Holidays!

We have all just had 2 weeks off school and some of the children in Room 20 went on amazing adventures.  These are a few photos that were shared with the class.  If you've got a great holiday photo, send it in!

Bee Bots

Room 20 have been learning simple coding with Bee Bots.  This week we have been creating our own game boards for the Bee Bots to move around on.  They're not quite finished yet but hopefully by the end of the week they'll all be done.  Room 20 will then teach Room 19 how to use our games.

SPCA

The children in Room 20 love animals, and a small group decided to help the SPCA.  First they designed some posters asking for donations.  They asked for blankets, towels and toys.  Then they went around to all the classes in the school and told everyone about the SPCA.  Over the next few weeks we had lots of donations arriving in Room 20.  Look at all the things these guys collected!

The blankets and towels filled up 5 whole boxes and Mrs Farrelly's car was stuffed full!  The whole lot was delivered to the SPCA in Mangere. Room 20 got a thank you letter from the SPCA and there is something else special happening soon! 

The SPCA also said that children and families are welcome to visit the centre and see what work they do, maybe even meet some of the animals. 

Thank you Devon, Ella, Kaylan, Josh and Nikira, you did an amazing job.

Mr Hadlow Has...

More exciting news!  Mr Hadlow sent us all a poster of his book, and he signed a poster for our classroom.  Mr Hadlow is currently working on his new book of stories, we can't wait to read them.

International Writing

Room 20 read a very cool story called "Mr Hadlow Has a Son" from the book of stories "Mr Hadlow Has..."  The story was about a missing snake called Reg and the massive fright someone got when they found Reg in a very unexpected place.  We wrote stories about a time we got a fright, or an adventurous snake, and some of us retold the story of Reg. We sent our stories to the author over in England, and he WROTE BACK TO US!!  Mr Hadlow also sent us a photo of himself holding Reg the snake.  Come and read our stories, and check out the photo of Reg with Mr Hadlow.

Room 20 are going GREEN!

Room 20 have started recycling their rubbish.  We are RECYCLING soft plastics and hard plastics.  The children are also cleaning their rubbish so we can reuse it again, like yogurt pots and fruit pots.  They are great for using during art and junk modelling.  One of our big aims is to REDUCE the use of glad wrap in our lunch boxes.  Glad wrap cannot be recycled and it goes straight to landfill.  Children are now choosing to use reusable bags and containers, no wrapping or reusable beeswax wraps.  Keep it up Room 20, let's see if we can be glad wrap free by the end of this term!

Duffy Assembly Term 2

We had an exciting assembly today.  We had a special visit from Judith Collins, who was our Duffy Role Model.  She loves reading books and told us about how important books are.  Then we got given our boxes of new books.

Ten Cultures of New Zealand

This is the backing music for our Variety item.  Please sing along and keep in time with the music.

Pizza Lunch!

Room 20 were the lucky winners of the Flexibuzz competition.  We had the most parents sign up to Flexibuzz so we won a free pizza lunch.  It was DELICIOUS!!

Learning Basic Facts

This is a great site for learning basic facts.  Children need to quickly recall basic facts as it helps them with their strategies for solving addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
Hit the Button

Learning Numbers to 100+

Use this site to learn about numbers up to 120, look for patterns, skip count in 2's, 5's 10's, count forwards and backwards in 1's.

100's chart

Baking ANZAC Biscuits

As part of our learning about ANZAC day, Room 20 made some ANZAC biscuits.  We took turns measuring out the ingredients and mixing them all together.  They smelled delicious when they came out of the oven, and tasted even better when we ate them!

Multiplication Work

In maths we are learning all about multiplication and division.  This group had 20 cubes and they shared them into equal groups.  After grouping them they worked out what the times table would be.

Our First Duffy Assembly

A big welcome to Mr Peter Fa'afiu who was the role model at our very first Duffy assembly.  He spoke about how important it is to read books and to share your knowledge with others.  After his speech Mr Fa'afiu gave out the beautifully decorated Duffy book boxes.  Once back in class we all received our 2 free books.  We were very excited about our new books!

How quickly can you recognise numbers to 10? Watch this pirate's subitizing song. Can you say the number before it is revealed?

Maths

We are a Duffy school. Learn how to sing the Duffy Song.