Welcome to the Room 12 Classroom Highlights page. This term we are on a mission to become Life Long

Learners. This Term our concept topic is ‘Lift Off to Learning’. During this term we are looking at how we learn,

ways to focus our learning and how to use our CORE Learning Skills to make us Life Long Learners.

We are currently looking at Life Long Learners in our community and the challenges they face.

We hope you enjoy Room 12’s classroom highlights which have been chosen and written by the students of

Room 12 (With a little bit of a helping hand from Mr McDonald)

(with some help).

CONCEPT

Term 1 Lift Off to Learning Highlights:

We have been talking about and using the the skills of a Life

Long Learner like taking risks, being committed, working

together, getting involved, being focused, asking questions

and trying our best.

We worked in groups to design a piece of stationery for The

Warehouse. Some of the things we came up with were pair

of scissors that were also a calculator, a diary, a diary

calculator, A cool brown folder, a splat shaped diary and a

cool coloured pencil case. At the end of the activity we

reflected on our learning and set goals for our next lot of

group work. You can see these on our wiki page.

Teacher Reading – Every weekday afternoon Mr McDonald reads us a Roald Dahl book for about 5 to 10 minutes.

The book we are reading now is Matilda. We have all really enjoyed reading these books and all hope to borrow one

during Library time. We even have plans to watch the movie ‘Matilda’ at the end of the term.

MATHS

Measurement

We have been estimating and measuring the length and width of our feet

and hands in centimetres.

Addition and Subtraction

We have been learning to solve addition and subtraction problems. We all

work in maths groups and do different activities each day. Some of the

activities are working with Mr McDonald, using counters and blocks, doing

activities on the wiki, playing maths games and working from sheets and in

our books.

SPORT – Every second Thursday afternoon we go out for sport. We have all enjoyed

being part of a sports house. Our sports houses are Kakapo, Kea, Ruru, Tui, Kotuku, and

Weka. Our sports houses are named after native New Zealand birds.

CAMP

This term we all went on Camp. We didn’t get to sleep in tents so we

had a big sleep-over in the Hall and Room 23 and 24. Some of our

favourite activities were making lunch, sleeping in the hall or

classrooms, washing our own dishes, the water slide, games, the

concert, morning exercise, the food and playing our recorders and

performing a skit at the concert

WRITING

This term we have been learning how to write recounts and narratives. We wrote recounts about our school

holidays, swimming, camp and erecting a tent. As part of our learning about narratives we created a character of

our own and used it to make a Character Chain. You should come and see them one day in Room 12.

COMMUNITY PICNIC This term we were involved in the Pukekohe Hill School Community Picnic. We made Rice Bubble Slice and Choc-Peanut Butter

Spiders and sold them from our stall on the top field. Room12 kids ran the stall by selling our food, taking money, giving change

and chatting with our customers. We also made colourful photo frames with pictures of us in them to sell to our parents.

Reading Groups and Spelling

For reading we have been using STEPS on our class computers. Mrs Taylor has been helping some people with their

reading. We work in Reading Groups to help us to become better readers. We have read all kinds of great books and

enjoy sharing our reading with the class.

ICT

This year we have been using ICT to help us with our

learning. We have used the camera to film our recorder

playing, our group work goals and our favourite bits of

camp. We all get to use the camera to take photos and

we listen to stories on the class listening post.

Mr McDonald showed us what a computer looks like on

the inside and we all had turns at pull parts out and

touching them. We really enjoy using the computers

and other ICT in our room and creating our own wiki.