Excellent Writing in Room 6

Today we were learning how to use full stops and capital letters correctly.  We used and old family friend from the Devitt household...Oscar, Naomi's old Ted!

Here is some of the wonderful work...

Asher: Oscar is Naomi's teddy. Oscar is soft and he's got a stubby tail. He has a little brown bow. He is very precious. He is a very cute teddy and Naomi must love to cuddle him!

Lucca: Oscar has brown fur and two little brown ears. He has a brown bow and small black eyes and he is snuggly. He has a stubby tail and he's soft.

Abby: Oscar is a teddy who belongs to Naomi. He is cuddly and precious. He loves Naomi and he's floppy when you shake him.  He's small and snuggly. He's smooth and soft. Oscar has got a stubby tail and two little cute brown eyes. 

Pippa: Oscar is Naomi's little bear. He always gets up to mischief. He is a cheeky little bear and he drinks Naomi's milo every morning. Naomi sends him to his room.

Lauchlan: Oscar is Naomi's teddy. He is shady brown with soft fur and quite cute black eyes. He has a brown nose and a cute busy tail with three black stripes on both paws. Naomi has had him for a thousand years and she takes good care of him. She hugs and snuggles him at night and day and Oscar loves her. 

Liam: Oscar is a teddy. He has a stubby little tail. He is cuddly and floppy and he has got two little black eyes. Oscar is very precious.

Some more little visitors

Christmas elves are arriving early

Pippa and Maia

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Pippa and Maia did such an awesome job with our introduction. Well done ladies. You rock!

Art's Showcase

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I am sooooooooooooooo proud of each and every one of you!

Letting our toes do the talking

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We have been focussing on the long "o" vowel sound.  We learned a short poem and decide to have some fun with it.  We used our toes to help us with the timing. Great fun!

Summer Reading!

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Research has shown that children need to keep reading during the summer holidays.  In fact, new studies have shown that if a child doesn't read over the six week break, they can fall behind as much as six months.  Your fantastic children have all worked so hard this year and I am delighted with the progress each and every one of them has made.  Please, please, please help them to keep going.  I have attached this document to give you some ideas of how to go about keeping literacy alive and well during the summer.  Keep it fun and do lots of talking! Thanks in advance, Corrinne

Celebrating reading success.

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One of the goals this group of children had, was to read aloud to the class.  You did it! I am so proud of each and every one of you.  Keep practising the reading strategies.
Room 6, you always make a great audience!

Here is another awesome example of Room 6 putting actions, gestures and facial expressions to a shared poem. I think they are superb!

The Arts in action

As a school, we are focussing on "The Arts" this term. In Room 6 we have been learning some poems to help us remember our blends. Today, we looked at each verse and talked about some drama techniques that we could incorporate into the poem. We looked at ...
Voice: Should we speak softly or loudly?
Gesture: What little movements should we make?
Facial Expression: How can we reflect a feeling through our faces?
I was so impressed with what the children came up with that we grabbed an I-Pad and raced out to record. Fantastic work Room 6. Now we are working on dramatizing our own narrative writing.

Great Reading

This lovely group of girls read with beautiful timing this morning. What a great example of choral reading and the value of working together. Awesome!

Descriptive writing

Today, Room 6 got together with their budies from Room 4. We learned about creating interesting writing by using descriptive language. Connor and Asher (brothers) worked ver hard writing, re-reading and then writing some more to create this awesome sentence.

The beautiful, fluffy deer skipped over a little stream where six glistening fins sliced through the shimmering blue water.

The Where in the World Expo

End of Term 3

Hi everyone! I would like to take this opportunity to say thank you for all your support this term. Room 6 is just fantastic and the children are all learning so much. You should be very proud....I know I am! Our inquiry into India has been amazing and I'm sure you would agree that our exhibit at the "Where in the world expo" was brilliant. For those of you who couldn't be there, I am posting a few photos and very soon I will be uploading a recording of our dance that Mr E very kindly did for us. Have a great break and I 'll see you next term, ready for some more exciting, fun and motivating learning.

Olympic games

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All the students from Room 5 and 6 wrote persuasive letters to Mr Norrish to ask him to allow us to have an afternoon of "Olympic" games at school.  As you can see, he said "yes!" We had an awesome afternoon. Thanks to all the parents who came to help!

Story Sequencing.

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This week, our shared book was The big Breakfast.
http://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/EBooks/The%20Big%20Breakfast/index.html
On Friday, the children spent some time retelling the story through their drawings. They had to make sure that they had it in the correct order. This is an important aspect of reading comprehension. I have included a selection of what the children did. My challenge now is for you to ask the children to explain their picture. You can check their accuracy by clicking on the link and having a read of the book. Enjoy

A learning update

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This is just a little synopsis of our theme learning journey so far this term. We are still busy searching for the answers to our questions! Each stepping stone is a "taster" of the work we have been doing in class. This "prezi" is best viewed in the full screen mode. To get to this, click on the play button, then "more" and then the full screen. 

Burla High School update

Our link with India

As you know, we have been collaborating with a school in India. Today, I received this link. Click on it to see how they have used the recording of our National Anthem that we sent them. Now, we can listen to them singing their anthem and the discussion continues!

Quiz Night

I thought you may like to see a few photos of the quiz night that we had on Saturday. What a fantastic evening of fun. A huge thank you to all the people who organised and ran the evening. It was fantastic. I'm looking forward to next year!

Our Model Bikes

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After all our hard work persuading Mr Wadsworth to let us make our model bikes, here is what we did. We had so much fun working together to create some pretty cool bikes. Thanks to all the parents who came to help us.

Yummy Gummy Bear Cup Cakes.

Today was Lauchlan's birthday and he brought everyone a cupcake to celebrate. Yum! Happy birthday Lauchlan from everyone in Room 6!

More great writing from Room 6

Liam was away last week because he was sick. Therefore he didn't get to publish his writing on our blog. Today, he wrote a great recount about his weekend. Here it is for you to enjoy. Well done Liam and it is so good to have you back.

And the decision is...

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Today, Mr Wadsworth came to tell us whether or not our letters persuaded him to let us make our model bikes. Listen to what he has to say.

Music in Room 6

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Dagmar has been very busy getting our Senior choir ready for the festival on Monday night. However, we LOVE music and so we decided to bring it into our room. Here we are playing "hot cross buns." Well done everyone....move over Pahoia RE-United! You are FANTASTIC!

This week we have been learning about persuasive writing. We each wrote a letter to Mr Wadsworth to persuade him to buy us some tape to make life size model bikes from newspaper. He has promised to read them over the weekend and on Monday he is coming to class to give us his decision. Exciting!

Open publication - Free publishing - More bikes

The Peacock Family

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Today, during Friday choosing time, Matthew and Declan created this little movie. They used Puppet Pals and did this from start to finish on their own. I am so proud of you boys. What an example for the rest of us.

Maths Week at Pahoia School

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This week we celebrated "Maths" week in school. Mrs Grinder organized a maths trail and it was awesome. Thanks Mrs Grinder. Can we have another one soon?

Proud, pretty peacocks!

Here are some of our fabulous creations captured by Declan today. What a photographer you are!

New Learning links

I have sorted the learning links on our blog into two categories-literacy and maths. Check them out! Thanks Mr Norrish for your help!

Yummy cake

Thanks to Mrs Flett and Mrs Inglis, we had a yummy morning tea yesterday. Delicious! Happy birthday to Pippa and Joshua too.

Persuasive writing.

Today, we looked at persuasive writing. The focus question was "do cats or dogs make the best pets?" The children had to decide and then justify their decision by coming up with supporting reasons. Here are some children chatting about what they thought.

We had some brilliant writing.

Louis
Cats are the best pets!
Cats are the best pets because you can snuggle up with them by the fire and you can pat them anytime you like. Farmers use them to keep mice out of their barns. Kittens can play games. Cats are very clean animals. I love cats.

Lauchlan
Cats and dogs are the best pets!
Cats are the best pets because they can run up a tree before the dog gets it. Then when the dog has gone the cat can run down again.  Cats are not messy and they don't swim in yucky water. Dogs are good pets because they are great swimmers and they protect your home and they protect your family. That's why dogs are best.

Our Fabulous Readers

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This week,  I had two girls who eagerly asked me to record their reading! They had read this short play during guided reading and loved it s much that they wanted to see it on our blog. They needed two other characters and so asked two boys to join them. The green screen behind them was used for a different project-We are learning to use the alpha tool! Watch this space!
Girls, I kept my promise. You are on the blog. Enjoy!

Rosie's Farm

This week, we had a fabulous time when the show "Rosie's Farm" came to our school. We had lots of fun while we learned how milk gets into the cartons that are in our fridges. We also learned about the nutritional value of milk.

Puppies, Puppies, Puppies!

Thank you Theo for grabbing my iPad and taking this photo. If you look very carefully, you might be able to see one of Renee's puppies who is snuggled up in my hands. A huge thanks to Renee's Mum and Dad for bringing these little darlings into our class. We loved meeting your babies.

Maths strategy in action.

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This week, some children have been learning to add and subtract using counting in tens. This clever girl came up with this strategy to help. I just had to grab my iPad to share such learning in action with you. Awesome!

Look who came to visit!

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Today, we had a lovely visit from Ronald McDonald. He was so funny and we had heaps of fun. He also taught us about road safety. Remember to "click" everyone!

Mingling Maths

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This week during maths, we got outside and....mingled! We are looking at groups of numbers and this was an awesome way to involve everyone. We all had such fun! When we went back inside we wrote on the board some of the groups we had discovered. For example, we know that there are 14 groups of 2 in Room 6. We wrote this as 14x2...Wow! Multiplication....just like that. Great.

Great reading in Room 6

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This week, the giraffes blew me away with their reading. They picked up this short play and went with it. It was so good that I grabbed my iPad to record it for you all to enjoy. I especially love how you are holding your books...Away from your mouths. This shows me that you are aware of your audience. Fantastic! Well done giraffes. You rock!

Welcome Back Everyone!

Welcome to term 3 everyone! Despite the awful weather, we had an awesome first day. We have started our theme-"Global Community" and are really looking forward to learning lots about the Olympics and our adopted country...India. See you soon, love Mrs Devitt.

We are the STAR team!

Well done Room 6. We got the class shield this week at assembly. You have all worked so hard and deserve such an award. If you haven't checked out our room recently, come in and enjoy the children's amazing work. Have a great holiday and I will see you in Term 3!

Evidence of good literacy practice

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I know I am always talking about the reading strategies! As part of our every day programme, we assess what we are doing. Here is such an example. During a one on one reading session, I lifted my iPad and recorded this. We watched this together and discussed what we could see. Declan used some of the strategies to tackle this text. Can you spot them? Well done Declan. I am so proud of your progress. Keep practising those strategies!

Class reward time.

Room 6 went on a picnic today as a class reward. We were so lucky with the weather! Declan's little sister came too and it was wonderful to hear that she too has been learning about bees. Well done Declan for sharing your knowledge. What a great reminder of what "community" is all about. Way to go guys! I am so proud of each and every one of you.

Term 2 Celebration of Learning

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Our Global Partners

In preparation for next term, when our focus will be on the Global Community, Room 6 has established a connection with a school in India. We will be working together and sharing what we learn. To kick this off, we used the iPad on Friday to record our school singing the National Anthem. This is especially for the junior department of Birla High School. Enjoy!

Our Bee Discovery

What an amazing journey we have made so far on our discovery about bees. This week we went on our trip to Mossops Honey and then on Friday, Mr McQuillan came in and spoke to us about "Bee Keeping." It was fantastic. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us. It is great to have you as part of our school "community."Next week, Mrs Rogers will be talking to us about honey production. We are really looking forward to that!

Our alliteration sentences

Here are our alliteration sentences. We hope you enjoy reading them as much as we did!

Alliteration

This week, we have enjoyed a Big book called "Lizzie lizard learns to read." From this, we focused on alliteration. The children worked collaboratively to create a great alliteration sentence. We also worked on our own sentences and these will be uploaded soon.

Awesome People In Our Community

On Friday, we had the pleasure of having a visit from three fire fighters. The fact that they happened to bring along a shiny red fire appliance was very cool!

As you know, our theme this year is "Community." Therefore, while we had heaps of fun, this visit was a wonderful tool to teach our children about what community "looks" like. Community, in school or beyond, is about people working together. The fact that one of the fire fighters has a son in Room 6 made it even more special. Thank you Katikati and Athenree Fire Brigade! We loved having you with us and we greatly appreciate all that you do for us. Click on the link below to see some great photos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1hXL2irXbM

Who needs Mrs Devitt!

It was a great pleasure today to sit back and put my feet up!

Welcome to Room 6 Miss Flett. You did an amazing job at Pride Time today. I love how you really thought about your audience and kept the illustrations facing us. Well done.

Buddy time

As promised, Mrs Grinder and I had a surprise for our children during buddy time today. We gave them the task of working together to create a bee. They had to follow directions very carefully and help each other on the way. It was an absolute joy to see them working so well together. It was especially lovely for me to see some familiar faces back in Room 6. What a great example of our awesome school community working together.

Music in Room 6

This week, Dagmar came into our class for music. The children showed her how our listening skills are improving and guess what, we are learning to read music. Awesome work Room 6.

The Fun Bus

This is one of our projects this week. What a blast! For our Shared Reading this week, we have read "The Fun Bus." The children got so excited that I decided we needed to take this text a bit further, hence this little movie. The children collectively decided what props they needed and where we should do the filming. That is why I had to climb up to the "hut" in the playground! It was absolutely fantastic to see the children engaged in a text they had examined so thoroughly all week. Awesome work guys.

Our boat building movie

I have had a request for this, so here it is. Enjoy!

Parents becoming members of our blog

I would like to invite as many parents as possible to become members of our class blog and follow us by leaving comments. We check the blog's activity during class and it would be awesome to have a few more comments from the people who's opinions matter the most to the children...you!

Buddy Reading with Room 4

It was just great to see the children from Rooms 4 and 6 buddy read on Friday. They were amazing and the discussions they were having about what they had read was extraordinary. We are looking forward to Friday when we will do it again. Hopefully the sun will continue to shine.

Anzac Day

Last week, we had a fabulous Anzac service. As part of this, each class designed, made and presented a wreath or poppies. In Room 6, we discussed how important it was to stop and remember what the Anzacs did for us. We decided to make a wreath from our own fingerprints, demonstrating our personal gratefulness to all the brave men and women.

Term 2