A Lovely First Day Back for Miss Roberts

Hello all!

After a couple of weeks in the USA and another few recovering from surgery, it is lovely to be back. I had a wonderful time overseas enjoying weather that required just a single layer of clothing. 

Today was a day focused on settling in again to those old routines. Room 12 worked wonderfully in teams on an oral language activity called 'See, Run, Do'. 'See-ers' looked carefully at an image, 'runners' were told by the 'see-ers' what they saw, and 'doers' had to draw what the 'see-ers' were told. It involved a lot of good communication, team work and self control not to peek at the picture!

Here are a few of the results:

For maths this term, our focus from now is fractions. That means finding fractions of shapes and sets. This new topic provides a good excuse to eat cake and work on cutting it into fractions. You might also like to enjoy a lolly or two and share them in halves or quarters, or if your feeling hungry, eat the whole lot!  Halves and quarters is where we will begin next week to refresh our memories. From there we will move onto others. 

Have a lovely weekend! 

Miss Roberts

Room 12 Bake ANZAC Biscuits

Upon reading a School Journal article about ANZAC biscuits, Room 12 learnt the origins of these delicious treats. The next day Room 12 got to bake their very own using a recipe that made a single biscuit. This meant we only had one chance to ensure we used the correct amount of all the ingredients or we might have spoiled our own biscuit!

Check out a few pictures below: 

Redwood Remembers the ANZACS

Pukeko's inquiry this term revolves around WW1, and it is off to a roaring start! It has been wonderful to see so many children enthusiastic to share artefacts and information they've found out about ancestors that fought.

Last week, Room 12 focused a lot of their learning on the question - What is ANZAC day?

We've been learning about the procedure of a Dawn Service, poppies, and the tough times the ANZACS faced at ANZAC Cove. You will find some pictures below of Room 12 acting out the landing and being faced with armed men, steep cliffs and ridges using the largest hill we could find in the playground. We had to visualise and imagine the hill being much larger! We even experimented using balls of paper to find out whether it were easier to fire ammunition up hill versus down hill to help us understand the difficult situation the ANZACs were in. 

Redwood School finished the first week of the term with a moving service to remember the ANZACS in front of our Fields of Remembrance. 

Welcome Back to Term 2

Term 1 was a fantastic term full of new challenges and experiences. Students have already grown hugely in independence and have adapted well to new routines and expectations. 

Thank you to all family members who attended the learning conferences. Teachers are very lucky to have parents who are enthusiastic to be involved in their children's learning. 

Below are a few photos from last term. No doubt this term will bring just as much creativity, teamwork and FUN! : ) 

Boys enjoying Wheels Day 

* Girls enjoying wheels day 

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Hamish Shaves for a cure!

Year 4 Redwood student Hamish, bravely shaved all his hair off during our whole school assembly on Friday. He raised over a whopping $600 for Leukaemia and blood cancer! Room 12 couldn't believe their eyes as his hair fell to the floor. Well done Hamish! 

Kia ora all,

The school year is underway and I wish to extend a warm welcome to all the parents of caregivers of Room 12 children this year. I hope you all had a relaxing break and managed to get out and enjoy the amazing (albeit unusual) sunshine!

It has been lovely to meet many of you already and look forward to sharing Room 12's learning with you through this blog. The blog will be regularly updated with class happenings, daily photos through our instagram, and other useful information. I therefore encourage you to follow us by email (to the right), that way, you will be informed via email when there are any new posts.

The 23 Room 12's have had a fantastic start. We are all getting to know one another and have been polishing up our RED behaviours.

Enjoy the coming long weekend.

Miss Caitlin Roberts

I was lucky to spend two weeks in the beautiful coromandel. Room 12, where did you
 travel to this summer?