Teach The Teacher

 Harry taught the class how to make a paper box.

Teach The Teacher

Teach The Teacher

Today Jessica and Chloe showed us a presentation they had made about Ancient Egypt. The girls had many facts about Egypt and the life of the ancient Egyptians.  You can watch the presentation below.

Chloe's Presentation

Cade's Presentation

Finlay's Presentation

Jessica's Presentation

Rosie's Presentation

Cullen's Presentation

Lily's Presentation

Dojo Point Winners

Well done to this week's Dojo Point winners: 
Rosie, Carolyn and Jessica!

Celebration

Well done to Brodie who received a certificate at the school assembly today. She received it for challenging herself to persevere and demonstrating a growth mindset.

Dojo Point Winners

Well done to this week's Dojo Point winners: 
Rosie, Jessie and Nolan!

Maths Trick

On Friday Brodie and Carolyn demonstrated a maths trick. 

Nolan started with the last two digits of a phone number he knew. The girls then asked him to perform some calculations by adding, subtracting and multiplying numbers on a calculator. The answer he got was nine. That was the same number that Brodie had written on a piece of paper and given to another student to hold before they began the trick.

Teach The Teacher

Today Ellie and Rosie showed us the reaction that happens when you add Mentos to a bottle of Diet Coke. Watch the video below to see the results.

Dojo Point Winners

Well done to this week's Dojo Point winners: 
Jessica, Rosie and Lily!

Celebration

Well done, Samantha.  In the holidays Sam won 4 ribbons and a medal when she competed in a national Irish Dancing competition in Wellington.

Celebration

Well done, Henry. In the holidays he won 4 gold medals in a swimming competition.

Dojo Point Winners

Well done to the Dojo Point winners from Week 10: 
Cade, Nolan & Rosie!

Polish Wycinanki

Room 17 had a go at some advanced paper cutting.
Wycinanki is a traditional Polish folk art. The cutouts were used by Polish peasants to decorate their houses.

Teach The Teacher

 Today Isabelle and Lily taught the class how to make a 3-D paper apple or strawberry. These will be hung on a tree next week.

Basic Facts

Our class average for the Friday basic facts test was a new high score of 90!

Dojo Point Winners

Well done to the Dojo Point winners for this week:
Nolan, Rosie and Lily!

See you soon

Today we said goodbye to Gina who is moving with her family to Christchurch.
Gina has been a valued member of the class. Her behaviour is fantastic and she tries her best with everything she does. We wish Gina well and hope she has a wonderful time and makes some great new friends.

I hope we will see you soon :)

Maths

Today we found out that Room 17 gained places in a maths competition.


The Matific Australian and New Zealand Maths Championship ended last week and our class gained places: the Year 3s coming 8th and the Year 4s coming 6th. This is against all the competing schools in Australia and NZ. Well done! Room 17 completed more than 7,000 maths challenges in the two weeks of competition.

A special mention to Brodie and Rosie who earned more than 1100 stars each.

Break Out

On Friday, Room 17 attempted a Breakout. There were a series of puzzles to solve to try and unlock a box that held the key to defeating imaginary aliens. Students had to think hard, work together as a group, read a map, solve puzzles, read invisible ink and think some more.

Teach The Teacher

On Friday, Finlay taught the class how to make a thermal fan.

It works because the sun heats the black tube which heats the air inside the tube. The heated air rises and turns the fan. Cool air moves into the tube and is then heated and the process repeats. 

Dojo Point Winners

Well done to the Dojo Point winners for this week:
Jessica, Rosie and Nolan!

Book Character Parade

Here are the lovely characters from Room 17!

Teach The Teacher

 Today for Teach The Teacher Isabelle and Sam taught the class some words from the Samoan language. We learned how to count to 31 and some basic words. They worked with the whole class and then took small groups. Great job, girls!

Tinker Time

This week for Tinker Time we had the Makey Makey kit in our class. This was lots of fun!
Students used a variety of objects connected to the Makey Makey kit to make things happen on a computer.

Performers

Last Friday a group of students performed a dance at the Middle School assembly. Mrs Giam captured a clip of the girls.

Dojo Point Winners

Well done to the Dojo Point winners for this week:
Nolan, Rosie and Jessica!

Stu Duval

Today Stu Duval came to school to talk to us for Book Week. Stu is an author, storyteller and artist. 
His website is http://studuval.co.nz/ and you can see some videos of him cartooning there.

 First, he showed us a little bit about how to draw cartoons from a letter of the alphabet or a number between 1 and one million.

Then Stu entertained us by drawing a picture and telling a story called Rat Island.

Dojo Point Winners

Well done to the Dojo Point winners for last week:
Jessica, Lily, Brodie and Nolan!

Celebration

Well done, Lily. She received multiple certificates from her gymnastics club as well as performing to a high standard in the school gymnastic team. Way to go!

Celebration

Well done, Lucas. He received a certificate at our whole school assembly on Friday. He has made great progress in Reading this year.

Farewell Tony

On Friday we said farewell to Tony, a valued member of our class. He received a certificate at our school assembly, a Sunnyhills pen and a calico bear signed by all the class.

Dojo Point Winners

Well done to the Dojo Point winners for this week:
Gina, Jessica and Sam!

Celebration

Well done to Lucas who was awarded the Player Of The Day trophy for his soccer team in the weekend. 

Teach The Teacher

On Monday Regan demonstrated an experiment to the class. It involved milk, food colouring and dishwashing liquid. 

Dojo Point Winners

Well done to the Dojo Point winners for this week:
Jessica, Rosie and Sonia!

Dojo Point Winners

Well done to the Dojo Point winners for this week:
Gina, Rosie and Sonia!

Tinker Time

For Tinker Time this week, we are using pearler beads to create pixilated art. Students are creating some imaginative designs by placing the small beads on a frame. The beads are ironed to melt them together.