Shake it out

We did a great job during the national earthquake drill. We "drop, cover, hold" straight away!!! We didn’t move until the teacher said "All clear".

Our Koru Whanau Art

Have a look at our Koru art. These Korus represent our families. Each Koru is a person in our family. All our families look different. Some of us have just a mum or a dad or both. Some of us included our grandparents because we spend alot of time with them and they help us out a lot.  Can you guess who's family is who's just by looking?

And can you guess how we made them a bit see through?

Te wiki o te Reo Maori - Maori language week.

Ko wai ōku tipuna? 

Who are my ancestors?

How many words do you recognise? Have a go.

We are learning to use positional language to describe where an object is.

This week we are learning to describe where something is by using positional language. We read Scattercat by Lynley Dodd to help us brainstorm some words. We were so inspired by this that we ended up coming up with nearly 10 more extra positional words all by ourselves! Aren't we clever!

In

Above

Top

On

Into

Near

Down

Back

Behind

Over

Left

By

Around

Under

Front

Next

Faraway

Right

Underneath

Through

Forward

Close

Below

Beside

Maths: Numbers that add to 5

We are learning about numbers that add to 5.  We want to be able to recall them instantly.

Matariki Week

What is Matariki?



The Seven Stars of Matariki



Matariki Myth: Tamarereti



Matariki Waiata

Here & said sightword

This week and next we will be learning how to read and spell 'here' and 'said'. Some of us have even started using these words in our stories already!!!

RICH values/Superhero Art

In Super 7, we are trying to be superheros. We can do this by demonstrating RBS RICH values.

• R- Respect, Responsibility, Resilience
• I - Involvement 
• C - Curiosity, Communication
• H - Have Fun!

Click on us to have a look at us close up. Press play again to watch us fly!

UP UP and AWAY!

Super 7's Superheros!

Writing: Super 7, Super 7, What do you see?

Today we read Eric Carle's Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see? by Eric Carle.

We were inspired to write our own version of the book.

It sightword

This two letter word has been giving us a little bit of trouble, so we learnt this song to help us learn how to read and spell the word 'it'.

Discovery Wk 6

This week for discovery we were focusing on RESPONSIBILITY.

One way we can show responsibility is by taking care of the things that we choose to use.
That means we
- use the things properly.
e.g. not hitting playdough with the container lid because it might crack and break.
e.g. not throwing building equipment around.
e.g. only using the scissor to cut paper we are supposed to be cutting.
- put away the things we use.
- not snatching or grabbing things of other people.
Comment: That is not respectful.
e.g. it could break or rip it.

Some of the activities we had this week were:

• Construction - Mobilo and Blocks
• Chalk outside (We did some really awesome pictures but Miss R forgot to take a photo of them... oops)
• Playdough (We did a great job of being responsible at this activity!!! An another oops though on the photo... it was a busy session.)
• Pastel and Dye (We used white pastel on white paper to draw a picture and then painted it with dye. It appeared like magic.)
• Dress Ups (We had to be extra responsible with this because Ms Jury let us the dress ups. Thank you Ms Jury.)
• Paper craft (We got to make lady bugs. Miss R wouldn't tell us how to make them, so we had to figure out how to do it ourselves. We were super resilient and two of us figured out how to do it!)
• We also had fun creating butterflies for ART but thats a work in progress!

Literacy: Rain Poetry/Umbrella Art

Our rain poem was inspire by all the rain we had during the flood week. We liked how each sentence started the same way except the last sentence.

We decided to create our own poem. We got into groups and created a sentence each, then we all came back together and chose the once we like the best. Here is the we made as a class.

Finally we made our own poems. We were going to put them in our poem books to take home but then we got a super idea of putting on our wall. So we created a rain background (cloudy/stormy) and hung them up in our classroom.

Maths - Tens Frames

And sightword

For the last two weeks we have been practicing how to spell 'and' and because of the rain we couldn't do our poem until this week.

Go & Can Sightwords

Today we are learning to spell two new sightwords 'can' and 'go'.

This is how we sing our go song... isn't it catchy???

Don't forget to practice our can song too!!

Music with Room 1

Today Room 1 joined us for Music time. There we so many of us but we did an amazing job!!! Here are some songs we did using the instruments.

T-Shirts

Maths About me

Interesting Eyewear

On Friday, some lucky kids got to make a nosey disguise. Can you guess who we are?

Buddy Class - Sign Language Week

On Wednesday we visited our buddy class in Room 27. We spent some time getting to know each other.

We also worked together to figure out how to sign our names in New Zealand Sign Language.

Here are some of our attempts.

The Giant Walk

As part of Road Safety week, our school participated in the 'Giant Walk'. Our buddy class joined us and helped us stay safe on our walk. 

We were very tired and hungry after our long walk but we had a great time! 

Special thank you to Poppy & Dylan's mum and Summer's mum for coming with us on the walk to help us stay safe.

Learning about the expressway

Today Max's mum came to talk to us about the express way. Her job is all about keeping the people who working on building the express way safe.

This is a traffic cone. Its big and orange so its easy to see. It is nearly as big as us.

This sign is used to keep us safe. We need to STOP when they show us the red side. We can GO SLOWLY when they show us the green side.

Here is Rory all dressed up in the safety gear.

Meet the official SUPER TEAM 7!

We are very excited to have 6 talented kids joining our class.  This brings our class to 24 year 1's. We have 11 girls and 13 boys.

Here is a picture of our class of superheros.

Road Safety

NZ Sign Language

This week is New Zealand sign language week. If you would like to learn more sign language check out our page. We are going to try and learn some sign language this week too.

http://superteam7.blogspot.co.nz/p/alphabet-this-is-how-alphabet-should.html

Bag pipe

When the bag pipes started playing, we wanted to go and listen. Neve hear the big drum first. We all hear the big drums. We all wanted a turn on the instruments except Ella but only some of us got a turn.

"The bat thing felt spongy when you held it." said Max

"It felt like there was wind coming out of it." said Dylan

Rory said "It felt a little bit cold."

"It felt like air was coming out of it." said Poppy.

"When I was bang it it felt like I have hammering a piece of wood. I could hear it in my ear. It was hurting my ears." said Olivia.

Poppy Art

As part of our Anzac inquiry, Wharamuku team decided to work together to create a poppy field using mixed media. We wear poppies on Anzac day to help us remember the men and women who past during the war a 100 years ago.  Each class created their poppy using their own materials and style.

Can you guess which poppies belong to which class?

Veena

Music with Our West Wing Friends

Here is a video of us playing our instruments with our West wing friends. Aren't we doing a great job?

Discovery Week 1

Sightword songs: Went & To

There are us practicing the rhymes that help us remember how to spell went & to.

We are learning about being Patient.

In Super 7, we are learning how to be patient.

We know we are being patient when we are

·       Waiting for your turn.

·       Not talking, just watching and listening

·       No shoving or pushing

·       Staying calm

·       Not moaning or groaning.

We had to be patient when we were making our poppies because there was only 4 paste brushes and 18 of us. We did a great job! 

Updated:
Here is our poppies. On Thursday, we folded a piece of paper in half and drew a 3 on it. We cut out the 3 and opened up the paper. It looked just like a poppy! We painted the poppies with paste and dipped them in glitter. On Friday, we add the stem and we wrote our names on the stem our selves. We also added a black circle in middle. We drew around milk  bottle tops and cut it out. We had to staple our poppies because the glue wouldn't stick to the glitter.

We are learning about the Anzac Poppy.

In Super 7, we are learning about the Anzac Poppy and why it is special to us.

We read a book called "Anzac Day- Why We Wear Poppies" written by James Locke. We decided that poppies help us to remember people that died in wars a long time ago. We also learnt that Anzacs came from Australia and New Zealand and that Poppies are red with a black spot in the middle.

Maybe you should read the book too. See what other information you find out from it or if you have read it before, what new information you can learn from re-reading it.

We are learning about ANZAC day.

On Tuesday we talked about ANZAC. Today was the first time we talked about ANZAC day at school. We all shared our ideas. Some of us knew a lot, and some of us just had a guess. Here are the ideas of the kids who knew a lot.

The day you think about all the people that died. – Leon

Long ago England fought New Zealand and everyone died.  – Ella

It’s when people wear poppies on their T-shirts and they wear it at school. – Poppy

Anzac day means when we celebrate the Anzac people who died and we say sorry. – Olivia

Welcome to Super 7

Welcome to Room 7 and Term 2.

We are a class of 18 kids. We have 10 boys and 8 girls. Our teacher is called Miss Ravindran and she is new to Raumati Beach School. We are a Year 1 class.

We are called Super 7 because we are Super Kids.We are learning how to work in a team and make good choices in our learning and in our behaviour!