Fun Final Week for 2020

Room 7 students had loads of fun during their last week of school - visiting the rocky shore and the aquatic centre, building shelters in the enviro-centre and finally enjoying quality gifts during the 'secret santa' game. What a great time we all had with a great group of kids. Thank you everyone for making the last school week of 2020 a wonderful time for us all. Miss you all already. 

 

Mind Plus

 

I was very lucky to visit Mind Plus recently to see the fantastic work one of our Room 7 students created. It was a very pleasant visit as not only did I see some great work, I also purchased some beautiful baking that the students had baked themselves. 

Water Safety

 Room 7 students were very lucky to attend a water safety session with Cecily. Important points covered included that if someone is in the trouble in the water, get help immediately and consider your personal safety first. See if you can throw something to the person in trouble to help them float such as an empty bottle or a ball. Also if you find yourself stuck in a rip, then lie on your back, skull and let the rip take you out to the last breaking wave. Surf the waves back in. Try and put your hand straight up for help - you will need to skull horizontally while doing this. If you find yourself caught in a current in a river, then go with the current, on your back, and feet first until you are able to get yourself over to the side of the river bed. Finally if you are going in a boat, always wear a life jacket that fits you properly. 

Wacky Hair Day

 

Well done to all of Room 7 who brought along items for the food bank and also many turned their hair styles wacky. Well done to our two winners - an awesome effort.

Dance workshops

 

Students are enjoying viewing different dance styles from around the world before they create their own dance routine in preparation for our arts display.

Disco Fun

Swapsies was the the theme of Friday night's school disco - and what fun we had. Great costumes Room 7 and great dancing. Thank you for a great night.
 

Dress Up Fun Day

Fun times in the Year 4/5/6 team with our dress up day. Love the farming theme boys.

 

Wacky Hair Day - Year 4/5 & 6 team

 

Love the hairstyles Room 7. Fun times!

Hockey skills

Room 7 students have been very lucky to receive hockey skills training from Georgia. We all enjoyed a good competitive game. Some great hockey skills on display.
 

2020 Cross Country

 I was so proud of everyone yesterday who took part in our cross country event. You all gave 100% and coped well with the change in circumstances due to New Zealand being in level 2 for covid 19. The event was held in the school grounds and included the enviro centre which added a true cross country experience. Well done to you all. Awesome effort!

Making Stop Motion Movies

Fun times in Room 7 using the Stop Motion app on their devices to record their movies. Good work kids.  

2020 Year 5/6 Interschool Competition

 Team captains proudly presented their speeches at the completion of our games at Woodleigh School. Good job kids.

Sewing Classes

 The Year 4/5 & 6 students have been taking part in sewing classes and are very proud of their finished products. Well done kids.

Puanga/Matariki Buddy Afternoon

 Today was a perfect day for kite flying. Students really enjoyed making their kites to celebrate Puanga. We also made a decorative kite for the classroom wall.

Visiting Olympian Ambassador

Richie Patterson, New Zealand Olympic Ambassador, visited our school today - he gave a very important message about although he achieved a gold medal at the 2014 Commonwealth games for weight lifting, he had many failures along the way from which he learnt from.

Creative Video

Click on the link to enjoy one example of many creative videos students from Room 7 created during their time in lock down.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Q9glctGiPBYUoUu2gylcPknLF-s2LXW8/view?ts=5ebc67ce

More Amazing Anzac Art

Emoji Pictionary

Hi Room 7
Have fun trying to guess the books.  Email me your answers and I will let you know how you got on.

Anzac Day Recount

Anzac day

A few days ago it was anzac day. For the morning Jacinda Ardern said to stand at their mailboxes for a minute in silence . But since we lived on a road we had a better idea. In the morning at 6 ‘o’clock we had a ute ride to our biggest hill on our land (if you're wondering, we live on a farm) and climb onto the water tanks that are on top of the hill and watch the sunrise. In the morning I woke up before mum woke me up and we dressed up in warm clothes. Laura (my sister) made herself and me a hot chocolate but i decided to leave mine home we went on the back of the ute and the hot chocolate kept spilling so we tipped the hot chocolate on our driveway. Then we drove down a  bush track and I got my head hit by a bush. I turned my head around wondering what it was then another hit me in the face. What a way to wake up! Anyway we continued on and we had to open the gate to the hill. We drove up slowly and finally got to our destination. It was a very large hill and the sun had an amazing light, colored red. It looked like candy floss. Apart from the amazing view, it was also very cold and chilly. luckily we all had warm clothes. We watched and all said one thing about world war. I said thanks to all the nurses doing proper healing and not doing some of the worst bandages. Then we all listened to “the last post”.  It made me feel a little sad but at the same time very lucky  to live in New Zealand and not in another rough and tough country.

Quality Anzac Work During Lockdown

Anzac memories

On Anzac day - 25 of April my mum and dad and I normally wake up very early and drive into town. We find a parking space and walk to the cenotaph at dawn. It's normally really cold so I make sure to wear my woolies. We find a space to stand and watch all the war veterans walking down the street. There is also a brass band that walks down as well,they were red and black uniforms. We also listen to all the speeches and sometimes planes fly over and soldiers do a gun fire.

After the dawn ceremony we meet up with my grandparents and go out for breakfast to Joe's garage. I’ve done this almost every year. One year we laid our poppy badges on the cenotaph. I remember when we came into Joe’s garage they were handing out Anzac biscuits one year.  

But this year it was different but interesting. We painted poppies onto rocks a few days before 25 of April. I painted all my rocks with a white background and each of them had one or two poppies on them with the letters LWF meaning lest we forget.

On Anzac day we woke up at 5.30am in the morning to go down to the letter box and play the last post. We saw our neighbours out on the street as well. After we stood at our driveway we walked down to Matekai park to place our painted rocks around the park.

We went for a walk a few days later through matekai park and only saw four in their spots where we had left them. You can see that these are the rocks that we painted. My ones are next to the two black ones.

Amazing Anzac Artwork

Just one example of the beautiful artwork Room 7 students are producing as a result of learning about Anzac Day during their time of home schooling. Beautiful work.

Amazing Anzac Work

Anzac poem

Haiku

Red poppies sprouting

Soldiers marching at sunrise

The smell of cookies

ANZAC STORIES

I read the ANZAC stories and all of them were good. But my favourite was the ANZAC puppy. I thought that it was the best because it reminded me of all the hardships people had to go through for example gallipoli. They knew they were outnumbered and outgunned but yet they kept on fighting. Sure some of them wanted to stop fighting in fact a lot of them did but they still fought, until the british empire decided to evacuate after eight months of battle. This story tells us that he was cold sleeping on dirt starving and only had a dog to keep him company. But in the end they lived happily ever after, and the dog Frida was cute.   

Solder interview

●     What is it like being forced to fight and watch your friends die?

●     Do you ever feel bad killing people who just want the war to end so they can return to their families?

●     Do you hate war?

WHY IS ANZAC DAY IMPORTANT

It is to remember the soldiers that fought in world war l and ll. My great grandfather was in the home guard as a tank driver. It was just a fault in the machinery that he didn’t go to the front lines, because he was perfectly healthy. In 1916 they made April the 25th the day we honor those who died fighting for freedom and love. Every April 25th from then on people have celebrated ANZAC day by wearing red poppies and baking the biscuits that the wifes made and sent to their husbands and children fighting in the war. Also going to their letterboxes at dawn. Memorials  were set up in places like Okato with the names of the soldiers that died fighting. No battle or war is great, the only great battle is one that can be avoided all together.    

Self Isolation Poem

In Self Isolation.

Sitting at home and                                                                  

Eating my lunch.

Looking out the window and

Feeling in a scrunch. 

In self-isolation and 

So tired of this virus, 

Outrageously weird

Locked inside ‘cause of this crisis.

All schools closed, what a

Terrible disease,

 Inside this house

 Nobody at ease.

Oh I forgot the O

Lock Down Activities

Connie's bug house she made after logging into the Taranaki Regional Council's biodiversity in your back garden site. Well done Connie - looking forward to hearing how well it works.

Henry and Thomas built a hut as one of their 'grid' activities. Then they logged into Studyladder to complete some set tasks. Well done boys.

Mole Patrol Videos

Hi Room 7
Holly and her family have created two really cool educational videos to watch. Click on the links and enjoy. Thanks Holly!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFm_qDYArXc&t=2s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ozyvi7I8dI&t=2s

Welcome to Term 2

Welcome back to term 2 and online learning. I hope things are going well in your bubble. Please check your email account (if you haven't already done so) and log into google classroom to see what learning activities are available to you. I am available during school hours via email so contact me to catch up. Thanks Room 7 and look forward to hearing from you soon.

Great Ideas for While at Home

Thank you for your great ideas of what we can do over the coming weeks. This student's assignment summed it up really well! 

Fun Things To Do In Self-Isolation

Covid-19 ( Coronavirus ) is a bad virus that can be harmful to elderly. We would have to stay away from other people for two weeks if lots of people have cases of it. If so, here are some fun things you can do with your family while being in self-isolation.

●     Play some board games and hang out with your whanau

●     Use your imagination and have fun on the lawn with your siblings

●     If you have a pet, you can play with them too

●     Create new games and share them

●     Have limited device time

●     You could do some cooking or baking with an adult supervising

●     Help out cleaning the house

●     Read a book, if you have read all of your books, pick your favourite one and read it again

●     Watch movies on rainy days with your family

●     Have a daily exercise list for what you can do, eg. ten laps of the lawn and fifty jumps on the trampoline

●     Write a story to share with your family

The key thing is to stay safe at home and don’t worry! Those were some fun things to do in self-isolation.

Suggested Daily Timetable

Fun Things To Do While at Home

Have fun with these ideas Room 7

An Inspirational Poem Inspired by Dr Suess

Hi Room 7
This is your reading today! Read it in the style in of Dr Suess and share it with your family. I love the message this poem gives.

Swimming Sports 2020

 A fantastic effort from everyone who took part today in our swimming sports. Proud of you all.

Vertical Horizons Camp 2020

 What a wonderful experience we all had at camp last week. I was so proud of everyone who took part - you should all be very pleased with yourselves. Not only with how well you did the activities but with how kind you were towards each other. Well done to you all - I feel very fortunate to be teaching you. A huge thank you to all the parents that helped - what a great team effort.

Oceans Medalist

Proud of this young man who won a gold medal at the Surf Lifesaving Oceans Carnival for the beach relay. Awesome achievement.

Beach Clean Up

Room 7 picked up a large amount of rubbish from Shearer's Reserve today. Initially it looked as if there was no rubbish but we soon found a lot among the plants etc. Well done Room 7.

Cricket Skills

Room 7 students were lucky enough to take part in a skill session based on the game of cricket. The main points discussed were to always keep your eye on the ball and have a 'big swing'.