Welcome to 2012

Hi Everyone,

Welcome to Room 6 for 2012. What a terrific start to the year. Sorry that I have taken so long to get the first post up. This term we have started with swimming. The children are loving it and they are doing a great job. Everyone has made terrific progress. Tomorrow is our last session for the year, however I am sure that many of you will continue with swimming after school.

For our inquiry topics this term we started with a health unit called 'Getting to know me'. It was a great way for us to get to know our new class mates. We talked lots about what we enjoy doing at school as well as rules and expectations. We have also been looking at 'Ancient Egypt'. This is to help us with our research skills. Today we learned about how to make mummies. Blake volunteered to be our mummy and Lilly and Oscar where the 'embalmers'. It was very fun. We have also started painting 'Death/funeral masks' that are inspired by Tutankahamun - the boy king. These should be finished by early next week. Come in and see them.

We have also had fun with 'Rhyme Time'. This is a focus on spelling and working with rhymes and word families. We have investigated the - ar, at, all, un and ain families. Try and test us to see what we have remembered.

I hope to have some photos up in the next week.

Thanks for your support
Garth

Hip Hop Dance

Hi everyone, welcome back to Term 4.

This term we have had Lisa from Rasa dance working with each class in the Middle Syndicate on a unique hip hop dance. To listen to the music that the children in Room 6 will be dancing to, please go to the following link in the School website.

Room 6 Hip Hop Music
http://easttaieri.school.nz/classrooms/middle-syndicate/room-6/

We will video the children's performances and you will be able to see these on the School Website at the end of next week.

Thanks

Poetry Video - Part 3

Part 3

Poetry Videos - Part 2

Here is part 2 of the videos.

Poetry Videos - Part 1

I have finally added the movies of the children performing their poems during a practice before the final performance. I have had to add them in 3 parts as it was too big to add onto the blog. Enjoy.