Thanks!!

Room 23 - you are all amazing, parents included! Thank you so much for my surprise wedding themed morning tea, and thank you very much for the fantastic book with all of your splendid wedding poems. I am especially impressed that you kept the secret so well!

Have a great week with Mrs Allen and I'll see you all next Wednesday. Love Miss A.

Woah - someone needs to update this blog!!!

Ok major update time. We have a selection of video's that have been waiting to be uploaded on the blog. The most popular I'm sure will be today's Room 23 Harlem Shake! Here it is folks.

This is a play done a few weeks ago by the Wild Cats reading group. They are working on using expression, staying in character and speaking towards the audience.




Here is a rap that Grace and Niamh wrote about a story their reading group read.

Golf

Last week we had our first of three golf lessons with a kiwisport coach. It was awesome to see children who had never held a golf club before doing some great drives down the field. After our lessons at school we will hopefully get to have a go on a real golf course!!

Student Council Reps

Today we finally got to hear the last of the class representative speeches and we could vote. It was an incredibly close race so well done to Maddie, Jack, Niamh, Grace, Bella and Emma for having a go.
Our class reps are:
Year 4 - Bella
Year 5 - Jack

Week 2 Certificates

Congratulations to last week's certificate winners:

Nikau - Heart of Achievement
Finley - Achievement in Maths
Toby - Values Award

Aqua Gym

Last week we had a fantastic time at Aqua Gym. It was great to see so many children striving to achieve their swimming goals. Well done! Here are a few photos taken on the first day.

Study Ladder

Study Ladder has now been set up for our class. If you click on the link at the side of the page it will take you to the login page. You will get your passwords at school on Monday. The tasks that are set for you can be done at school or at home. At the moment the english activities are for practicing your spelling. The maths tasks are to help with the statistics that we are doing in class.

Treaty Time

Last week we learned a little bit about the Treaty of Waitangi, then we came up with our own treaty to help us have a great year together in Room 23. The class got into groups and wrote a list of all the things they thought were important in a classroom. Each group narrowed their list down to the two they thought were the most important. We turned these ideas into our own class treaty. Here are the things we have all agreed on:

We will all strive to consistently use excellent manners.

We will aim to discover something new every day.

The truth will be told at all times.

We will use our creativity wherever possible.

Choices will be made that help our own learning and the learning of others.

Miss A will consider getting a class pet!

Good behaviour will be rewarded.

Room 23 children will help to choose class rewards and consequences.

School property will be shared with all class members.

Decisions about learning will be made together.

Room 23 children will be able to earn free time.

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