Room6@Sunnyhills

Room 6 is embarking on a new inquiry unit... Passion Projects! These individual projects will delve into something that we are passionate about combined with something that we dislike or are worried about to create a solution for what we are worried about. First we talked about what is passion. We decided that passion is when you love something and you are dedicated to giving your all to that thing. For instance, Poppy loves horses and horse riding. It is her passion and she dedicates as much time as she can to improving her skills as a horse rider. Then we created some wonderings about a topic we are passionate about... After that, we motivated and empowered ourselves with this Kid President video. Now, we are planning at the planning phase of our passion projects. We are creating a driving question that we can research, create a product for and then present what we have done in week 8. Sound exciting? We think so! Watch out for more blogs about our passions!

Wooooooooh today was a very tiring day. We had our own 'babies' to look after and boy was it hard work. We made sure to work with our co-parent to look after, feed, change and entertain our babies for a whole day at school. It was hard to multi-task sometimes! We have a new found appreciation for all that our own parents have done and do for us. Here are some photos from our day.

In room 6 we are experiencing what it is like to be parents. As part of our Keeping Ourselves Safe unit we are learning how to look not only after ourselves but after others. Miss Stuhlmann will play a simulated cry during the day to signal that the baby needs to be feed, changed, burped and played with. Let's see how we do as parents for the day.

Last week on Friday, we explored creating art with pastels. We blended a multitude of colours to make the background and then we cover it completely with black pastel. After that, we scratched off the black pastel to make wonderful and eye catching designs.  What do you think of our designs?

It's that time of year again when we start thinking about buying calendars for 2020! I can't believe how fast 2019 has gone. The students of room 6 have worked very hard to create some amazing pieces of art that you can now buy printed on calendars, mouse pads and so much more.  Your learner went home with a notice of how to buy these awesome pieces of art on Tuesday afternoon.  Check out some of the art here:

We loved making pizza with our buddy class on Friday last week. It was a great opportunity for us to share our knowledge of fractions with our buddies as well as test our knowledge of doubling ratios and fractions. The best part was eating the pizza of course!

Room 6 had a fantastic kick off to Māori Language week! We enjoyed an exciting lesson with Mrs Harding in the Green Room about pronouncing Māori words correctly, learning Māori words for everyday items and learning the days of the week. We can't wait to practice everything that we learnt today and learn even more in Te Reo during the rest of the week. Ko te aha tēnei rā? (What day is this?) Rāhina - Monday Rātū - Tuesday Rāapa - Wednesday Rāpare - Thursday Rāmere - Friday Rāhoroi - Saturday Rātapu - Sunday Ko te Rāhina tēnei rā! (It is Monday!)

This term, for maths, we are looking into measurement and fractions. We have signed up for a wonderful School Kit unit called "Walk the Length of New Zealand". This kit allows us to explore all of the different units of measurement and how to convert them into each other. So far, we have found out our own personal average step lengths so that we can see how many steps we would have to take to walk the length of New Zealand.  Next we are going to explore perimeters and how to calculate these. We will then convert the perimeter calculations into our own personal steps. For instance; how many steps will it take Jenuli to walk around the netball courts compared to Johnathan? What do you think? Have a guess and type it into the comments. How many steps will Jenuli need to take to walk around our netball courts and how many steps will Johnathan need to take? Who will take the most steps?

The Bears reading group have been working really hard to extend their skimming and scanning skills when reading. This week, we read the story called "Police Work" which is all about different people applying to be an undercover police person. We skimmed and scanned the applications to see what the important details were in each application. We then used the important details to help us make our own police job applications. What do you think? Can you see what the important details are from reading our applications?