We used shapes and lines in Google Draw to create an illustration of our sea creature
My sea creature is a asteroidea
My sea creature has five arms
My sea creature can stick on rocks
My sea creature has no brains or blood.
Welcome back to all our families, especially in Room 6. This year we are 21 children in a Year 3 and 4 class. We were very excited to see our friends again after a long time on holiday. We have been quite tired in the afternoons because it has been very warm and we are not used to thinking so much!
We have been discussing ways we can the best learners possible this year. Our Whakatauki (Class motivational phrase) is “He Waka Eke Noa – We are all in this together.” We like this phrase because we we will work together to achieve success for all of us. We all have different strengths which we can use to help others reach their potential. We will all row in the same direction towards our goal of being proud of our achievements this year and how we have gone about reaching those goals for ourselves and others.
This term we will be focusing on Te Atua God in our Religious Education programme. The main idea is the Trinity – what it is and what it shares with us. We will learn that that we are invited into the loving relationship of Father, Son and Holy Spirit. As it is a Mystery, we will look at and create our own symbols that represent the Trinity.
As a class we will be joining other schools from around the country by signing up to Young Ocean Explorers. We will become more aware of the importance of disposing of our plastics and rubbish sensibly as we know these make their way into our waterways and oceans. The effects they have on sea plants and sea creatures can turn our pristine marine reserves into unhealthy environments where habitats are destroyed and animals suffer. We will be collecting rubbish and plastics from around our school for 21 days during March.
Here you can see us beginning to paint our backdrop for our healthy and unhealthy ocean habitat:
Today we shared our updated blog profiles for 2025. We were excited to be able to click the blog links on the left to take a look at our individual Room 6 blog profiles.
Our class have been working on creating Christmas animations using Google Slides. We have worked very hard to complete our animations. Here is Evan’s animation. He was the first to complete his animation and is very proud to share the story of Jesus’ birth.
What a great year we have had in Room 6. We have had two new friends join us who have fitted in very quickly and shared their ideas and personalities with us. We have expereienced many new things and completed tasks that at times seemed tedious (like spelling and Time tables!!) but we have all shown determination and perseverance and been successful.
Recently we celebrated our Graduation Mass, where we farewelled our Year 8 students, who are going off to College next year. We will miss them as we have known them for a long time. we wish them everything of the best:
Then we shared the Christmas Story with our families and community. This was a highlight for us, even though we had lots of practises, because we confidently sang all the songs and participated in this special concert, celebrating the birth of our Saviour, Jesus Christ.
We wish everyone who reads our a blog, a very Happy and Holy Christmas. Enjoy the holidays, stay safe and we’ll see you back next year.
What do you think a change of heart means? Sometimes we think it means when someone changes their mind about something that has happened. Perhaps like when we’re at school and we notice we have left someone out of a game or group. We always need to remember to think further than just our needs and put ourselves in someone else’s shoes.
One day it might happen to YOU!
This is the message in Rm 6’s movie for this years Manaiakalani Film Festival.
Enjoy!
Today is the last day of Term 2. We have been reflecting this term on ‘Friendships’ and what it means to be a true and loyal friend as well as what it should look like, sound like and feel like:
We also created some freeze frames on what ‘Friendship’ is NOT!
This theme of ‘friendship’ ties in with our processed Drama book, Fox by Margaret Wild. We are experiencing the close relationship between Dog (an Australian dingo) and an injured Magpie. We have painted some pictures about the ‘setting’ and what we think the bush fire and hot ash might look like. These form the back drop to our new space and we think they look pretty amazing:
Along with our paintings, we have written character observations of either Dog or Magpie as we met them in the story:
Description of Dog
I chose Dog because he has a good heart and a pure soul. I also feel bad for him because Magpie was so mean and rude to him. Dog was just trying to help her but Magpie was just thinking of herself by being mean and hurtful towards Dog. I understand that she was in pain but the way she spoke to Dog was not kind and not the way you say “thank you” to someone who saves your life. Being a dingo in Australia, Dog could have killed her and eaten her up but he took pity on Magpie and offered her a place to stay in his cave. He is a hero.
Nanda
Description of Magpie
I chose Magpie because I felt sorry that she was in agony because her wing was burnt. She seemed to be frustrated and very rude towards Dog who had just saved her life! She realises that without a wing, she can’t fly and then she is at the mercy of other animals that might want to eat her. She just wants to get away from life and Dog and be alone in the “shadow of the rocks” where she can “melt into the blackness.”
Kava
As we begin our holidays, we wish everyone a happy and restful holiday with our families.
As we near the end of our first term for 2024, we reflect on some of our learning and shared experiences. We spent the first couple of weeks discussing and responding to our new whakatauki or motivational proverb “Reach for the Stars – Whawhai atu mo nga whetu.” We know we can achieve whatever we decide on because we have the suppot of our whanau, teachers and one another. We are looking forward to finding out how many stars we can reach this year.
We also discussed, shared and then voted on what we wanted our class to look like, sound like and feel like and like Nanda, we all signed our Class Treaty for the year, promising to try to follow the rules:
At the end of February, we were lucky enough to have a day’s sailing down at the Panmure Basin. We were very excited but also a bit nervous as none of us had sailed before. Once we put our life jackets on and got a few tips from Steph about launching our boats and using the sail and rudder, we were off. The weather was perfect and we had the best day.
In this last week of term we designed and created an outfit out of recycled materials as it was part of our Wearable Waste week. During our Young Ocean Explorers learning, we learned about the devastation litter has on our oceans and the sea life in it. We decided to do our bit by bringing recyclable litter to school to upcycle. We worked very hard on our creations and presented our outfits to the rest of the school at our Fashion Show:
Have a happy and safe holiday, to all our families. See you back next term.
Today we were learning to be observant when we see different media. We watched a video about a house hippo and thought about what we already know about hippos. We asked ourselves ” Did this make sense?”
Next we looked at different images and talked about why we thought they were real or fake. This photo tricked us. Do you think it is real or fake?
Leave your answer in the comments with your reason why.
Different but the same…Check out Room 6 playing knuckle bones around the world!