Kia ora whanau

The 2016 Rio Olympics inspired an Olympic unit. Our room three focus over the last two weeks has been working collaboratively within our Olympic teams.

What does it mean to be in a team? A brainstorm showed the children already had a great understanding of what teamwork means to us.

Aurin - "When the whole team works together!"
Zera - "Lend a hand when they need help!"
Shaun- "Buddies that stick together no matter what!"
Mack - "People working together to achieve a goal!"
Jacob - "Help your people out!"






Working together in teams to:
Create a team flag using symbolism.

Wai- “The hearts are for love and kindness.”

Zera- “The red / pink / white are for kindness.”

Millie- “We chose the colours because they represent helpfulness.”

Shaun- “Love hearts and flowers represent when you help someone they know you want to get to know them.”

Riley- “The red represents love.”

Scott- “It's like the NZ flag because we are from NZ.”

 Mack- “The kia feathers are green because green means helpfulness.”

Alex- “The ferns represent NZ.”

Anish- “The koru man is for NZ.”

Hong-Ly- “The dragons were an awesome idea because everyone liked dragons.”

Zaidyn- “We needed to make it colourful so you could see it from far away.”

Aurin- ‘Love hearts and stars represent helping people because when you help people you feel like a star. Also we drew stars because when you have a good day you lie down and see stars.”

Aurora- “The microphone is for shouting it out."

Working together to complete a team relay race!

The teams cheered each other on! 

Ka Pai!

We have developed a great team spirit in room three!

Signing off- Miss Rawson 

What a great start to the term with a visit from Ronald McDonald to remind us about Road Safety. The children loved interacting with Ronald as he acted out all the things they need to do to be safe pedestrians and safe passengers.

 As a follow up the children were set a goal to write five interesting sentences about the Ronald McDonald visit. You will have read some of these in the newsletter and here are some more for you to enjoy:

Ronald McDonald has enormous red and yellow shoe laces. When I went to the student common room it was so deafening. Ronald McDonald said on the road  stop, look and listen otherwise you will get run over. When Ronald McDonald was teaching us about road safety he said to keep on the house side not the road side. When you are by a sneaky driveway you need to stop, look and listen.

By Ryley.

Ronald McDonald taught us about pedestrian crossings and we helped Ronald cross the street safely. Ronald wore big, stripy yellow and red top and socks. He was hilarious, everyone chuckled when he talked. Ronald told us to walk on the house side of the footpath because if we walk near the road we could fall onto the road.

By Zera.

For Math we have been busy learning about multiplication and division. We have been practicing our equal sharing and writing equations to show what we did. The children are being encouraged to practice counting in 2s, 5s and 10s to help them with their problem solving.

We were very lucky to have a soccer session with Adam who has represented New Zealand at an Olympic level. The children really enjoyed the chance to learn and practice their soccer skills.

After our soccer session we all wrote a special type of poem called a cinquain, about our soccer experience. Come and read our great cinquains on the room 3 wall.