Room 13 Mini Challenges

Our concept this term has been Challenge. Mrs Wendt set us some fun mini challenge activities i.e. domino runs, juggling, sled skiing, balance board, string games, origami, computer activities(agent ani, questionaut), and elastics. We had to use skills such as persistence, resilience, risk taking, and problem solving to overcome the challenge.

Juggling Challenge

Lots of classes made their own juggling balls with balloons and rice. Making the juggling balls was the first challenge. The next challenge was to actually learn how to juggle. Some people have become expert jugglers. How did they manage to do this? The Habits of Mind of PERSISTENCE and RESILIENCE springs to mind. Our expert jugglers kept trying and didn't give up. These habits can be applied to any situation - school work, sport, learning a musical instrument or learning any new skill. Here is a link to Room 19's blog showing Finn D juggling.

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Challenge!

Our term focus on challenge has started with a bang with lunchtime challenges and lots of exciting learning in the rooms as well.

At lunchtime today we had 40 minutes to complete a wearable arts challenge.
40 minutes to make an outfit out of only newspaper, rubber bands, string and cellotape.

Here are some photos of the day. : )

Sleeping Beauty - Our School Production

In Term 3, the whole Senior Syndicate was involved in our school production - Sleeping Beauty. Each class was responsible for one scene each which meant there were some tricky changeovers of actors for the key roles. With the direction of Ms Jan Fisher and a lot of hard work from the teachers and students a very professional show was put on for parents and friends. Click here for a link to Room 19's blog to see some photos of some children before the show went on.

Room 13 Maui Comic Strips

We looked at a Story Library book that had various Maui stories presented as comic strips. We decided to retell our favourite maui story as a comic strip. We created our comic strips first as a story board, then dropped our pictures into kidpix to colour them in. We then imported our kidpix pictures into comic life and added our text and speech bubbles. These are the comic strips that have been completed so far.

Room 13 Cultures

In Room 13 we made a comic life presentation about our Cultures. We got pictures from google images, we created a picture using kidpix, took a photo of ourselves, and wrote a greeting. Our images were about traditional food, symbols, activities, and what we are famous for. Each child's comic strip portrays their own culture.

We pray for the children of Christchurch.

A big part of our school culture is to care for others and help them where we can.

The children in Room 10 wanted to do something to let the children of Christchurch know that we are thinking of them after the recent earthquake.

We made slideshow of our prayers for them and sent it to their schools.

Here it is to share with you.