Blogging Brunch!

We can't wait to MAKE OUR MARK on you!

We have been working hard to prepare for our ACTION to answer our Inquiry question; How can we use digital tools to become better Citizens?

Next week on Thursday 26th of  July the Hospitality team will greet our visitors and sit them down on a seat with a member of the Tech Team. Then somebody from the Hospitality team will take their order (waitresses/waiters) and then somebody will start making the drinks and plate up the food. Then Liana, Eneio and I will look after their toddlers.

I hope I do a good job.

Written by Adriana Taimalelagi

Next week on Thursday the 26th is when the Blogging Bruch is happening. The Tech team is there to help members of our community who do not know how to comment on our blog. I hope we do a good job and I hope you like the way we have taught you to comment which might mean you could comment on this blog!

Written by Michelle Hopa

Here is the invitation written by the Marketing Team

You are invited to a

logging Brunch by Room 17

Do you want to be able to see what your child is doing at school?

Do you want to comment on the learning where you know it will be read?

Come out of the cold and come along to our Blogging Brunch!

You will be welcomed into our classroom and given your own member of our Tech Team who will sit down with you and take you through accessing and commenting on our classroom blogs on a laptop. During this time a member of the Hospitality Team will take your order and you will enjoy a freshly made brunch muffin and warm drink. The Hospitality Team have even thought about keeping your toddler occupied.  On the day there will be a preschoolers corner with great activities and they will keep a watchful eye on them. You also may be asked for your feedback either in a survey or on video.  

When

Thursday 26th June 11am - 12.30pm

Where

Room 17 at Sylvia Park School

Please RSVP by sending the bottom part of this invitation back to Room 17 or the school office on or before Tuesday 24th June. Thanks, from the Marketing Team.

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PLEASE RETURN TO ROOM 17 or the school OFFICE on or BEFORE TUESDAY 24th JUNE.

I will / will not (circle one) be attending the Blogging Brunch.

I will be bringing no / 1 / 2 / 3 (circle one) toddlers on the day.

It's a game of two halves.

A Rippin' Good Time!

On Wednesday room 17 went to it’s second clinic of rippa rugby. It was really fun! We had to do a running race  between two teams and it was hard. Unfortunately it started to rain so we went inside of room 23 (the new classroom) We had to take off our shoes and then played catch. When the rain stopped we all went outside and played real rippa rugby again and it was great fun .

When room 17 does it's rugby lesson it is really fun. We learn about passing and the rules of rugby. We have a coach from outside of school and we have to wear ripping strips which get pulled off instead of tackling. 
Written by Jayden Chapman-Tau    

Our Tribute to our Principal

A new acronym for Whaea Barb!

Whaea Barb was awarded a prize from the Queen. She is now a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit. We didn't need the Queen to tell us she is amazing, we all think so too and here are two of our character descriptions of Whaea Barb.

WHAEA BARB

A character description by Trent Veukiso

When you can hear someone laughing as loud as a dinosaur roaring, obviously, you can tell that it is Whaea Barb. She always laughs, which is a good thing. She smiles everywhere she goes.

Whaea Barb looks so young if you compare her with a 27 year old she would probably look younger. She also likes to wear red lipstick and has chocolate brown curly hair.

Whaea Barb is friendly, unargumentative, fully educated, and a very good principal.

Whaea Barb, whether she is in a good mood or not she tries to put a smile on for whoever she sees. She gives principal awards, and tries to do everything for everyone at once.

She makes everyone happy. I think (and so do others) that she is the best principal ever.

Whaea Barb

A character description by Charlize Cairns

Have you heard of the Principal of Sylvia Park School, her name is the AMAZING WHAEA BARB and she is a very caring  woman.

“Wooh!” look at that really really apple red lipstick on Whaea Barb’s lips and that brown bushy hair and what about her creamy soft skin.  Whaea Barb is a beautiful lady.

“Stop going to Burger King after and before school!” that is the sound of Whaea Barb’s brave and courageous voice.  Whaea Barb is a great role model she always does the right thing.  On Queens birthday she won an award from the Queen and now she is a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit.

Whaea Barb is our hero and she will always be our hero.  I think that Whaea Barb should be the next New Zealander of the year.

Netball is Neat, nifty and number one in Room 17!

Netball

We have netball training this term. We have it every Wednesday after morning tea and our couch is very nice. We do warm ups before we start playing and all participate and give it a go.

Written by Mitchy and Teua. 

In netball we have learned how to protect the goal and learned how to pass like a pro. Now we know how to run properly and have learned how to dodge the ball. this week we have been focussing on how to defend and last week we looked very closely at shooting. 

Written by Golpy

I am going to blog about the games we play. Pac man is a game that your class could play. First you have to get into two teams. Then one team is blocking the way to the other side so that means that you have to try to get to the other side but the team that is blocking can only go side ways, by side stepping. I got through by waiting until they were all distracted. Good luck for that game!

The tails game is a very active game. First half of the students tuck bibs into their waistband and then when the teacher says go you must protect your bib while others try to steal it. Whoever gets the most bibs wins. 

Written by Malachai

We have netball on Wednesday because there is a group of year 5 and 6 playing in a tournament on the 5th week of term 2. We like netball so we can practice and learn more more skills and we can win and maybe one day get a trophy. 

Written by Ahi.

UP CLOSE with CHUCK CLOSE

Term Two Week Three

Art with Whaea Dagmar

UP CLOSE with CHUCK CLOSE

Top 5 reasons Chuck Close is a good Citizen.

1. He overcame his learning disability and figured out a way to work around it.
2. He overcame his physical challenges of being in a wheel chair and having limited movement.
3. Followed his creative dream even though everyone said it wasn't the thing to do.
4. He uses other knowledge like maths to help him with his art.
5. He doesn't see himself as a role model or hero but helps other people to see that they can recover from something and get on with what they love.

WATCH THIS VIDEO FOR MORE

Whaea Dagmar talked to us about
Chuck Close as a citizen and about
his challenges as an artist.

We spent time practising drawing
shapes and lines and learning new
vocabulary like vertical, diagonal and
crosshatching.

We learned to be precise with
our mark making.

Whaea Dagmar photocopied a grid over our
photographs and then we used the windows like
light boxes to trace the outline of our faces
onto the grid.

Liana's work

Monica's work

I have chosen to colour my hair peach and brown because it is quite neutral. I think that crosshatching patterns symbolise our class being bound together - Liana

I used hot and cold colours because I wanted to show the contrast and I
used some patterns from my Tongan Culture to help me design each square - Monica

I used green and brown curved lines to show how my hair goes to the side - Sharon

Sharon's work

Emily's work

I used dark and light together for my skin because blue is a relaxing colour. Red and green make up my uniform because it is bright and similar to my uniform colour - Emily

Thank you for reading our blog this week. The students who contributed to this blog were Emily, Sharon, Liana, Monica, Trent, and Ariana. Special thanks to Whaea Dagmar for helping us get UP CLOSE with CHUCK CLOSE!

Delving into our digital world

Term Two Week Two

Delving into our digital world

Welcome to week two! This week we have started writing character descriptions, started talking about digital citizenship and finished reading our novel, we hope you enjoy our blog. by Danina

Inquiry

Our Inquiry into what makes a a good digital citizen is continuing and we watched a VIDEO for 8-10 year olds on the importance of safe digital citizenship.

What did I learn from the video?

1. Not to talk to people online that I don't know.
2. Not to post photos online that you wouldn't be happy if your parents saw.
3. Check your profile is private on facebook.
4. Not to be overly attached to your online profile.

By Charlize

                                                                      Reading

This week we finished our book that Whaea Emma reads to us after lunch called The 13 storey treehouse written by Andy Griffiths and illustrated by Terry Denton. It has a bowling alley, lemonade fountain and a tank of man eating sharks! Check out this video taster! We are going to read the rest of the series. Here is your challenge... if the last book in the series (so far) is the 39 storey treehouse then how many books are in the series so far? Write your answer in the comments box. 

by Aifala

Writing

We have been doing some neat activities to get our writing juices flowing as we have started writing character descriptions.
We had 5 mins to independently create lists under these headings.

Things that are slow...

• The internet when I go on the computer
• my mum
• My imaginary brother
• My chapter book
• Me getting dressed in the morning
• time
• learning rounding and compensating strategy
• doing my hair
• chickens crossing the road

Things that are red...

• Paint
• Crayon
• Clothes
• Lipstick
• Tomato sauce 
• Someone getting angry
• When you hurt yourself
• 1B5 books
• a babies bottom if you don't use nappy cream
• itchy bites

Try making a list in the comments box of things that are yellow, noisy things or things that are cold.

Co-constructed by Room 17

Last Week's Principal's award went to Nidhi for her great classroom citizenship.

This week's blog was put together by Charlize, Trent, Emily, Aifala, Danina and I (Justin). Thank you for reading it and we look forward to contributing to next week's one too.

Term Two - Room 17 Citizens in charge!

Term Two Week One
Welcome back to term two! This term we are learning how to become better citizens in the world we live in.

Our Inquiry Statement is;

Better Citizens for a Digital Today.

Our Question is;

How can we use digital tools to become better citizens?

Inquiry

Lance O'Sullivan

This week we have been learning about Lance O'Sullivan, New Zealander of the year. He won this amazing award because he inspires people to believe in themselves. He is commited to the community cause he doesn't care about himself, he cares for the community. He helps people that have no money young or old to go to the doctors.  So instead of them going to the doctors he goes to them and he won't let them pay. He is determined to help people and he is a big inspiration to little children to chase their dreams.

by Aifala

Snake and Lizard 

Room 17 then looked into Snake and Lizard by Joy Cowley which we read last term. We decided to think about the two main characters in terms of their citizenship of the desert. They are loveable foolish pair who are very different but in the end work together to find a way to help others. We can learn from them that you can't always get it right the first time and becoming a good citizen is about growing and changing.

by Julius

Statistical Investigation

This week Room 17 has begun our statistics unit. We started off by doing a statistical investigation into what social media the teachers at SPS use so that Whaea Emma could see what we know about statistics. It was so interesting. Firstly Eneio, Mitchy and I, Sione walked around the school and asked the teachers what social media they use. We filled in a tally chart to collect the data. We we came back to class with the results or raw data. We added up the totals by counting in fives and then counting on and we all decided that we thought the data would be best presented in a bar graph. After we had finished our bar graphs we looked at each others and thought about what makes a bar graph accurate. The next and most important thing about statistical investigations is drawing conclusions and making statements so that everyone can see how you interpreted the data. We found out that Facebook was the most popular because 19 out of 20 teachers use it. Facebook was over three times more popular than Instagram which is only used by 5 people. Snap Chat, with 3 points was the least used.

by Sione

Some of the Blogging team brainstorming
and writing their drafts.

Here are the people who contributed to the blog this week; Sione, Emily, Aifala, Julius, and myself Trent. Doing this blog by ourselves was so enjoyable. Thank you for reading room 17's blog we hope to see you next week.