Discovery Time - Thinking K4S

Today was our very first session of Discovery Time.
Today we were focusing on the Thinking part of the K4S and our session was all about Making Connections.

These were the activities Rachel set up for us:

• Play-doh
• Big Blocks
• Puzzles
• Toys
• Crazy Caterpillar
• Brain Teasers

We got to choose which activities we worked at. We had to keep the K4S of thinking in our head the whole time. We had to think about how we were doing the activity and what else we could do. We got to do as many activities as we liked.

"My favourite activity was big blocks. I had to think about how to make a kingdom" - Fynn

"I liked doing play-doh. I had to think about what I was going to make" - Callum

"I liked playing with the toys. I had to think about what they would say to each other" - Devansh

"I liked doing the crazy caterpillar. I had to think about carefully putting the marble on his hands" - Maria

"I liked the puzzles because they were fun. I had to think about which piece would go in the right place" - Regan



To learn more about Discovery Time, take a look here

60 days of learning!

Every day Room 5 counts the days we gave been learning at school.

Today was our 60th day!

We are planning to have a party to celebrate our 100th day of learning.

Take a look at the video above of us singing our days of the week song :)

Happy Mothers' Day!

On Sunday it was Mothers' Day!

We made some awesome cards on Friday to give to our Mums. We glued lots of cool foam shapes to the outside to make it look cool.

We listened to this song about Mums by Kath Bee.



Our Mums are awesome, just like in the song, our Mums:

• My Mum gives me kisses on the head - Paige
• When I am in bed my Mum tickles me - Hayden
• My Mum tells me to flush the toilet! - James
• My Mum wipes your tears when I fall over - Asharnte
• My Mum makes me some dinner - Jimi
• My Mum makes me milos - Awhina
• My Mum makes me breakfast - Regan
• My Mum gives me lollies - Fynn
• When I was only little, my Mum sewed back on my teddy's ear - Trinity
• My Mum buys me something when I do jobs - Hamish
  

Ruben the Road Safety Bear

What a great day today with an extra special visit from Ruben the Road Safety Bear. 

He taught us about sneaky driveways, crossing the road carefully and lots more!

When we cross the road we have to:

~ Stop
~ Look
~ Listen
~ Hold hands with an adult

Take a look at the photo of some of Room 5 dancing to his road safety song!

Visit Ruben on his own website here:  http://www.ruben.govt.nz

Teriffic Tadpoles

We have some terrific tadpoles in our classroom that Connor gave to us last term.

We have been looking after them for about 4 weeks.
They are getting very big and fat but don't have any legs yet.

We are waiting for them to get legs so they can start changing into frogs!

We have started making some cool frogs for art, and today we watched a few videos that show the life cycle of the frog. They are really cool!

Regan's medals

Today Regan wore some special medals to our ANZAC Assembly.

They were lent to him by his Pop.

We thought he looked very smart and he was proud to be wearing them for such a special occasion.

ANZAC Ceremony

Today we held a very special ANZAC Assembly in the hall. Lots of visitors came, including men who were in the war.

We made a special wreath yesterday which Mana and Aleisha presented on behalf of our class.

It was a great assembly that made us really think about all the soldiers that fought to keep our country safe.

Term 1 Reflection

We talked about what we have been doing in Term 1 so far this year.

Look at all the things we have been doing and learning about!

We have had lots of fun doing all of these things.

(Click on the picture if you want to see it bigger)

Our Term 1 reflections:

• I have enjoyed using the maths play-doh this term because we get to know how to do our numbers around the right way - Brooke
• I have enjoyed doing reading because I am getting much better - Connor
• I have enjoyed playing with the play-doh because I like making our spelling words with it - Hayden
• I have enjoyed icing and decorating our biscuits for our Friday Treat - Janison
• I have enjoyed playing maths games because I like them, I can get smarter - Hamish
• I like going on Mathletics because I get heaps of credits - Nicole
• I have been on Mathletics, I get to learn more numbers - Nathanael
• I liked learning about fires and being Firewise - Regan
• I liked being the Star of The Day because I get a certificate - Mana

Buddy Headshots

Today we used the digital camera to take a 'headshot' of our buddy. A headshot is a photo that shows the face/head, neck and shoulders of a person. We are going to use our photos on our responsibilities chart. In pairs, we needed to carefully take a picture of our buddy that showed:

• All of their head & face


• Their neck


• Just the top of their shoulders

Take a look at the slideshow below to see some of the photos we took.

Do you think we achieved our success criteria?

Room 5 Independent Headshot Photos on PhotoPeach

Our Digital Camera

We are learning how to use our class digital camera.

We started by talking about all the parts of the camera with a buddy after looking at some giant photos of our digital camera. Then we did a think-pair-share activity and told some other people in our class what we thought the parts of the camera were. When we discussed them as a class and we labelled them in yellow on our 'big camera'.

Next, we talked about what the different parts of the camera did and why they were important. We labelled these in blue on our 'big camera'.

We know that:

• You shouldn't put your fingers near the lens as it is the 'eye' of the camera
• You can press the 'playback' button if you want to look at your photos
• The zoom button can help you to see something closer up
• There is a button to switch between taking photos and movies on our camera
• We need to put the lanyard around our neck when using the digital camera.

Here are some photos of everything we learned: