Adventure Room, 2019

My name is Clare Gow and I am excited to be the teacher this year in Adventure Room. We are made up of 21 Year 3 and 4 students.

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One sentence descriptions of Term Two in Adventure Room
 
We rush to start the day with our multiplication and            division practise, it sometimes feels impossible to move on to the next stage - Hunter

Teams huffing and puffing at the Rugby/Netball fun day - Alex

During Sign Language Week a visitor called Fiona was difficult to understand, but luckily she was able to communicate with her hands.

One by one our feet were pumping through the squishy sheep poo at Cross Country - Katie

By combining two detailed animals together we created an undiscovered hybrid creature - Emma

Designing our creative dioramas, with the ideas in our minds hatching to be habitats for our               hybrid animals -  Coopah

We have choices for Literacy for the time which we complete things, as long as reading, spelling, phonics and writing are achieved by Friday - Evaya

Riddle of the day is confusing and twisting our minds - Oaklyn

Shiny golden tickets are awarded to children for making good choices - Shanae

Mrs Latto singing and telling stories about the Bible -  Bowen

As our maths progresses, the Hummingbirds B take off and transform into the Butterflies A! Zoe

With lots of tears we farewell 3 of our friends, moving          onto new adventures of their own - Sammi-Jae

1, 2, 3 the rakau pounds to the beat- Allison

String games and Tapu Ae with Mr Pollard during whanau groups - John Michael

Crinkled cellophane-wrapped kites, floating high in the light breezes of the sky - Lachlan

Weaving harakeke, over and behind, creating flax flowers with Miss Gow - Kieran

Learning star constellations in the dark star dome with Mrs Constantine - Loretta

Threading the needle, up, down, up, down to create our Tukutuku panels - Jade

We began the year with a major focus of 'Managing Self'. Being a self-manager is associated with            self-motivation, a "can-do" attitude, and with students seeing themselves as capable learners.

We started the year with the quote “Let the Adventure begin”. We discussed what an ‘Adventure’ is and how everyday is actually an adventure. We made a class mural showing people jumping over rivers and falling down the learning pit - having to overcome challenges like we do in everyday life. We learnt how we can help each other to overcome challenges and get out of the learning pit.

In Term 1 our topic was Belonging. We started the term by doing self portraits which were inspired by Romero Britto a Brazilian pop artist. We did Pepeha’s with Mrs Hutchings which showed who we are and where we come from. We had lots of talk about kindness and about how people are different. Out of respect for the people in Christchurch we made paper dolls representing people from all around the world and how we all belong.
 

As part of writing in term 1 we took part in something called #GetNZWriting. We learnt about how important our choice of words is. We learnt about “Sticky Words” which are words that sound good, have great rhythm or paint a picture in the reader’s head. Our poems were sent to a school in Christchurch and we received their poems so we could share our work.