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. 

Best Reward Ever!

 Today we got to make forts out of blankets and have a pyjama day. We had this special day because we earned a reward  by listening, finishing our work, focusing on our work, sitting on the mat, and earning dojo points by being in the right place at the right time.

It was amazing to do our learning in our forts. We used our blankets, desks and chairs to make forts, some of us combined our blankets together to create a mega fort. 

How do you celebrate in your class?

    

John the Baptist

Kia Ora,

in Room 8 we have been learning about who John the Baptist was and what his mission was. We learned that he was the last Prophet before Jesus and that he baptised people.

See below some of our inside out activities describing John the Baptist.

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.