So long 2014.. Hello class of 2015!

Kia Ora all,

I hope your all enjoying the sunshine. This is just a note to say a big thank you to parents and caregivers of 2014 for all our fantastic support last year. I wish your children all the best as they embark on a new year of learning.

This blog will still be around next year and will follow this years new Room 12 class members.

Thank you again and enjoy the last week of the holidays.

Miss Roberts

Room 12 and Room 5 were buddy classes for Term 3 and 4.
They enjoyed their last session together making
christmas decorations and making iced reindeer biscuits.

Our Last Swimming Session

Kia Ora all

Over the last 4 weeks, Room 12 have been participating in swimming lessons at the Tawa School pool and today was their final session! We must say a huuuuuge thank you to the Easyswim instructors. They did a fantastic job to accommodate all the different abilities within the class.

Room 12 had a blast today learning water safety skills - take a look at the photos below : )

Miss Roberts Visits Zealandia

I have always wanted to visit Zealandia and what better time to do it! If you haven't been, I would definitely recommend it. As you know, Room 12's inquiry this term is looking at NZ native birds. I was lucky enough to see takehe, shags, kaka, bellbirds, robins, saddleback, stitchbirds, fantail, tui and kereru all within their natural habitats. My favourite was the saddleback - they have a very loud machine-gun like call.

Here I am with a takehe - only 250 of these left!

Room 12 Calendar Scavenger Hunt

It was chaos today as Room 12 wildly searched the room for yellow question cards. Each card asked a question that related to either time or the calendar. The race was on!

Investigating our NZ birds!

Kia Ora everyone.

Week one of Term 4 over and we are already well into our new inquiry 'All Birds Welcome'. Room 12 students have been really enthusiastic and it is amazing to hear some of the knowledge they have already.

We began the inquiry by heading outside with our hands over our ears. This was a strange experience for all of us! We came back to the classroom and a great discussion began about what surroundings we would normally hear. We began to think about birds and questioned whether we would be bothered or not if we couldn't hear them.

 Have you got any great NZ native bird books at home to share? Spotted any articles in the newspaper that we might find useful? We would love for you to bring them in. Also, if you know of someone in the community who might be able to speak to us about NZ native birds please get in contact.

 Below you'll find Room 12 sorting or classifying a range of New Zealand bird images into groups of their choice. A few non-native birds were included to make things tricky! No group sorted their images in the same way. We all had a look at each others work when we were done.

Milan, Tayler, Lucy, and Sophie sorted their images by how common they are. 

JJ, Jake, Joshua and Bhavik sorted their images by what birds they thought were native and non native. 

Vedika, Rebekah, and Trinisha sorted their images by the colour of the birds 

Harry, Jozef, Marwan and Ian sorted theirs by the size of the birds. 

Flynn, Hopoate, Sophia and Liam sorted their images into alphabetical order. 

Emma, Calla, Daniella and Kiah sorted their images in a range of ways, based on looks, native, non-native, and size. 

Our Beautiful Calendar Art!

Check out our calendar art masterpieces! We loved how each one came out so different.  If you would like to see them in person, pop into the office at school. 

Fun with the letter K

Room 12 had some fun creating an Educreations video during handwriting time about writing the perfect K. We found it tricky handwriting on the ipad but this helped us talk about what a perfect K looked like. Have a look at what we created..