Taradale Room 16

Wet Day Games

2009-06-09T13:34:00.000-07:00

We have lego, board games, chess, domino's and lots more games. We play these on wet days.

photo by Rumer

Story Cubes

2009-06-08T20:09:00.000-07:00

We made a cube. We had to number each face. We wrote six parts of the story Chicken Little.

photo by Cameron

Napier Museum

2009-06-08T20:04:00.000-07:00

We went to the museum in Nap.We learnt about the 1931 Earthquake. We went for a walk around Napier looking at the art deco designs. We saw sunbursts, ziggurats and zig zags. We drew some art deco designs when we got back to school.

photo by Kate

Our People

2009-06-08T20:00:00.001-07:00

We are learning about special people. For example; fire fighters and the Red Cross.

Photo by Janey

Writing

2009-06-08T19:58:00.002-07:00

We are learning to structure our writing for a special purpose. We are learning to write recounts.

Photo by Kaitlin

Room 16's Fabulous Learning

2009-04-27T15:03:00.000-07:00

Thinking Maps
Thinking Maps help us to think of good ideas for our writing.

Descriptive Writing
We have written lots of descriptive stories. We have written about Our Pets, Our Friends and Our Favourite Hiding Places. Out learning intention is to build up a picture in the readers mind.

Learning Buddies
We have learning buddies. We are paired off with someone else in our class. At news time we share our news with our learning buddies. We learn with our learning buddies at other times to.

Games
We have lots of board games to play with on wet days.

Wow! More Special Learning in Room 16

2009-03-30T18:38:00.000-07:00

Our Special Places

We are learning how to create different patterns. We had to make our own patterns up using waves, circles and lines.

Our Roof tops

We were learning to make straight lines with a ruler. We drew a picture using a ruler and a pencil. We had to fold the piece of paper into a square and then we had to draw the roof tops in the four squares.

Our Friends

We wrote about our friends. We had to write what they looked like, what they liked to do and what we liked to do with them.

Our Goals

We had to write some goals to help us improve our learning. For example my goal is to make new friends in Room 16. I can achieve this by asking if they want to play with me.

Our Special Places

2009-03-23T13:59:00.000-07:00

We have begun researching about the: Mission Winery, Taradale Clock Tower, Dolbel Reserve, Sugar Loaf and Taradale Primary School as part of our learning about Our Places.

Our Swimming Carnival

2009-03-23T13:56:00.000-07:00

Wow! Last Wednesday we had a swimming carnival. It was fun because we had lots of races and cheered loudly. The swimming carnival was held because it is the end of our swimming programme.

Self Portraits and Swimming Carnival

2009-03-16T13:29:00.000-07:00

Self Portraits

We drew some self portraits of ourselves as part of our You, Me, We learning. We learnt how to draw our eyes and to draw a square and then an oval inside for our face. To help us draw ourselves we asked other children what we looked like. Some examples have been added to our blog.

Swimming Carnival

On Wednesday 18 March Team 2 are having a swimmng carnival. We will be having swimming races like freestyle and backstroke. Also we have class relays. Some more information and photos will be added latter.

Our Learning

2009-03-09T14:08:00.000-07:00

This year we have been learning about statistics. We decided on some questions, collected data using tally charts and then we graphed this data using a bar graph. We have included some pictures of this.

We have also been learning about descriptive writing. We have looked at lots of good descriptive writing. We have also discussed adjectives, fullstops, capital letters and personal voice.

All our pictures were taken by Grace, Toni and Adam

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