Homework has begun!

Hi Parents and Caregivers,

Homework books and homework sheets that specify your child's basic facts rung have been sent away. Students need to paste these small white sheets into their homework books. Our syndicate leader Cherie Arlidge apologises for a mistake in the homework. We thought students would have their Reading Eggs and Mathletics usernames and passwords by now, however this is not the case. We will hopefully (fingers crossed!) have these all ready in within the next couple of weeks. Meanwhile, students can still read every night and practise their basic facts via the link at the top of this blog.

Have a great weekend!

Regards,

Miss Roberts

Student Space.. What is Student Space?

Hi all, 

Some of you may have noticed some tabs beginning to appear at the top of the blog. One of those tabs is 'Student Space'. This tab will take you to the 'Student Space' blog which will be where you will find posts from Room 12 students only related to our current learning. I hope it will became a great space for student voice. 

Miss Roberts 

Week 2 Review

It has been a busy week for Room 12 and so before we knew it the week was over! Students began (and almost completed) statistical investigations this week. The students were split into groups and chose a question based on Room 12 likes and interests. Our investigations included birthdays and favourite shops, teachers, movies and toys. We collected our data using a tally and then drew bar graphs to display our findings.

Room 12 also did some super writing this week. As our current topic is 'Knowing Me, Knowing You', we wrote an informative piece about ourselves. We were learning to write an interesting introduction and use paragraphs to break up our different ideas.

A big highlight this week for Room 12 however was assembly. The first assembly of the year was on Friday and it was Room 12's job, alongside Room 19s, to organise it. We brainstormed what the RED value of Respect looked like, took photos of us showing Respect in different ways, and presented these photos as a powerpoint to the WHOLE school! A big thank you to our big buddies from Room 19 and our super speakers Lucy and Joshua who both did a fantastic job. Lets not forget to mention our IT helper Liam making sure everything was running smoothly behind the scenes!

Paddington this week went home with Liam. Liam has been showing the RED value of Responsibility throughout the week.

Finally, I would like to say a big thank you to those parents who were able to attend the Meet The Teacher evening on Thursday. You helped me learn valuable information about your children that will enable me to ensure they feel comfortable in Room 12 this year.



I hope you are all enjoying this beautiful Sunday afternoon and look forward to seeing you tomorrow,


Miss Roberts

Room 12 works on our BIG JUMP! Our class collectively jumped our way across the entire courtyard.

Week One Review

Week one done and dusted and what an awesome week it has been. We have played human bingo, chain tag, seaweed, toilet tag, and had a tricky hula-hoop race (pictures below). All of these activities, amongst others, have helped us get to know one another this week. Room 12 has also been working on a piece of writing, based on one 'moment' we enjoyed during our holidays. We are looking forward to sharing this writing with you very soon! We have also been working on our spelling, a piece of art, and learning all about statistics. After we gathered data using a tally, we found out Room 12's favourite colour was blue! We then displayed our information using a bar graph. Next week, students will be carrying out their very own investigations about Room 12 using tallies and graphs. 

Finally, Paddington went home this week for the first time with Taylor! Taylor has been a great role model for room 12 this week, exhibiting all RED Learner traits. I look forward to Tayler sharing her adventures with Paddington on Monday. 

I wish you all a very happy weekend,

Miss Roberts 

Sheldon moving through the hula hoop with the help of Jozef.
Teams had to move the hula hoop right around the circle, without letting hands go!

Awesome work!

A big HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Ian and a big thank you to Ian's mum for baking
 a delicious cake!

Hi everyone,

Phew! What a day Room 12 has had and what a beautiful day Wellington put on for the first day back at school. We began the day by choosing our very first 'RED Rockets'. Everyday two RED rockets are chosen and today Daniella and Marwan took on the role. Both did a super job helping me and showing Room 12 what RED learners look like! RED is the name of Redwood School's mascot and stands for learners that are Respectful and Responsible, Engaged and Empowered and Driven to be lifelong learners.

Today we also worked on creating a warm and supportive learning environment by creating our classroom Treaty. After reading the book 'The Tree Hut Treaty' we learnt that a Treaty meant a list of promises and this helped us brainstorm what promises Room 12 would like to make.

Check out the photos below on what else Room 12 got up to!

Room 12 created a learning web. We introduced ourselves and shared our interests. 

Room 12 busy working on the classroom scavenger hunt!

Hei konā mai,

Miss Roberts

Tell Me About Yourself

(Update: There was a little problem with the survey, this is now all fixed!)

Hi Room 12,

Below is a link that will take you to a survey that I have created that will help me learn more about you all. This is super important so that I can make sure you learn the very best in room 12 this year. So click below.. and off you go!

CLICK HERE TO DO THE SURVEY

Hint: A survey is a group of questions that help people find out information about what people do, think and like. We will be learning all about this in maths next week!

Haere Mai to the Room 12 Blog!

Welcome everyone to 2014. 

Three days until school begins and I am so excited to meet you all! I have had an amazing holiday and spent an unforgettable two weeks in the Coromandel with my partner and his family. A highlight was definitely visiting Cathedral Cove. Snorkelling with stingray definitely got my heart pumping.. 

I hope you all have also had a relaxing and fun holiday and look forward to sharing Room 12's learning   and adventures on this blog - comments on posts are welcome! 

See you all very soon,

Miss Roberts

The beautiful Cathedral Cove

Miss Roberts goes snorkelling!