Here is Room 6 presenting their desk place-mats in assembly in front of all the Year 1-6 students. Chloe introduced us and all the children held up their placemats for everyone to see.

Three Room 6 children  (Ashton, Chloe and William) were amongst those who received certificates from the principal, Mr Campbell.  

WELL DONE & CONGRATULATIONS 

Click here for the Rm 6 video that didn't work in the assembly.  It is about all the cool things we have been doing. 

 (It is best seen on a small screen unless you turn the quality to HD in the settings on the bottom left of the Youtube clip, but if you want the full 64Mb high resolution version, please send a memory stick along to school.)

Testing Time For Room 6.

Along with the rest of the Te Aramoana and Te Poutama syndicates Room 6 undetrakes a barrage of tests in reading and Maths.  The results are used to help inform teaching so that what is taught is relevant to students needs. They are also used for reporting to parents, the Board of Trustees and the Ministry of Education.   Tests range from 20 - 45 minutes.
Here Rm 6 children work on a 45 minute Reading Comprehension test.

We have fun with the class birds and sometimes we let them out so they can play with us in the classroom.  We have to be settled and not wandering around so we don't stand on them or hurt them.  Beaky, the cockatiel likes to nibble on pencils and the edges of books.  Relish, the Rainbow Lorikeet, likes his neck scratched, as it helps unfurl his feathers.

Today has been a fun day.  We started with a trip to the School Library with Mrs Burns.  Sshe is doing a stocktake and discovered that we have over 7000 books in our library.  We like Mrs Burns because she is really nice and helps us find great books to read.  She taught us about finding a best fit book - we read a page and every time we find a word we don't know, we put up a finger.  If we have 5 fingers up before we get to the end of the page we need to get an easier book, or use it as one for Mum or Dad to read to us.

Ashton gets his book issued by Mrs Burns

Can you see the cat?
Our new computer skill today was to use TAGXEDO (www.tagxedo.com) to create a word cloud with our spelling words.  The programme allows us to practice typing our spelling words and is a fun spelling activity.

Here is Meghan's tagxedo.  What would word you suggest she add to her next spelling list?

THE LIFE EDUCATION CLASSROOM.
Today's session with Paula in the Life Education classroom was all about how to work and play with others, the importance of being honest, and ways of coping with peer pressure .... six different strategies which included things like

•  Learning to say No!
• Walking away.
• Tell a trusted adult
• Change the subject.
• We got to role play some situations to practice using our skills.And before we finished Harold popped out and talked to us.  We will keep working in our yellow Harold booklets
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Room 6 had a busy week last week.   We had time in the Life Education classroom with Paula, learning about what characteristics we need to display to be a good friend.  Honest and Trust Worthy were high on the list.

We also had a trip to the Waikanae Public Library where we met Martene the librarian.   We found about all the wonderful book resources available to us - for FREE!

As a class we are working hard, both by ourselves and in small groups.  We share our ideas and thoughts and co-construct new learning.

We do lots of art activities.  Here is Laura's placemat showing her goals and what she is good at.  I like the bright colours and the way she designed the borders, as well as the "my skills" section.

Room 6 is a fun place to be.