The end of Term 1

 With the beginning of Term 2 upon us, take a look at what we got up to in Room 6 in Term 1!

Room 6 Gallery

Kawa of Care.

 In Room 6 we have been learning about the Kawa of Care.  The Kawa of Care is all about taking responsibility for our chrome books and making sure we are looking after them.  Look at one of the posters we have made.  Room 6 Kawa of Care Poster

Room 6 2021

 Happy New Year!  Miss P is so excited to be back in Room 6 this year with the "Super Sixes!"  We have a bit of a super hero/heroine theme this year, so go ahead and take a look our new class site set up.  This is where we will go every day for our learning.

Room 6 2021

Orienteering

 This week in Room 6 we have been learning about position and direction.  We have had a go at reading and creating maps of our school and we even set our own course for a classmate to complete.  On Thursday, Miss P set up a big orienteering course for the whole class to complete in pairs.  We had to turn and thumb our map, find the triangle to know where to start, collect 15 letters from the different controls around the school and then find the finish.  Once we had completed the course, we then had to arrange our letters and find out what they spelled.  It took a while, but the word was CONGRATULATIONS!

Room 10 visits Room 6

 Whaea Delia has been sick!  She has lost her voice, which isn't very good when you're a teacher.  Room 6 have been lucky to have Piper, Keeana, Edith and Pearl come to visit because there have been no relievers!  Lucky Room 6!

Fun with Bee Bots

 Kia Ora,

In Room 6 we have been reading 'The Wild Robot' by Peter Brown as one of our Chapter Chat novels.  Whaea Kirstin and Miss P decided that it would be a fantastic opportunity for our Year 3/4/5 kids to have a go at coding online and to learn all about algorithms.  Because Room 5 and 6 were so amazing with their coding, we went one step further and purchased real life robots!  The learning has been rich, much patience has been needed and the cooperative working and discussion has been fantastic.  Bee bots are soooooo much fun!

Our T-shirts

For our art gallery this year, Room 6 created kiwiana inspired pop art.  We drew our image, Miss P then took a photo and then we uploaded the image onto our chrome books.  From these images we created our pop art.  Miss P downloaded our pop art as a pdf and then got them printed on to t-shirts.  We are SO proud!

 

Music with Fran Term 3

 3.09.20

Today we started Music in the hall with Fran.  Some of us got to play the glockenspiel, the tambourines and the giro.  Oscar got two sticks that when you hit them with a cupped hand, they made a really awesome sound.  We got to play "We Will Rock You."  Next week we get to have a go on the violins.  We can't wait!

Room 6 can now blog!

Room 6 can now blog!

It has taken us a wee while to get organised with our blogging this year thanks to Covid-19, but we are finally up and running.  Room 6 are pretty excited about it!

Using Google Drawing

Today Room 6 were learning how to use Google Drawing with Vicki. We learned how to use WordArt to make our names look awesome! We changed the colour by clicking on the paint bucket and we changed the font.

We also learned how to find images using the explore tool and we had to resizing the images to make them fit. We used the corner to resize so we didn't squash our pictures.

Metaphors

9th August 2019

Metaphors

What is a METAPHOR?

This is the question that was posed to Room 6 this week.  There were a few blank faces and it was really hard coming up with an answer...

Are they the same as similes?

Short answer: NO.
Long answer:  But you're close.

We watched the above video to help us with our learning.  Check out our individual blogs to see what metaphors we came up with!

Monday, 26th March

Kawa of Care

This week with Vicki we talked about the kawa of care for our chrome books.  We talked and learnt about how we can best look after our chrome books and how we can encourage others to also do this.  We then created some comic strips demonstrating our learning.  And here, we share some of our creations.

Music with Fran

Music with Fran

Every Thursday morning, we head over to the hall and are greeted by a smiling Fran and her entourage of musical instruments.  This term we are learning to play 'Shotgun" by George Ezra.  It's very noisy - but a whole lot of fun!

Lots of activity this week at Waitohu School

We are lucky enough each week to have some Year 13 students from Otaki College come and take our senior kids for some sport and fun.  Last week it was a games focus and this week it was all about ball skills!

Kupa

The duathlon was a lot of fun on Thursday, with great attitudes and speedy legs on display.  All of Room 6's training paid off.  Well done team!

Lots of great learning has been going on in Room 6.  We are currently taking part in Chapter Chat as part of our reading and we are reading WONDER, which is a wonderful book encouraging the kids to think about accepting difference and being kind. Great messages all round!

We are Room 6! We are made up of 29 awesome kids, 1 amazing teacher aide (Glenys) and 2 pretty cool teachers (Miss P and Mrs Matt).