Syndicate
Newsletter - Room’s 9 and 10. Term 1.
2017
Kia Ora, Kia Orana,
Talofa Lava Greetings from Room10
This term both Room
10 and 9 settled in quickly. We made new friends and learnt about our teachers
( Mrs Puke Room 10 and Mr Noke Room nine) Once we were settled in our teachers
made sure we what rules we have and why we have them. This took about two weeks
and once Mrs Puke and Mr Noke felt confident about us knowing and following the
rules we moved on to a new topic.
Our teachers started
off by seeing what our prior knowledge is like then we began our study with
insect & arachnid anatomy. We chose an insect or arachnid and researched it
quite thoroughly. During this study we ventured out to the playground and tried
to find and classify all of the different types of bugs we discovered, which
brings me to the present where we are writing detailed reports on our chosen
creature e.g Huntsman Spider, Monarch Butterfly, Glow Worms, Ants etc
While all of this was
learning was going on many of the other classes went on trips, sport teams were
organised along with extension groups such as language, Maori, maths and Mandarin.
There was also lots of testing so our teachers had an idea of our academic
prowess. During our maths section we covered addition, subtraction and
multiplication algorithms along with estimation. Sadly our extension maths
children are now at extension so they don’t join us during our maths time. We
have a basic facts test every Friday as a bit of a recap. Next term we plan to
cover more advanced maths such as fractions and decimals.
As far as Writing
goes Room 10 started off with a piece of writing about our favourite place and
we got some fantastic pieces of writing out of every student from both classes.
Extension Language begun in week 6. Our teacher is Mrs Long and as we all know
she used to teach in Room 12. We have been learning about simple sentences,
compound sentences and complex sentences for the past 2 weeks. Here’s an example
of each: The Chihuahua is caramel-brown. (simple) We have a rooster
and he lives in a tree. (compound) My kitten Sox, always fights with Pebbles
our puppy. (complex).
Sport has been a big
success for Room 10 as we were the winners of the interclass sports
and are currently
polishing up our Ultimate Frisbee skills after refining our cricket and
softball skills.
On the final formal
assembly Principals and Deputy Principals were awarded to many students by Mrs
Mariassouce and Mr Fisher to star students
Written by Avania and Andrew
