School Cross Country

Well done to everyone who took part in Cross Country today. We are all very proud of your perseverance. 

Spanish: Learning parts of the body

Yesterday we started to learn the body parts in Spanish. We will be singing this song throughout the week...

 

Please also check out Nicola's site. We will be making a collection of the songs that we learn in class https://sites.google.com/a/worserbay.school.nz/matarikiwbs/spanish

This is us recapping on our Spanish numbers:

Gracias Maria!

Helping Circle: Student Voice

Today we asked our students about the "Helping Circle"... 

This is what they said...

Kate: In the helping circle, you help each other. I find it helpful because someone is helping me.

Edward: The helping circle is cool because everyone lets everyone in the circle (everyone is included).

Leola: The helping circle is very good. By helping each other we put more detail in our writing. I ended up writing lots more.

Dylan: The helping circle is good as it helps you to learn new stuff and listen to other people’s ideas.

Adam: The helping circle gives me ideas. For example, if we had to write about fishing, other people might know more about fishing and they can share their ideas. Today I asked Ollie if I could piggy back ideas for my writing. He said, “yes”.

Hunter T: The helping circle helps me to spell words. I added more adjectives today.

Griffin: In the helping circle, I know that I can get a pencil and start adding onto my story. I gave Ridley advice to make his writing shorter. (The task was to retell a story in 4 sentences).

Izar: The helping circle helps me to write and helps me to concentrate.

Charlotte: The helping circle helps me to know what I’ve done and I can give ideas to people who don’t have ideas.

Liam: In a helping circle, you get to connect with different people and it’s interesting to see what they do in their writing. We can make changes or cross stuff out.

Jupiter: The helping circle is a good activity for people. It is a good way to learn new words that people use.

Kirsty: The helping circle helps me to listen to other people’s descriptive words . I can use them in my writing. It helps me to spell the whole of the word. Raffy helped with spelling today. I could help her too. She showed me how to skip lines.

Rim: In the helping circle, some people give me inspiration. They tell me their stories. While we are reading, we are correcting.

Ridley: The helping circle helps us to spell words we get stuck on.

Special Forces visit

We were lucky to have Scott Early and Major Cooper from the Armed Forces visit us on Tuesday. They spoke to us about ANZAC day, the role of the Armed Forces abroad, working as a team and we finished with fun quiz.

Compliment circle

We have been learning how to give compliments and doing a compliment circle. We have also been learning about character strengths and our next step is to link our compliments with some of our key character strengths. Take a look at our video to see some of the amazing compliments we have been giving each other.

Our Town

Last week we wrote poems based on the poem, "Our Town" by James K  Baxter. We used the same structure to write about a place of our choice. Enjoy!

These students are buddy reading "Our Town" poem. 

Gracias Maria: Spanish Lessons

This afternoon, Maria (Leola and Violeta's mum) came in to teach us Spanish. Some of us chose to work with her as part of our golden time today. 

A big GRACIAS to Maria for her time. It is great to have parent expertise in the classroom!

We learnt how to introduce ourselves:



We learnt numbers 0-9

We are singing a Spanish number song


Here is a song that we will be learning in class: 

We learnt our colours: 

We have the "blanco" balloons.

Worser Bay Running Man Challenge

We have taken up the challenge. Worser Bay school presents...

THE RUNNING MAN CHALLENGE!

Now we challenge you. Schools of New Zealand...

#nzschoolrunningmanchallenge

Our Year 3 and 4 students took the challenge. What a lot of fun! 

 Thorndon School Challenge

Tauranga School Challenge

 Best of the Running Man Challenge

If You Learned Here: Worser Bay/ Tautoru Pages

We have come to the end of our project, "If You Learned Here". We have put together the pages for the global ebook. Our students have worked really hard to contribute to the project and they should all be very proud of themselves. We're all looking forward to reading the book... Watch this space!



Find out more at: ifyoulearnedhere.weebly.com

The Helping Circle

We have been reading a poem called, "Our Town" by James K Baxter. This week we will be writing our own version of the poem. As a group, we brainstormed places that we could write about and then we went off to work on our own brainstorms for our poem about our chosen place. 



At the end of our writing session we worked in a sharing circle. We read our brainstorm to a buddy and they read theirs to us. This is a great opportunity to edit and improve what we have written.  




Students have been helping each other to brainstorm what they can see, smell, touch, feel and taste in their chosen place. 

This links with our school focus about being connected. 

This is the poem that our students have been reading:

OUR TOWN

By James K Baxter

The town was usual enough; it had

A creek, a bridge, a beach, a sky

Over it, and even a small tin church

I never went to. My brother, my cousins and I

Did what boys do- dozed in the hot

Schoolroom, made bows and arrows, dodged the mad

Boat builder, crept like rabbits through the black

Under-runners with a weak torch,

Burnt dry rushes, wrestled or swam

Doing nothing important.

Connecting and Collaborating

Our focus this term is collaborating. Our Year 3 students have been helping our younger students to use Google Apps for Education (GAFE). Our Year 1 and 2 students have their own folders in our shared account. We are writing for our project, "If you learned here." We had a great morning connecting with people that we don't usually work with.

Swimming Begins

Swimming lessons started today!

Non-Standard Measurement (Length)

The playground is 27 children long

We are measuring the height of the door using a glue stick

The Rainbow Bench is 12 children long

The slide is 8 children long

We are measuring the height of the door using a purse

Maths - Imaging

In Maths, we have been learning to image in our head when solving problems. We have been using the bigger number to start to learn how to count on. We are using paper bags and beads to help us master this skill. We need to know our basic facts to 10 and our doubles which we are practising along side this.
Check out the video to see some of our thinking...

Cross Country Training Begins...

Today we started to think about our goals for our school cross country. We are learning to pace ourselves so that we can complete the run.

Great start to Term 2

It was lovely to see you all today. You were all full of energy and ready for learning. It's going to be a great term!