We have been continuing to practice our swimming skills and are looking forward to showcasing these next Wednesday. We have also been writing about our swimming and will share some of our writing in our next blog.
Silverdale Normal School students have been very fortunate to be able to participate in some more hockey skills sessions with Stuart this term. Everyone is enjoying practicing the skills they learnt last year and building on these skills.

For our topic work this term we have been focusing on what makes Silverdale Normal School special and building positive relationships.
As part of our work on this the children worked in groups to create a poster depicting what a great classmate says and does. Some great discussion resulted and here are some examples of the finished product.

Swimming

For Term 1, we are doing swimming! We have been having fun practicing water safety, and becoming more confident in the water. Whaea Nicole has been taking photos of our underwater gliding and "C" has been helping us have confidence to put our heads under the water.

Graphing

We've been learning about graphs. First we learnt how to use tally marks, and then created a pictograph of how Room 3 gets to school. We found out that most children come to school in a car, and no children take the bus to school.

 

Then we worked in groups to create a bar graph. First we came up with a question to ask the class, then we took the data we collected and created our graphs.

 This is what we made! 

The end of the year is fast approaching so I would like to share with you all this powerpoint presentation that Whaea Jane put together at the end of term 2. It is a snapshot of some of the activities that room 3 were involved in while Whaea Jane and Miss Muller were here on practicum as part of their Masters of Teaching programme.
Enjoy!

Here are some of our hockey experiences that we would like to share with you:

Wow! what a busy few weeks we have had. The children have been loving the hockey sessions with Stuart and have been learning lots of new hockey skills.:
We went to the canopy and played hockey. We learnt how to dribble with the ball and what side to hit the ball with. We played a hockey game where you weren't allowed to touch the cones with the ball.
By Scott.

Today we learnt some hockey skills at school. We learnt how to dribble a hockey ball and how to hold a hockey stick.We had to put a lot of eyesight on the ball, . We tested how fast we could dribble a hockey ball. My favourite was the dribbling.
By Aurin.

Today we went and played hockey. We played under the canopy. It was fun. I want to play hockey again. I liked playing the bomb game. If you hit the cones you had to do five star jumps before the bomb goes off. Boom!
By Nevaeh.

We are now well into our swimming programme and it has  been great to see the improved confidence with the children thanks to the three amazing swimming instructors that have been coming on a Wednesday and Friday. They have been able to get in the pool with the children and provide some great learning sessions.

We have been working hard on our Celebrations topic work and are looking forward to sharing this learning on the blog later in the term.

Welcome back everyone to our final term. It has been great to see the sunshine.
What a wonderful start to the term with the opportunity for all the children to have the opportunity to have a go at ice skating last Friday. A great time was had by all.
Below are some examples of the children's writing about their experience and some accompanying photos:

Lovely Ice Skating

I went to go to ice skating. I wore a pink helmet, warm gloves and scary boots. I heard loud music and I felt happy. It was fun.

By Nevaeh-Lee.

Ice Skating on Plastic

On Friday I went ice skating. We had to wear ice skates and helmets. I was terrified. I was sliding on plastic. The walls were inflatable and extremely bouncy and it was super slippery. I was excited when I got used to it. I heard a lot of thumping. I got hurt when I kept falling down. I was also extremely tired. There was nice music and the ice skating bowl was under the gargantuous canopy. Near the end there were bubbles. I was disappointed when I had to leave.

By Zaidyn.

Ice Skating

When I went to ice skating with my class there was loud music, bubbles and yelling. People were slipping over and it had inflatable sides. Everyone was learning how to skate and your butt got sore when you kept falling over. We were all really wobbly at first then we got the hang of it. Lots of people were scared but I wasn’t. We had to balance, push and glide. We wore hard helmets, cosy gloves and skating boots. It was under the canopy.

By Jaz.

On Friday I went ice skating. I heard clicketty clacks and grating. We had to balance and push off and take little steps on the icy ice. I felt very anxious and excellent at the same time. There were bubbles. I learned to drift and spin. We had to wear boots with slicy blades, grippy gloves and steely hard helmets. There were lots of blade marks. We did all of this awesome stuff under the canopy.
By Mack.