Term 2

Term 2

Kia Ora Room 5

Welcome back to school.  I hope you have all had fantastic holidays and are rested and ready to take up the challenges that this term holds.  It is another busy term with lots of exciting learning opportunities.

Things to look forward to!

Cross country so don't forget to bring comfortable shoes for running in each day!  Start thinking about your goal for this.

Speeches - start thinking about an interesting topic that you can entertain and challenge the audience with.  This year our two class finalists present at the Senior school competition.

AFL - The Australian Football League experts will be in to work with our class at P. E. time.

Footnote Dance-The tutors are coming from Wellington again to work with us, hopefully to help us develop some ideas for our Term 3 school show. 

Unfortunately, we only have a few more session with Simon and the Garden to Table programme, as it will soon be Room 6's turn.  Make the most of our remaining sessions.  A big thank you to anyone who came to school to water the micro greens!

We will continue on with our ANZAC Inquiry for the first part of the term.  Don't forget that next Saturday, 25th of April, is ANZAC day. (We get an extra holiday on the Monday because of this!) there will be lots of things happening in our country to remember this day.

Once again, welcome back to school.  I'm really looking forward to helping you all achieve the goals that you set last term.  It will be an exciting term.  We will all try to get better at using our Google drives this term too so don't forget to bring your own devices.  If you want to try to do your homework on this instead of your homework book then have a go.  Miss Williamson has helped me put the homework sheet into your drives under the folder titled OTHER.

Good luck with the term.
Miss Cowsill

P.S>   

Here are the photos I took of the new paint job on the Grey Lynn RSA building.  I think it really makes us remember the importance of the first ANZACS! 

Please post a comment if you have seen or heard of other things happening at the moment for the 100th Anniversary of the first ANZAC day.  

Communication during WW1.

Click here!

 Here is another website to help you with your inquiry.    
Click on it and  then go to the ANY QUESTIONS part if you need some extra help


 Inquiry questions.

Te Reo

Te Reo Term 1

• How to greet others in Te Reo
• How to tell others who we are 
• How to ask others who they are
• Names for people in our family

You might like to practise using Te Reo at home and you could also teach your families some of the words we have been using in class.

WALT- Learn to meet and greet in Maori

Morena or Kia ora

Tena koe

Hello to one

Tena korua

Hello to two

Tena koutou

Hello to three or more

Ko wai to ingoa?

What is your name?

Ko --------------(put in your name) taku ingoa

My name is

Or Ko------------(put you name in) ahau

Here is the link to the Reomations so you can practise at home:

Reomations

WW1 Their Stories, Our Stories

                 


                  We have now started our inquiry into World War One 

Their Stories, Our Stories

Our Big Idea is:

The importance of communication between soldiers and their families in wartime

We have started to look at how we communicate today and how soldiers communicated one hundred years ago with their families in WW1.

We looked at  a postcard and began to think about:

a) What information did it tell the families? 

b)  What information didn't it tell the families?

You can look at other postcards if you click below:

http://bit.ly/1qytJev

What are you now wondering about?

Welcome to Room 5's new blog!

Kia ora Koutou

Welcome to our first class post.  The  term has started off really well and we are all trying hard to become independent Pegasus Flyer learners in our room. We would love you to check in to our blog to see what we have been doing. 

Miss Cowsill and  the students of Room 5.

Click here to find out what we think learning is.

We are having lots of fun with the Garden to Table programme.

Every week we garden with Simon.

And we also have turns at cooking the things from that we have harvested from our garden!!!!!