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. 
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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. 
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