Tuesday, 12 August 2014

Commonwealth Games Stadium Constructions

Room 11 have just had their turn to research and create a Commonwealth Games stadium.  The first step was to research images of their chosen sport and mark them up with labels.  (See below.)

Scott, Ava-Richelle and Brooke working on their structures.
See more photos of us all working below.


Next the children were asked to work together with other team members to construct a stadium venue that contained the features they found in their photographs.  As well as the stadium there had to be some kind of connection to other structures - a road, railway, bridge or tunnel.



Each child chose their sport and group members. The "world" was created in advance and a "host"   (i.e. a responsible child familiar with minecraft)  appointed by the teacher. Their job was to manage the team members' construction projects within the "world".

See more constructions below.


There were just a few rules. No sporting events were to be duplicated within a world; no Minecraft weapons were to be drawn (unless an indigenous animal indigenous to the world strayed onto the building site and endangered competitors, officials or media commentators).

This project involved (among other key skills) measurement, design, incorporating the research data into the final construction.

The class was given a set of Success Criteria. And they were away.  Each child was asked to record their progress throughout the day in a document (see the bottom of this post).




Sunday, 10 August 2014

MOTAT


MOTAT recount 
By Anthony Reupena 

On Thursday Room 11, 12, 8 and 9 went on a trip to MOTAT.  We got to explore MOTAT and it was fun!  We got to go on the tram and we got to go in the mirror maze.  Then my group went in the cars.  They didn’t move they were stuck to the wall and there were horns near the cars.  They were loud.  Very loud and it hurt my ears!  After we went to the classroom in MOTAT.  The lady Emma took us into the classroom.  It was full of old stuff, old clothes and an old washing machine.  Then we went back to Western Heights.












Room 11 host assembly

In week one, Room 11 hosted the whole school assembly with our buddy class Room 20.  We showed our bucket filling videos that we had worked very hard on and we sung a song called Take it Easy, By Stan Walker.  

Well done Room 11 - you were singing superstars!  


100 days at school!

In week one we celebrated being at school for 100 days! 
We did lots of counting and fun activities for our 100 day celebrations. 

 Caleb and Cynthia are counting the loops on our paper chain to make sure there are 100!  

We got to wander around the junior classrooms and check out the displays. 


 We played on the playground for 100 seconds!

 Adam and Jaxin are enjoying our yummy shared lunch!  Thank you to everyone who brought a plate! 

 Having a boogie at the disco in the afternoon. 
 The middle school coming around to check out our 100 day collections!  
Zac with his collection of 100 sprinkles! 

Friday, 18 July 2014

Book Character Day!

On the last day of Term 2, the whole school dressed up to celebrate book week.   Here are a few snaps of Room 11 dressed up as book characters. 

Ava and Leah The Pirates with Hannah the Autumn Fairy...

Pirate Leah with Cat in the Hat Morewai!

  
Dracula Kingston, Spiderman Adam and Scott as Prince Caspian.

Cheyanne the Pink Cat with Autumn Fairy.
 Dracula has found his friend Caleb the Knight.

 Cynthia The Ballerina and Fairy Brooke.

The boys have found Erazmus as Super Mario and Batman Zac. 

 The whole class on stage showing off their costumes to the whole school. 

Here we are with our buddy class... Can you spot Dylan dressed as Danny Zuko (Grease) and Jaxin as Mike Wazowski from Monsters Inc?   


Well done for coming up with such fantastic costumes Room 11!  

Gymnastics Trip

On Thursday the 19th of June, we went to Waitakere Gymnastics in New Lynn for a morning of fun gym activities.  

First we did some exercises and stretches to make sure our bodies were warmed up...

 Then we moved around the different activities in our groups...


This group can't wait to get on one of the favourite activities: The rope swing! 

Brooke balancing on the high beam! 

Adam getting ready to swing into the foam pit! 

Jaxin trying to make his way out of the sponges! 

Erazmus getting ready for a big jump into the foam!


Who is that in the foam?   It's Mason! 

Leah carefully concentrating and making her way across the beam.



Thank you to all of our lovely parent helpers who came along on the day. 

Tuesday, 27 May 2014

Pyjama Day!

On Tuesday the 27th of May, we had Pyjama Day at school!  
Here are some of the things we got up to on Pyjama Day in Room 11...
 First we did Jump Jam in our pyjamas!
 Then we waited to join in the pyjama parade!  
 Who will be called next?  Onsies, animal PJs or spotty pyjamas?  
 Some of us brought teddies to join in the PJ day fun! 
 Back in our class we snuggled up on the mat and brainstormed words to describe our PJs:
"COSY!"   "WARM!"    "SOFT!"   "FLUFFY!" 
 After a trip to the library in our snuggly pyjamas, we had a delicious treat...hot chocolate with marshmallows!   YUM!

In the afternoon we watched a mini movie and went to gymnastics with Room 12...

WE LOVE PYJAMA DAY! 








Monday, 26 May 2014

Tuesday the 27th of May is Pyjama Day!


Playball


Today Room 11 took part in Playball activities. 


We met two Playball coaches who taught us different games to practise ball skills.

Adam and Ociana showing off their skills...
Erazmus being the hoop collector! 
Scott and Cynthia racing to try to get to the hoop first...
Hannah, Brooke, Ava, Morewai and Anthony practising their throwing skills...
Anthony, Dylan and Mason about to take off!  
Adam, Ociana, Mia, Cynthia, Erazmus and Cheyanne practise dribbling. 

We loved Playball!