Sharing our learning..,,,

Here is the little team that went off to Room 11 on Thursday, to share what they can do in daily warm up maths.  Thanks Room 11 for allowing to teach you about what we do.  We hope you will enjoy using this approach in your class, build on your number knowledge and get more excited about maths.

Traditional Maori Instruments - Taonga pūoro

Artist Horomona Horo shared his knowledge, musical skills, legends and stories of his ancestry with us.  We were very privileged to see some of his collection of traditional Maori instruments and enjoyed the music he made with them.  Did you know August is Maori Music Month?

Here are just a few instruments we enjoyed at the presentation.

This instrument makes the sound of the male NZ Case Moth.  What amazing creatures we learnt they are. Mrs Chester can't wait to find out more about their life cycle.

A big  THANK YOU to...

Horomona Horo for sharing his kete of knowledge with us.  

Olympic Parade

Our class participated in the New Windsor School Olympic Parade on Friday, with much enthusiasm.  We were representing  Australia in this event, although Katarina also joined the Russian team at the close of the parade.

Team Australia

Flag bearers

Mascot

The Olympic torch was carried by representatives of 'Great Britain'.

Pacifica drummers crew

Music DJ

Medals awarded by our very own Queen.

Team Russia

It was a great day.  We are enjoying learning about the Olympics and world class athletes.

Strike Percussion

What a show!  Lots of sounds enjoyed by our school, as Strike performed for us.

Paula was asked to help out and was wonderful at keeping the beat on the Cook Island drums.

Movemprove - Gymnastics

This term we are having some coaching as part of our PE programme.  Here are all the children practising their motorbike landings before getting onto the apparatus.  So much fun and learning.

Happy one hundred days of school!

Congratulations and well done Room 14.

What super number work and counting you have been doing on the way to getting to 100 days of school in 2016.

A BIG congratulations to the two boys who have been to school for each and every one of those 100 days.  Tu meke boys!

They were awarded gold medals and certificates for such a great achievement.

Today our learning was focused on counting to 100 in different ways and making one hundred.

Here are some children making bead strings with one hundred beads on them.  

We put the beads on in groups of ten so we could skip count forwards or back or show a number on our strings more quickly.

We also made 100 day crowns using ten strips of paper, each with ten stickers on them.  We know that ten groups of ten is 100.

Our most exciting activity was playing the 

pass the parcel game that had tickets inside it.  The tickets had numerals and words for numbers between 0 and 100 that we needed to place on our imaginary number line.

We are getting very good at ordering and saying the numbers that come before and after numbers up to 100.

Counting out 100 objects.

Putting  our 100 objects in equal groups.

Groupings of two.

Groupings of ten.

We love maths in Room 14.  We are always happy to share our learning.  So do ask us to share what we know with you.  

Welcome back to term three

On Monday we participated in our school Powhiri.  This is how we welcome all the new children, families and staff members to our school.

Mrs D'Souza was welcomed in this event  and spoke on behalf those who are new to our school.  She along with other new people did a hongi in this ceremony.