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!

It's Tongan Language Week!

Malo e leilei Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu Whanau!

This week is Tongan Language Week and here at May Road School we are celebrating! Do you know any Tongan words? Share with us what you know and we will help you learn some more!

Just a Dog - Book Reviews

Our fabulous librarian Andrea recommended we read Just A Dog by Michael Gerard Bauer. We absolutely loved it and just had to review it for you guys :)

As you can probably guess from our rave reviews we thoroughly recommend it!

The Peace Child

Ok, so we have been a little quiet lately! That's because we are working hard on our school production! YIKES! With only 2 weeks to go, we have some serious rehearsing to do, lines to learn, songs to sing and plenty of fun to be had!

This morning we had a photo shoot with the main characters. It was lot's of fun to finally get into our costumes and really get into character. I think they scrub up pretty well!

Have you ever acted in a play? Have you got any tips for us? We would love to hear them!

Toolkit Prep is Underway!

With only 4 more sleeps until our student lead toolkits it's time to get a move on! 
WeVideo experts Tharindu and Sylvia are busily preparing their toolkit on how to use WeVideo. 
What a great team! 

Our 12 May Road reps are really looking forward to attending the day and learning lots of new digital tools! The best thing about the day ... it's run by kids for kids! How cool is that! 

Listen Up Folks!

Last week we were lucky enough to have some Lynfield College students come and teach us about sound. We learnt about decibels and how loud is too loud for our ears!  

To prove some of these ideas about sound, we created a model of an ear drum using a cup, balloon and a rubber band. We carefully sprinkled some salt on the stretched balloon. Then we made a variety of loud and soft noises. We had to carefully observe what was happening to the salt.

What do you think happened?  We even used the UE BOOM to play loud music to see what happened to our model ear drums. 

Collaborate with Crazy Artist!

Hi there blogging whanau,

Tharindu A.K.A Crazy Artist has had so many great comments about his drawing tutorials! So many of you have said that you are going to try drawing some of his pictures. Crazy Artist would love to see your results so he has made a shared slide that you can add your pictures.

We are looking forward to seeing all the cool drawings!

Learning to Knit

This week has been full steam ahead with our genius hour projects! 

Alisi and Tulei learnt how to knit! These amazing girls have decided to learn how to knit so they can make warm blankets for people who need them. We needed to call in some experts to show us how. A BIG thanks to Samuels Mum and his Oma for coming in to teach the girls. We can't wait to see the final product!  This project is going to take lot's pf patience and perseverance from the girls.  The cool thing is, they are now going to pass on their skills by teaching two others! Maybe they could even teach me!

Try not to drop a stitch girls!

 

Save the Panda!

Check out this cool stop motion animation made by Sylvia! Her genius hour project is all about her favourite animal. Can you guess what it is? That's right ... PANDAS!
These awesome animals habitat is being cut down and this is a worry! Watch out for more from Sylvia or check out her blog as she continues her campaign to help save the panda!