Week 4 Term 1

Car Shopping

This week we shared the big book 'Car Shopping' written by Dot Meharry.  

Firstly, we talked about what sort of car would suit a family with 3 children and a dog.  We came up with lots of different ideas.

Daniel –  A white van

Noah - A racing car 

Elizabeth - A sparkly purple car

Charlotte - A sparkly silver car 

Anja –  A Toyota

Alanna - A flash car

Harry - A Blue shiny one 

Tahlia - A 5-seater 

Mia - A sparkly pink limo

Riley - A green/white one

Aston - A blue BMW

Sam - A white car

Then we went out to look at the cars in our school carpark.  

We saw many different types of cars that we thought would be suitable for a family. 

We read our shared book each day.  We got really good at using our expressive voices when we spoke the words that Mum and Dad used in the story.  They looked at lots of cars when they went shopping.  They were "too new", "too old", "too fast" etc.

We learnt all about the word "too".  Now we know there are 3 types of the word "too", "to" and "two".  They all mean different things but sound the same.  These words are called 'homonyms'.

Later in the week, we drew or painted a car that we would like if we were car shopping.  

Come into our classroom to see our cool pictures.

Week 3 Term One

This week we had a class vote on our Student Council and EnviroWarrior representatives from Ruma Piwakawaka.  Lots of children were keen to put their hand up to give it a go, but we could only choose one person for each role.

Each person who wanted to be chosen gave a short speech about what they would offer to the role, and then we had a blind vote.

Our student council rep is.....Harry

Harry is looking forward to going to the student council meetings and then sharing with us what we need to know.  He is full of creative ideas for the students at Goodwood School.

Our enviro rep is.......Anja

Anja looks after our environment around our classroom, and is keen to get involved with the enviro team at Goodwood School.

We also nominated two class librarians....Zach and Tui

We are learning to be self-managers

What makes a good self-manager in Ruma Piwakawaka?

We have been talking about how we can manage ourselves at school. We are learning to do certain tasks without having to be reminded all the time by our teachers.

Here are some of the ways we can be a self-manager.

We can remember to put our hats (pōtae) on when we go outside.

We can put our own bag on our hook, and keep it zipped up!

We tidy up an activity when we have finished doing it.

We can push in our chairs.

We can tidy up our crayons and our classroom.

We can manage ourselves by sitting on the mat with our listening bodies.

Can you think of any other ways we can show that we are excellent self-managers in Ruma Piwakawaka?

Visit to the library

On Thursday Ruma Piwakawaka visited the wharepukapuka (the library).  Mrs McKenzie talked to us about how to choose our books and where the books go.

We visit the library every Thursday.  We can choose two (2) books.

We must take these home in our library bag.

If you were an author and wrote a book, which letter of the alphabet would your book sit beside?

Mrs Bertrand's book would be on the 'B' shelf.

Reading with our buddy class - Ruma Kakapo

Yesterday we were reading with our Buddy class. -  Harry

Thank you for reading to me - Sam

I had so much fun reading my favourite book - Riley

I liked sharing with my buddy class - Elizabeth

Welcome to Ruma Piwakawaka

Our first blog post...

We have had an awesome start to school in Ruma Piwakawaka this week.  We have spent the first week getting to know each other, and our teacher, Mrs Bertrand.   It has been really hot, so we have enjoyed our swim in the afternoons.

We met our junior team leader who teaches in Ruma Warou, Ms Gerritsen.  We had fun singing and dancing in the library together.

We got to see our old friends and meet some new friends, as we explored our new classroom together.

Question: What is special about the piwakawaka bird?