Bridge Building

We have been learning about the new bridge near the airport.
We thought about different types of bridges and what the bridges are for.
Then it was our turn ... we designed bridges of our own. Natalie and Leyan interview some of our bridge builders. We may have some future structural engineers in Room 17.

Wacky Day Friday

We had a great Wacky Day Friday.
Because we have our swimming lesson during Team Waka developmental time, we decided to have our own special developmental when we got back. We managed to fit in our reading (by reading our books to our reading partners) before we had an early lunch with our buddy class.
We enjoyed a talent show in the hall during lunchtime. After lunch we competed in buddy class relay races and then we went to a school disco to finish the day. Phew! What a day.
 Take a look at this video - it is a very quick snapshot of the day.


Thank you to Veronica who was our Developmental reporter.

Swimming

We go swimming with Room 16 every morning. We have just finished a very successful first week of swimming.

Not only are we great swimmers.... we are amazingly independent at getting changed by ourselves and looking after all our clothes. Ka Pai Team 17

Drawing Dragons

We drew dragons and then wrote descriptions about them. Listen to us read our stories. We have very quiet voices so turn up the volume to enjoy our stories!

Tech. week - making all sorts of things that start with PL

Our Room 17 Reporters showing you some of the clever things we made in PL week.


Reported by Mushal and Nate.

Reported by Connor.
We also made planes. Sam made an Emerites plane.

Kitty, Veronica and Ashton are sharing their planes with Room 17

Then we all made paper planes and went outside to test how they flew.

Keeping Ourselves Safe

We have begun our new inquiry. How do we keep ourselves safe?
Step. 1. All about ourselves.
We have been learning about ourselves - how we are the same, how we are different and what is important to us.

We are learning to be able to say our name and address and what makes us special.
Because we are all stars and it is st week; we heard a story about sneetches and how they learned that it didn't matter what kind of sneetch they were, with stars or without stars, they were all special.
We made sneetchs and our own special stars.

We all have different fingerprints. We made fingerprint birds - they are all different but they are all beautiful!

First we made the wire and the fingerprints....then we created some very unique birds.

Full steam ahead in Term 4

Tr Week: Trains and Tracks

Mushal reports on our train and train track making.

Calendar Art

This term we have been painting 'our tree' (the tree outside our window) as it changes through the seasons. We took photos all year and used them to help us paint our pictures for calendar art. 

Take a look at each child's masterpiece. What creative kids!

New gardens

Thanks to some wonderful parent helpers, our new gardens are ready to bloom. We had turns helping to plant the vegetables that will be ready for harvest before the end of the year. We can't wait!

Magic Messages

Our buddies came and helped us make flowers that magically open to reveal a message for our buddy inside. Thank you Room 10 for being our big buddies!

Kia Ora Kitty

How exciting, another Team 17 member!
We welcome Kitty and her Mum, Lydia, to Room 17. Here is a video of Kitty's first day in our class.

Ready for Term 4

Some of the work we did at the end of last term is up and making our classroom look great for the new term. Take a look at the wild things swinging through our room.

 The super stars from Room 17 write about being on stage.