Week 3 Term 3 2016

Mrs Hayes has been really busy outside the school and made this awesome mural about the Olympics ! We went out to have a look.
Go Kiwis Go!

On Tuesday we got the chance to meet Bruce Potter who is an illustrator.
He showed us how he comes up with the ideas for his drawings, and then how he plans and draws them.
He is very clever!
Thanks Miss Williams for the awesome pictures of us watching him.






This week we welcomes another new student to Room 7!  
Luan has joined us from Australia so now we have 26 students again. Welcome Luan. 
We hope you will like living in Te Aroha and coming to Stanley Avenue School.

Week 2 Term 3 2016

This week we had a black furry visitor to our class. 
Reef brought his dog Ash to visit us. We all had a chance to pat her and Reef told us all about the things he needs to do to look after her.She is beautiful and was very good with all the children.
Ash is a black furry german shepherd.



Also this week we had a new student join us . Her name is Amohia and she is lovely! Welcome to our class.

Week 1 Term 3 2016

Welcome back to Term 3!

We have 2 new students in Room 7 this term called Joanna and Lukasz. We hope they have a great time in our class! We have been working on getting to know each other and getting back into routines this week.

Our room looks very empty, even though we have moved the furniture around so we hope to start making some new things to show you very soon.

Term 2 2016

Hello everyone. Mrs Finucane has just realised how long it has been since we put anything up on the Blog!

Here are some photos of some of the things we have done, and would like to celebrate!

In week 6 Mrs Spencer was in our class and she read us the legend of "Maui and the Sun". We made some spectacular pictures and then when Mrs Finucane was back we wrote about our favourite part and published our writing. Here are some examples...

We are very lucky to have Mrs Prattley working in our room and she does some really awesome things with us. Here are some examples of what we do with Mrs Prattley...

Mrs Prattley read us a story called "The Seven Kites of Matariki".

We thought it was an awesome story so when we were asked to make something for the Rec Centre display for our Matariki Hangi , Mrs Finucane thought we could try and make the kites from the story.
We all thought it was too hard but when we worked in teams and thought hard we managed to make our kites look nearly the same as the book. They are so awesome that we have had them in the Rec Centre, our foyer and in the Office foyer as well!
 Mrs Finucane is going to put them in our classroom for the rest of the year because we did such a great job!

Finally... at the end of the term we had our final assembly and we awarded our class certificates to Legend, Calais and Joe. These three wonderful students, along with Hayley , are moving to Room 11 next term which is sad for us but we know they will make us proud.

Week 4 Term 2 2016

Something very strange happened on Friday... the classroom was full of monsters and other creatures! Where were all the children?????

Oh yes... it was Book Week Monster Dress Up Day!

What a way to end our week... Don't we look awesome!

Week 3 Term 2 2016

We had a special visitor in Room 7 this week. His name was Gizmo and he belongs to Amberlee. He is only a wee thing but he got so excited seeing all the children! 

He jumped up and chased around and pulled their hair and their clothes and he
just wanted to play!

We had a lot of questions to ask so we wrote them down to ask Amberlee's mum.

We found out that asking and answering questions helps you look for information, which builds understanding.

We really liked having Gizmo in our class. Come in and have a look at what we found out sometime.

Week 3 Term 2 2016

Last Friday was Room 7's turn to present at Assembly. We had been talking about ANZAC Day and why we always see the poppy as a symbol.

We read a lot of different stories to help us understand more about why we celebrate ANZAC Day and what it was like for the ANZAC's, and then we made some poppy pictures for our class. Here we are waiting to show our pictures and to share some of our learning. 

Then we put our pictures up in our foyer for others to enjoy. We hope you like them. We do !

Here are some of our ideas...

ANZAC Day is…Thinking about the people who went to wars.                      Amberlee

ANZAC Day is…A day when we remember the people who died in the wars.      Sophie

ANZAC Day is…On April the 25^th every year.                                                                       Joe

*This is the anniversary of when the ANZAC landed at Gallipoli to fight the Turkish Army in 1915

ANZAC Day is…Always on the 25^th of April and we remember the people who died in the wars.         Cooper

ANZAC Day is…A day when we can go to the Dawn Parade.                                       Brock

ANZAC Day is…A day when we make ANZAC biscuits.                                       Kerrin

ANZAC Day is…A holiday in New Zealand and Australia.                                      Rico

ANZAC Day is…A day to think about the people in wars.                                        Lily

ANZAC Day is…Is when people march in a parade.                                                        Charlotte

ANZAC Day is…When people wear medals and poppies on our shirts.                       Kayla P.

ANZAC Day is…When we wear red poppies to remember the people who died.                  Calais

ANZAC Day is…When we wear red poppy flowers. They grew in the ground where people were fighting.                 Calleb

ANZAC Day is…If you were still alive you can walk in the parade and you could wear your medals on your left side and if you are dead someone from your family could wear the medals on the other side.

Isaac

ANZAC Day is…On ANZAC Day it is important to remember the people who died in the war.            Ayden

ANZAC Day is…If you buy poppies from the shop you give them money and it goes back to the people who went to war.                                                                                            Ariana

ANZAC Day is…It’s about the people who were in the war and died, and fought to help us.                 Ciana

ANZAC Day is…People in the parade who went to war, wear their medals on the left side and if you didn’t go to war you wear them on the other side.                    Lydia

ANZAC Day is…When people make a wreath with poppies on it and put it on the clock.               Kayla O

ANZAC Day is…Tastes like ANZAC biscuits and hot chocolate after the dawn parade.                 Aneiyah

ANZAC Day is…There was mud on the ground where they were fighting. Some got dead and some got very sick.         Jack

ANZAC Day is…It smells like gunfire and we hear singing and we see people marching.               Legend

ANZAC Day is…People died in wars. People from Australia and New Zealand were called ANZACs.             Manav

ANZAC Day is…We feel sad for the people who died in the wars and their families. And we feel proud too.          Clarissa

ANZAC Day is…Australia and New Zealand celebrate ANZAC Day.                             Hayley