Wrap free Wednesday

Today is Wednesday, the day of being wrap free. 13/25 people are wrap free. Our percentage was 52 %.
We have improved on the number of people who are wrap free. In week 1 we had 6 people, week 2 we had 9 people and this week 13 people!

By Poppy

Our School Tabloids

Last Friday was our school tabloids.

We had a lot of fun taking part in different fun activities. 

Here is a video of some of the activities. At the end is the class tug-of-war competitions and the parents verses teachers tug-of-war competition! 

After our school tabloids we made a dot plot. We asked everyone in class which was their favourite activity. On our first dot plot we had just the seven activities and found out that parachute was the most favourite activity.

Then we added in the tug-of-war competition to see if it would change the data and it sure did! The tug-of-war was definitely the most popular activity in room 7 at our school tabloids.

The crosses on our graph are the activities we didn't like and would like to change for next year.

Our new flag counter

 Today we began a new flag counter.I wonder which country our first flag will come from?

Look at our last years flag counter! We collected 56 flags! Can you names the countries? Can you read the total number of pageviews?

Kidsedchatnz

Today we took part in the first #kidsedchatnz for the year!

Our teacher @MNatusch was moderating the chat today. We helped design the questions on the topic "Back to School".

Here are some of us tweeting ;)

We enjoyed taking part in #kidsedchatnz today!

Our School

Here is a video of our school that Tegan and Zoe made for our quadblogging friends. They used imovie to put the photos and videos together.
Well done girls! You have done a great job!

What questions do you have for us about our school?

Wrap Free Wednesday

Today was our first Wrap Free Wednesday. We had to make sure that in our lunch boxes we didn't have many wraps around our food. Or we tried to be completely wrap free. 

Today we had 46 wraps and 6 out of 22 children wrap free. That is 27 %.

We set ourselves a goal.  Next week we hope to only have 30 wraps or less. We hope that 10 of us, at least, are completely wrap free. 

Swimming

Here is a video of some of us practicing our swimming skills. We are learning freestyle, backstroke, floating, gliding, sculling and the correct freestyle breathing technique. 

Jandals? What are they?

Mrs Beetham teaches at Richard Taylor School. This school is in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, UK.

We are connecting with this school to learn more about each other and to  develop a positive connection. 

Her class is called "Bishopdale" and they would like to know all about.....

Click here for the link to their post about jandals. I wonder if we can help them find out what jandals are?

Post a comment about why you LOVE jandals!

Statistics

Today group 1 learnt how to record data using tally marks.

Can you read our tally marks? What numbers are we showing? 

Group 2 are investigating our juicies sales from last Friday. Their results will be published later on the week. 

How will you make this year awesome?

Welcome to our quadblogging buddies who are viewing our blog this week!

We hope you enjoy looking at some of our learning. (PS-you can also check out our individual blogs at the side of our class blog!)

 

Swimming

We have been practicing our swimming skills every day in our school pool.

Pic Collage made by Tegan

Quadblogging Aotearoa

This week it's Room 4's turn from Lawrence Area School. They will write new posts on their blog for us to read and leave comments.

Your challenges:

1. Find out where Lawrence Area school is located in NZ.
2. Find out two interesting facts about the place this school is located.
3. Write two questions for the children in Room 4 at Lawrence Area School.

Either record your answers in your Home Learning books or as a comment on this post.

New Voice Message

listen to ‘Voice Message’ on Audioboo

We received a voice message from a teacher in Wisconsin! Wow! That's on the other side of the world. Can you spot Wisconsin on the map below?

 This teacher would like to connect with us through our blog!

What questions do you have for her and her class?

 Add your questions on the Padlet below. 

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Room 7 2014

This is us! The wonderful, clever bunch of learners in room 7 2014!

We are so excited to see where our learning journey this year takes us!

Our Summer Holidays!

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Goodbye 2013!

Good bye everyone!

Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!

See you in 2014! We start back at school on February the 3rd.

Skyping with a school in Florida, USA

This morning we came to school at 8am to skpye with a school in Florida, USA.
It was 8am for us, but 2pm the previous day for them!

The school we skyped with was South Mckeel Academy in Lakeland, Florida, USA.

The purpose of our skpye was to learn about how another country and culture celebrate Christmas.

We learnt that we have both similarities and differences with how we both celebrate Christmas.

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End of Year Picnic

Yesterday we went to Ngaruawahia Christian Youth Camp for our end of year picnic.

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Swimsafe at Waterworld

Last week we had our Swimsafe lessons at Waterworld.
We learnt a range of skills....

• freestyle
• backstroke
• dolphin dives
• floating
• breast-stroke (frog legs)
• how to rescue people who are in danger
• how to keep safe in deep water
• and lot's more!

Here is a video of our swimming.

Christmas around the world

In room 7 we are learning about how other cultures around the world celebrate Christmas.

Here is a website that a teacher (Suzanne Williams)  from Florida, USA has set up for us to learn from each other.

On Thursday we are skyping with South Mckeel Academy. They are in Lakeland, Florida, USA.

Here is a Padlet of how we celebrate in NZ so that other children around the world can learn from us! We are adding our ideas in during this week.

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What is your favourite part about Christmas and why?

Keep coming back to this post.... we are adding more....