Kateah's Home Learning

Kateah has been learning about Megalodon sharks at home. She made this presentation to share with the class. Awesome job Kateah!

Pyjama Day Fun

We had a fun day today in our onesies and pyjamas! Check out all of our cool outfits...

Silly...

And sensible

Maia and the Worry Bug

Something for us to look forward to for next term!

http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/well-good/teach-me/70035112/christchurch-mums-launch-picture-book-for-anxious-kids

A few reminders...

Kia Ora Room 12 Whanau!
Hope you are all keeping warm and well as the cold weather creeps in on us!

Here's just a few wee reminders about some things that are happening at the moment =)

Science Alive - Remember that the $5 for this is due by Monday 22nd June. Thank you for the parent helpers who have volunteered, we now have enough.

Spellathon - Well done everyone for your amazing effort with this! I was very proud of hard you all worked. Please remember that the sponsorship money for this is now due. Your child has a copy of their test in their homework book so you know their results. It would be great to have this in as quickly as possible.

Miss Newfield - Miss Newfield has been working hard in Room 12! We have been loving having her. Next Friday will be her last day with us. I know all the children will miss her a lot.

Homework Books - Please make sure your children are bringing these to school everyday. It makes it hard to do things that we need to, when children do not have their books. Also please make sure they are bringing their Poetry Scrap books to school.

A big thank you to those who have already bought the stationery they need. There are quite a few children who are needing new books at the moment, so look out for notes in their homework books.

Keep up the wonderful work!
Miss Newfield and Mrs H

Green Team's Parsley

Last Friday the Green Team picked some of their parsley. Room 12 Green team members are Lucy E and Josh. They bought us back some parsley to try. Some of us liked it and some of us thought it was YUCK!

Lucy and Josh sharing about Green Team

Trying it out

What did you think? Yummy of Gross?

Yummy Cupcakes!

Thank you Sienna and Julie for the yummy cupcakes! We hope you had a great birthday Sienna!

New Art to show!

This week Miss Newfield has been working with the children on their light Inquiry. Here is some art they did to go with it. Come in and check it out!

Science Fun!

Today Miss Newfield worked with us on a science rotation. We got to learn about lots of different things around light. Ask your child what they learnt about! Here are some photos. We are getting excited about our visit from Science Alive at the end of the Term!

Alex looking at the leaf through the magnifying glass

Working hard at the mirror maze

Reflecting our laser lights to the roof

Bending a pencil

Looking through prisms

Making rainbows with CDs

Drawing our bendy pencil

Pencil Bending

Exciting Writing Happening in Room 12 and 13!

Room 12 and 13 have started doing their shared writing times together. Mrs H and Ms de Thier take turns teaching us. This week Mrs H bought a Tiger Skin in to show us. It is a family heirloom. We were surprised at how big it was! It was faded a lot, we expected it to be bright orange. We are going to use what we learnt to write exciting information reports about Tigers.

Youth Town Sports

We have been loving our sessions with the Youth Town Sport Leaders. We have so much fun with them! At the moment they are teaching us about hockey. We are learning about the equipment that you use to play, as well as the skills. Here are some photos of our nice afternoon in the sun!

Can you name all the parts of the hockey stick?

Practising our hockey skills

Special sharing time this morning

We had a very special sharing time in Room 12 this morning. Seb bought in his new baby brother, Freddy, to introduce to us all. He is six weeks old today and very cute! Room 12 thought of some great questions to ask Natasha, Ferg and Seb. Thanks for bringing him to meet us!

Welcome Miss Newfield!

Introducing Miss Tory Newfield

I am studying at the New Zealand Graduate School of Education and am in my second term of training. I am from Canada and have been living in New Zealand for two years. In my spare time I love being outdoors and spending time with family and friends. I am very excited to be at Parkview School for the next six weeks and look forward to working with the students and staff.

Geometry Learning In Room 12

We have been doing lots of work on Geometry in Room 12 Interchange. We have been learning all about 2D and 3D shapes, as well as symmetry. We made a classroom display to help us find out the names of all the shapes, and how many sides, faces and corners. We have been doing lots of fun hands on activities. Our favourite has been making shapes using toothpicks and marshmallows.

Lucy with her triangular prism

Alex with his square

Brittany with her cube

James with his cube

Te Reo Maori with Matua Rihari

We are learning to ask how someone is, and then respond.

Kei te pehea koe? - How are you? (one person)
Kei te pehea korua? - How are you? (two people)
Kei te pehea koutou? - How are you? (three or more)

Kei te _______ ahau. I am feeling _________.

Fill the gaps with one from below:

pai - good
ngenge - tired
wera - hot
makariri - cold
mahana - warm
pouri - sad
riri - angry

Have a practice at home and get your child to show you the actions!

Week Three awards

This week at assembly awards were given to Bella and Toby. Sienna won a 'caught being good' award. And Lucy was accepted as the Room 12 Student Council Representative. 

Lucy with her new student
council badge

Toby with his award for his
awesome statistics work

Sienna was caught being
good

Bella with her award for
 great writing

Chocolate Chip Cookies

Hello, this is Room 12!  In writing we are learning how to write instructions. Yesterday Mrs H gave us a mixed up recipe for chocolate chip cookies. We had to put the recipe in the right order. We decided that maybe we would like to make these cookies at home because they sounded soooo yummy! Here is the recipe:

Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients:
125g butter
1/2 cup brown sugar (lightly packed)
1/2 cup caster sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla essence
1 egg
1 3/4 cups of flour
1 tsp salt
1/2 cup chocolate chunks or chips

Method:
1. Preheat the oven to bake at 180
2. Grease or line two baking trays with baking paper
3. Beat butter, sugars, and vanilla until pale and creamy
4. Add egg and beat until mixed in
5. Sift in the flour and salt, mix until combined
6. Add in the chocolate chips
7. Roll heaped teaspoon size balls and place on the tray - press down with a floured fork
8. Bake for approx. 12 minutes

Welcome!

Kia Ora Koutou Room 12 families!

Welcome to the Room 12 blog. This is where you will find out about everything that we are up to! We look forward to sharing our learning with you as we go through the year.

Room 12 and Mrs H