International Evening Meals

Bringing the world to NBC! On Tuesday we had an international evening with our school community. 

Each of our parents contributed a meal for the evening and they were all spectacular. 

Here is what our Room 9 table of Brazil had: 

Brazilian French toast
Brigideiros (chocolate truffles)
Pao de queijo: Cheese Bread
Coxinhas: chicken and cheese deep fried
Galinhada: Chicken and rice
Chocolate Carrot Cake:
Sonho: Doughnut
Rice Pudding
Brazilian Pizza
Brazilian Toast
Bolo de coco (coconut cake)
Salsa

ASB GetWise Visit

On Thursday we had Jeff in the class from ASB GetWise which focuses on financial literacy for children. We talked about identifying needs and wants and learning to save. Learning these things at a young age can help set us up for the future. 

                                         

International Evening Preparation- Brazil!

We have been learning about Brazil because it is our International Evening country focus that we will be sharing in Week 6. Each class is focusing on one/two countries as we are bringing the world to NBC. 

So far we have looked at researching about the food, the Amazon Rainforest, native animals and music. We were even lucky enough to have Ana (Tristan's Mum) to come and talk to us about her experiences and knowledge being from there. 

We look forward to learning more to share in Week 6! 

Softball

On Wednesday afternoons we are learning to play Softball. Last week we started with learning how to catch and using getting used to the glove. This week we began to have a go at batting. We learnt to stand with our feet steady straight on to the ball, our hands together at the bottom of the bat and from our shoulder through making a swing. We had some fantastic hits over the fielders! 

Educational Minecraft

 Today we were lucky to have Howard in to show us the wonders that the educational version of Minecraft has to offer. We had challenges to complete using coordinates, Māori language, spotting the wonders of the world, and many more. 

Canterbury Sports Action

Room 9 Koru Art

Duffy Day- Room 9

Reward Day Fun!

 

In Room 9 we achieved our class goal of 900 points on class dojo. We chose to have a pyjama and toy day to celebrate our positive behaviour. 

Monday Math Stories by Tapatoru and Tapawha Rite

Room 9 Virtues Certificates

 

Well done to Xavier and Stella for receiving the virtues certificates for being kind this week. Keep up the great work! 

Talk to type tool

In Room 9 for writing, we have been learning to use the talk to type tool on google docs. We have been using it to publish our stories. Here are some ways which it has helped our learning: 

• To use and know our punctuation because we have to read out what it is for it to type for example to get a full stop we have to say "full stop". 
• To speak clearly and slowly when presenting. 
• To re-read over our work to spot any mistakes or to add detail. 
• To group our ideas using paragraphing. 

Stay tuned for some screen castify videos to show you how it works. 

Musician Reid shares his guitar!

This afternoon in Room 9 for sharing time, Reid bought in his guitar. Reid was able to teach us all about the strings, their names, and the different sounds they make. We were also lucky enough to have him play some songs he has been learning to us.

Here are some other facts we found out:

• When Reid played each cord the tune changed from high to light from the top to bottom cords. 
• That the sheets of music look hard to read. 
• He used the same 3 fingers to change cords. 
• 1, 2 and 3 numbers on the music sheet represented which finger to use. 
• There are six strings on the guitar. 

Rocket Maths

Room 9 showing teamwork in their math groups today completing their number rocket track to begin our lesson.

Joyful Virtue

This week our virtue focus was joyful. We created our own mini booklets filled with things that make us feel joyful. To come together and share our ideas we created our Room 9 poster of the books. There were some lovely ideas shared such as family, friends, flowers, smiles, laughter, and plenty more. 

Room 9 Space Writing

Room 9 Astronaut Art

Room 9 Character Descriptions

In Room 9 we have also been learning how to write character descriptions. Check out some of our writing and google drawings above.

Room 9 Inquiry

Yesterday we focused on positive talk as a way of calming our emotions. We completed the What I Like About You activity. Check out these smiles when we presented them to each other.

Room 9 Math Work

We have been exploring movement and direction concepts in the context of programming a robot to move. They have begun developing sets of instructions to accomplish tasks, focusing on the use of right, left, forward, backwards and quarter turns.

Today we worked in pairs using codes we have been learning to create a set of instructions for each other to explore by being the robot. We got to see in action the difference between movement and direction.

Pictured below is Mackenzie instructing robot Lucy to successfully end up at her chosen treasure point.