Netbook learning

We are very lucky to have 4 new netbooks in Room 7 this year. It takes a bit to learn how to use them but gradually we have been learning new skills each day. Here are some photos of a maths group using them to create bar graphs.

Our new comprehension strategy this week...

We have another strategy to learn and remember when we are reading. These comprehension strategies help us understand what we are reading. This week it is all about predicting. This means we need to guess what happens throughout the story and find clues that help us with this guess. Sometimes we may change our predictions!

Room 7's Modiglianis!

We have been looking at the famous artist Modigliani. He is famous for his portraits. We noticed that all of his portraits are long in shape, have long necks, faces and noses, and show the top of their shirt. We also noticed that he uses plain colours on black paper. We decided to use oil pastels. Here are some of our own Modigliani portraits. Make sure you visit the art section at the Wanaka A&P Show next weekend as they will be up on display.

Reading

We are now underway with our reading programme. Some of us are learning different strategies to work out those tricky words and some of us are learning different comprehension strategies and developing our skills in this area. So look out for special bookmarks that come home in the readers now and then. You can keep these to remind you and your child what we are learning to do within reading. This week we are looking at the strategy of Skippy Frog and discussing the main idea.

Nick Willis

Last week we had a visit from Olympic athlete Nick Willis. He talked to us about his training for the 1500m and what it was like to win gold and silver medals for New Zealand.

He had many messages for for us to take away with us.

"He told us that our meals need lots of different colours"

"We can be anything we want to be"

"We need to work hard to achieve our goals"

He took the the children on a run around the school grounds. His advice is going to be good for when we are training for our school triathlon.

Welcome to 2012 in Room 7!

Hello everyone and welcome back to school!

Room 7 has been busy getting to know one another for the past 7 days. We have 20 children this term.

Here is a photo of our class. Can you spot someone you know?

Room 7 created a spider web that showed how we are all unique. We had to pass the ball of string to different people around the circle to create it. It shows that we all have differences.

Come and read why everyone in Room 7 is so unique. It is displayed on our classroom wall.

We hope you enjoy our visiting our blog this term!

Welcome to Term 4!

Welcome back to school everyone!

Already we are in the second week of term 4! We have had a busy start with Gail Loane in our class on the first day of school.

Gail worked with a group of students who looked closely at some special seed pods and then wrote a poem about what they saw! Some made it to the school newsletter!

We will be writng more poems this term, so if you have some interesting things around home from nature, have a go at looking closely and writing down exactly what you see!

Also this term, the juniors are trying to get to the bush! Due to weather tomorrow our trip to the Blue Pools is not going ahead but hopefully will next Tuesday8th November.

We want to look at how humans and animals have impacted on the native bush, the different canopies, regeneration and pests and traps. We hope we get there next week!

Hopefully we will keep the blog a bit more updated this term with what we are doing in Room 7!

Coming up:

Junior Trip -8th November to Blue Pools
School fair - 19th November