Fairytales

This year Rm11 has been learning about fairytales. First of all we read the Three Little Pigs and then adapted the story to create our own version. We changed the characters and the setting, but we had to keep the plot the same. After that fairytale we did one about Cinderella. Each group read different versions of Cinderella from different countries around the world and shared our ideas back to the class. The next thing we did was brainstormed our own ideas for a NZ version of Cinderella. Once we had planned our ideas, we started to write our own story about Cinderella. Again, we changed the characters and setting but kept the plot (storyline) the same. Here is a picture of our shared writing that we did as a class and some children working hard on their writing. We will share our finished stories with you soon. By Nuri and William

Drive Time Projects

On Friday afternoons in Room 11, we do a cool project called Drive Time! It is called Drive Time because is driven by our own imaginations and creativity. Some examples are quilling, learning a language, making bath bombs, and learning to sew. It is a really fun thing to do because it is a time where we can develop new knowledge and skills, as well as working together in a group. By Emma and Emily

Magic Squares

Miss Bateman gave us some 'magic squares' to solve. These are 9 squares with different pictures on them (butterflies, clowns, where's Wally). You have to try and make a 3 x 3 square with all of the pieces in the correct place - it is way harder than it looks! By Samantha

Cricket Tournament

Last week some children from our class went to a cricket tournament at Takapuna Cricket grounds. We competed against children from lots of different schools. We lost most of our games but we had an awesome time :) By Ruby

Special Items

In Room 11 we are learning about our identity. People brought things from their culture to put up on our class wall. We are doing this to learn who we are, where we come from and what shapes our identity. From Yea Won

Winnie's Treasures

During our guided reading sessions, we are exploring books about different cultures to tie in with our inquiry of 'who we are'. Today we were reading a story called 'Nia's Hair', which is about a little girl from Tonga who took part in a hair cutting ceremony to pay respect to her Grandma that had recently passed away. We were very lucky to have our Teacher Aide Winnie in our class during this lesson and she was able to explain to us about why the hair cutting ceremony's are so significant in the Tongan culture. She also shared with us her special gifts that her Mother had given to her. This is all hand made and woven together out of flax. In the Tongan culture, you wear these when you are attending special events. Check out the pictures below.

Multiplication Battleships

Today in class, we played an awesome game called Multiplication Battleships! We each had to find a partner and build a barrier so they could not see our work. We had to draw three ships onto our squared bit of paper (all different sizes). Our partner then had to call out the grid references and we had to multiply the numbers together, write the answer in the square and yell out 'hit' or 'miss'. If they hit our boat, they would mark their sheet with a red pen and if they missed, they would mark it with a blue pen so that they could keep track of which numbers they had called out. The winner was the person that sunk all of their partner's boats first. This game was really fun and we hope we can play it again!