Star Writers

This week we have 3 star writers who have taken their work up to share with Mrs Dawson.
They were able to stop, think and listen for the words and sounds they needed.
Great work Daniel, Tevita and Armani!

Story Writing in Room 11

Today at story writing time Room 11 were able to write a lot of the words by themselves.  The letters written in purple are the sounds that we were able to hear and tell Mrs Nathan.  The black letters are the ones Mrs Nathan had to write.  We think we are pretty clever for people who have only had four weeks at school!

Number 10

This week we are learning about the number 10.

"I have got 10 children." said Mrs Nathan.

"I have got 10 crayons." said Tevita.

"I have got 10 pencils." said Caress.

"I have got 10 sticks." said Armani.

"I have got 10 blocks." said Jamie.

"I have got 10 teddy bears." said Tauroa.

"I have got 10 lego blocks." said Memory.

"I have got 10 counters." said Marley.

"I have got 10 oranges." said Tausiva.

"I have got 10 little blocks." said Mary.

"I have got 10 dice." said Daniel.

Mokopuna's visit

Today at maths time we had some visitors.
8 lovely children from Mokopuna came for a preschool visit.
We hope that they will come and be in Room 11 when they are 5.

Welcome to Room 11 2014

Welcome to Room 11 2014!
We have made a great start to the year.  There are currently 15 new children in Room 11 and they are all very excited to be at school and learning together.

A reminder for parents we are a sun safe school which means children need to have a hat each time they are outside.

We will be starting swimming next week.  We will swim everyday so children will need to have their togs and a towel in a plastic or swimming bag. It would be a great idea to name each item of clothing as they are easily lost.

If there is anything you would like to discuss with Whaea Maeva or Mrs Nathan please come and meet with us before or after school.

Prize Giving

On December the 4th we had our Junior School Prize Giving.

We dressed up like reindeer.

Congratulations to Bella and Hale who won our class prizes.  

It was very hard for Mrs Nathan and Whaea Maeva to just choose two people. 

Caszius won a prize for Maths and Bella won a Reading prize for being the best in Year 0.

We are so proud of their achievements.

A visit from King Homeboy

On Tuesday King Homeboy came to visit.  He told us all about the history of Beat boxing and about learning how to beatbox.

He is the New Zealand Champion Beatbox and is able to make some amazing sounds with his voice!

He is a video of him in action.

Halloween disco

At lunchtime today we had a Halloween disco.

Matauri was Spiderman

 Jono was Superman.

Athletics Day

Today it was athletics day.  

We all had to run 100 meters.

We ran as fast as we could.

Braeden came third in his race

Temweyne and Logan were third and fourth

Leytton was second in his race

That meant they had to run again in the finals.

It was a great morning!

Jump Rope For Heart Day

Last Friday we had Jump Rope for Heart.  It was our turn after lunch.

We were put into groups and we moved around the different activities on the court and in the Whare.

We had to jump and skip all afternoon.

We were very very tired at home-time.

Our visit to the Expo

Wow there were so many things to see at the Expo!  Here are some of our favourites.

Home School Partnership Expo

Today we have a Home School Partnership Expo to show our parents and friends our work.
Here  are two of our friends making a comment on our blog.
We can't wait until it is our turn to visit after lunch!

Number of the week 13 unlucky for some

This week we are learning about the number 13.

It is too big to make by ourselves so we needed a friend to help us.  

One of us made 10 and the other made 3.

Then we started our 13 book.

Caszius made a rainbow 13.

                                       

 Jono counted all of the animals.  There were 13 rabbits, 13 monkeys and 13 pigs.

 Filipe found all the number 13's

Gideon coloured-in 13 crosses.

Clever Maths

Each day we use our clever maths brains to work out how many people we have at school in Room 11.

Today Isaiah noticed that there were 10 boys on the first bus, because he could see 5 on one side and 5 on the other side.  He knew that 5+5=10.  Then we saw one more boy on the other bus.  That made 11 boys.

Leytton saw that the girls had the same as the first boys bus, so that meant there were 10 girls.

Bella knew we could use our hard doubles to solve our problem.  She knew that 10+10=20.  But we still had one boy on his own bus and Bella knew this meant that we had 21 children at school today.

Aren't we clever!