Expert Gardeners

Today our Korean students popped out into our Room 19 gardens.

Thanks girls for the great job you did ... we heard lots of squeals of excitement especially when the friendly worm was uncovered.

Ghost - Usain Bolt

In the story Ghost we did lots of research on Usain Bolt and created an awesome collage of him on the running track in our sunflower groups.

Our sunflowers groups answer different questions each week and post our answers on Twitter each week.  We have loved reading the different responses from each school.

Here is the link to our twitter page to see what we have been posting about Ghost.

https://twitter.com/Rm19EPS2017

Wahooooooo Youthtown is back in town !!!!!

We love Youthtown and this term they continue to focus on developing sportmanship, working together as a team and having FUN ...

The weather has been really really unkind to us so we have had to spend most of our sessions inside the school hall but that hasn't stopped us from having some very competitive games of dodge ball.

Guess what we have tried .....

Thanks Coco for buying the sunflower seeds in the kernel.    They are extra tasty but there is definitely an art to breaking into the kernel and getting the seed out.

Were you one of the talented ones to open the seed in your mouth :)

Can you remember in the story where  Ghost would go to buy his sunflower seeds and how he started the habit of eating sunflower seeds ????

Ghost by Jason Reynolds

This term we are super excited to be part of Chapter Chat.  It is like an on-line book club for year 5 and 6 students.  We started listening to the book this week and today we thought it would be fun to eat some sunflower seeds like the character Castle Cranshaw (Ghost).

Most of us thought they were quite tasty but they didn't have any shells around them like in the story.  Maybe we will have to buy the sunflower seeds in the shells ....

Welcome to our Korean Students

Over the next few weeks we will be sharing our class with four students from Korea - Hyung Seo, Soo Yin, Che rin and Ju hee.  We are looking forward to learning and Korea and making new friends.

We introduced the students with a Powhiri and we are really proud of Caitlin and Shaniqua who performed the karanga (call) for the manuhiri (visitors) and the tangatawhenua (Elm Park).

Term 3 - What's Happening and a Few Reminders

Thanks so much to all those fantastic parents that came along last Thursday to our Student-Led Conferences.  It was great to our room 19 learners enthusiastically sharing their learning.

We have a HUGE group of children in room 19 that each week take "Responsibility" for completing their home learning expectations eg. mathletics (at least 1000 points), reading eggs (at least 3 lessons achieved) and spelling (different spelling strategies).  However, there is a small group that need some support to complete this eg. consistently returning home learning books on a Friday and completing "all" the expectations.  Our home learning expectations are very small and are a consolidation of what we are learning in the classroom.    Room 19 if you think you might be someone that needs some help at home have a chat with your parents to come up with some strategies for completing your homework.   Developing these strategies will support your learning as you move onto Intermediate next year.

Congratulations Mini & Meilaniah on your outstanding home learning effort this week !!!!

We have some fun activities happening over the next few weeks - so put these in your diary.

Great fundraiser and creative way to pass on some of your pre-loved toys etc.

Come along and support our Room 19 Maths Olympiad team on Thursday 17 August @ 11.15.