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!