Santa visits room 15

We were very excited about our surprise visit by Santa.  He gave us a big bag of lollies to share out with the class. Some of us got to tell Santa what we wanted for Christmas. We all promised we would try really hard at home to be super good for our parents.

Shared Lunch

To celebrate the fantastic year we have had in Room 15 we had a shared lunch together. The class enjoyed tasting all the different items on offer. Thank you to the parents for the yummy food.

Himalayan Salt Lamp

Layne shared his Himalayan Salt Lamp with the class. We got to keep it plugged in for a few days.  It was very interesting and looked like a rock but felt like salt. Thank you Layne for sharing your treasure with Room 15.

School swimming

Our class enjoyed going to swimming. We made super progress over the five sessions at the pools. It was fun show casing our skills to our parents at the swimming parade.  Thank you to the parents who helped us to walk to the pools and those that came and watched our exhibition.

Statistics

We have been learning about Statistics and making bar graphs.  Today with a buddy we got to use the resources within the class to create our own graph. Here are some of the results.

Harold the Giraffe

At our second session with Harold we got to look inside a human body and we learnt all about the brain, the heart and the lungs. We also learnt about our emotions and what makes us feel happy, sad, angry and frustrated. We learnt that it is OK to be different.

Before we left we got to give Harold a big hug.

Statistics

For statistics we have been learning about tally charts and bar graphs.  

Today Mrs Rova gave us each a packet of M&Ms and we  had to produce a bar chart about the colours we found in our packet.  

Before we got started we talked about how to make a prediction. 

We had to find out the least and most popular colour in each of our packets. Then we did an overall tally and chart for the class results. We also looked at which colours had the same amount of M&Ms.



Did you know that the most popular M&M colour in the class was orange?

Did you know that the least popular M&M colour was green?

Perhaps you could try this at home....

Blow Pens

Kharma and her wonderful mum bought some special blow pens into school.  Paige showed us how to use them and in discovery Kharma set up an activity table for the children to try the pens out.  It was hard to get the ink out of the pens and onto the paper.  

Harold the Giraffe

  Today we went to visit Harold the Giraffe.  We met Abbie and we played a game called 'Bug or Boost'. In the truck there was a heap of different coloured lights.  We loved the green colour.  On the roof of the truck were special sparkly stars. Harold told us a very funny joke and we laughed.  It was funny when he blew us a kiss. We can not wait to go back and see Harold again.

Mannequin challenge

Room 15 begged Mrs Rova to have a go at the Mannequin Challenge.  Mrs Rova relented and let us have two attempts at the latest craze that has swept the nation.  Please watch our videos and see how super dooper still we can stand. 

The Room 15 children challenge our class families to have a go at creating one at home..... We can not wait to see what you can create together.  

Writing time

Room 15 love independent whole class writing time.  We choose some classical music to listen to. (Apologies that it sounds loud, Mrs Rova was videoing from right in front of the speaker) We enjoy practicing all the wonderful things we have been learning. Our class goal this week is to re-read our writing and check we have used capital letters and full stops in the correct place. Today we were writing about if we were king/queen for the day.  This is followed on from the big book we have been reading this week. Watch these amazing learning stars at writing time! 

Izzy'z birthday

Today Room 15 helped Izzy celebrate her 7th birthday.  We loved the special rainbow cake made by Izzy's clever mum.  The birthday cake tasted soooooooo yummy and the inside was all colourful.  Check out some photos of the celebrations...

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Puriri Moth

Today on the way to school, Brock and his mum found a green moth.  Our class had read a story about the Puriri Moth and we knew that they were native to New Zealand and once they had hatched they only live for about 24 hours. We were very excited to actually see one in real life. Please click here to find out more - Moth information for kids.

Opossum visits Room 15

Taylah and her mum Katie shared their pet opossum with our class.  While it visited it munched happily on a strawberry.  We learnt some interesting information about opossums.  We now know that they are nocturnal and that when they are babies they live inside their mothers pouch. Please ask your child about what else opossums can do.

ENVIRO CLASS OF THE WEEK

Our class has won Enviro Class of the Week in assembly 3 times!!  Marlene made us a morning tea. We got to try some yummy chocolate mud cake and it had jelly worms coming out of it. To win this award you have to sort all your class rubbish into the right place and take care of your class environment.  Our class was soooooooo happy to win this morning tea. A big thank you to Marlene for being such a wonderful enviro schools co-ordinator and an awesome cake maker.

Showing Manaakitanga

Room 14 and Room 15 are working on showing Manaakitanga toward others.  We are focusing on taking turns, winning and losing graciously and how to include others.  To practice all the wonderful things we have been working on we had a games afternoon together.  It was a lot of fun and great for the teachers to see our skills in action.

Taking care of environment

Our focus this term is knowing and taking care of our school environment.  Our class decided we would put on some gloves and go for a walk around our school. Together we worked to pick up rubbish. We want visitors to our school to know that we are proud of where we come to school.

Little Gardens

Room 15 children each got to make a little garden plant.  We worked with a  buddy and when we had finished we wrote some very cool writing.  Out focus was writing directions.  

What can we feed the worms?

Zeta made two posters so we can see what we can and can not feed the worms.

Room 15 think the new posters are pretty handy and they look awesome!

Wacky Hair Day

Today we had Wacky Hair Day.  All the money raised was used to pay for the postage of the Christmas Boxes that our school has sent to children in other countries.  Here are some of the cool creations.

Rubbish Day

Every week when it is time to take the recycling and the general waste bucket up to the rubbish station Room 15 take it in turns to sort the bins.  We try and aim for 100% rubbish in the right bins.

The Worm Farm

Today Eliza and Zeta explained how the worm farm works.  Room 15 listened carefully and asked loads of interesting questions.  They learnt all about when and what to feed the worms. We wrote some very cool stories about it.  We know that worm poo is called vermacast and that worm wees is good for the garden.  You can purchase the worm wee for $2.

Pepeha - Mihi

Here is the mihi that Room 15 are learning. Perhaps you could ask them to share this with you at home.

Ko Taranaki te Maunga

Ko Patea te Awa

Ko Stratford Primary te Kura

Ko ______________ toku ingoa

Rewena Bread

Today  Dylan, Koby, Kane and Xavier showed Room 15 how to make Rewena Bread.  Rewena Bread is made using potatoes, flour, sugar and water.  
















The boys smothered the warm bread with lots of butter and we got to try some.  The bread was full of holes on the inside and it was crunchy on the outside.

100s board fun

The Kakariki  maths group have been learning their way around the 100's board.  We are looking for patterns and columns that are the same.  One of our independent activities involved us drawing a pattern on a blank 100's board and then going back and filling in the numbers which we had coloured.  We were not allowed to count each square to do this.

Some of the different ways we solved this were;
Kharma - I know that the last column is skip counting in 10 and so then I counted backwards to get my coloured squares.
Izzy - I counted each square forward or backwards from the biggest number.
Corrin - I knew that the numbers in each column ended the same so I counted forwards or backwards in 1s to solve it.
Jayden - I skip counted in 2's and then found the end number and then counted the gaps backwards.
Lucas - I was skip counting in 10's and then I knew if I moved down a column it would be just adding 10.

We enjoyed this activity so much that we shared it with Room 14.

Prancer

On Friday Taryn (from Room 14) bought in her lamb to share with us.  We watched him having a bottle and his tail was wagging fast.  Prancer was wearing a special jacket to keep warm.  He was very friendly and liked being patted by everybody.  Thanks Taryn for sharing your new pet with Room 15.

Hockey Skills

Room 15 are enjoying the hockey skills at the turf.  Here are two of the games we played. Please ask your child to showcase some of the new learnt hockey skills at home.

Making Pom Poms

Izzy borrowed Mrs Rova's Pom Pom maker and created some very cool purple Pom Poms.  

How to make a Pom Pom - By Izzy
1. You will need some wool and the Pom Pom Maker.
2. Wrap the wool around the Pom Pom maker - over and over.
3. Tie up the middle using some wool.
4. Cut the sides on the Pom Pom maker.
5. Then you are finished and you have a pom pom.

Hockey

Our class is participating in hockey skills at the turf.  It is lots of fun learning how to dribble the ball and also how to stop it.  Our coaches name is Lara.

111.... What's your emergency?

 The Junior Syndicate created a slide show to share with the school.  Have a look at some of the exciting activities we participated in.


Emergency unit slide show

Whanau Day

Our school had a whanau day.  We had a lot of visitors.  My mum took me to the book fair to buy some books.  

By Layne

Westpac rescue helicopter appeal

The SPS student council organised a dress-up day to raise money for the Westpac Rescue Helicopter. We got to dress up and we had to bring a gold coin donation.  The homework  was to create a helicopter using recycled materials.  Corrin made a helicopter with straws.
By Izzy, Kharma and Billie

Room 15 running man challenge

Room 15 children came up with this idea for our entry into the school wide class competition. Look at all the movers and groovers!! We had so much fun creating this video clip. 

Bug hotel

Room 15 went to visit the Bug Hotel that Room 20 made.  We loved looking in all the different "rooms' and areas of the hotel.  Some of us saw spiders, slaters and bees.  We remembered to look - not touch and to use a quiet voice.  The children thought it was a great idea and definitely want to visit it again.  Perhaps when you are next at school you could go and visit it too.

Popcorn

Our poem this week was called Popcorn.  It talked about the kernel popping into fluff  We decided at discovery time to make our own popcorn in the popcorn maker.  Mrs Rova set a challenge - we had to create something to hold our popcorn in using only paper.  We invented some interesting contraptions for the popcorn to go into.  It tasted delicious.  Some of the popcorn was popping out of the bowl and onto the floor.  We were laughing.

Reducing rubbish

Our school was donated some new stickers for our bins.  The stickers are to remind us what goes into the black bin.  The black bin is the rubbish that we can recycle.  Marlene came in to put the sticker on and talk to us about what we can put in the bin.  Room 15 have decided that we are going to spend some time each day checking that the correct rubbish is in the bin.

Aidan's drone

We went to watch Aidan from Room 6 fly his drone.  A drone is like a flying robot.  It has a remote control.  Aidan told us that his drone cost $150 and it can fly really high.  He said it can go up to 100 metres in the sky.  We watched the drone with Room 14 and all the Year 5 and 6 children.  It was fun.

By Shayanne, Brock and Koby

ANZAC Wreath

Room 15 made an ANZAC wreath for the school assembly.  We made red poppies with the glue gun and we put our name on them.  It was fun.  At the assembly we listened to some music with a trumpet.

By Madison and Jamie

Apple crumble and ice-cream

On Friday in Discovery Marlene showed Rooms 14, 15 and 18 how to make ice-cream in the special ice cream maker.  A few of the children got to measure out and  add the ingredients.  Then we got to watch the maker mix it all up.  Eltham Tech Centre donated a big bucket of freshly picked apples and together we brainstormed some ideas about how to use them up.  We decided on apple crumble and  some of the children got to go to the kitchen and make it.  Today Marlene and her helpers cooked it up and we got to sample the goods - and the children loved it! Ask your child about how it tasted.  Perhaps if you get time over the holidays you could have a go at making apple crumble together.

Sweet Pea

Sweet Pea is a little pony.  She is 8 years old.  Today Sweet Pea came on a truck to visit our school. She walked into all the classes.  It was funny when she ate an apple, she ate it all - even the seeds (and it made a big mess on the carpet).  Sweet Pea was sniffing and licking us.  We got to brush her tail.  She has little hooves in the shape of a letter 'U'.  Sweet Pea smelt nice because she had a wash and Kaysey had used horse shampoo.  Room 15 loved having Sweet Pea to visit and lots of the children now want a pet pony. Ask your child to tell you all about it.

Kiwi Golf

Yesterday we went to Kiwi Golf.  Our golf teachers name was Murray.  He showed us how to hold a golf club.  We had a competition and Billie was the winner because she hit the ball the longest.  It was fun learning about golf. 

By Koby and Vincent

Wacky Hair Day

As part of the lead up to our school gala the student council held a wacky hair day.  In turn we contributed a bottle for the mystery bottle stall. Here are a few of the wonderful and wacky creations that were spotted around our school.