Swimming Sports!

Today was Swimming Sports! It was our chance to showcase what we learned during our 2 weeks of Hilton Brown swimming earlier in the term. We all tried our best, even those of us her were a little nervous or very cold! I was very proud, well done everybody.

Reward Surprise!

This term our class has been earning cubes for good behaviour and responsible learning choices, and those cubes go in a jar. Last week we filled the jar right to the top! Wow that is a lot of good choices. As a reward, today we got a whole afternoon (until it was time to go to Mandarin) of free choice!! It was great to be able to choose whatever we wanted to do, and it was awesome for Miss Searle to have the chance to play with us to get to know us better. What fun!

Kelly Sports!

On Thursday, Kelly Sports came to our school to facilitate some co-operative games! This ties in with our topic of Ako - learning from each other. We had to co-operate with one another and work as a team. Lots of us find it hard to focus on 'trying our best' rather than 'being the best' so this was a good challenge for us. We had such fun at the same time!

Maths this week!

This week for our whole class maths warm up, we have been practicing our doubles facts. Doubles facts are when we add 2 of the same numbers together like 6+6=12 or 5+5=10. We have been joining in with a doubles rap from youtube which we have really enjoyed! We have also been talking about the difference between maths knowledge - knowing things instantly, and maths strategy - working things out. Knowing our doubles is maths knowledge we just have to have!

Gully Walk!

This morning Room 14 went for a walk through the deep, dark gully. We are going to write about what we saw, heard, smelt and felt in the gully in our writing times this week. We will be focusing on using interesting adjectives in our stories. We enjoyed our gully walk!