End of Term 3

Room 23 had an incredibly busy end of Term 3! We worked really hard on the dance showcase that our Senior team created. The part of Christchurch's story that we told was the future of Christchurch. More photos are to come but here are a couple of photos of us all together!

Check back here next term, we hope to be doing lots more blogging!

week 6 times

This week Room 23 has been having good times. Firstly yesterday we had a healthy shared lunch. The table was full of vegetables and fruit of rainbow colours. Some people tried new types of food like pita bread or capsicum. It's linked with a program called Food For Thought. We were food detectives which means we looked at the back of packs of foods to see if they were healthy. Our class got given $60 to spend on a healthy shared lunch. Also we planned a menu for the class so we knew what we were going to buy.

We are practicing a dance for the end of term showcase which tells a story through movement and actions. Room 23 has worked hard on this dance piece in the afternoons. At first we did the 16 beat movement where we chose 'ing' words for our topic. Examples: Generating, flying, growing and hovering. We are choreographers in our dance piece.

In writing our class started a persuasive writing which we got to choose topics like our speeches. Our goal is to persuade the audience that our point of view is right! Here are examples of people we chose. Most of us did the class for the audience and some did individual people. Thank you for reading our blog we hope you enjoyed and we'll see you soon in future times.    

By Olivia T and Te.

Food For Thought Pictures

Week 4 Blog Post

This week has been awesome we have learnt a lot from food nutritionist Rita we learnt all about the food pyramid and what is good for our body and things that were occasional. She also taught us to be food detectives at the supermarket, we looked at the  back of food packets such as salt, sugar, dietary fibre and energy. Rita the food nutritionist also went to the Commonwealth Games she competed in a 100 km bike ride she told us that she ate brown rice, banana, yogurt and raisins all mixed together for her breakfast. Did you know that Nutri Grain has a whole heap of sugar which is 32.0g wow that's a lot compared to Weetbix witch is only 1.0g.  

This week was maths week we have been doing something that is called a rich maths task the question was: The answer is nine penguins...what is the word problem? We had to find as many word problems as we could using this equation. We also got a choice number and we had to think of as many things as we could to do with that number e.g if you had 101 you could have done 101 dalmatians. 

by Finn A and Jarelle 

Flags of the World Quiz

Here's a link to the quiz we did today. See if you can beat Josh's top score of 18,500!

Flags of the World

Reminders

A few reminders...
* Food for Thought supermarket permission and transport forms need to come back to school in the next few days. Thanks to those who have offered to take transport, I'll be in touch by the end of the week if we need you.
* Camp forms are also due in as soon as possible. If you would like to be considered to be parent help on camp, please read the SQP (suitably qualified person) criteria that is in place for Wainui camp. Thanks to those who have volunteered to be parent help, we have had a huge response so far!
* The class speech competition will be Wednesday 12th August (Week 4). It will be judged by Sam Pelham (Rm 14 teacher). 3 students per class will be chosen for the Senior team finals on Monday 17th August. Please make sure your child is preparing at home based on the criteria sheet I sent home last week. I have helped them to come up with topics and we have looked at structure and the criteria in detail, but the speech writing needs to be done at home. I am happy to look at any draft speeches if you like.
* We have started our dance learning in preparation for our dance showcase at the end of the term. Here are some pictures of our dance session last week.

Wonderful Week one and two

For the past two weeks it has been (Week one and Two) We have been turning our brains back on from the holidays. We started our new topic of arts using our body to show what we are saying in a beautiful way. On week one we started doing a piece of writing by drawing a camera with a picture that sums up our holidays. Then we wrote a summary about what our picture was about. 

Not only did we start something new but we finished of some other things too like our wonderful novel Wonder! It was a brilliant book and had a extremely meaningful message 'never judge a book by its cover'.

Week 2 has been just as exciting because its maori language week. We learned some Te Reo. Like how to say 'How old are you?' Week 2 has also been extremely arty we have learning a new dance where we choose a word ending with 'ing' and made a four beat dance then chose another new 'ing' word and combined the dances together. They all looked great.

We still cant believe its been half of the year all ready. We have all enjoyed everything we have done for the year so far and can't wait to see what is next. Hope you enjoyed reading this.

By Thesara and Jake