This week we have been learning to use our voice effectively. We have created success criteria we believe will help us when we come to present our persuasive speech.

WHY learn this?

We want to use our voice to engage our listeners when we performing a play.

We want to improve our public speaking ability

We want to clearly share our message/speech with an audience

This is what we are focusing on:

Speak clearly and loudly

Stop at full stops and pause at commas

Use expression by changing my speed and tone at times (? !)

Today different reading groups recorded themselves reading a play. Tomorrow they will learn to peer assess against the success criteria.

Moment in Time

This week we have been learning about using a variety of different sentence beginnings. This makes our writing interesting to read.
I am proud of Zoe's writing. She has worked to improve her sentences. She stayed focused and is now using capital letters at the start of all her sentences.
I hope you enjoy reading her story!

Welcome back! It's Term 2.

Room 6 has had a great start to the term. We are well into our maths and Literacy routines. Thank you to all the whanau who are supporting children with daily reading. It really does impact their reading ability in a positive way.

We have begun our Te Reo Maori language topic - Ko Wai Au? Who am I?

Expect your children to be asking you questions related to significant people and places.
Year 5 students will be learning a simple mihi and learning their pepeha.
Year 6 students, who I must say have impressed me with their ability to remember all of their mihi and their pepeha, are being extended.

They will be choosing and learning a whakatauki, learning to welcome visitors and how to ask and answer basic questions about themselves.

Here are a few children who have learned how to screencastify. They are working on building their Te Reo Maori vocabulary

Here is Mana learning her new kupu. Well done Mana

Camp Photos

Wow, what a thrilling camp last week! Here are some photos. Room 6 children are working on their camp recounts this week. I am excited to see the effort they are putting in to have 'sticky' words and clever phrases throughout their recounts.

 Silly group photo with some of Room 6!

 We walked the Wairakau Stream Track like real hikers. Should have taken a class photo...

 Chilling out at Lanes Cove Cottage after a few hours hiking. Some of us went for a dip with Tilly and Mr Prickett. A kayaking crew were staying the night at the DOC hut.

 Team Too Much! We hiked that bit extra to get the unbeatable view of the Whangaroa Harbour. Dukes Nose is the name of the peak and you must be a confident climber to summit it!

Mr Prickett making his way up the treacherous track!

 Taking a short rest in between games of spotlight.

 Wonderful family helpers keeping everyone safe and well supervised during the swims at Cooper's Beach.

 We went looking for seeds with Jackie. We want to learn how to germinate native seeds.

Kiriana made the most of the waterslide. 

 Way too much fun.

Some of the girls

 

Another group photo

 Kayden on his way down the humongous waterslide.

 Spirit enjoying the moment. 

 Three's a crowd... 

 Lenore is focused on the obstacle course competition. Who can get a point at each station?

 Some of the boys

Taking on the challenge. 

Sticky Icky Wicky Words!

We have been learning to build our vocabulary by thinking about an object in many different ways. Such as adjectives (describing words), verbs (actions related to the object), synonyms, feelings associated with the object even thinking about the kind of holiday, job or history of an object!

One word we are using a lot to describe our great words is the word 'sticky'.

Yes, STICKY!
Why?
Because some words just stick out. They are interesting and new. They have a great sound or help us to imagine something better.

Some students have written sensational short poems (like my sticky word there?) about random objects. The creativity has been flowing in Room 6. Enjoy the following photos. I hope to have some children reading their poems aloud soon.

 Kash and Tai filling in and decorating our 'About Us' chart

 Here we are building our word list. We used a thesaurus to help us learn new sticky words

 Crystal publishing her poem and Sarn photo bombing

 Ahi, Hunia and Sophya working on their draft poem

Sonny taking time to work on the presentation of his exceptional poem. He really put in top effort with his word choice.

Poetry

Last week we enjoyed a few pieces of poetry. We learned that poems can, but do not have to, rhyme. That they share feelings and that how we arrange the words impacts the meaning of the poem.

Here are a few examples from some students in my class.

We focused on having verbs and some assonance in our poems.

We are called to be peacemakers

One reading group explored the question, 'What is the difference between a peacemaker and a peacekeeper?' Here is Tiffany's work she produced using Powtoon.

Peacekeepers aim to keep the status quo and, although they don't agree with something, tend to go along with it just to keep the peace.

Peacemakers also seek peace. A difference is they have the courage to speak up or take action when what they see is against what they believe to be right. As Christians, we need to know God's standards and we need his strength to be peacemakers in our classrooms, families and community.