Kia ora,
I hope that everyone has had a relaxing long weekend and has had an opportunity to rest and relax! Last week was an action packed and interesting week filled with fun learning activities for the akonga. There were a number of birthday celebrations last week and the weekend prior including; Ayden and Danica's birthdays. On Friday we were very lucky enough to get to celebrate with Danica and her whanau with a special birthday cake!
In Art we completed our sunset silhouettes this week. The students did a great job of blending colours and practicing the different ways which we can utilise the brushes to give different textures. For those students that finished, or were waiting for it to dry, they got to design a new Class Dojo avatar which they will be painting later this term.
Inquiry proved to be very interesting this week. From the questions which the students developed in our explanation session in the previous weeks we were able to really hone in on questions which the children had on electricity and energy. One interesting question was "where does electricity come from and how does it get to our devices"? To answer this we looked at how electricity is created, how it is transferred and what devices actually use electricity in the first place!
The students showed self-direction and self-management with this task, identifying and colouring in those things which use electricity.
Maths this week saw the students developing strategies to work with addition and subtraction problems, and also saw some groups developing their knowledge around place value.
Enjoy the final two days of the long weekend and relax as much as possible! I look forwards to seeing Room 7 and their whanau on Wednesday.
Nga mihi,
Nick Shimasaki
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