Room 12 Meet Nibbles. THE Nibbles.

Kia ora everyone!

As you know, Room 12 is working on the change of getting a pet for the classroom, specifically a guinea pig. We read an article about a very brave guinea pig called Nibbles which you can find here. Nibbles lives down the road at Tawa School and survived last year's flood. Little did we know, the story of Nibbles' survival was so good it became a Ready to Read story that was only released a couple of weeks ago! You can listen to it here. Room 12 decided to get in contact with Robyn (Nibbles' mum) to ask a few questions in the hope we might perhaps receive a reply.. which we did from some Year 1s at Tawa Primary. Next thing you knew.. we had THE Nibbles and her rescuer Annette visiting our classroom. Even Mrs Goodin was excited we had a celebrity visitor! Annette helped us answer a few more questions we had and has also given us some things to think about. We are currently working on a proposal for Mrs Goodin and now know we may need to seek evidence to back up our thoughts and ideas from different people.

See our questions, response and photos of the final visit below.

Summer and Shea passing Nibbles carefully 

Room 12's Change Inquiry - What's Happening?

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Easter Fun

Room 12 participated in an easter hunt!...but before any chocolate was consumed, they had to perform a number of physical, literacy and maths challenges found in little plastic eggs. Their last clue provided them with a map of the school and an 'x-marks the spot' clue. It certainly wasn't easy but they did a wonderful job! Today we also recognised people living with epilepsy by taking part in Purple Day. Do you like our moustaches?

Summer, Harper, Hope and Chhung Li hold little chocolate
 eggs which they are about to gift to our buddy class!

For this clue, they had to unscramble a word.
Using the magnetic letters helped! 

"I HAVE TO WHAT??" Xavier laughs at their next task.

Hard at work. How many dots would their be on an 8 sided dice?
This was tricky!

X Marks the spot

Hurrah! Smiles all around for chocolate. 

Lets just say the eggs lasted all of 20 seconds

Year 3/4 Sports Day

The sun was shining and the wind was not blowing. We had a blast at the Year 3/4 Sports Day! Seeing over 500 children from all over Tawa participating in games together was pretty special. Have a look below at some of the fun we had. 

Thoughts are private... words are public.

Kia ora everyone,

Room 12 were given a challenge - to squirt out all the tooth paste from a tube and then put it back in again using a spoon and toothpick. They quickly discovered that it was pretty impossible! We discussed how this task is like the words we say. When we say things that hurt others, they make a big mess and we can't take them back. Saying sorry might help, but it won't take back the hurt that someone feels. Room 12 will remind themselves of this challenge to help them be RED in the classroom and playground.

         

First Day Madness

Kia ora,

We are already into Week 4! Time sure does fly. Check out what we got up to on the first day.. children were in relay teams and had to run and stick 4 post-its on their team member then tag another team member to do the same. The objective was to have fun, cheer on one another and be the first team to have successfully stuck all of their post-its on their team member.  Luckily we didn't have too much wind! Room 12 also got stuck into a classroom scavenger hunt - hunting for pink clues and answering questions. 

Welcome to Room 12!

Kia ora!

A big welcome to the new students of Room 12 this year, their parents and caregivers. I look forward to meeting you all over the coming weeks. I hope you all managed to have a restful Christmas and new year break. The blog is regularly updated so I encourage you to follow us by email (see right of screen) to check what we are up to. We also have a private instagram page #room12redwood.

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As always, if you have any question please feel free to email me caitlinroberts@redwood.school.nz.