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.