Queen Elizabeth II

Room 6 have spent the last week looking at 'everything about the Queen'. We are so inspired about her life, spending 70 years in the same job, that she was queen at 25 years old and  she has travelled all over the world.  We want to have the same bravery, courage and perseverance that she showed the world throughout her time as Queen, we also loved the fact that her and Paddington Bear had a very special friendship. 

Here are some samples of Room 6 students and their writing. We have been learning to type up our own writing. Well done Room 6.

Queen Elizabeth.  By Fletcher

The Queen lived in a castle in London. She met Paddington the bear. She puts a sandwich in handbag with no wrapper around it. Years ago she came to New Zealand to visit us. She was the queen when she was only 25  years old. One of her oldest kids was Prince Charles .Who is now the King. She traveled all around the world when she was the queen. She wore bright clothes everywhere she went so people could see her. She lived a very happy life being the Queen. She passed away at 96 years old. She was nearly 100  years old. 

Elizabeth the Queen

By Elizabeth

 Queen Elizabeth the second has passed away. She lived a very happy life.She ate a sandwich every day. She traveled the world; she even came to New Zealand. She was Queen for 70 years as the Queen.The Queen's birthday was in April and we had a public holiday. She met Paddington Bear and had a tea party. King Charles, Princess Mary and Andrew were her children. She was nearly 100 years old when she died. 

Queen Elizabeth

 By Amber

 The Queen passed Away. She ate a jam sandwich everyday.She was friends with Paddington bear, he also ate a sandwich like her. She wears bright clothes so that people can see her. She has traveled the world. She lived in a castle in London England. She came to New Zealand when she was the Queen. When she became friends with Paddington bear they had a tea party. The Queen was 96 years old when she died. 

The Queen 

By Ruby

 The Queen lived for 70 years as the queen. Then the queen met Paddington the bear. The queen passed away but she lived a happy life. Paddington and the Queen both have marmalade sandwiches that they hold for special emergencies. They have been friends for a very long time. The Queen lived so long, she died at 96 years old. 

HAROLD

We had an absolute beautiful time with Harold from The Life Ed trust.  Room 6 learnt all about head hasslers and how they can stop us from doing our work, how they can make us angry and be mean but with every head hassler there is a mind master that reminds us how to solve problems, reminds us that we can do it, and encourages us to have a go. What  a powerful lesson we had with Sarah. We also learnt how the difference to reacting and responding to different situations and how that can affects how we learn, participate deal with different challenges. We were so incredibly lucky to have the Life Ed trust classroom visit us.

X-MAN 

Tauwhare School had X-Man come in and visit during week 9 and wow we are always blown away with the fantastic message that he gives. This time Room 6 were lucky enough to learn all about rubbish and especially what is in our lunch box. We talked about what are better ways that we can have a litter free lunch box, like do we need our apple wrapped in plastic or how to make sandwich wraps out of old material.

Learning all about Electricity and Circuits

We used the Brainbox Circuit Kits to learn how a circuit is made and then explored using the diagrams to make many other electrical circuits from sirens, alarms, a radio receiver, a flying fan, a boat pushed aloing by a fan and many more.  The co-operation, resilience and perseverance was a delight to behold as they learned what they needed to do to correct a 'mistake'.

Enjoy our photos and videos here

 Eat Right, Be Bright Magic Show. 

What a fantastic show to be part of.  The students were amazed by all the magic that they saw. So were the teachers. Here are a few photos from the show. We had some of the Room 6 students up on stage helping the magician.  We learnt about what our body need to grow and how different food are required for our bodies to help us with our learning. Room 6 have since learnt a magic trick or two as well as created some magic art. Pop in and see it we might even tell you the magic behind it. 

2020 Calf Club and Flower show

What a fantastic day at calf club and flower show we had! I was so proud of all of the students either the way they created their sand saucers and vegetable art or how they cared and presented their chosen animals Here are a few photos from the day 

We had Rory, Isabelle, Marek, Laura, Clara and Angie-May participate with an animal this year. It requires a lot of time and effort in rearing your animal and I was so proud of these students with how they managed and cared for their pet. I am sure they have inspired some of the other Room 6 students to rear an animal next year. 

 SPACE

As part of my within school leader role here at Tauwhare School. I have been looking at increasing students digital literacy understanding using the platform of seesaw and storytelling. The importance of young students in learning and understanding while being informed about technologies is vitally important especially from a young age. Students are using digital devices to further their understanding while using it as a resource for knowledge and allows them to be connected to more content and the wider world. Room 6 have created fantastic space books that  shares their facts and knowledge about space. Here are their QR codes. This will take you to a seesaw webpage where you will be able to view their work. 

While we were also busy creating our digital stories. The students were involved in a 3d art project. They project worked in creating a whole class 3d solar system. That now hangs in the middle of our classroom. The students are so proud of their work, as am I. Come in and check it out. 

FIRST AID

Magic Jelly bean Tree 

In Room 6, we read a poem that was about a Jellybean tree and the magic that comes along with a jellybean tree. The students wanted to plant some seeds and see what would happen! We had to wait overnight and see what was going to happen! And MAGIC! We had some fantastic writing full of adjectives and similes! Well done Room 6

Home learning  

Here are some of the fantastic projects that occurred during home learning! What a great effort by all the students and their families.  We had a range of daily challenges and the students had to think outside of the box on how they were to present their challenge. 

Osmo 

Osmo is an amazing manipulative digital tool that enhances learning opportunities with game pieces to support. We first started with maths numbers and used this to support our maths programme in class. Students could use this individually or in pairs and work on the learning with that.  The other tool was the coding app which teaches key computational thinking and skills with a hands on approach. This is always a hit and my kids loved using this one too. Find out lots more information here on the Osmo website.  

Students have been introduced to the words and coding games using OSMO! It is a fun and great new way to include digital technology into their learning while still being hands on 

See here for a video on how we use it in our class. 

Calf Club day and the Flower Show.

What a fantastic day for all of the students. The students had a great time creating their sand saucers. We have some creative artists in our class. Well done to all the winners :) Below are a few photos of what we got up too. 

Sylvie entered her lamb into Calf Club day (Cotton was her name) Sylvie and Cotton walked away with three trophies and lots of ribbons. It is a huge responsibility to have a lamb with daily interactions and feedings. Huge congratulations, looking forward to seeing how they get on at Group day this week. 

ZERO WASTE.... ' X' girl visited Room 6 today, she shared valuable information with us on how we can make our lunch boxes rubbish free, from using beeswax wraps and reusable containers it was great to see some of the students already using these items. The students have a goal for tomorrow to reduce their rubbish in their lunches. We were amazed with how many landfills there are in New Zealand and that NZ creates 30 stories of rubbish every month in rubbish! We have made great changes in Room 6 with just recycling our paper and only sending away half a rubbish bin to the landfill. Next terms goal is to send none! 

Ruben The Road Safety Bear.

On the 13.09.2019, Tauwhare School were lucky to have a visit from Ruben the road safety bear. The Junior school thoroughly enjoyed his visit and took away some very important messages to keep ourselves safe when near the road. With summer coming up and being outdoors this was a well timed visit. Here are a few of the different messages that we learnt.. 

GET DOWN.... GET LOW.... GET OUT

Firewise: The junior school were lucky to have a great session with Jason the fireman. The students had a great time having ago at getting out of the classroom as they would if there was a fire.  We had been having a lot of conversations around what was a toy and what was a tool (eg matches etc) and what we should do if we find these around. The students were fantastic and very practical with their responses. Great work Room 6. 

Week Three/ Term 3 

We had a very busy week in Room 6. We have been learning about similes and taking what we learnt with Julia (Digital Technology) to create an animation for our stories. 

Check out some of our similes: 

The baby lamb is jumping like a deer. The baby lamb is as playful as a little brother: Liam O.

The elephant has big ears too, its ears are as big as car tires. - Sylive. 

The baby lamb is like a hungry bear eating fresh green grass- Ivan.

Rainbow colours

We were inspired by the many rainbows we see outside at this time of year and in our writing we used similes to describe the beautiful colours of the rainbow.

Google Drive :  Rainbow art and writing