Maths

We are learning to carry out an investigation.

We have asked a question and we are recording the answers on a tally chart.

We enjoyed learning about what room 7 likes and finding out information about Room 7.

We will post our graphs and conclusions on our blogs soon!

TEAM activity

This is an activity that Room 7 enjoyed because we had to use TEAM work and we had lots of fun.

From Toby

ICT suite

This is our first time in the ICT site this year. The Year 4's were the helpers and they were amazing!!

The year 4's helped us with logging on the computers, signing in to our blogs and writing our very first post.

Learning survey

Our School - Vardon School

our school on PhotoPeach


This is our school.
We hope you enjoy the photos!
From Room 7

Room 7 2012

Hello!

Room7 is back at school we have 20 people in our class with 12 girls and 8 boys we also have 9 year 4's and 11 year 3's. Our school has 15 class-rooms and 330 students. Our favourite things at school is reading, writing, maths,spelling and we love art.

By Loren and Katie

Here are some questions for you.

How many people are at your school?

How many people are in your class?

Do you like researching on the computer?

What is your Principal's name?

Our Qualities....

Let us know what qualities you think makes a happy, safe and positive classroom.

To our quad blogging buddies... feel free to add your own ideas either with a sticky note or a comment :)

Good-Bye 2011

Thank you for a wonderful year Room 7. You are truly amazing!!!
Have a great summer holiday.
See you back at school on 31st January 2012!

From Mrs Natusch

PS - Year 4's - Enjoy the senior school.
Year 3's - I can't wait to see you develop into year 4 leaders!!!

Room 7 2012

We are looking forward to....

Megan "Harder maths"

Loren "Being a role model"

Aaron "Being in art club"

Adriaan "Reading"

Courtney "Writing"

Titus "Being in Kapa Haka"

Leah "Getting to go on the middles playground"

Ashton "ICT club"

Jade "On the middles playground"

Dakota "Being a Year 4"

Victoria "The year 2's getting to know us"

Katie "Getting to be a year four leader"

Kasiti "Coming to room 7"

Christian "ICT club"

Stars of Room 7 2011.... What a year it has been!!!

Our end of year picnic!!!

Tug-of-War

Today we had fun with Dianne from Project Energize. We had a game of tug-of-war against other classes.

Room 7 versed Room 10 and Room 10 won.

"It was hard" Maia

"I had lot's of fun" Kharma

"I thought it looked like it was lots of fun" Megan

"I like how room 7 tried to pull the rope but they just couldn't beat room 10" Katie

Thanks Dianne for coming to school and taking this fun lunchtime activity!!!

Christmas

Christmas Song

Parent\Teacher\class relays

Parent/Teacher/Class relays on PhotoPeach

We had so much fun running against the teacher and parents!

Christmas song

Relays

Relays!!!! on PhotoPeach

High Jump and Long Jump

Athletics on PhotoPeach

Solar car visits our school!!!!

Today we had a solar car visit our school from The Waikato University!!!

Here is the article about this solar car...

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10768490

Chinese New Year

How to use voicethread

A video on how to use Voicethread.

Room 7 - This is my first attempt at using jing to make a demonstration video. Let me know if it helps!!

Commenting

Diwali

Our new netbooks!!!

We love our new netbooks!!! We use them to upload photos and videos and write reflections on our blogs about our learning!!!

Thanks to our wonderful PTA who bought these for us!!!

Spotlight on the Arts show

Spotlight on the Arts on PhotoPeach

You can count on me

We like this song... it's all about friendship, relying on your friends, trusting them and looking out for each other!

How guy fawkes was created

In November 5 1605 Guy Fawkes tried to blow up Parliament and kill the king.

He put 36 barrels of gunpowder in the cellar. He was caught and killed. Now every year on n November 5th people celebrate the safety of the king.

written by Victoria

:)

Celebration songs

We can sing these songs at our end-of-term celebration assembly.

What do you Celebrate?

Our Wheels Afternoon

Our Wheels Afternoon on PhotoPeach

We made our chain touch the ground by getting links in the chain.
We got links by working hard as a TEAM.
We chose to have a wheels afternoon and a treasure hunt.
Here are some photos of our wheels afternoon :)

Perseverance

Rugby World Cup at Vardon School!!

We supported Romania today at our RWC assembly.

Today we had a Rugby World Cup assembly. Each class supported a rugby team. Here are some photos....

We can't wait until tonight.... the opening game of the RUGBY WORLD CUP!!!!!!

Parent/Teacher Conference Practice!!!

Our Year 4's practiced having a conference with the Year 3's.

We had to find two samples of learning in our learning logs to discuss. We are also discussing some of our learning on our e-journals!

We had to discuss these points;

This is a sample of my....
My goal was to ....
I have achieved this goal because ....

I am proud of.... because
My next learning goal is to....

We can't wait until P/T interviews next week!

Room 7's Assembly!!!

Photos and videos of our assembly!!!

We had a treasure hunt after our assembly so you can also view photos of us working out the clue. It was tricky but we persevered!! :)

Slideshow for assembly

Never say never!!!

This will be our song for our assembly this Friday.

It has great messages about staying strong, not giving up and fighting for what you believe.

So.... NEVER say NEVER!!!

SNOW IN HAMILTON !!!!!!!!!!!

ITS SNOWING IN HAMILTON

Healthy Breakfasts

Today Millie came to talk to us about healthy breakfasts. First she asked us what we learnt about last weeks session on healthy drinks.

First she asked us to tell her what we had for breakfast this morning.

Some answers were.... porridge, nutrigrain, weetbix, milo, toast with butter or jam, pancakes.

Millie had lots of breakfast foods. She asked us to put them in groups. The groups were;

Everyday, sometimes and occasional/never foods.

Here are some examples of these groups...

Everyday breakfasts - milk, weetbix, brown bread, porridge, left over home made dinners, fruit

Sometimes breakfasts - muesli, up and go,

Occasional breakfasts - cookies, chips, coke, coco-pops

See the photo above!!!

Perseverance

Our big idea this term is perseverance.

We watched these video clips and discussed how they showed perseverance and what that means.

Healthy Drinks

Millie from Project Energize came to school to talk to us about healthy drinks. We have to order the drinks form the least amount of sugar to the most amount of water.

Water has NO sugar and E2 has the most sugar - 20 teaspoons!!!!!

We sorted the drinks into... everyday drinks, sometimes drinks and occasional drinks.

Our thoughts....

Ariana "Raro has 4 teaspoons of sugar in it and that E2 has 20 teaspoons of sugar" "I was surprised the V has less sugar than coke!"

Lucas "Don't drink unhealthy drinks with lots of sugar in them:

Maia "I thought that V would have more sugar then E2 and coke would more sugar than E2" "I thought that flavoured water would be healthy but it has sugar in it"

Loren "I learnt that every time you breath you lose water from your body"

Kharma " Don't drink drinks that have caffeine in them at all!"

Mrs N "I like flavoured water and I am surprised how much sugar it has in it!"

Holiday sharing....

Wyton Rufer visits our school

Today we met the famous soccer player.... Wyton Rufer!!!

He is a retired soccer player and he now coaches soccer. He told stories about soccer and the soccer world cup in 2009.

He asked us questions and the correct answers got a prize!!!

Ian Foster's talk to Vardon School

This morning Ian Foster who is the ex-coach of the Chiefs came to our school to talk to us at assembly.

His key messages were:

• how the 4R's help with both rugby and at school



• "stand tall" is a positive phrase that you can say to build relationships



• resilience - never give up with our learning - that's just the same as in rugby




• even though they have lost some games they have to keep trying and knowing that they are still good. So at school we can keep trying with our learning.

Now.... after we have listening to Ian Foster's messages we are going to....

• we are going to use the 4R's to help us with our learning!



• NEVER GIVE UP!!!

What we know NOW about Matariki!!

We learnt a lot about Matariki. This is what we learnt.....

Matariki

Our pre-ideas about Matariki....

Our river walk

river walk on PhotoPeach

Made by Toby

Amazing Bridges

Learning the doubles to 20!!

Our ketes of strengths!

These our our ketes of strengths!! We have written our strengths on "seeds of knowledge" and placed them inside our ketes.

What do you think of them? Please write a comment.

Bridges and the Waikato river - HISTORY

Gourd

Mrs Anderson came into our class a told us about what a gourd was.

What do you know about rivers?

What do you know about Bridges? Pre-ideas...

Message from Mrs Natusch

To Room 7


Wow! What a wonderful term! It went by so quickly!


I have enjoyed seeing everyone work together as a team. Year 4's... I have been impressed with your leadership skills. I loved seeing you acting as leaders for the year 3's and modeling what working Room 7 looks like, sounds like and feels like. May it continue in term 2! :)


Year 3's... I have been impressed with how quickly you learned the Golden Rules! Well done!


This term we have another exciting topic to study!


Our topic focus is Technology and Social Sciences. We will be looking at our Waikato river and our Hamilton bridges. We will link this topic to Maori culture and what it means to us here at Vardon School.

Please click onthe wall below and post your first thoughts about the Waikato River and bridges.


See you soon!


Mrs Natusch :)

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