Room6 class garden in the making. Hard at work.

Our creative flower arrangements and vegetable creations.

Dress ups and posing with our animals.🐄

Helping out at Ag Day😅

Unusual flower container demonstration

Room6 Calendar Artwork

Term 4 Class Newsletter

Dear Parent/Guardian                          12 October 2015

One more term to go and it’s the final lap. The good weather is on its way (I hope) and this term we have lots to look forward to. I trust that your son/daughter has had a good break and returned to school ready for a new term.

What’s happening in Term4

Indoor displays & Ag day

For the Year Level Section, students complete their displays at school, on Tuesday 13th October. Open items are to be made at home and brought to school on Tuesday morning. Judging will occur after school on Tuesday and the items will then be on display on Wednesday 14th October till 2pm.(Agriculture Day)

Year 5 – 6 students 1) Miniature garden in a shoebox lid

(lined with tinfoil, no plastic or toys. Any structures must be made by the student from, card, match or ice-block sticks or modelling clay)

Sand provided at school

2) Flowers in an unusual container (1, 3, 5 or 7 flowers plus greenery)

3) Vegetable Creation made from vegetables or fruit joined by toothpicks

Open Section

a) Wild Flower arrangement (can be just greenery or dried wild flowers)

b) Nature’s Creatures (creatures made from shells, nuts, wood, leaves,     twigs, berries etc. must be organic with glue or blue tac to stick it                together)

c) Baking: 3 iced or decorated cupcakes or biscuits

• All students must bring to school items (flowers, saucers, shoebox lids etc) to complete the item or items listed for each year level section on the morning of Tuesday 13th October.
• Students who have an animal for Agriculture day do not need to select an item from the Open Section.
• All other students can choose one item from the Open Section (a, b or c) to make at home and bring to school on the morning of  Tuesday the 13th October.

Camp

The overnight camp for Yr5/6 takes place at Lake Karapiro departing school on Tuesday the 3rd November and returning on Thursday the 5th . By now you should have received all the information and forms for camp. A reminder that the cost is $170.Camp fees need to be paid in full at least 2 week prior to departure. Please do let us know if you need to make other arrangements.

Class Release Time (CRT)

Class Release Time is time entitled to staff. Teachers are released from their class for planning, implementation, assessment, evaluation and reporting of a sequential programme for their class. Staff on CRT will be replaced by either a reliever or colleague. Please note that there will be times this term when I will be on CRT out of class as in the past.

Blogs

Please note that our class will be updating our class blog regularly this term to inform parents of our learning and update them on upcoming events so please watch this space.

                                                                                                                            

Genius Hour

This term, we will be introducing Genius Hour in our classroom in the afternoons. Genius Hour allows students to explore their own passions and encourages creativity in the classroom.  It provides students a choice in what they learn during a set period of time during school.  

For more information watch the following clip: What is Genius Hour?

Extension Writing                   

Some students of Room6 will work with Valerie Millington in the mornings, Monday to Wednesdays.

Clothing                                                                              

Term 4 is our sunsafe awareness time.  All students need to have a hat to wear every day.  The best hats are ones that have a brim or a flap that will protect their ears and neck. Students also need to have their shoulders covered i.e. no singlet style tops.

Absences

If children are absent from school, parents MUST phone the absentee line at the school and leave the child’s name, class number, reason for absence and expected date of return to school. Parents delivering or removing children during school time must sign in and out at the office.

Water Bottles

Why should students drink in class? Water lost each day through breathing, sweating and going to the toilet needs to be replaced and adequate fluid intake is essential to good health. Not drinking enough fluid causes dehydration leading to mental and physical effects such as loss of concentration, headaches and irritability. By the time a person is thirsty they are becoming dehydrated. Children rarely drink enough during break times at school and often forget to drink unless reminded. Allowing and reminding students to drink water in class and allowing water bottles in the classroom increases the likelihood that they will drink more and stay hydrated. Please note, only water (no sugar drinks) are allowed at school.

Life Education Trust

The Life Education Mobile Classroom will be at our school from 18th to 24th November and Room6 will be learning why it is important to show empathy towards others and how the choices I make online affect myself and others.

Upcoming Events for this term:

When?	What?	Where?
Tues 13 October	Indoor Displays	School
Wed 14 October	Ag day	School
Fri 23 October	Group Day	Nghinapouri School
Mon 2 November	Ohaupo School Athletics	School
Tues 3,4,5 November	Yr5/6 Camp	Lake Karapiro
Fri 13 November	Lower Waipa Athletics	Te Awamutu
18-24 November	Harold and the Life Education Mobile Classroom	School
Wednesday 16 December	Prize Giving/School Disco	School
Thursday 17 December	End of year (last day of term)	School

If you have any concerns regarding your child’s learning, please feel free to contact me before or after school or contact me via email: bmitchell@ohaupo.school.nz

Kind Regards

Bruce Mitchell

Room 6 Class Teacher

Mrs Wilson's Interview

Pack up time.

Writing Frame Up

World War One                                                                                             

Imagine  if you got trench foot and had to have your feet cut off?.       

       

There are many reasons why  I think we shouldn’t have war and one of them is because too many people die. Why do we still remember the soldiers that went to Gallipoli when it was 100 years back, some may say.

Here are some sad facts about the war: Soldier's feet rotted in winter because it was so wet and muddy,it was called, Trench foot. Eight million horses went to war and only two million came back. In the first few months of  World War 1 one million men and boys had entered the war.Some rats grew up to the size of cats in the war. In winter some trenches looked more like a swamp than a trench.

According to the book,nice day for a war,soldiers died of the colds,fever and bullets.

Would you be able to put up with all of this for your country?.

By Jack H

Sailing

The waves were crashing against the boat. It was like a thunderstorm, it was so loud. It made me want to fall asleep with the noise. The seagulls were squawking and screeching like a honking trumpet. They made me feel relaxed with their trumpeting goose noise. The sails were swaying like mad against the wind. It made me feel excited knowing I was on a sailboat ready for an adventure.

The movement was so strong, it was like bumping against a speedbump on a bike. It made me feel rather annoyed that I was being thrown back and forth so often. Swaying on the water so peacefully was like a massage so soft you could barely feel it. Swaying like that made me feel sleepy and warm lying in the sun.

I felt sweating palms like wet hands after trying to retrieve your hairband from the pools. It was making me hot and tired. My eyes were stinging from the salt of the ocean like that sting you get after lying on the burning concrete. I was feeling annoyed and pushed hard as I rode my boat. My lips were dry from the wind pushing our sail. I felt so happy as I had my adventure. My hair was knotty from the salty mixture carried by the breeze, so knotty in fact, like trying to untie a knot in a rope. I felt calm as I rode the waves.

The seagulls were swooping and diving over the horizon; desperate for a family picnic. It was like a beautiful painting. It made me feel relaxed until I fell asleep, the coloured jellyfish and seahorses leaving shadowy patterns underwater. It was like the shadows of a disco ball at a party. It made me feel ready for a party.  The sun’s golden rays were shining, shining like a star on my little wooden sailboat.

I could smell the salt of the ocean as strong as freshly baked cupcakes in the oven. It was tiring pushing my boat with the strong whiff of salt. The horrid old smell of dead fish floated on the sea’s surface. That smell just plainly made me feel sick. The bait on the rods were making me feel as happy and relaxed as can be because I knew I was free in the ocean.

The vibration of the boat made me hot and sweaty and the wet soggy life jackets grabbed on to me so tightly; as tight as the string holding together the beads on a bracelet. It made me feel calm and relaxed although it was killing me to wear it. It was an extraordinary adventure on my little wooden sailboat.

The salty spray blew in my mouth and the fresh air danced in the breeze, like a beautiful aroma of fresh spring flowers. It made me feel relaxed and calm. The salt spray made me thirsty. Shadows and dark clouds appeared far off in the distance. Tiny teardrops of water popped up and down on the salty surface, like gentle tears, salty and wet. It was the perfect way to enjoy a boat ride.

By Molly

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.

Hi everyone and welcome to the Room 6 Blogger Page

Room6 is well on their way with their learning, classroom routines and expectations. The following is a brief summary of what we have planned for the rest of this term.

What’s happening in Term1

Numeracy

In Room6 we will focus on Place Value, Addition, Subtraction and basic facts for the first 5 weeks of term 1 before starting Statistics in the second half of the term.  

Literacy

Students will focus on punctuation and proofreading our work. Some students will work with Mrs Val Millington and her extension writing programme.

PE

We will be focusing on swimming and golf for the first few weeks of school and then we will moving on to small ball skills (throwing, catching and hitting).

Library

Room6 will be using the Library on Tuesday afternoons. Your child should have a range of reading materials, e.g. quick reads (magazines), easy reads (comics, joke books etc) and at least one fiction and one non-fiction chapter book which they need to read at school and at home.

Inquiry

Students are investigating: How to keep ourselves safe on the internet by completing Digital Passport Missions.

General

·        Students are required to bring along an old adult size shirt or T shirt to wear while painting or dying to protect their clothes. These shirts can remain in class in the arts cupboards for when students need them.

·        All students will need a book bag to hang at the back of their seat to keep all their work together as there will be lots of moving around the class and working at different work stations.

Swimming

Please be reminded of the following dates for swimming this year:

Date	Time	Venue
17 February 2015	11am – 12pm	St Peters
20 February 2015	11am – 12pm	St Peters
24 February 2015	11am – 12pm	St Peters
27 February 2015	11am – 12pm	St Peters
3 March 2015	11am – 12pm Water Safety	St Peters
11 March 2015	School Swimming Sports 11am-2:30pm	TA Pools

Looking forward to working with you and your child as the year progresses. If you have any concerns regarding your child’s learning, please feel free to contact the office to arrange an appointment to meet with me or contact me via email: bmitchell@ohaupo.school.nz

If I have any concerns about your child’s progress in class I will make contact with you.

Kind regards

Bruce Mitchell

Room 6 Class Teacher