Gardening with Room 10

Today Room 10 helped out in the garden with Mr Beckwith.

Here is a nice healthy Capsicum. This is one of the few left.

Dean is digging over the soil to plant some other vegetables.

Here are some other amazing shots of the gardens. We are so proud of all the work that everyone puts into or school garden.

Term Four

Welcome to Term 4 in Room 10

Over the last two weeks we have been very busy. During maths we had an investigation about Fractions and what they were. We didn't realise that we use fractions every day. Here are some photos of our different experiences.

Making 'fairy bread' and using the fractions of quarters and halves.

Halves, quarters and eighths...we got to eat the eighths.

Potting seeds using whole scoops and half scoops. Then writing our names on the top half of the stick. Today half of the seeds are sprouted. 

Also this week was Grandparents week. Today we had many of our grandparents come and visit Room 10 while we were doing reading and writing. They had a go on the interactive board. They can believe how different the classroom is now with all the new resources.

Planet Earth and Beyond

We are currently investigating what we know about Planet Earth and our Solar System. 

As part of our Main Star activities we had to create 3D Solar Systems. 

Here are some of our creations.

Harrison created the model in this display.

Megan created the hanging model. Spot Bronahs planets along the top of the display.

Josh W created this canvas Solar System. It even has CD's for the planets rings!

Brooke created this poster version.

Harry's Solar System was battery powered and the planets moved around the Sun.

Prep in Room 10

Today was the first day of Prep at Grey Main. In Room 10 we have 3 businesses. 

Funky Finger Puppets

These are all hand stitched and are great fun to make.

Quirky Spiral Bowls

These are quite tricky to make but will look great when we are done.

We are also making String bowls.

Minions and Angry Birds

These are wee toilet roll characters and should be awesome once we get under way.

Welcome back to Term 3.

Hope that everyone had a relaxing, family fun break. I am really looking forward to hearing about all the cool stuff everyone did and amazing places that you visited.

I must say that Melbourne was pretty awesome and the area around Mansfield was very picturesque. The best part of my holidays was spending 7 days with my family having laughs, fun and relaxing.

Well...Term 3 Has arrived! Room 10 are going to be very busy learning (and having fun) over the next 9 weeks.

To start we are all working on our speeches that will be presented in weeks 2 and 3. 

Weeks 1-3 we will be completing our Asia study to presented during Cultural Week. During this week Room 10 will be visiting Shantytown to experience Chinese culture

Week 3 is dedicated to 'Maths Week"

Weeks 5 and 6 are focused around ' Prep' and creating successful businesses or developing our work skills.

Week 8 is Year 6 Ski day and Year 5 Big Day Out.

WOW! That's the FUN, so we have to slot all our learning around these activities.

Please be prepared for learning by having all of your pencils, glue-sticks,  books etc in your desk ready to go. Don't forget we have Library on Wednesday.

* Just a note to parents, for reading this term I am using the Availl programme. If your child says they are watching movies, WE ARE! The movies are used in conjunction with books and subtitles as well as activities in their books. 

Magical Chalk...

Magical Chalk...if only you had a packet. 

If you had magical chalk. What would you draw?

If I could draw a magical footpath that would  turn real I would draw big chocolate trees. Big sour lolly snakes would be around, lolly jets will be flying in the sky, colorful rainbows will be in the sky and I would draw a golden house at the end of the walk way. 

Josh W

If I could buy a pack of magical footpath chalk I would make a Unicorn/ Giraffe/ Pegasus/ Dragon and it would poop ice cream with chocolate and multicolored sprinkles yum. I would also draw a endless bag of wishes!!!! 

Bronah

4 rules for the chalk

1. You have to be 10 to 15
2. Do not make things that will hurt people
3. Only use black or it will not work
4. You have to be in syndicate 3 

Caleb

Book Week Door

Last week we worked hard to create a door display for book week.

Who Flung Dung?

Monkeys wearing room 10 faces swinging from jungle vines.

Lots of crazy animals...

Flashes of red and orange showing Furleys confusion, shock, anger and frustration at the thought of DUNG being flung!

Puppets

Here are some of our finished puppets. 

We are now working hard to complete our plays so they can be stars.

Creating Bodies for our puppets

While the paint was drying on our heads we continued hand sewing the bodies and clothes for our puppet characters.

The hard part was keeping it flat and threading the needle.

Some of us used fur because our characters are animals.

All dressed ready to attach the head. Think Caleb will add some buttons to the shirt so he knows where the front is.

Creating puppets

Today we painted the second undercoat onto our heads for our puppets. 

We used a flesh coloured paint to cover the newspaper.

This was quite tricky. If we didn't work fast enough the paper started to peel off.

Mothers Day

This year on Mothers day I made breakfast in bed and brought a golden locket . Me and my dad felt proud  of ourselves.

Daniel

My Special Event was Mothers Day it was the best day of my life(for my mum).

Me and my brother made a goodie basket and in it we put:

1.A white chocolate bunny rabbit.

2. Raspberry chocolate logs.

3. Vanilla Fudge.

and some beautiful flowers

After about 30 seconds (maximum )we asked for some fudge...

without a doubt she said no!

The next morning we woke up and we found the fudge packet empty.

We asked mum, "Where is the fudge!"

"Me and your father ate it. I had about 3 pieces your dad ate the rest."

Finlay

Mothers Day

On Mothers day, my dad, brother and I were in Christchurch. My sister and my mum were in Greymouth. We went for a long drive from Woodend to Ferrymead. We went to Ferrymead to get my mums Mothers day gift. I got her some fudge and a eye mask. We got it for free. When she got back I gave it to her.

What did you get your mum for mothers day?

Brooklyn

Special Events...

Writing about a time that was special to us

This year on mothers day was pretty good for her.I was a good daughter and made her breakfast in bed, that was scramble eggs on toast and some coffee. "It was perfecto," she said. Also my sister brought mum some perfume. It was very important to me because she always has to work very early in the morning and it it good to know that she can relax, then so can I. Next time on Mothers day try and do something nice for your mum, will you?  

Nadia 

 Term 2 in Room 10

Wow, Room 10 has already been working hard this term.

This term we will be working on Keeping Ourselves Safe, our Financial Literacy, as well as many sporting activities such as Turbo Touch and Ripper Rugby. 

We are busy cutting and sewing bodies for our puppets as well as creating paper mache' heads. These puppets will then 'Star' in the plays that we are also writing. We hope to make videos so that we can share them with you later in the term.

To support learning at home each member of the class has been given a password for studyladder.co.nz  and e-ako.nzmaths.co.nz websites. Please use the links in the Numeracy tab to complete activities. Studyladder has set maths tasks at the students levels and e-ako is a pathway to earning points while learning.

Main Star Awards

Main Star Activities and evidence are due by 3pm TOMORROW!

Please have the evidence or comments signed by your parents or caregiver. 

You must have completed 6 activities for Bronze, 8 activities for Silver and 10 activities for Gold.

New link for independent learning

Hello room 10.

Miss Panther has been working on a new link that will help you all at home. This link has Independent learing activities and a list of all completed Main Star awards. 
Please visit this link to see what you can do from home.

https://sites.google.com/a/greymain.school.nz/room-11-independent-learning/home

I really hope that this works. If not please comment to let me know.

Mrs Thomas

Week 6 Update

Hello from Room 10.
We have been very busy bees learning, creating and just having fun.
This week the whole class participated at athletics. What a great day we all had! Plenty of sunshine, new events and encouragement for our class mates.
We have been learning all about what makes a great friend, in Harold. Please ask us what we think are important things that friends need to display.
We are all getting very excited about class camp on Monday. Already we have lots of questions  about the new and exciting places that we will be visiting.
Please come into Room 10 and look at our cool displays, as well as the Main Star activities in our cloakbay.

Welcome to Room 10

We will try to keep you up to date with all the cool happenings in room 10.

I look forward to meeting all of the parents of students over the next few weeks and getting to know how we can learn together.

Blogging is new for many of us, so offers of positive suggestions on making this better or information that is useful is welcome.

I hope that you will take this learning journey with us.

Mrs Thomas