Our Learning about Amazing animals

We have been learning about animal classifications. We loved learning about the amazing animals.

Farm stories

It was time to go to the Ambury farm. We went on a bus to the farm. I saw a white lamb and a cow. The farmer was milking the cows. It was a big cow and its name was Rex. We ate morning tea. Then we went to feed the lambs and the chickens. I saw a pig rolling in the mud. I saw the little   piglets too. They were playing. The pig    jump on the little piglet. They were having fun.

Then I fed the hens. They went Cluck! Cluck! Cluck! I saw a big black mother hen. She was sitting in a nest. She was laying an egg. I was watching the egg. The hen was incubating the egg. I also saw a sheep dog sitting on the motorbike. Then we went to see the lambs. I touched the lambs wool. I was feeling the wool. I was smelling it too. I was feeding all the farm animal’s. We were having a lot of fun.

WRITTEN & PUBLISHED
BY SCARLET GEORGE, ROOM 9

Finally it was time to go to the farm. I wanted to feed the goats and the sheep. When we got there we had some morning tea first. Then we went to the see the cows. I was feeding the cows, sheep and the goats. We went to the chickens house and we had a great time at the farm. We went to see the sheep wool. We rubbed the sheep wool. t was soft. I went down the sheep shoot. The animals were cool. We had lunch time and we packed up to go back.

WRITTEN & PUBLISHED

BY TALITA Room 9

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Room 9 Visit to Ambury Farm

Last Friday, we visited Ambury farm as a part of our topic this term - Amazing animals.

We are writing all about our trip. we post it on our blog soon. Visit us again to see more pictures and read about our trip.

Room 9 Writing this week

Hi I am Brooklyn. This is me writing about a my experiences when I went to my grandpa's house by the beach. 

Hurray! It is holiday time. I went to the beach with my grandpa. I picked up a seaweed. I said " What is this grandpa?"  My Grandpa said, " Leave it. Its the treasure of the beach." 
I asked grandpa, "what is seaweed?" Grandpa said "it is the plant that grows in the sea and fishes like to eat it. It is slimy."
So I put it back in the water for the fishes to eat it. I had a great time at the beach.

By Brooklyn 

Sharing our learning from last term

Watch this video to se glimpses of our learning from last term. 
Visit us each week for more.

Bark NZ with Room 9

On Friday 14th October BARK NZ visited Wesley Primary. 
BARK NZ is a registered charity dedicated to supporting communities by providing education to children on how to be safe around, and have positive experiences with, dogs.

They visited Room 9 with two dogs named Mo and Flicka. They shared with us some useful tips on how to be safe when around with dogs.

If a dog is on it's own, leave it alone. If a dog is with it's owner we need to follow simple steps.

We first ask  the adult that the dog is with if they are allowed to pat them, then asking the dog which is one of the important thing for us to do and the dog will give us some clear signs if they are unhappy.

We also learnt how to pat a dog in a way that's not mean or bossy.

We thank Bark NZ team for helping us learn techniques we can use to keep ourselves safe when around dogs. 

Term 4 2016 Room 9 Newsletter

Room 9 Road safety with Constable Cam

Last week Room 9 has been learning all about road safety with Constable Cam. He has been teaching us all about keeping safe around roads and how to cross the road by ourselves - but we aren't allowed to do that until we are old enough - but we can practice with our Mum or Dad or someone older than us.
First, we shared ideas about how we come to school. We realised how many of us come in cars when we could actually walk! Walking to school is good because ……

We also practiced crossing the road with Constable Cam.

It was fun sitting in the police car and practicing to wear our seat belts. We got to make it CLICK!! 

'Click goes the seat belt before we hit the road.'

We used these ideas in our Written Language.

On Monday, Constable Cam to our class to talk to us about wearing seat belts in car. He told us stories about car safety and wearing seat belts can help us to be safe in the car. He then took us outside in his police car. We sat in his car to practise wearing a seat belt. I also got to wear his police cap. I felt like a police man when i wore his police cap. "CLICK! goes the seat belt before we hit the road."

Written By Brooklyn Heketoa

This morning I hopped in the police car and showed Constable Cam, I can put on my seat belt when I am in a car. When I sat in the car.  I made the seat belt click. "I am safe in the car now."

Written By Warren Nepia

Room 9 enjoyed learning about Road Safety.

Thanks to Constable Cam for supporting us with this.

Room 9 Brazilian Art

This is Room 9 art work. We used Romero Britto's art models. He is a Brazilian artist. He uses bright colours and patterns in his artwork.  We used bright colours and patterns in our art work.

Room 9 Brazilian Art - Romero Britto Art model

In Room 9 we have been learning about an artist from Brazil, a place where the Olympics games were held this year. He is Romero Britto. He was born in Brazil. His art models are very bright and colourful with bold patterns. He painted what he saw and used colours to express hope and happiness. 

In Room 9 we saw clippings of his art models. Then we sketched pictures of different types of fish.  We chose fish as our main theme because fish is common in New Zealand. 

It was very interesting watching Romero Britto's art work. 

We will put up more pictures of our completed art work on our blog. So keep visiting us.

"I will now add bold outlines and add patterns to my picture."

- Foki Latu

Jump Rope for Heart

Last Friday we did 'jump rope' for heart. We are raising money for our the heart foundation and our school. It was fun skipping using short and long ropes. Thanks to the parent helpers and the school monitors for helping us with this. 

Road Safety

ROAD SAFETY: 
Next week we will be starting a new topic - Road Safety. We will be sharing our new learning on our blog. 
Please keep visiting our blog and don't forget to leave a comment.

Olympic Games 2016

In Room 9, we have been learning about Olympic torches, Olympic rings and the Olympic mascot, Vinicius as a part of our topic - Rio Olympic Games. We made models of the Olympic torch, Olympic mascot, podium and medal models. We made podiums and medal models during our Developmental program.

Ideas we recalled about the Olympic Mascot, Vinicius

It's so exciting to have an iPad in our class.  we are learning to use 'Popplets' to show our ideas about the Mascot Vinicius. The popplets is cool to use to show our brainstorm ideas during our Oral Language.

Developmental Program in R9

In Room 9, we made made Olympic flags during our Developmental program. We used strips of coloured paper and folded to make little pockets. we then joined the pockets to make interlocking rings of the Olympic flag.

OLYMPIC RINGS

We made Olympic rings. The Olympic rings are five rings connected together to show friendship. The rings are BLUE, BLACK, RED, YELLOW & GREEN

Term 3 2016 Class Newsletter

Our Solar System Paper Mache models

Our Milky Way

Milky Way pictures we drew

All about planets

In Room 9 we are learning about other planets. we watched this video to learn more about each planet in our Solar System.

Click on the video and learn more. 

Celebrating Matariki

 Matariki Activities in Room 9

Nanny weaves flax 

over one, under one, criss cross criss cross

under one, over one

Zig zag zig zag, My new school bag

We used strips  of paper to weave. 
Over one, under one, under one over one, 
Oh! what fun, we had weaving. We learnt to weave during Matariki week in our class.  

Our Space Exploration

     ROOM 9 Space Explorations

We went to Stardome to learn more about outer space.

We looked at other planets like Saturn.

WOW!! Look at its beautiful rings. We are observing to gather
more evidence about the planets and other space objects. 

This is another largest planet - Jupiter. Its humongous. 

This is our planet Earth. This is where we all live. we call it the  Goldilocks planet because it is just the right planet for us to live on. 

OUR DAY SKY & NIGHT SKY

Our Night Sky pictures

Our Day Sky pictures

WHAT CAUSES DAY & NIGHT....?

We used books, videos about day and night, we used a model of the Earth, Moon and a torch as sun model to see how the Earth's spin causes day and night. 

We now know the Sun does not move around. Its the Earth that spins on its axis. The part facing the Sun has day and the part facing away from the Sun has night. 

We drew pictures to show day and night on Earth.

We played Sun Moon and Earth game. We moved around to show the Earth's rotation around the Sun and the Moon's rotation around the Earth. 

We had a lot of fun playing this space game.

Our Closest Star - The Sun

 We made Sun models. We put words about the Sun on our models.

 We drew pictures about the Sun. We write words about the Sun. we now know a  lot about Our Sun.  

Our Space Picnic - we imagined we were astronauts. We made a list of things we need to take with us if we go into space for a picnic. 

Look at our astronaut model- Thanks to Mrs. Landi our student teacher for helping us with this.