Room 12 and Room 19 had the shared responsibility last Friday to host whole school assembly. Seen as it was book week we decided to create our own Running Man video... book week style! Check out it out make sure to share it with friends and family.
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.
Check out the videos below to see what we've been up to! Make sure to enlarge them to full screen by pressing the little square in the right hand corner.
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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!
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.
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.
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.
