Room6@Sunnyhills

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?

To help us understand and apply our knowledge of simple fractions in everyday life, we created some fraction pizzas for our maths wall. The teacher gave us instructions on how to create our own personal pizzas. It was so much fun!                                                          

On Monday, we looked back at some of the amazing things we have been learning and achieving in room 6 in term 2. Miss Stuhlmann wrote most of our learning intentions on the board (she ran out of room for all of them) and we reflected on how well we did at each of those learning goals. We have started thinking about some of our work that we would like to share with our parents and put our Sunnyhills Share and Shine GEM to light during the three way conferences. We can't wait! Hope you have booked a time for your interview!

This week was amazing. We were encouraged to walk to school for Road Safety Week and, to make each and everyday exciting, students who walked to school were allowed to dress up and be creative. On Monday we saw lots of colourful and funny Super Hats! Tuesday brought us extra Funky Feet. When Wednesday came around, we were wowed with the Wacky, Crazy Hair. On Thursday, Miss Stuhlmann was very surprised to find so many Twins and Triplets in her class! Finally, on Friday, the WHOLE school embarked on a fabulous walk to the Pakuranga Sailing Club. We had so much fun dressing up and embracing walking to school. I hope that even after Road Safety Week is done, we can keep up the walking.

Last week, we looked at a picture maths problem. We used logical reasoning and problem solving to figure out what each picture was worth and then work out the last equation. We found many ways that we could solve the bottom question and discussed the mathematical strategies for each. In the end we all agreed on one strategy and one answer. See if you can solve this picture problem and comment your answers below!

We signed up for the Get New Zealand Writing school kit which has amazing ideas and resources to help us develop our writing skills. So far room 6 has been working extremely hard to create a wonderful colour poem. We investigated what makes a great sentence and challenged ourselves to include nouns, adjectives, adverbs, verbs and similes! I think we have done an amazing job, what do you think?

Room 6 had an amazing time at their EOTC days. Our first day at Eastern Beach was organised and run by the wonderful Auckland Council staff and they ensured that we were all having fun and learning new skills. Our second day was at Vector Wero Water-park where we got to experience white water rafting in a safe environment with well trained staff. A huge THANK YOU to all of the fantastic parents who came to help us on these days. You made them extra special for us! Check out our slideshow with pictures for these days here and go to the Sunnyhills Facebook page for more.  

Today room 6 had their first session with Mrs Lee in the Exploration Station (room 12). We had an amazing time beginning to learn about how to keep ourselves safe and strong online and how to be helpful and smart. Our first activity to help get us thinking about online safety was to write down two facts about ourselves and then place them under safe to share online or not safe to share online. We had some interesting discussions about some of the items we shared. Mrs Lee has also made an incredible website to help teach us about digital citizenship called Shine Online. Check it out here . AND if you ever need help or advice outside of school on how to stay safe and strong online you can always check out Netsafe NZ . This website has a lot of useful information to help keep families and students safe online.