More reading plays

The Cats in the Hats performed their cool play for the class. The wee garden out the front of our classroom is making a wonderful stage!

The Horton's also performed using an outdoor stage and we were most impressed again.

Look at all the paparazzi wanting to capture the play!

The props were well thought out, too. 

We are a creative dramatic bunch!

Pink Shirt Day

We had Pink Shirt Day a few Fridays ago to support making friends and being connected to people in a good way. Shakira was our pink lady and she won a Pinky Prize!

Amelia came in to read her story that she had written about being bullied. It was an amazing story with great characters who showed empathy. It was impressive she had written it with her mum. 

We also ate pink lady apples. What a great day to support. 

Here's Amelia's story. 

Ice Skating at School

We had a fundraiser at school a few weeks ago. An ice skating rink was set up at school in the hall. It was huge, just like a real one. Tell your family how it was different though.

We had so much fun skating!

It was slippery just like ice.

We learned persistence and how to help our classmates if they fell over. 

When we came back to class we wrote some very persuasive letters to Mr Maindonald and the Board of Trustees about why we should have a permanent ice skating rink at school. We included where it should go on the school grounds and how we would raise the money. We were very persuasive! I think it might be impossible for the Board to deny our request.

Pink Shirt Day - May 22nd

Some senior boys and Room 22 are raising awareness for Pink Shirt Day, which is next Friday. The day is about friendships and making sure people feel safe and happy at school. Feel free to bring a gold coin donation to support the cause, or just try to find a pink/red shirt on the day. 

Many Stars are Born!

Room 12 have been reading lots of "The Value of...." stories, and today's one was The Value of Humour. We learned about Will Rogers of America who loved to make people laugh, especially in hard times. 

This linked nicely into the plays that some of the reading groups have been doing this week. 

The Sam-I-Am's presented a play called "Shhhh, We're Watching Tv". Tell your family what it was about and what you enjoyed the most. 

It was so lovely to see the audience laughing and enjoying the play so much. 

Then the Sneetches performed "Three Billy Goats Gruff" outside the classroom. It was another humorous play that we all enjoyed!

The last play we watched was by the Loraxes who performed "Don't Forget Grandma" and they did a marvellous performance, too. 

Nikita had taught some of the class the haka she learned at Kapahaka and we had a mini performance of that, too. It was a busy afternoon of performing arts!

Fraction Friday

As we have been learning a lot about fractions and equal sharing, today we got given a handful of equipment, and we had to figure out what fraction it could be split into.

Some numbers like 12 could be split into halves, quarters and thirds. 

We could also make links to our times tables that we are learning as well!

Connor learned that 13 could be split into 4 groups if each group had 3 and 1/4! 

Justin found that that number 30 could be split into 10ths.

Nicole could tell me that 3/4's of 20 is 15.

And Lily found out that 96 could be split into 1/4's as there would be 24 in each group!

We are pretty smart and inquisitive in Room 12.