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.

Science in the classroom

The Magical World of Crazy Science

What an exciting show we watched today.

We saw physics and chemistry in action.

Here are a few photos to help us share our experience with family and friends.  

Please ask us questions about what we noticed and what we are left wondering about.

Science is so much fun!

Wonderful Wig Wednesday

Here we are in our wigs, ready to join the rest of the school for the parade.

Well done Room 14.  You participated so well in this event and contributed to raising money with the rest of our school, for a very worthy cause.  The Child Cancer Foundation plays a very important role in supporting children with cancer and their families, in their time of need.

Wig Making

Yesterday we planned, constructed and completed our wigs to wear to the Wig Wednesday Parade being held next week.

This is a national event, supporting the Child Cancer Foundation. Don a wig and bring a gold coin to support this appeal.

Here are a few clues into some of the creative looks that will be paraded next week.

Caleb's careful creation of curls.

Maher's paper folding to make frizzy rainbow hair.

Sultan's threading of laces to make a long blue haired wig.

Shahmeer prepares his long black locks by cutting lengths of wool.