Tennis - By Ella and Haylee

Haylee and Ella made this Podcast all by themselves today. They wrote their script, recorded their voices, inserted photos and chose a jingle. Aren't they clever!!!

We will be having Tennis lessons every Friday for the next 4 weeks.

Free Choice Writing. Focus: Verbs & Adjectives

On Thursday Room 1 children had free choice writing. They could write about anything they wished but they had to use exciting adjectives and verbs to help describe their ideas.

Brmm! Smash! I slam my door. Crunch, crunch, the sand squishes under my feet. I scamper over to the wavy beach. "Haylee you have to put on your togs" my mum shouted. So I rushed back to zip them on. "Finally" I said. I sprinted back across the sandy beach. Splash! I dived into the salty beach. I grabbed my dark blue boogie board and sailed along the wavy water.
By Haylee Gardiner.

Oral Language

In Room 1 we do a variety of Oral Language activities during the week including sharing news, Mystery Bag (open ended questions), Maori Language, buzz groups, donut speeches, and listening activities. We focus on making sure we are speaking clearly and being good listeners. We discussed exactly what a good listener and a good speaker does.

Today we shared our news in buzz groups and then came back as a class. Haylee, Jamie, Piper, Liam, Chloe and Josh then presented their news to the whole class.

Have a listen to their exciting weekends:

Problem Solving

On Friday we did a range of problem solving activities for Maths.

One of our activities involved estimating. We found out this means to think hard and make a sensible guess.

Our problem was: How many cubes does it take to make a 1 metre tall tower?

We estimated:

Marcus - 15 Kathryn - 60

Taine - 30 Matthew - 60

Haylee - 50 Liam - 50

Jarrad - 10

Then we measured and found the actual answer.

Results: It took 54 cubes to make a 1metre tall tower. None of us were correct but Liam and Haylee were the closest.