What Makes a Good Leader

Today we were practising being a good leader. A good leader makes sure all the group can participate in the moves when we are doing P.E.

Golden Chair Sharing

Taine is sharing his writing to the rest of the writing group. We do this to get feedback and so we can steal ideas for our own writing.

Working Together

We have been working in groups to make beautiful pictures. First we sketched in pencil, then we got feedback and made a change to improve our picture. After that we used crayons to colour it in and lastly we chose a variety of dye colours to finish our pictures off. They look very colourful.

Week 9

Welcome to the last full week of the term! A big thank you to all the parents and whanau who came along to support Miro on Friday when they took their assembly. The children always appreciate seeing you in the audience. This will be the last week for both spelling and Maths flash card homework as next week is so short. We are continuing with position and orientation in our Maths Action Stations. The children are very excited about making maps for each other to follow so that their friends can find the 'treasure'. We will be sending home a bag of reading books for some children to read in the holidays, if you don't want any sent home please let us know by Thursday. Some children will not be getting any books from school as they can read library books that will interest them. Enjoy your last full child free week so you can get all your shopping done!

Photos from Miro's assembly on Friday

A visit from Mr McKenzie

We were lucky enough to have Hamish's dad come and talk about the medals he has and the medal he has just been awarded for serving 21 years in the police force. Thanks for visiting Sergeant McKenzie.

Working Together

We are improving our group work by working cooperatively to complete a picture. When we have finished our pencil sketch we will ask for feedback so that we improve our work.

Week 8

Welcome to the 2nd last full week of the term! This week we have been working in groups to produce a picture together. This allows the children plenty of opportunities to practise the skills they have been learning such as how to solve problems and come to solutions that keep everyone happy.
In Maths this week we are working on using skip counting and multiplication to solve problems. The children have been working hard learning their basic facts and they are all make great progress, so well done for encouraging and helping them to pass these.
Miro is taking assembly on Friday so please come along as it will be the last assembly we will take this year.
Have a great week.

Painting, painting, painting!

Here we are painting our games ready for our Fun Day.

Making an Improvement

Robson and Will are showing where they have made an improvement to their game.

Giving Feedback

Keeley and Emily are giving Hannah feedback on her game so that she can make an improvement to it.

Week 7

It is amazing how fast the term is flying by. It's hard to believe that we are in week seven of the term already! The children are really enjoying making and refining their cardboard games. They are giving each other feedback and making an improvement based on that feedback. 

We have also been working hard on how to work together to be a successful group. The children were surprised at how many groups that they belong to. 

In Maths this week we are looking at continuing and creating patterns. The children are using numbers and shapes to make the patterns.

Joining the chain gang

We have been practicing ways to spring while being in a group.

Continue the pattern

We have been continuing a pattern with just one variable.

Week 6

Welcome to another busy week.  We are right into our design and construction Inquiry.  The students of Rawe are really excited to be working together to design and create their cardboard games.  We have based a lot of our design ideas on the work of ' Caine' - Caine's Arcade. There is a really interesting YouTube clip on this boy's cardboard arcade in America.  A great story that we were very inspired by.  Thank you to all of those lovely parents that have donated cardboard boxes. We have quite enough now to complete all of our creations.  With this crazy weather we are having at the moment some children are coming to school with a little less clothing than they need.  Can you please check that your child has a jersey/jacket, just in case the weather chops and changes. Have a great week :)

Here are some of our cardboard games under construction.

Finishing the missing half

We have been learning how to complete the shape by copying half of a picture.

John Parsons visit on Monday

 Mr Parsons talked to us about internet safety and how to be behave online. We learned that compassion is contagious.

A visit from Nick Tansley

On Friday we had a visit from Nick Tansley of the Morgan Foundation. He was talking about creating a preditor free Rakiura. He was very entertaining. It was sad to here about all the endangered and extinct birds.

The planning stage.

Here we are working through the design process. After making our paper planes we refined them and tried to make them fly further.

Boxes Needed!

On Monday we will begin our planning and construction of our cardboard games.  If you have any old boxes at home we would love to have them.  Also, we are working our way through tissues very quickly, if you are able to contribute a box to the class we would be very appreciative.  Thank you for your help with this.

Week 5

Wow we are half way through the term already! After a couple of very busy weeks we are all happy and settled back to our work in Rawe.  We are very proud of our ongoing achievements with Math Whizz, with several of our students taking out last weeks progress certificates.  Keep up the great work guys!  It is also lovely to see all of our children out and about with their sun hats on.  We should now all be ready for when the sun decides to come out again.  If you haven't already done so, can you please check with your child whether they have their sun hat at school ready to go. Thank you.  We are now working in groups to plan, make, fly and refine paper planes as part of our Inquiry.  We have been having a lot of great conversations about 'why' our planes have/have not flown well and what changes we could make to them to get them flying further. By the end our the week your child should have posted on their own blog, a picture and blurb of their paper plane.  Check them out and ask your child about the refinements that they made.

Sharing our Writing

Today we have been sharing our stories with a buddy so that we can give feedback to each other and make our work even better.

Sorting and Classifying Shapes

Today in our math workshops we looked at similarities and differences between different 2D shapes.  We learnt about what an Edge is and what a Vertice is. Do you know how many vertices a circle has? We do!

Shapes Shapes Shapes!

Sebastian has been working on a shape creation. Here is his camp fire creation, which is made up of a triangle, a circle and a trapezoid.

Week 4

What a busy week we have this week! Pet Day on Monday and the Zone Soccer Tournament on Wednesday. You might find that the children need a bit of a rest by the weekend.
We are working on the technology part of our inquiry this week as we see an opportunity and design a solution for this. We are making paper planes and seeing which one can fly the furtherest. You might see some amazing designs coming home.
It is great to see that so many children have their drink bottles and brain food at school as this makes it easy for them to eat and drink when they feel the need to have something.
We have been working hard on our fractions of shapes at Maths time. We know that some shapes can't be halved and that thirds of a circle is hard to find!

We had a great day on Monday. The children really enjoyed all the fun activities at the Agri kids competition. You can see Finn P about to toss a gumboot into a sack. Way to go Finn!

Technology in Action

As part of our inquiry we are planning, creating, testing and refining paper planes. 

GEOMETRY MANIA!

Today we began looking at shapes and structures in our Math Action Stations. Some of us have started to create 'Shape Pizzas' while others began to build their 3D structures. I wonder how many different shapes we will use?

Spelling

We practise our spelling each day. Here Abigail is reading out the words for Harvey and Keeley to write on the window. "I like writing on the window" said Keeley.

Market Day Fun!

Here we are enjoying the sunshine and supporting the senior students with their camp fundraiser. We had crazy hair, crazy food and lots of crazy games! Thanks very much seniors - we have had a wonderful afternoon 😃

Making a house for a mouse!

Rawe are starting to look at construction as part of our Inquiry. Here we are designing our Mouse House as part of our Action Stations this morning.

Dream Weaver Visit

Today we were lucky enough to have the Dream Weaver come and tell us some stories. She has been visiting as part of our inquiry by belonging to a group. The group she belongs to is one of story tellers. Thanks for sharing your wonderful stories and songs Dream Weaver, we loved them!

What a busy week Rawe have been having!

We have been looking at the groups that we belong to at school and outside of school. We have also been looking at groups in the community that help us, such as the Police, Government, Council, Ambulance Service and First Aide people and lots of others.

We have been looking at our Kotahitanga "Show caring towards others" and have talked about how that would look, sound and feel in Rawe. Our Big Books and Poems have helped us with this.

Well done to all of our students that are organised with their sun hats. All children are expected to have these ready for next week, so we are all ready to be SunSmart when the sunny days come back! There are a couple of students who still need to find/get a sun hat.

Place Value Building

We have been building with the place value blocks and then adding up their value. Some add to more than 1,000!

Mrs Kerslake is having a go at posting on the class Blog this week. Jamie has been teaching me all about it.

We are looking at groups we belong to outside of school. Here we are making our posters about our groups.

A Visit from Alli McKenzie

Today we had Alli McKenzie from the University of Otago Teachers College come and demonstrate a P.E. session based on springing and leaping. We really appreciate her sharing her expertise with us.

E Book Sharing

Today we had six visitors from Kowhai who showed us their e books. They had great examples for us to see. We enjoyed seeing all the planning that the children had to do before they published their stories. Thanks Kowhai!

First Day

Here is Mrs Kerslake helping Ricky with his e-book.

Giving to our buddies

We have been making pop up cards and giving them to our buddies. As you can see both the giver and receiver enjoyed this.

Week 10

What a great production we have had. A big thank you to all the parents who helped behind the scenes both before the big night and on Monday evening helping to get the children ready. I'm sure that you will all agree that the children were amazing and all their hard worked really showed. As this is the last week of the term I hope everyone has a happy, safe and warm holiday and enjoy having your wonderful children home for the next two weeks.
Here are some photos of the jellyfish taken in the dressing room backstage. The children have their glow in the dark stickers and face paint on.