Swimming Sports, Friday 7th March

We can't wait for swimming sports next Friday!!!!!

A notice went home saying whether we were going to Matangi Pool 

(which is way deeper and longer than the HES pool) or having swimming 

sports in the school pool with Miss Suze and Ms Langdon.

Confident swimmers will go on bus to Matangi Pool and they need to 

bring in $4 for the bus.

We hope some parents or whanau can come and cheer us on!

Swimming in Room 10

We have been swimming in the school pool every day for the last 5 weeks.

We are learning water confidence - floating, gliding, kicking and breathing.

All of us love getting in and swimming although it is getting a bit cold in the 

mornings on some days and we are shivering and blue when we get out.

All of us love going under and playing games in the water.

All of us can do lengths of the pool using flutter boards.

Some of us are confident swimmers and can swim a whole length 

of the pool without stopping and touching the bottom to take a breather. 

We have been practicing freestyle, breaststroke (we like to call it frog stroke) and backstroke.

Hamish and Liam made a video about our swimming.

Selfies!

We have some very talented artists in Room 10.

We used bold colours to make our self portraits stand out.

The hardest part to draw is our nose. Miss Suze found a
programme that turned our photos into a sketch to
help us start drawing.

Finding the right colour to use for our skin was sometimes tricky.

Buddy reading with Room 3

We love buddy reading with Room 3 after Positive Assembly on Fridays.

Room 3 has cool new furniture to sit on.

When we are reading we look at the pictures and talk about them 

with our buddies.  Our buddies are learning to read and talking about 

the pictures is very important.

Thank you Shelley and Room 3 for sharing your new modern learning furniture with us!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Homework, when are we getting homework?"

Homework for Room 10 starts today.

Learning doesn't just happen at school it happens all the time and even at home too!

Writing Ideas

• Writing a story for 20 minutes to build up your stamina for writing.
• Illustrate your writing, write a little bit each day and then on Friday you can draw a picture and bring it in to show Miss Suze.
• Be creative and make a homework book to write in.
• Use kids blog and post your stories/writing.
• Make a book and make it about yourself and put it in the library in our class.
• You can go on storybird and write a booklet.
• Write an email to someone in your family and tell them about school.
• Write the shopping list for Mum this week.

Spelling Ideas

• Write 5 sentences and use your spelling words.
• Someone in your family can test you on your spelling words.
• Look, Cover, Spell and repeat.
• Search the word on the internet.
• Spelling websites that build up your vocabulary. 

Reading Ideas

• You can take your HES library book home to read but bring it back every day!
• You can read whenever you have spare time and after you have finished your other homework.
• Snuggle up in bed and read for 20 minutes before you go to sleep.
• Read the newspaper with your family and talk about it.
• Read a book or a magazine on the toilet.
• Read or listen to books and stories on the computer if you have one.
• Read the HES blogs and other childrens writing (kidsblog)
• You can read magazines.
• You can read the HES newsletter.

Maths Ideas

• Practice times tables with flash cards, 2 dice and times them, xtramaths.com website
• Maths websites online, lots of links are on our class blog.
• Get your family to write down some sums or equations for you to work out.
• Play Yahtzee, monopoly or cards with your family.
• Help your parents when you go shopping at the supermarket and look at prices.

Science in Room 10

I wonder?

How did it happen? wondered Max.

I wonder how the egg will get out? thought Lara.

I'm not sure how it worked but I'm amazed  said Alice.

I'm having a guess the hotness made the egg smaller so it could slip through thought Brooke.

The egg got inside because it was smoking and the egg got wet and slipped in the jar - no name.

The egg melted from the heat and could slide in thought Josh.

Our Class Treaty promises

We have explored the meaning of 'Getting Along With Everyone' in the HES toolkit,

 talked about the importance of Waitangi Day and the Treaty of Waitangi 

and read the 'Tree Hut Treaty'.

We think a treaty is a list of promises that you make so that both sides are 

happy living together. Without a treaty and a set of rules we thought there 

might be chaos and mayhem in our class!!

Below are some of the ideas we brainstormed (in small groups) as being the most important promises to make to each other.

We found that quite a few ideas came up in each others 'Top 5' - respect, 

manners, including everyone, kindness, ask for help, think before you do, 

show you are responsible, be positive, share, tell the truth and 

make sure everyone's happy!

Watch this space for the next stage of our Class Treaty - the tea staining and flame grilled edges to make our treaty look like the Treaty of Waitangi treaty.

Turangawaewae - Our Place and Getting to know each other

Here we are playing a cool, co-operative game. 

The aim of the game is to get the whole team to safety across the shark infested waters.....only using 3 hoops to get us across. 

Before we started we talked about how we could do it.

It was difficult getting some people to listen to other's ideas.

We had to make sure not to leave anyone behind.

Each time we play this game we make changes to our 

technique of getting to safety.

We came up with a rule that only 7 people at a time could be in the hoop.

If you touch the shark infested water outside the hoop you have to go back to the start.

The score so far is Boys 1 - Girls 2

Next challenge is mixed teams!

Kia Ora & welcome back to Room 10

Our HES gardens have flourished.

The vegetables are nearly ready to harvest.

We love swimming in the school pool.

We are learning to be swim safe.

We are recreating the gateway to the school for our room.

We look, draw, look at the photo and work in
small groups to sketch.

We are learning about the animals carved in the gateway.
The Fantail, the Lizard and the Taniwha.

The gateway is 15 years old and represents the
past, present and future students, teachers
and families at Hamilton East.