Creative writing

This week Room 21 tried something new for our writing.

First, we buddied up with someone and got a dice. We threw a dice three times to get a character, setting, and a problem for our story.

Then, we got a big paper to brainstorm ideas and ways to solve the problem for our character together.

It was challenging but we all tried hard and had fun.

This was our first time writing a creative story.

Well done Room 21! You rock!

One land many cultures

Our topic for this term is called "One land, many cultures" and we are learning about many different cultures such as countries, languages, food, clothes, music, dance, and so on.

Last week, Room 21 talked about what countries we or our families are from and looked at the flags of these countries.

Miss Joo then printed out all the flags of Room 21 and we coloured them in to learn how flags look all different.

We will also be learning icons of different countries in the next few weeks so please bring some photos to share with the class.

Room 21 is very excited to learn different cultures!

Keeping rocky shore healthy

One of the learnings we are doing for topic is thinking about how to keep our rocky shore clean and healthy so Room 21 designed posters last week.

We discussed slogans, big and bright pictures which can catch people's eyes easily, and pictures that relate to the slogan we chose.

When we go to rocky shore, we need to remember to leave the creatures in the sea instead of taking them home, pick up the rubbish, and take the rubbish back home if we had picnic.

This week we finished our posters because we had to paint some parts of our posters with water colours.

Well done Blake for listening to Miss Joo how bright colours are important in posters!

Well done Laura for the bright slogans! I could clearly see what your poster is about!

I really like your happy sea creatures in your poster Geena and well done for painting your background carefully!

Week 2 of Term One

Room 21 have discussed the goals for 2017 and everyone made one goal at least.
We are going to work hard to achieve these wonderful goals!

Last week we started "All about me" art.
It is an iPhone template with 9 boxes of different things we love such as favourite animal, favourite food, a dream destination etc.
Finally we finished them and they are now displayed on our window in Room 21.

Van Diagram is a diagram are used when we want to know the difference and similarities between some things. We used van diagram to research what children in Room 21 like. It was very fun talking to other people asking if they like this or that or both!

This week our poem of the week is called "Summertime" and we found our first wow word of the year which is the word 'treasure'. We discussed what it means to us, found the definition in the dictionary (something valuable) and also drew pictures of treasure.

2017 is the year of rooster in China. Room 21 children have made roosters that has a Chinese character of rooster on its body. We will be doing some more rooster art over the next few weeks to celebrate the Chinese new year.

Welcome back!

Welcome to Room 21!

We had awesome first three days of school in Room 21 with lots of art and ice breaker games.

In Room 21, we made a class treaty to promise to keep these so everyone in Room 21 can be happy and have lots of fun.

Please come in and have a look at our treaty which is now displayed at the back of the room.

Have a relaxing and cool long Waitangi day weekend.

See you back next week!