 friends have been getting in some extra practice at home..well done!

At the end of the session we had e special treat when Kathryn gave us all a lovely juicy apple.

There have been some great examples of working together this week. On Thursday in maths we worked with our Maths Buddies on the second part of the Spaceman Sid rich task using our counting in 1's and 2's to help find different solutions to the problem.

In our reading rotations we have been working together using play dough to improve fine motor skills.

As a class we have celebrated children who have reached special 50, 100 or even 125 nights of reading at home.

We made a superb Room 10 effort at collecting vegetables for Soup-A-Friday.....

...and as a group some of us have been reading to the whole class!

This week we had a story from Emi's mum......

...and very, very, very long story from Mia's mum.

Finally, working together as a whole group we created this movie maker clip of our poem about a very Buzzy Bee.

What are we learning in Week 5 Term 2

Letter Sounds: 'w' and 'z'

Tricky Word; 'here' and 'made'

Writing:Simple Recounts and descriptions

Maths: ordering numbers/ before and after numbers

P.E.: No Child Left Inside

Maori: Myths and Legends

Inquiry Topic: Enviro Schools:Water Ways

Art: Leaf prints

Events Coming Up

THIS WEEK

Tracy is teaching Mon, Tues, Wed,
Sam is teaching Thurs

Sam/Christine are teaching Friday
Monday 11.45-12.30 Water Intro with Mel
Cross Country training please send appropriate shoes for running

LATER THIS TERM

Monday 6th June, Queen's Birthday, school closed
Tuesday 7th June: 9.10 Museum Myths and Legends, helpers needed, leave school at 9.10
Friday 17th June: Whole school cross country event pm
Thursday 23rd June: Museum Vital Statistics, helpers needed, leave school at 9.10

TERM DATES

Term 2 ends Friday 8th July

Term 3 starts Monday 25th July

Term 3 ends Friday 23rd September

Term 4 starts Monday 10th October

Term 4 ends Thursday 15th December

Friday 20 May 2016

Week 3 Term 3

This week we learnt about taking photos using the 'possum view' camera angle.

To help us think about the digraph 'oa' we built boats as part of our small world play.

A big thanks to Walter's nan who read us a dinosaur story this week..one of our favourites.

During our No Child Left Inside lesson we practiced dribbling a basket ball.

We learnt about counting in 2's and odd and even numbers in maths. Here you can see how Spaceman Sid found lots of different combinations of 1 and 2 eyed aliens to form a total of 9 eyes each time.

This week was anti-bullying week. Check out these YouTube clips that helped us to think about how to be a buddy and not a bully.

Discovery Time was filled with creative projects of all kinds this week.

Finally as part of our focus for Anti-Bullying Week we have recorded our poem called "With a Friend".

What are we learning in Week 4 Term 2

Letter Sounds: 'ee' and 'or'

Tricky Word; 'he' and 'her'

Writing:Simple Recounts and descriptions

Maths: Counting in 5's and 10's

P.E.: No Child Left Inside

Maori: Myths and Legends

Inquiry Topic: Reducing Waste

Art: Leaf prints