Choosing

Each week I have a hard time choosing what to put on our class blog! We are so busy learning and the weeks seem to whizz by in a wonderful hum of activity. I hope those of you who visit our blog enjoy the snippets I choose to post.

This week in Maths we have been learning about 2D shapes. The children have spent each day investigating a different 2D shape. Here are some of the activities we did to investigate triangles:





In art we recycled some newspaper to make our own paper using a paper making kit. We made green paper and added some glitter to it for a sparkly effect. The best part was the stamping to drain the water!




As a class we decided to share the writing of a class story. Our story is called "The Room 10 Mystery". We had such fun sharing ideas and sequencing the events. To celebrate our story we read it to the Kowhai syndicate in assembly on Friday. The shark bit went down extremely well!!

Term 4 Week 3

This week we welcomed Cooper and James to Room 10. It is great having you join in all our learning fun.
We have had a very busy week.
* Constable John has been visiting us to help us learn about Keeping Ourselves Safe. We are learning what we should do when we feel confused or uncomfortable in a situation.
* In maths we went outside to walk along a chalk number line Lesley drew on the concrete. Then we skipped along the number line. We decided that skipping was a faster way to move along the numberline and that is why we learn skip counting! Scarlett proved to be our champion skip counter, managing to skip count all the way up to 112 in 2s!
* We have been learning some of the moves for Jump Jam and on Friday after Jump Jam we practised playing our air guitars to help the school break a Nelson record of the most number of air guitarists playing in one place at one time. We will be joining the rest of the school on the front field on Wednesday at lunchtime to rock away to "Smoke on the Water".



* Many of us have a new skill in sewing running stitches. We thought it would be hard to begin with and some of us got into quite a muddle, but with perserverence and a good attitude we found that we could all do a running stitch. In fact we really enjoyed our sewing sessions. Take a look at our display in the classroom next time you are in.

* In the mornings we are learning the songs for our end of year production. The Kowhai syndicate will be performing 3 mini musicals as the production. Room 10 is teaming up with Room 12a and we will be performing Tadpole Rag. It is a musical about the life-cycle of the frog. Keep your eyes open for a letter coming home soon about costumes for your children. The dates of the production are 8 & 9 December at the School of Music.