Saturday, December 8, 2018
Painting the Fence at Papa O Te Aroha 2018
November 19- 21 saw Room 10 at Papa O Te Aroha for the annual Marae visit. This year's stay was a little longer as it had been decided the class would paint the front fence. Papa O Te Aroha Marae has been a place of special memories for many Room 10 classes over the years, so it was good to be able to give something back to the marae.
Yr's painters and Bunnings Tokoroa kindly donated paint brushes, School kits SVA pack contained a $50 New World voucher that was spent on lollies to provide energy, and with some parent help and the forecast thunderstorms holding off until later in the day we got it done.
Here's the finished results. Papa O Te Aroha's front fence looks great!
Room 10's hard at work:
Yr's painters and Bunnings Tokoroa kindly donated paint brushes, School kits SVA pack contained a $50 New World voucher that was spent on lollies to provide energy, and with some parent help and the forecast thunderstorms holding off until later in the day we got it done.
Here's the finished results. Papa O Te Aroha's front fence looks great!
Room 10's hard at work:
Creating imaginary insects
After learning about classification in the animal world, and more specifically identifying spiders and insects by their features, the class wrote reports describing 'imaginary insects' they had discovered...
Tuesday, September 11, 2018
Community Gardens 2
Our gardening adventures made the local paper:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/waikato-times/news/south-waikato-news/106957231/students-get-green-fingered-with-gardening-lessons?cid=app-iPhone
Narrative writing
The class have been writing narratives, they were challenged to include narrative features - an orientation, a complication and a resolution, to use descriptive detail, some literary devices and the correct use of speech.
These were published using Book Creator.
Here is some of their completed work, click on the links to read the books created:
These were published using Book Creator.
Here is some of their completed work, click on the links to read the books created:
Sunday, August 26, 2018
The Tokoroa Community Gardens
This term some of the class have been fortunate enough to be involved in a project between Raukawa and the Tokoroa Community Gardens, thanks to Jared Kennedy the Health Promotions Coordinator and Robyn Wolfe who works tirelessly at the gardens and has a wealth of gardening knowledge.
Every Friday they are taken down to the gardens by Jared and there under the expert tuition of Robyn, they are learning to grow vegetables - later in the year they will learn to use these vegetables in cooking lessons...
Lots of new skills learnt: - starting with clearing and fertilising a patch of land, planting seeds and seedlings, discovering stinging nettle does sting and how to treat if you do have a close encounter with a stinging nettle, rake safety and last Friday - finding out what Yacon is and tasting it.
All are shown below:
Every Friday they are taken down to the gardens by Jared and there under the expert tuition of Robyn, they are learning to grow vegetables - later in the year they will learn to use these vegetables in cooking lessons...
Lots of new skills learnt: - starting with clearing and fertilising a patch of land, planting seeds and seedlings, discovering stinging nettle does sting and how to treat if you do have a close encounter with a stinging nettle, rake safety and last Friday - finding out what Yacon is and tasting it.
All are shown below:
Sunday, August 12, 2018
Great Opening Sentences
The class are going to be writing narratives - so first up; how do author's hook their readers in?
During our visit to the Information Centre, we looked at the opening sentences in a variety of books:
During our visit to the Information Centre, we looked at the opening sentences in a variety of books:
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