This week we have all been enjoying our book week activities. The children have been bringing along their favourite book and sharing it with the class.

we have been having fun designing a book cover and writing a blurb about our favourite story to go on the back . We look forward to sharing some of these with you on our next blog. We hope to see you at our book character assembly on Friday morning.

Welcome back everyone to another term and what a busy start to the term it has been.
This term we are focusing on the In Charge puzzle piece for the Silverdale Normal School Learner Dimensions. An important component of this is goal setting, so the children have been thinking about what a goal is and what personal goal they would like to set themselves for term two. Here a a few examples of their goals:

We have also been focusing on being Firewise and have been doing lots of oral language, writing and other activities to reinforce what has been learnt.
One of the activities was to design a poster that gave a message about one of the important things we have learnt. Below are some examples and we welcome all to come in to room three and see all of our great posters and writing about being Firewise.

  

What an exciting and busy end to term one we all had.
As part of our Hauora/Wellbeing term focus the children made and ate healthy wraps:

It was a pleasure to introduce the first three lessons of Science – Health and Nutrition: Making Healthy Wraps; to tie in with the current term one theme: Hau Ora/Well-being.

Your children reflected on their previous knowledge delivered by Project Energize regarding; Go, Grow, Glow and Slow (food groups) and how the digestive system works. Collaboratively we worked well together to reciprocate the value of (Whananungatana – Connectedness); through building respectful relationships in exchange of knowledge, food and learning. 

Whaea Jane

We have been exploring dance during the last week of the term. Our focus was to explore different movements using our bodies and to react to contrasting music. We made lots of letter shapes with our bodies, acted out a sequence of action verbs and had lots of fun creeping around to Pink Panther.

As part of our topic work in room three, we have been thinking and talking about 'what job we would like to do when we leave school'.
We thought about

• What skills would we need?
• Where would we learn these skills?
• Why we want to do this job?

Some children came to school dressed in the clothes they thought they would wear if they did this job.

When I grow up I am going to learn to be a Ninja. I need to learn drop kicks and martial arts. I will learn it in China.

I want to be a Ninja because I want to use swords and katarnars and I get to learn to use bows and arrows.

By Alexander.

When I grow up I want to be a fashion designer.

The skills I need to know are what goes with what.  I feel overjoyed when I do this.  I will need to go to a boutique to learn this.  This will be adventurous.

By Zera

When I grow up I want to be a doctor, because they help people.  I need to be good at math and writing.

By Karalise

When I grow up I want to be a hairdresser because I think it might be fun.  I would get taught by my Aunty, because she is a hairdresser.  I will need to be taught how to do hair properly from my Aunty.

By Aurora

When I grow up I want to be a doctor.  The skills I need to learn are checking peoples eyes, ears and mouth.  I also need to check the persons tongue.  I want to be a doctor because I want to help sick people. I need to go to the hospital and medical school to learn how to be a doctor.  The things I need to be good at are; doing surgeries and doing a check up.  I like helping people that is why I want to be a doctor. 

By Adu

When I grow up I want to be a Zoo Keeper because I want to help people see animals.  I will feel quite scared because of the scary tiger.  I will learn it in a university.  I'll learn my skills there too. I will study too and learn how to keep safe.  I need to be able to feed animals and care for the animals health.

By Mack

When I grow up I want to be a Vet. My neighbour Karalise has a Tabby cat and it's name is Olof.  

Tabby cats are my favourite type of cats.  I need to knew how to sew because when the animals have a cut, I will need to sew the cut up.  I also need to like animals, which I really do love animals.  My mum said when I am a teenager, I can go to work at a nearby Vets. 

By Millie

When I grow up I want to be teacher because I can teach people and get money.  I will need to learn to have a kind 'inside' voice.  I have to go to university to learn, math, reading, writing and art.  I have to like kids and have neat writing and drawing.

By Wai

During the last few weeks we have been creating a composition using Koru shapes to represent members of our whanau. We used a combination of paint, crayon and pastel to colour these. We looked at the murals around the school and illustrations in Maori legend books to give us inspiration for the patterns that we put on each koru shape. We created our compositions in several stages:
1. First we practiced drawing Koru shapes.

2. We drew a number of different designs using a koru shape for each member of our whanau.

3. We chose our favourite design and drew it onto cartridge paper. We then painted our design, choosing a colour to represent each family member's Koru shape.

4. Next we coloured all of the background using crayon.

5. Finally we added designs onto our Koru shapes using pastels.

We look forward to sharing our wonderful Koru designs with you in room 3.

With the hot weather we have been having the children have been enjoying their time in the pool. Some of the skills they have been  practicing are floating on their back and front, gliding across the pool, getting into and out of a pool safely and picking objects up off the bottom of the pool.

We have also been writing about our swimming. Here is some of our writing:

I like splashing in the pool and playing soccer in the pool as well. Diving into the pool is fun. I can be a dolphin in the pool.

By Alex.

I can get things from the ground and I can swim like an eel. I can glide in the pool and I can glide with my hands on my tummy. In the pool I like putting my head under the water.

By Bagas.

I like swimming. I can put my hands under my knees and my face is underwater and I was floating. My back was poking up at the surface. The water felt cold but when I put all my body in until the water was up to my neck I felt warm. I liked doing a starfish,it felt relaxing. The toughest thing is sitting at the bottom of the pool. I like touching the bottom as well.

By Advait.

When I'm in the pool it's cold like an ice cube. I can do a starfish and backstroke. I like going in the pool because it's fun and we learn to swim. We play in the pool with Miss M's class sometimes and room 4 also comes in the pool sometimes too.

By Mack.

We have been filling out all the new skills we can do in the pool on our "I can" fish which are hanging in room 3. We would love you to come and have a look at them to see how clever we all are.

On Monday we had a visit from Renee from Project Energise. She came to teach us about healthy eating. We looked at and talked about different foods and how they can help our bodies.

We looked at three food groups that we need to eat some of to help maintain healthy bodies. These were called Go foods, GROW foods and GLOW foods.

We also looked at a food group called SLOW food which we should only eat as a special treat.

We have been trying hard in room 3 to eat lots of GO,GLOW and GROW food.