Fiafia Night 2017

Room 15 looked amazing at last weeks Fiafia night! We worked so hard on our dance and I am so proud of them for shaking their hips and doing Room 15 proud!  You can tell from the video they all loved being up on stage and performing as a class.

Please leave them comments below letting us know what you think of their dance! 

Music Credit: Pate Pate by Te Vaka
Filming Credit: Mr Moore

Cultural Dance Appreciation - add your comment below!

Answer the following questions about these cultural dances...

            

• Which country is your favourite dance from and why?
• Which dance do you think takes the most skill?
• If you had to learn one of these dances, which one would you choose?
• Which costume do you like the best?
• Which dance is your least favourite and why?
• Which dance do you think is the easiest?

Comment below with your answers to these questions! 

Miss B's Spirit Animal

My Spirit Animal is part CAT because I am
- Patient and I think about my actions
- I am independent and like working my myself to get things done but I also like spending time with people.
- I am fearless and have nine lives (meaning I cannot be defeated easily).









My Spirit Animal is part BEAR because I am
- Confident and my strength is one of my best qualities.
- I am a born leader and am good and supporting others.
- I empathise with others and help support them in times of need.

My Spirit Animal is part DOG because I am
- Loyal and faithful to my friends and family.
- I am protective about the things I care about most.
- I persevere and never give up when times are hard - I like to succeed in all I do.
- I am playful and like to joke around and be happy.

Pate Pate

- Why Miss B chose this dance?
I really like the song Pate Pate. Also this dance seemed like an easy one to copy and take moves from for Room 15 to use as inspiration for our Fiafia performance.

- What we like about this dance?
We like the part when the boys get into the triangle and have a solo part. Also that the girls have different dance movements from the boys. We like the main guy who has confidence and isn't shy with his dance moves.
- What is good about this dance?
Everybody stays in time and they have practised it well. They work as a team and look like they are having lots of fun. They also have cool costumes.
- What could be improved about this dance?
Sometimes when they move to different places it looks messy.
- What we think the story behind this dance could be?
A Rarotongan chief was in charge of one country. Two tribes formed after a fight so this split the country. After they reunited and sorted their differences they had a big celebration and danced together as one.

Some Healthy Family Recipes

From the recipes Mrs Kumar gave our class these are some that we could try at home to eat a little bit healthier.

Health Talk with Mrs Kumar

We just had a health talk from Ella Kumar.  She taught us some things about making sensible choices for ourselves and our family.

Some of the things we learnt were:

• Only children under 2 should be drinking dark blue milk.  The rest of the family should drink light blue as it has less fat and the same amount of calcium.
• Fizzy drinks and packet drinks contain mostly sugar.  We should not add sugar to our diet because it is already hidden in things like bread.
• Raro packet juice contains 18 teaspoons of pure sugar.
• Salt makes you thirsty and makes you hold onto water.  It dehydrates your body.
• Sugar also rots your teeth so drinking through a straw can help.
• Powerade is only meant for top athletes who need to replace sugar and energy quickly - children our age do not need it after one cross country run.

The photos below show some key information about what we learnt.

DISCUSSION - write in the comments one simple change that you and your family are going to make.

Room 15 Term 4 Newsletter

Term 4 PE Lessons - Volleyball

This Term Room 15 are learning how to play volleyball.  The Sports Auckland Coaches are teaching us how to set, volley, bump and serve.

Cross Country

Room 15 did so well with their Cross Country efforts.  Here are some photos of us in training.

Duffy Books

We love our Duffy Books.  In Term 3 we were luck enough to be gifted another 2 books to add to our collection.

Hiphop in Kauri Team - Week 2

The Kauri Team have been learning hiphop dancing from Mikey and Kyle from NOTORIOUS DANCE.

These are the week 2 video's of the different groups!  So far the progress is really impressive! Will be even better once I send you the music so you can all practise your little hearts out at home! 

Valuing Our Learning in Room 15

Our PB4L focus for the first two week is valuing our learning.  

We can do this in many ways and each of us have written a personal statement about what we need to achieve this goal.  Check out our responses on the PADLET below.

In the comments on this post write something you could do to value your own learning more! :)

Room 15's Role Models!

Room 15 have been looking at what makes a good ROLE MODEL.  We think that people who do the following make good role models...

- Inspire us to try new things
- Be the best we can
- Do the right thing at the right time
- Follow their dreams
- Do good things for other people and not just for their own interests

We talked about how role models can come in different forms.  They can be people who are close to you such as family and friends.  They can also be people that you admire but have not personally met, like celebrities.  Role models can also show up in many different areas of your life from school, to home, to other activities such as church, sports, after school activities...

This padlet shows some of our thoughts! It is an amazing read and I loved seeing who was named as being a role model within our class and school! Is your name there?  - you can also comment below and let us know who your role model is! (we love comments!)

Rights of a Child

Room 15 have just started to look at the Rights of a Child.  They were asked to come up with things that they think each and every child in the world is entitled to... this is what we can up with using padlet.

Feel free to comment below and say something that you think should be included in the list of Children's Human Rights.

Leaders of Room 15

We have lots of students in Room 15 who are being responsible leaders this year. 

Class Advocates - Craig, Nathan

Children's Panel - 'Akosita, Azaar, Katalina, Rosie, Sione T6

Peer Mediators - Sione T5, Craig, Tulei, Heamapo, Rosie, Monasinah, Tishuan, Samuel, Jeneba

Patrols - Samuel, Nathan, Heamapo, Janet, Tulei, Rosie

School Gen Team - Craig, Janet, Monasinah

Wet Day Monitors - Sione T5, Era, Isabella, Jeneba, 'Akosita, Janet, Ahmed, Tishuan, Farhad, Azaar, Katalina, Peter

Speaker Monitors - Janet, Tulei, Heamapo

These students do a fab job and assist the teachers to make sure May Road is an amazing place to be! 

Our peer mediators being awarded their badges at assembly today.

Week 2 Update

Room 15 have been learning the ropes of their blogs.

Each week they can share their reading and writing tasks with others in the class.  Check on the side bar to see who is the latest person to update their blog with fantastic writing.

Week 2 Update - 

• Miss B is getting used to the ways of May Road School.  She thinks that Room 15 are pretty amazing although slightly chatty at time.  

• We are meant to be having Wheels Day today but unfortunately it is pouring with rain.  We might have a think about organising a Kauri Team wheels day later in the term so that we can all try out the new track on the field.

• In maths we have been learning about how subtraction is the inverse of addition.  We are practising using our talk moves and only asking questions if we need to.  Hopefully in the next few weeks we will start posting some of our maths working for you all to see our strategies.

• Writing has been focused on War and ANZACS.  We read a cool poem called '10 things in a Wizards Pocket' and then created our own poem based on what would be in a soldier or nurse's pocket.  Check them out on our individual blogs and feel free to give use feedback.

• In reading we have been reading stories about different aspects of war and then retelling the story in our own words.  We have also been learning how to use Google Draw to create diagrams or drawings.  This is a really hard skill because there is no paint tool and you have to layer shapes to create your illustration - we will get better at this throughout the year.  

• Students add a comment below saying one thing that you enjoyed about your learning this week.  Check back for more weekly updates from Room 15.

Blogging in 2017

Task: write an introductory post on your own blog introducing yourself and telling people at least 5 things about you.  Also include a welcoming statement explaining what your blog will be used for and encouraging people to leave your feedback and comments!

This is my 2017 blog and I will be sharing my work on here with you... please feel free to leave me some comments or feedback! 

• I am Waveney and I am the Room 15 teacher at May Road School.  I have been teaching for 11.5 years.

• My favourite subjects to teach are Maths, Writing and art.  I also like teaching Philosophy for Children which will be new to this school this term.

• I have a really cool cat called Fyffer.  She is crazy but very loving.  She only drinks water from the tap and I have had her since she was a kitten.

• My mum is called Lynda and my dad is called Graeme.  I have a sister called Megan and a brother called Michael.

• My favourite food is Mexican and I like all types of fruit and vegetables! I also love Malteasers! 

Welcome back to Term 2!

Hi Room 15, I am your new teacher Miss B! 

I am so excited to be joining the May Road family and being part of your lives! 

This term is going to be action packed and we will be learning about some very cool topics.

I am going to need you all to be leaders and help me learn the ways of my new school... Mrs Barton has assured me that you know the go and will be amazing at showing me the ropes.  

Together we will make the rest of 2017 amazing! 

Camp Memories

This term the Kauri Team went to camp!
It was awesome! Read all about our favourite memories from the three days.
We will have plenty more to share soon.

2017! Better late than never with our first blog post... right?

Welcome to Room 15 2017!

We can not believe how fast this year has gone already! We have been super busy doing loads of cool things Mrs Barton has been forgetting to blog!

Better late than never, right!?

Stay tuned for some updates on our term so far!