Nov/Dec 2015

                         Inquiry, ICT Visitors and Visiting.

A busy couple of months with lots of action and learning in Room 1.

The Firemen visited us to teach us about fire safety.

We know to get down, get low, get out fast.

We also learnt new things when the Mobile Learning Centre came to Riverslea School.

We used Robots,3D google cardboard,3D printers and ipads and apple computers.It was fun, we learnt lots and all had turns at using everything.

We have been finding out all sorts of interesting things about space and the Solar system and planets in our Inquiry T4.We visited the Planetarium as well.

The Hakinakina Athletics and Tabloids were fun. We also had a swim there.

We had some fun end of year activities too like visiting and playing at the new playground at Windsor park.We also had a Wet and Wild fun day.

We loved our Xmas glasses, our Secret Santas and all the candy canes and chocolate Santas we kept getting.

Lots of us achieved our goals in learning.

2015 was a great year.

Miharo is awesome.

Merry Xmas everyone.

Hakinakina sports

Learning to code on computers

Nga Toi

Swimming

New playground at the park.

Wet and wild fun day

Xmas glasses

Kapa Haka

                                 

                                         October

Link to children's wiki pages.

http://riversleawhanau.wikispaces.com/Miharo                                

                                          Trips learning and fun.

We have had lots of learning and fun in Room 1 again this month.
We have still been learning lots with our buddies
and enjoying using the ipads for learning new things.
We have learnt about Augumented Reality .
That is when the pictures we look at with the ipad stand out and move.
I like the alphabet animals and the dinosaurs They are cool.
We have been involved in Nga Toi. We are making panels to put on the bike container.
We showed our wheku masks at Assembly. Everyone liked them.
We have been having a focus for Inquiry on ‘The Solar System’.
We are learning lots of things about space and planets. It is really interesting.
We are still making great progress in Reading, Writing and Maths.
Some of us have gone up 12 levels in Reading this year already.
Mr Twinn came to visit us again the other day.
He showed us lots of photos of his trip to Scotland and England.
We liked the castles and big mountain that he climbed (Ben Nevis) best of all.
Our two trips were awesome. Look at the photos on our wikis and the school Facebook.
The Omnigym was great .We learnt how to do lots of activities
and use lots of equipment like bars, mats, benches, tramps, ropes and beams.
We all loved the Fun trip to the Skatepark.
We had fun on scooters and skateboards and on the playground.
Room 1 is Miharo and we are awesome.

Augumented Reality on the ipad.

Wheku masks at Assembly

At the Skatepark

Fun on the skateboard

Omnigym trip

On the tramp

On the beam balancing

Nga Toi for the Bike container

Going up high on the rope

                                                      July/Aug/Sept

                                                                                                                  

Link to children's wiki pages.

http://riversleawhanau.wikispaces.com/Miharo   

We have had a few busy months and been involved in  lots of activities and fun.

Look below to see all we have done.

Room 1 rocks. Miharo is awesome.

Sports Day at school

Our new sports gear

We like getting our faces painted

Hearty came to talk about Healthy food to us

We loved making our Wheku masks

We are good at PMP

We learn lots of things on the ipads

We help each other learn

We loved the Hakinakina cross country .

We like learning Literacy & Maths on Skoolbo

We got lots of places.

Link to children's wiki pages.

http://riversleawhanau.wikispaces.com/Miharo

June

June was another amazing month in Room 1 (Miharo)

We watched the Bike container being shifted by a huge crane. We are going to put Art (Nga Toi) all over it and make it a feature of our school.

We were involved in the Preschool opening. Room 1 helped make pizzas for the kai and sung waiata after the speeches.

We had the Duffy Theatre visit and got our Duffy books. We learnt Te Reo Kori with Sport HB and went in an Interschool Te Reo Kori tournament with lots of other schools.

We went in a Hakinakina Rippa Rugby tournament with other schools. We won lots of games.

We Skyped Mr Twinn at his Dad’s place in Scotland. We all asked him questions and showed him pictures. He sent us photos too.

It was 10.30pm at night over there and 9.30am in the morning in NZ.

June was another awesome month in Room 1, Miharo.

Preschool Reopening

Duffy Theatre

Te Reo Kori

Skyping Mr Twinn in Scotland

Rippa Rugby at Hakinakina Sports

May

May saw Mr Twinn, Student Teacher and Matua Torp as part of Room 1.
We had lots of adventures and learning. We were involved in lots of fun things.
We shared some of our experiences through ,Write about it and Book Creator ipad apps.
Some of those connections, which is what our Inquiry is about this term,
were our trip to Mr McFarlane’s farm where we saw sheep, cows ,bulls and a helicopter.
Seeing Whaea Anne and Harold the giraffe in the Life Education truck taught us
about not bullying and being nice to others.
We had an artist Matua Brandon Blair who came to school to talk about that and get us to draw posters too.
We learnt about and practised using our WITS (Walk away, Ignore, Tell someone eg a teacher
and make a Statement eg ‘Stop it ,I don’t like it.”) from Mrs Bennett.
Some students made connections with Matua Manu and did Nga Toi, making kowhaiwhai patterns on rocks.
We made other connections with the Preschool, Mrs Donaldson, the librarian, our whanau,
Mr Twinn, Matua Torp, our buddies from other classes eg Buddy reading and sharing in oral language in R1,
and Greg Murphy a formula 1 racing car driver (Whaea Monique-student teacher in R2s husband),
who came to school to speak to us and show us all his racing gear. Hohepa tried on his $5,000 helmet.
We also had a school party to say goodbye to Mr Twinn
and Whaea Monique who had been student teachers at our school for 7 weeks.
It was sad to see them go.We hope they come back and visit us.
One of our biggest connections was using Skype. We connected to Mr Twinn’s Dad in Scotland.
It was 10.30pm at night over there and 9.30am in the morning in NZ.
He showed us the model planes that he flies and that we had seen on videos on youtube.
He also showed us a picture of Mr Twinn as a little boy.
We showed him the planes that we had made and sung him our new Riverslea song and Tutira Mai Nga Iwi.
We liked it when the circus came to visit us too. The performers could do all sorts of tricks.
May was an awesome month in Room 1, Miharo

Look at all the sheep

At the Farm

We loved the Life Education Truck

The circus was cool.

We met Greg Murphy the racing car driver

Our Book Creator stories are fabulous.

We liked making Finger Puppets

                                                                                           

                                                       March/April 2015

We have also had a busy March and April this year.

We are still improving our skills on the bike track and teaching the New Entrants to ride bikes and go on the Pump Track.

We are all making progress in Reading, Writing and Maths and know what levels we are at and where to next.

We are all working towards our 3 goals and are trying to achieve them.

We studied Turangawaewae and focussed on our environment.

We looked at Recycling. we made recycled paper and visited the Transfer Station.

We even went to Skate-world on the way back to school. That was fun.

We all loved the Hakinakina swimming sports with other schools such as Whare Tapere, Omahu and Mangateretere.

Mr Mac was our Duffy Role Model with his big truck and Digger.We all got 2 Duffy books.

The Police ambulance and Firemen came to visit us as well.

Term 2 we are studying Matariki and we are making Connections with other preschools, schools, and people in the local and wider community.

We are lucky to have Student teacher in our room Mr Twinn.We also have a new Teacher's aide Matua Torp.

WATCH this space.

Also please follow the link below to see examples of our learning journeys on our individual wikis.

Turangwaewae Inquiry Recycling

Learning about Recycling

Recycling at the Transfer Station

           

Whiore at Grandparent's Reading                      At the Skate Park

            

Hemara as a Policeman

The Firemen visiting

Mr Twinn  singing with the students

Shaolyn's outside shapes in Geometry

Mr Mac and his big truck

We made Easter Eggs. It was fun.