Monthly Archives: February 2023

Room 4 Literacy

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We have had a great start in Room 4 Literacy! We started with some getting to know you activities before moving on to completing our first reading and writing sessions, woohoo!

We have been getting to know the members of each reading group, working together to make sure that we can learn together effectively. One of our activities including making a puzzle! Some groups had the added challenge of building a 3D car. This took some persistence as there were quite a few instructions.

It will be great to learn even more about each other as the term progresses.

Cyclone Pizza Party?

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Cyclone Pizza Party?

Today we had an interesting day in Team 5… we had 6 teachers and 21 students!

We are currently experiencing high winds and rain due to Cyclone Gabrielle. Because of this, many schools are closed and people are staying home.

While some areas of Auckland have sadly experienced flooding, power outages and slips, Pt England School has been fortunate enough to be less affected. As such, we decided to open our gates to those children who live nearby and who are similarly unaffected.

 

This resulted in a fun but different day! Due to our low numbers, we all experienced Kelly Sports, learnt in one class for Literacy/ Social Studies/ Digital learning and even got to watch a movie in the afternoon! To top it off, our amazing lunch provider – KiwiCanteen sent us Domino’s pizza for lunch! We were so grateful to them for our cyclone pizza party.

Now that the last of the bad weather is behind us, we are hope to have everyone safely returning to school.

Respect

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Today we had our first whole class discussion. Our topic was our class treaty and it became clear that we all felt very strongly that our main class value should be respect. We want to respect ourselves, eachother, our property and chromebooks. We have also respect for diversity and difference.

To help support the building of our treaty, we’ve participated in a number of challenges throughout the week. Each challenge has required us to work with a different group of people and we’ve ensured that we are all contributing and including everyone in our groups.

These have included a number of outdoor games, the spaghetti/ marshmallow challenge and a bustop activity. On Monday we will be signing our finalised Treaty for the year!

Room 4 2023

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Today we had our first day of school for 2023. It was fantastic to have the vast majority of our class back at school today after we were delayed by the Auckland flooding.

The focus of our day was ‘The Pt England Way’ and our class treaty. To support this, we played a variety of team building games and were challenged to work on our communication and concentration.

It was fantastic to see everyone willing to participate and work with a variety of people. We will continue to work on our Treaty for the rest of the week. Stay tuned to see what our class come up with!