The Zoo

On the 1st of May, the year fives went to the zoo! We were interested in bugs.
We have learned a lot about our New Zealand bugs and the parts of their body.

Here is some student voice about our visit to the Zoo and Bug Lab!

“We learnt a lot of information about the bugs and we learnt the names of the body
parts of the bugs.
There’s the head, thorax, abdomen, antennae, legs and wings for some.
We also learnt the groups for the bugs, insect (has six legs) (crustacean has 10 legs) Danielle

“Some were cute and some were fat but we enjoyed the experience,”  Isaac and Charlie.

“We learnt a lot about the bugs. The Weta bug lab was very special and

it is something we would not be able to see anywhere else.”

by Chloe and Holly

“ My favourite part of the Zoo trip was visiting the Bug Lab because

I like learning about bugs” Kevin

“We made a bee and then had to present the finished bee to the class and talk about the parts of its body." Aria and Rylee

    

"We were making a bug by putting all the different body parts together, We learnt some of the parts of the bug." Veronica and Zahara.

In our group, most of the bugs we chose had six legs. Sienna H”

"It felt tickly and I could feel the little feet moving over my hands". Isaac.

"Look what I found crawling around on the ground." Veronica

                                           

 


 

Room 20 2018

Friday 6/4/18 -Blog 1

Holly and Danielle: Hi we are Holly and Danielle you will be seeing alot of us and our class so you might as well get to know us!!!! We are the authors of our class blog!

Nathan and Rylee: We think science is fun and so is maths we are also class clowns!:  

Adison and Charlie: We are both animal lovers we and like writing.

Seidee and Tate: We are good at maths and love it and enjoy the sport.

Sienna H and Benji: We love science and art but the best time is playtime and fitness

Zara and Kevin: We both have a cat at home and we love dogs and sport is fun.

Veronica, James, and Declan: We are good at art and like dogs are cute.

Zahara and Raika: We both like reading and math. we are very good at sport and art.

Maisie and Cruz: We love SLEEPING and getting ready for a new day of school! We both do Kapa Haka!

Aria and Isaac: We think art is a fun subject and we both like cats.

Sienna W and Kory: We both LOVE unicorns and the colour of them. Reading books is a lot of fun.

Chloe and Zuhayr: We both love art and Writing and enjoy drawing.

Dora and Deacon: We enjoy playing in the nature garden at lunch and read new and interesting books.


Sharing our work with our year 2 buddy classOn Fridays in the middle block, we meet our buddies either in their classroom or ours. Today was the first time in our class. We shared our work with our buddies and everyone enjoyed being with their buddies. We all are looking forward to the next visit.

Sharing our excavator poems.

Reading our narratives. 

Sharing our writing and our cat's research
slides.

Talking about how to use the Chromebook.

We all enjoyed sharing our work

125th anniversary

      As part of Greenhithe School's  125th Celebration, everyone got dressed up for a parade. 

Room 20's costumes

Here are some of Room 20's costumes some are bright and colourful, silly and funny but all represent 125 years of the school. 

By Grace and Leo

Term 3 in Room 20

 Term 3 In Room 20

You all know about the basic topics: maths, writing, reading and word study. But do you know how much fun Room 20's learning zone can be? Well, I'm here to tell you all about it.

In maths in Room 20, we get to do lots of problem solving in groups, and often we get to choose who we are with. We once did a maths enquiry called, Can we afford a pet? We did that in groups of two. A week ago Mrs Bate introduced some new maths thing called The Think Tank when one of us asked for some more work. Her response was" Well have I got just the thing for you!" The Think Tank is full of different maths problem solving things. There are sections in this with strange names like quirky questions and steady starters. In these sections there are cards with maths activities on them. 

This term for writing we did a lot of persuasive writing, and for the last few weeks of term 3 we are doing a class debate. At one point we did instruction writing which was fun because when some people followed their instructions, they ended up in an entirely unexpected place. We did descriptive writing about someone we know well, like a friend or family member. In the first paragraph we wrote about their physical features, in the second paragraph it was about their voice and how they act, in the third, it was about their build, and in the last, it was about their environment and belongings.

For reading we did a study about the NZ hero Sir Edmund Hillary. 
We even wrote a newspaper article about him. We also did something about the 2017 general election and that has led to us having the debate on the last Thursday of term 3. Also this term Room 20 have been working hard on the 125 years celebration of Greenhithe School. We did research on the computer about our assigned decades with our partner, and printed it out. We then put it on a big, decorated display board. You got to choose your own design. Part of our research was to find information, read it and choose what we needed and then write this in our own words. This is not an easy thing to do.

Every Thursday our buddy class (Room 11) comes to our class to do some work with their assigned buddies. Just recently, they came to our class to get their buddies to publish their stories. Some people's buddies had 10 pages worth of writing!
Room 20 absolutely loved the art expedition. They loved looking at all the fascinating pieces of art. 

Last but not least word study. Every single week we get a fun word study sheet, which can be mind-boggling, thrilling or rarely easy. With these sheets, the first thing we have to do is highlight the LI (learning intention) and write LI next to the highlighted text. This helps us to focus on what we are learning. Also, these sheets give us our new spelling words for each week. They have activities to help us use our spelling words in different ways. For 4 Thursdays Room 20 did badminton with Marne, the badminton teacher. Room 20 was absolutely overjoyed to learn badminton. All in all Room 20 is a brilliant class, which I bet you would love to be in.

Room 20 at the NZ playhouse show, Puss in Boots Pet Detective.

Room 20 having an awesome time at badminton.

Room 20 helping their buddy class to publish their work.

Room 20 smiling at the art expedition.

Room 20 working in another extravagant week.

By Leo

Room 20 2017

2017 Friday 3rd February - AWESOME DISCOVERY  

 My students love Drama

😊😊😊😊😊😊

                                                                                                                                 

Students were asked to form their own social groups to read plays from Speak Out Theatre. (Great job everyone)

They also had to work out what was needed to be considered to form a good working group. e.g.

Communication

Listening when others are reading

Expressing an opinion
Good choices about who to work with.
Work out how to choose a part

Students discussing who should be the leader and what character they would like to play. (Lots of excitement doing this).

During the first reading of the play, everyone concentrated on using good voice expressions. They even changed their accent if they wanted to. (This will develop once everyone feels less shy and becomes more confident).

Getting to know the play and their characters 

Well done to everyone, it was lovely to watch how engrossed you all were in doing this activity.

E.O.T.C. with Room 20

EOTC (Education Outside The Classroom) has been an awesome experience for all of us.

Water Safety at the Millennium

                                  

Rockwall climbing at the Millennium

                     

                                                                                               

Kayaking at the Millennium

 Cooking on Hobo Stoves  

Arataki -Looking at and discussing the use of traps for catching pests.