Patience, Persistence and Team-Work

In Room 6 today we had the chance to choose an activity from lots of different things that were laid out. Some of us chose to build things. 

During this time we worked on our patience, team-work and persistence.

 Connie, Logan, Tia and Rylee got their tower they were building very high....

 And then it broke :( but....

 They learned from this and figured out by themselves what they would have to do to make it stand.

Here is the end result- it is taller than all of them, and Miss McLeod didn't help! 

Well done you four, how great that you persisted and kept going!

Book Character Dress Up Day

Today at South Hornby School we celebrated the end of Book Month by having a Book Character Day. We all dressed up as our favourite book character. 

Check out all the exciting characters Room 6 dressed up as, can you guess which character we are?

 We had a day filled with learning where we learned some new characters that we didn't know existed.

                                         

Here is all of Room 6 all together.

                           

The Junior Syndicate came as characters from the Wizard of Oz. 

Tin Man is missing in this photo though.

Logan's Special Find!

This week Logan brought in something very exciting that him and his family found at his house and he brought it to school to show everyone. It is called a Monarch Butterfly. 

The one that Logan found is very big!

We learned that butterfly's don't live for a very long time and that they have the exact same pattern on both sides. Interesting! 

When we look through the magnifying glass we can see the patterns on the wings in more detail.

Paper Mache

In the junior school we have been doing paper mache for art.

We did some prior learning about paper mache before we started so we all knew exactly what we had to do. We learned that we have to rip up paper and use special glue to stick it onto a balloon and then leave it to dry before we do the next layer.

It takes a very long time and we are being very patient and persistent. 

 We like to help each other in Room 6 so, we do this whenever we can! Look at all the helpful people in our class, Miss McLeod is so impressed :)

Can you figure out what we're making?

Assembly

Last week, Lochlan and Tia were super excited to receive a certificate in Assembly 

for all the hard work they've been doing in Room 6! 

Well done Lochlan and Tia! I am so proud of you!

Circles Maths Group

Today in maths the Circles maths group were continuing to learn how to solve addition and subtraction problems using 5 in different ways. We used lots of different materials to help us. 

Look at the strategies we used to help us solve the tricky problems!

Ukelele with Paul

Room 6 have been trying really hard to learn some new songs on the ukelele.

We have been learning to play the cords C, G and F. They are super tricky because our fingers are too little to reach some of the strings, but we keep persevering!

Maori Games with Matua Mike

In Te Reo we have been learning about games. Today Matua Mike taught us a new game with string. It was like a magic trick!

We had to learn the first steps by listening to instructions and watching carefully. Then we tried it ourselves!

In Room 6 we like to help each other when we are stuck, so this is what we did! Ka pai Room 6!

We learned that if we didn't keep our fingers straight up the string would fall off and we would need to start again.
By helping each other, we all managed to copy what Matua Mike showed us. 

At the end he showed us some cool shapes and pictures that he could make with the string, we want to learn how to do one of these next time!

The International Antarctic Centre

On Thursday, the Junior Syndicate was lucky enough to go to The International Antarctic Centre! The Children of Room 6 were very excited all week to learn more about Antarctica and especially penguins! 

Take a look at what we got up to!

Room 6 had lots of fun in The Snow Room. We learnt how cold it is in Antarctica...and we felt it too! We had super warm jackets on to keep us warm, but it was still freezing! 

Dion discovered that it was -13 Degrees when we were in there, brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!

We had fun exploring all over the Antarctic Centre and learning new things about Antarctica! We got to see some real live penguins! The penguins we saw were injured and we learned that they can't survive in the wild.

We also learned lots about The Emperor Penguin. 

Did you know that he is the biggest penguin of all?

Lucas and Logan had fun learning about seals and got to see inside a pretend seals mouth and look at the teeth! They learned that they need sharp teeth so that they can eat penguins to survive.

Ronald McDonald

Today Ronald McDonald came to see the children in the junior syndicate. It was a surprise for the children and they were very excited to see who had come to visit them! Ronald McDonald taught us about road safety. We learned how to cross the road safely. We need to "Stop, Look and Listen!"

 We learned to "Make it Click" song and sung it with him!

The Children thought that Ronald McDonald was hilarious. They helped Ronald remember his road rules as well. It was great to see that the children in the junior syndicate knew so much about road safety! Well done parents!!!! :)

At the beginning, Ronald lost his sock when he was hanging out his washing. The children helped him to find it....it was on his back! Funny! His sock came "alive" and has now come to live with Smiler Sam Bear at South Hornby School.