August/September 2016.
Link to children's wiki pages.
We are
still learning and being involved in lots of activities. Our Inquiry has been
about the Rio Olympics 2016. We learnt a lot about different countries and
different sports. We each had our own country at the Olympics. Harmony’s
country USA came first with the most medals. They got 116 medals ( 43gold, 37
silver, 36 bronze).
Te Orihana
came 2nd with Great Britain who got 66 medals. Kadyn had NZ who got
18 medals (4gold, 9 silver and 5 bronze).
We also
watched some of the ParaOlympics which made the students aware of different
disabilities and how people use ways to overcome them to win medals eg Blind
cyclists and runners and swimmers with only 1 leg.
We had our
own school Olympics which the students loved. They also got medals. Participation
for the tabloids and Gold, Silver ,Bronze for the age races. It was well
supported by whanau.
All
students have made great progress, some being a year above in Reading and 6
months above in Writing and Maths.
This term
Room 1 has also been involved in a NZ wide programme for Junior classes called
#NZReadAloud. We connect with other classes around NZ (10 in all) from Auckland
to Dunedin and share our ideas, art work, writing etc on a blog. It is all
related to a common chosen book that we are all reading to our class. It is
called A Booming in the Night By Ben Brown , a NZ author.
As usual we
are busy with Fitness and Kiwi Can skills and games. This Term we are learning
about Cooperation (Whanaungatanga) with Matua Rocky and Whaea Cass.
We have had
‘Getting started’ again T3 with a council funded programme on fitness and
coordination skills. We have had Whaea Toni and Matua Julian this term.
Grandparent’s
reading with the Rotary Grandparents every Friday has continued. Some of us go
and read to them for 15 minutes each. They help sponser our Duffy books. We had
a Role Model Assembly with Mary Kippenberger (storyteller) and Peter
Charlton-Jones (musician) and got our Duffy books for the Term.We also had 2
Role Models form Karamu High come to talk to use about being leaders.
We were
lucky to have Mr Kevin a Preschool Teacher volunteer time 2 days a week for
most of the term. He fixed all of our school bikes for us. The children are
loving being out on the bike track again.
Whaea
Monique (Student Teacher from last year) also volunteers in the classes 2 days
a week. It is great to have her skills and empathy with the students.
Another
highlight for the students was a visit from 2 Magpies Chris Eaton and Matt Garland.
They talked to the students about being role models and then took them for
games. They loved the Touch Rugby.
It has been
another awesome term for Miharo (Room1).
