Room 7 NZ Sign Language Week

Last week it was NZ sign language week. Dallas  Doig our hearing impaired student has a support teacher for the deaf has been working with the class to learn some basic sign language . Greetings.

Thumbs up. good job, okay 

As part of our class provocation Knowing me knowing you we interviewed Sam and she explained to the Children about Dallas's hearing problem, how his hearing aides work and how the transmitter that i wear around my work helps Dallas to hear everyone.

The children have been practicing their sign language with Sam.  Every week we are learning different things to sign like colours things in our classroom.

The children love showing off their signing skills.

First swim in school pool this term!

Today we went for our first swim in the school pool for term 4, with Room 6a!

Here are some photos of us swimming, it was cold but fun, we can't wait for our swim next week - Monday 30th November.

This was all of us in the beginning...

Aria loving the water

And again

Monkeys on the wall going around the pool

Josiah

Noah and Liam

Kaitlyn

Max

Aria, Savanna and Jaxon having a splash!

Mrs Baker helping us in

Aria and William

Fun times! Building water confidence

Erica

Anarah building up the courage to join in

How many were left at the end?

Great start to Term 4 Check out what we have been up to

The boys built this awesome car garage the boys have built.

Checking out the skeleton bones big discussion where they came from and what animal they are from.

Jaxon  is very inquisitive about bones.

Josiah and Kaya creating 3D shapes with the interlocking blocks.

Jaxon's lego ship creations 

Aria is doing an awesome job creating words with the blocks at a literacy station.

Kaya and Erika working really hard at their basic facts to make the numbers with the dominoes.

Riley Savanna and Bella using the trainer wheel bikes during our break times . They love the bikes

Noah is also creating words with the blocks.

Check out some of the awesome activities Room 6 the children have been involved in over the past weeks. It was Keeping NZ beautiful week so all the classes at the school signed up to
tidy up parts to the school and the community. Take a look what the children have been up too.

Room 6 in Cyprus Gardens doing a rubbish clean up.

Getting ready to tackle the rubbish in the school grounds and the park

All the children cleaning up the school grounds

Room 6 in the gardens in the park . They just loved getting into this activity

E Learning with P1 :D

This afternoon we had our first E Learning with P1 it was ka mau te wehi! Kia Ora P1 and Mrs Wixon for your great teaching.

First we learnt how to use the app Explain Everything, we learnt:
- How to take photos
- Add text
- and make a video

Here are some photos of us learning with our E Learning buddy class P1:

Even Whaea Jo and Mrs Wixon modelled what we had to do:

Videoing with our buddies...

Sharing back our learning to the classes...

Nga Mihi kia P1 and Mrs Wixon for you're great teaching