Week 6 Term 3 2016

This week we have been really luck and have had Harold, Mike and the Life Education Caravan at school. 
We have been looking at the theme "It's okay to be different" and have had 2 sessions in the caravan.

We were able to go to assembly this week and show our "people" to the rest of the school. We have learned that while there are lots of things that are similar about each other. We are  UNIQUE  and Different and Special...

and that's okay!

My Personality!

What I look like is only one part of me.

What I say, how I feel, and how I act everyday

is much more important to me.

My individuality.....my originality....my speciality...

It’s my Personality!

Miss  Williams took photos of us all and put together this collage for us because we are special!

In Room 7 we think that your personality is about...

*   the way you think

*  The way you act

*   How you speak

*The way you use your words

   *How you feel

  *The way you do things

We are  UNIQUE  and Different and Special...

and that's okay!

Week 5 Term 3 2016

Using cross country as a theme we were learning this week how to create images that show movement.
Our first activity was to look at some photos and look at where the body parts went. 
Then we got some body shapes and twisted and turned them until we showed movement .
Finally we glued them to a background and we wrote about the actions our "people" had made and why.

Our next activity was to use this idea to sketch ourselves running at cross country!
This was a challenge but we tried really hard and were able to draw some awesome pictures showing us running as well as writing some great pieces called "Two Feet".

Come in and have a closer look at our work if you can. We have been very creative with our drawing and our words.

Week 4 Term 3 2016


This week we had cross country at Boyd Park. We have had lots of rain so we haven't had a lot of time to practise, but Mrs Finucane still thinks we did really well.

On Friday we celebrated in Room 7. We keep a marble jar and we collect marbles for all the kind things we do for each other and for working as a team.

We managed to fill our jar twice in under 2 weeks so Mrs Finucane made us a special reward... Mini chocolate cakes with m and m's AND sprinkles on top!  YUM!!!!!

We wrote some awesome stories about this as well, and we have started filling our jar again!

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.