Swimming Day Two

Another great day at Jellie Park!

Swimming Day Two 2014 on PhotoPeach

Athletics and Tin Cans

On Monday Otakaro had a wee Athletics Prize Giving.  Who knew we had some absolutely brilliant athletes in Room 12!

Year 0/1 - Katie got 1st Equal in the Running, and 3rd in the Long Jump.

Year 0/1 Boys - Eita got 3rd in the Throwing.

Year 0/1 Long Jump - Maddox got 1st, Eita got 3rd and Kaci got 2nd.

Year 0/1 High Jump - Maddox got 1st, Kian got 2nd and Kaci got 3rd.

Year 0/1 Running - Maddox got 1st, Kaci got 2nd, and Kian got 3rd

Congratulations everyone!

Yesterday Room 12 wore their old clothes to school so they could paint their aboriginal art onto their tin cans.  We used exterior paint, so we didn't want to ruin our gorgeous uniforms.  In the end we were so careful that our clothes were fine - yay!

Putting the base colour on our cans.

Gorgeous weather for outside painting!

Making our aboriginal paintings (using dots).

Our next step is to figure out how to attach the cans together so they make a totem pole.  

That will get our brains thinking!!!!

Our wonderful teacher aide, Barb Vogel, helps out in Room 12 for an hour in the mornings.
Here she is reading to Kian and Toby.

The World's Tallest and Smallest Men Meet

Click on the picture to read the article.

This morning Oliver showed a newspaper article to the class.  The article was about the tallest man in the world meeting the smallest man in the world.

The article said that the tallest man was 2.51cm, so we got out the tape measure to see how high this was (I had to stand on a desk!).  If you have seen our fish paintings hanging in Room 12, then the tallest man is just a bit taller than those.

The smallest man was 55cm.  We discovered that this was about as high as one of our classroom chairs!

What an interesting article!  Thanks, Oliver!

Today Room 12 are bringing home a notice asking for children 

to come to school in their OLD clothes for the day.  

We are painting with exterior paint, so we don't want to get paint on our 

gorgeous school uniforms.

Room 12 Hosts Assembly

This morning Room 12 hosted assembly.  They did an absolutely brilliant job and I was so very proud of them all.

Our hosts - Tahlia, Kian, Naai, Eita, Mio, Sophia and Kaci.

Read!  Read!  Read!  was the theme of our assembly.  We began by showing a little video of us reading.




Last week Room 12 made a movie about one of our recent big books called I'm the King of the Mountain.  A big thank you to the children who provided our props.  You'll notice that we had to problem solve a little.  We couldn't find a rooster anywhere!  So we've used a pukeko instead.
Here it is:



We also showed another video in assembly which was actually made by last year's Room 12.  So you may recognise some faces.



Joel and Kaci shared their stories about their favourite books too.

Joel wrote:
My mum reads The Very Hungry Caterpillar to me.  I like The Very Hungry Caterpillar.  I like the book because it has holes in it.  It has holes in it because the caterpillar eats the fruit.

Kaci wrote:
I like my book because it has tornadoes and caves too and tsunamis.  It shows how a tornado happens.  it has the biggest tsunami in the world.  The tornado killed 695 people.  I also like Earth and Venus.  I like Mars too because it is cool.  The book also has animals and scorpions.

Ka pai, Room 12!

More QR codes!

Today two reading groups completed a treasure hunt using qr codes.

I had hidden 6 qr codes around the classroom for the children to find.  Each qr code was a link to a video about an animal.  The children had to find out what the 6 different animals were.  What fun!

The next step would be to use a google form (as per earlier post) for the children to fill in their treasure hunt answers.  As this is very new, we will be taking things one step at a time.

We did the first qr code together.

Tahlia using the i-nigma app to view the code.

Sophia and Mio (and Kaci at the back) watching one of the animal videos.

Working well together!  Kian and Tahlia writing down the animal's name on their answer sheet.

Eita and Naai watching an animal video.

Kaci watching an animal video.

I think this is Kaci using the i-nigma app.

Mio using the i-nigma app.

 Here are the codes if you want to try using them.  You just need an app to view the qr codes on your device (we used i-nigma).

QR codes and google forms!

Recently I have been learning about qr codes and google forms, so this week some of Room 12 will be using them too.

What is a google form, you ask?
This is where I can create a questionnaire, survey etc using the google site.  It allows me to view the responses as each person completes the survey or questionnaire.  Absolutely awesome for things ike assessment!

What is a qr code, you ask?
You may have seen these square patterns on websites or shop windows (almost like a barcode).  People can simply use an app on their smartphone, or device, to take a photo of the qr code and it takes you straight to a website (or in my case....the google form).

Today Joel and Oliver used the class iPad to use the qr code to take them to a survey about 'verbs'.

The 'verb' qr code.  We used the i-nigma app to view the codes.

If anyone is keen to learn more about qr codes you can go to qrstuff.com to learn about it.  It is really easy to use.