It was great to see you all!

Hi Room One It was so great to see you all yesterday - you were very hard at work on your writing before I came and interrupted you, well done. I got home and guess who was in my mailbox? - Flat Stanley. I will take him to university with me on Monday and then he can help me with my learning :-) It was nice to meet Kate and Ben - I'm sure you are enjoying being part of Room One. I liked seeing how you solved the problem of the flag missing off the letterbox - clever kids! Have a great week. Love from Mrs Clark

Surprise Visitor

Yippee!!!
Today Room One had a surprise visit from someone they are missing a lot :-)
Guess who it was?

Powerful Verbs

We are learning to make our sentences interesting by using powerful verbs (and describing words). We started with sentences that were so boring we snored and had to make them exciting by working in our table groups. Everyone in our group had to help!

Red Table:

She got up.

Chloe G yawned and stretched, slowly climbing out of bed.

Green Table:

I went to the shops.

Serena the puppy zoomed to the ice-cream shop early on Monday morning to buy a 5-scoop chocolate ice-cream.

Yellow Table:

He was late.

Ben S woke up late for Kuranui School on Monday morning the 28th of March because his leg was broken and it was squished.

Blue Table:

They went out.

Ben 10 and Batman sprinted to the doctors in Hamilton because they were sick and they and to say "arhhhhh".

Problem solving to send our letters

We finished our buddy letters today and talked about how the posting letters works. We discovered we are lucky living out in the country because if we put the flag up on our letter box then the mail man will collect our mail too.

We raced out to post our letters and discovered to our horror that the flag on our letter box was GONE!

Back to the classroom and putting on our blue and green hats to work out what we need to do and design a very quick solution:

- a laminated piece of red paper

- mounted on a handy towel role

- slipped over the swivel and taped to the mail box

Here is our proud moment :-)

Hi Room One

It certainly did rain hard in Matamata this morning - I went for a run in it and looked like I had been swimming! It's good to see you are learning to 'manage self' when wet days occur. With winter aproaching it will mean you have safe breaks.

I bet you enjoyed having Mrs Roskam again - what new learning did you do?

I'm going to Hamilton to university all day tomorrow to participate in a research project about how we help you to be good learners - it will be interesting.

I look forward to getting you letters in my mailbox. Have you had a chance to visit our school's new website that clever Mrs Webb has created? You can access your class blog through it. Teach your mum and dad how to do it.

Have a good week everyone.

Love from
Mrs Clark

Wet Lunch Time Rules

Good Morning Room One,

Today is our second wet day in a row - what are some good rules and ideas for things we can do in our class when the grotty weather means we can't play outside?
We will:
- use quiet inside voices
- keep our food tidy
- Listen to the person on duty (including Rm 5 buddies)

- Play lego
- Go in to the sandpit (remember to wash your feet)
- Play mobilo
- Chalk board games
- Colouring in
- Puzzles
- Foam shapes
- Use the computers BUT we must ask first
- Read books
- Play cards
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Welcome Mrs Roskam

Welcome to Mrs Roskam
Have a wonderful day today - I know all the fantastic Kura Kids in Room One will make you feel very welcome. I have no doubt they will happily show you around and demonstrate the routines and expectations that drive our class.
Enjoy!

To the best children in the Universe,
Have a great day with the fabulous Mrs R, I know you will!
I can't wait to see you tomorrow and share everything I learn at my course today.

Arohanui
Ms Daniels

Tumble Books

Please check out the link  for "Tumble Books" under Reading Activities.
This site has excellent read-along e-books from early picture books to chapter books and activities adn games linked directly to many of the books.

The link is also here:
http://www.tumblebooks.com/library/asp/home_tumblebooks.asp

Constable Louise visits again - Room 1 and 3's Internet Rules

We had Constable Louise come and visit with Room One and Three again today, we watched the Bryan and Bobby DVDs again and came up with ideas in pairs to create our class rules. We decided that having the same rules in both classes was the best choice.

Room One and Three’s Internet Safety Rules

1 / T.A.R.

T - Think about how it makes you feel.

A - Ask is it good or bad, do I need to get a grown up?

R - Remember:

• don’t give out pesonal informtion (name, address, password. etc).
• never meet anyone from on the Internet.

2/ Always use your manners

• talk to each other like you want to be talked to.
• anything you put there will be there FOREVER.
• if someone is mean to you, don’t reply, tell someonoe.

3/ Keep your computer somewhere that it can be seen (a family room or our classroom).

4/ Always ask a grown up if you can use the computer or are going somewhere new.

5/ People aren’t always who they say they are - how can you check?

6/ If in doubt - ASK a grown up for help!!!

Hi Room 1

Hello everybody - I have taken some time out from my readings to catch up on what you've been learning about - it looks far more exciting than my learning :-). I love how you have shown your understanding of perimeter - I wonder if you can tell me what the perimeter of our school would be? Just in case I need to put up some new fences.
You are learning to use more interesting verbs which is great - I loved seeing the crazy photos - Sam, your leap made me think you have turned into a frog!
How is Flat Stanley going? I will have to take him on a trip to University one week and show him what I get up to on Mondays.
Hope you are looking after Ms Daniels and Mrs Webb.
I miss you all.
Love Mrs Clark :-)

We've been practising our waiata...

A couple of weeks ago we posted a movie of one of our action waiata.

We have been practising and we think we have gotten much better, we don't even need Ms Daniels to sing it with at us at all now. Our Kura Kid focus this week is "Following Instructions" and we can do this using Te Reo now too.

Our next step is to make the way we say some of the words a little bit clearer.

We filmed ourselves lots of times and these are our two favourite clips.

See what you think...

All Star Kura Kids learning to think outside the Box!

Constable Louise came and talked to us about being safe on a computer.

She and had some good rules to help keep ourselves safe on the computer:

T.A.R.

Think – how does this make me feel?

Ask – ask is it good or bad

Remember – never give out personal information

Our next step is to create simple and specific rules for using our computers safely.

Stay tuned for our Rules for Room One..........

Class Interviews - 100%

Thank you to each and every one of the parents and caregivers who attended Interviews.
I'm proud to say we had 100% attendance!
It is this fantastic commitment from you all that helps foster the wonderful learning environment that we have in our class.
Again - thank you, thank you, thank you!

Verbs are Action Words!

We are looking at powerful verbs to help make our writing exciting.
Words like 'went' and 'going' are BORING!!! So we came up with some better ones to use:

Area and Perimeter

WALT:
1/ Measure the perimeter (outside) of an object.
2/ Measure the area (inside) of an object.

Today we explored the concept of area.
We decided that the perimeter was the outside or an object and that it surrounded it.
The area is all the filling in the middle.
We compared it to a yard full of cows waiting to be milked:
- the fence on the outside is the perimeter and holds the cows in.
- the cows are the area, if the yard held 25 cows all stood right next to each other, then the area would be 25 cows.

Our task was to use sticky squares and work out the perimeter and area of our place mats.
The perimeter was 18 sticky squares.
The area was 12 sticky squares.