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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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.