Tuesday 30 October 2018

Learning Goals

For writing we have been using individual  learning goals with success criteria to help us achieve these goals.  Once we have 6 ticks the  learning goals go on our congratulations wall, then we select a new learning goal with Mrs Duffy.  Here are some learning goals on the congratulation board.

Here are some students' explaining how the goals have helped them.

Keng Shen
 Having the goals helps my brain.

Celine
My goal helps my brain think about what to write.  it helps me to do personal excellence and write nicely.

Yohaan
The success criteria helps me remember what to do.

Richie
They help me remember what to write.

Kavin
The goal card tells me what to focus.  I feel happy when I tick stars because I get a prize.  I can write by myself.

Lida
When Mrs Duffy talks about my goal card it helps my brain to do personal excellence.





Earthquake stories in the newsletter.

Have you checked last weeks newsletter?  Some room 18 stories were published.


Sunday 21 October 2018

Earthquake stories.

Last Thursday the whole school participated in shakeout day which was a New Zealand wide event.  We did drop, cover and hold.  Then we evacuated onto the field.  Everybody participated well and demonstrated they knew what to do!  Well done!  Prior to Thursday we found out what causes an earthquake.  Here are some of our stories.

Earthquake stories from room 18.

Azal

The earthquake is rattling and wobbling and the tectonic plates move apart.  The buildings move, the ground shakes.  That is how the earthquake comes.  It can crack our houses.  Earthquakes are everywhere.

Yohaan

An earthquake is when the tectonic plate moves apart.  When tectonic plates move apart the the earth shakes.  Buildings move when earthquakes happen and doors wobble.

Keng Shen

An earthquake is when the tectonic plates move apart.  The earthquake makes bridges break and the road makes big cracks.  Earthquakes break houses.

Zarar

An earthquake is when the earth shakes.  Plates move apart.  Buildings move.

Aayushi
The earthquake is when the earth is shaking.  It is when the tectonic plates move.

Eric
An earthquake is when the ground shakes and the ground cracks.

Kavin


An earthquake is when the ground moves.  It is when the tectonic plates move and it looks like a puzzle.  When an earthquake happens the ground shakes.





Happy sixth Birthday.


Happy birthday to Tanisha, Zarar and Richie who all turned 6 in the holidays.


Thursday 11 October 2018

Money Boxes

As part of our Inquiry  Money Matters   we created our own money boxes.  Everyone was so creative!  Here are our creations.  Check individual money boxes on seesaw!






Wednesday 10 October 2018

Pic collages

We read the shared book about Tane.




Pic collages

Some of the Leopard reading group made pic collages of the characters in the shared story The Kings Cake.



Happy sixth birthday Oceanna


Poetry Recital

Congratulations to Muhammad and Yohaan who were finalists in the Poetry Recital.  Well done to everybody who worked hard to learn their poems.