End of Term Party

Dear Families/Whanau,

To celebrate the end of term room 17 will be having a class party on Wednesday 24^th September. This will involve each child bringing a small amount of food for a shared lunch.

For the shared lunch please provide a small plate of food. This will be a lunch that we eat during class time so please ensure your child brings something to share at the start of the day. Also, a mix of sweet and savory plates would be appreciated.

Some other reminders:

-  It is the George Street Normal School Sports day on Thursday. We will be catching buses to the Caledonian for this event. Please ensure your child has a packed lunch with some extra food on this day and that they are dressed appropriately.

- Have a lovely and restful holiday.

Under the Sea Wearable Arts on the News.

Over the last few weeks we have been designing and making costumes of sea creatures for the Wearable Arts. Yesterday we had a performance to show off all of our costumes. Lucy was an octopus and made onto the news. She is famous!

http://www.dunedintv.co.nz/content/pupils-showcase-wearable-sea-creations

Here is a photo of our class playing instruments. At the moment we are going to Room 11 every Wednesday for cultural swap. Mrs McCully has been teaching us how to play the beat to a song called the Lion Sleeps Tonight and the One Man Band on all different types of instruments. We have been learning to play the drums, the shakers, the triangle, the slapper, a whistle and a cow bell.

Bucket FIller Video

Here is a copy of our video from assembly last week

Middle Team Speech Competition

Well Done to Luka and Thanuja for getting into the semi final for the Middle Team Speech Competition.

They both did a FANTASTIC job of reciting their poems. Lukas was great at using expression and Thanuja was really good at making eye contact.

Well Done to Luka who has made it into the school FINALS!!!! He will say his poem next Thursday in from of the WHOLE SCHOOL! 

Our Assembly

Hi Room 17,

I hope you are enjoying the snow today and keeping warm!

Tolday at school I was going to give you the words to the song and rap that we need to learn for our assembly. Can you please have a look at these on here and start learning them.

      BUCKET FILLER RAP 

I'm a Bucket Filler (Echo)

Each and every day (Echo)

Kind things I do (Echo)

Kind things I say. (Echo)

I do my best (Echo)

Not to ever dip (Echo)

I say "I'm sorry" (Echo)

If I ever slip. (Echo)

When I'm feeling bad (Echo)

bout what you did (Echo)

Try to understand (Echo)

I use my lid. (Echo)

If someone's getting dipped (Echo)

I make a new friend (Echo)

By using my lid (Echo)

To make the dipping end. (Echo)

We are bucket fillers. (Echo)

We try not to dip. (Echo)

We use our lids (Echo)

When other people slip. (Echo)

If we follow these rules (Echo)

And do all three (Echo)

Our buckets stay full (Echo)

Hooray for me and you! (Echo)

Hooray for me and you! (Echo)

Hooray for me……….

……….AND YOU! (Echo)

BUCKET FILLER SONG

Transformations = changes

We have been learning about transformations in Mathematics. 

Today we made under the sea posters which show translations (slides), reflections (flips) and rotations (turns). 

Here are Sophie and Raghad's poster and Thanuja and Tarun's poster. 

Can you spot the transformations?

Cross Country 2014

Wow! What a stunning day we had today for the cross country. The children had a marvellous time! I was very proud of their hard work and the effort they made. We even had some star runners that will be going to the Otago Cross Country. Well done Isaac who won his race and Rylee who came third. You two will need to keep training for the Otago race! Cross Country on PhotoPeach

Cross Country

Hi All,

Just a reminder about cross country tomorrow. There is a note coming home tonight with important information regarding this.

Let's hope the weather is like today. You can check the school website to check for a postponement if need be.

Hopefully we will see you there.

Miss Cassidy

Symmetrical Adventure

We are learning about symmetry. We folded different shapes to see if they were the same on both sides. If they were the same that means the shape is symmetrical. If the sides were different then the shape is not symmetrical. Some shapes have one line of symmetry and some have more.

Today we went on a symmetry adventure and took photos of lots of symmetrical and  not symmetrical shapes. See if you can pick the symmetrical and not symmetrical shapes that are in our playground.