Measurement on the court.

Room 6 lined up from tallest to Smallest and Miss Brown took a picture of us. Then we measured the courts.

By Reneea and Te Koha

Measuring Maths

On a nice sunny Wednesday morning  room 6 went on the court to do measurement for maths.

by Zayla and Josh.

Harold

On a sunny Thursday room 6 went to go to Harold to learn about body parts.
Harold is a cool giraffe because he always tells funny jokes.

by Indi and Maria

Harold

On a sunny and windy Thursday room 6 went to Harold. We talked about body parts. We had to pick a fruit we had to put it on green yellow or red.

By Cooper and Ihaka.

Harold's classroom

                         

On a wonderful sunny Thursday morning Room 6 went to see Harold! It was next to Room 10 and 11.

First we did a lucky dip.Next we helped Susan find body parts on Tam the pretend barbie doll.

By Poppie and Ashley.

Harold's Classroom

On a sunny Thursday Room 6 went to visit Harold to learn about body part  and food. Harold the giraffe tells lots of funny jokes. 

By Kadugli and Rereahu.

life education

Harold is a nice spotty tall giraffe . He tells funny jokes. He went to a party. Hes very sneaky at having strawberries.

By Harrison and Isaac.

Harold

On a windy and warm Wednesday room 6 went to Harold in a van.First Room 6 lined up in one line and then we went in.Next we sat down by Harolds house.After that we made a food chain.Then we sat down and watched jocos birthday party.Last we put some food on a blanket but not real food.And we caught up with Harold.Our favourite part was when we watched the birthday video because it was funny when Joco sang a song.

From Milla and Paige.

Harold Visit 2014

On a beautiful sunny and windy Wednesday room 6 went to Harold to learn about some stuff like a food pyramid and food diet. Harold told us 1 funny joke about toilet paper that rolled down the hill because it wanted to get to the bottom (the one that's attached to you).

By Jorja and Alizah.

Clay Sculptures

Clay Sculpture day finally arrived yesterday for Room 6! We have been excited about this since Miss Brown told us last week. 

Everyone in Room 6 went over to Rose's shed after morning tea to make a clay bowl and a clay lizard. We had to put on art shirts so our uniforms didn't get dirty.

Miss Brown let us play around with the clay first and we got to explore all the tools that we could use later on to help us make our clay creations.

After that we got to make our clay bowls, we had to pinch the clay to help make the sides. Some of us made them into nests and we put eggs inside them.

Then we made our lizards. Some of us found it really tricky to make all the different body parts that a lizard needs so we all helped each other out. 

Check out the photos of us making our clay creations, we hope you enjoy them! 

We even helped Miss Brown clean up! 

Wow cool lizards and bowls! 

Look at our final products! 

Domain Visit

Yesterday half of Hampstead School went down to the Domain to look at the Sculpture Symposium. We got to look around at what the sculptors were creating, play on the playground and do a scavenger hunt around the Domain.

We all piled onto buses at morning tea time and headed down to the Domain. When we got there we split into small groups and some of us went to see the sculptures and some went to the playground, then we swapped over.

When we saw the sculptures we thought they were amazing! Some of the sculptors talked to us about their work and one man even let us use some of his tools!! 

Our scavenger hunt was awesome! We walked around the WHOLE Domain... well it felt like we did! 

We got to eat lunch and then some of us went with Miss Brown and some of the parent helpers to go to the big flying fox! 

We had an awesome day!! 

Thanks again to our parent helpers for coming along :) 

Rap-unzel Show

We have had a very busy start to the term here in Room 6... Athletics Day, Labour Day (yay a day off school) and the Playhouse Theatre came to present Rap-unzel to us.

It was really funny! There were heaps of characters and a girl lost her singing voice! A mean cow man took it from her and gave it to her ugly stepsister!! 

Miss Brown took heaps of photos and videos, have a look below and see what we saw. 

The characters of the play introducing themselves.

Rapunzel's audition, she was a good singer! 

Rapunzel's recording contract... she didn't like the sound of it! 

Simon Cow-ell stole Rapunzel's voice and locked her in a tower! 

It's the Prince of Rap! 

Rap-unzel escaped from the tower!! 

Rap-unzel showing Simon Cow-ell how she raps now! 

Practising for Athletics

We have been practising Athletics skills with Mark from Sports Canterbury this term and the last 2 weeks of Term 3. 

We practised how to do long jump and high jump in Term 3 and then we learnt how to do shot put and discus.

Miss Brown captured some photos and videos of us doing the shot put and discus, it was really hard to push the shot put and not throw it!! 

Mark is showing us how to do shot put

And here are the kids in Room 6  giving it a go

Nice starting position everyone! 

Now we are trying out discus... Don't hit Miss Brown!! 

Student of the Week... Again!

Hampstead School loves to celebrate children who work hard and demonstrate our school values. 

Last week it was Miss Brown's turn to pick someone from Room 6 who she thought was a student that Hampstead School would be proud to have. 

She chose...


Josh!!! Well done Josh, Room 6 is very proud to have you as a member of our class. :) 

Congratulations Josh! 

What prizes did you get? 

Technology in Room 6

Last term Room 6 did a unit on Technology. We had to follow the design process to create a magnet that was interesting to look at and held up a single sheet of paper.

We had lots of fun making different designs. We all had to plan what our magnet would look like, then we had to make it out of salt dough, bake it, paint it and put a magnet on the back.

Then it was time to test it... some of them held up a piece of paper and some didn't but all stuck to Miss Brown's whiteboard!! 

Check out what our magnets looked like in the pictures below...

 

PJ Mufti Day!!!

Today we had a pyjama mufti day at Hampstead School to help raise money for KidsCan charity - we raised heaps of money for them!! Well done Hampstead!! 

It was awesome wearing our pj's all day, but it was also a little weird! 

Here's us pulling silly faces! 

Here's a lovely photo of us! 

Miss Brown is in this one!!! Looking good Room 6! 

Room 6 are Animals...

We have been doing Collage for Art this term and this week we have been creating our final art piece.

We had to choose an animal, plan the colours it would be, rip those colours up and then start sticking them onto an outline Miss Brown gave us. 

The funny part is, is that WE are the animals!! That's right, we have our faces on the animals instead of their face!! 

Below are some photos of us creating the art work, check them out! To see the final product you will have to come into Room 6 to see them... They look really awesome!!! 

What's the time Room 6??

In Room 6 we have been learning about Time for Maths. Last week we learnt about the days of the week and the months of the year and the order they are in.

This week we have been learning to tell the time on a clock to o'clock time.

We now know that the big hand is the minute hand, it always points to the 12 on the clock if it's o'clock time. The small hand is the hour hand and points to any number on the clock. 

Check out the photos below of us making our own clock, can you tell what times we have made on them?? 

What's the time Room 6??

Activities in Room 6 Term 3

We have made a new movie to show what Room 6 gets up to during the day, check it out!! 

Māori Legends

We have been reading some Māori legends in Room 6 this term. 

We have read Māui and the Sun, it was all about how Māui tried to slow down the sun so that him and his brothers could have time to gather food. After we read the legend we had to retell, to do this we wrote a sentence and then drew a picture for it.
They are up on our classroom window for everyone to see... 

Come check out our retell!!

Another legend we have read is Tane and the Stars. This legend is about how the stars came to be in the sky.
Today we chose different musical instruments to represent the different parts of the story, watch our video below to see what we chose... 

Fathers Day 2014

Today in Room 6 we found out that it was Fathers Day on Sunday... and we weren't sure if we had anything made for our dads or grandads.

So Miss Brown got us all to make a card for either our dads, grandads or mums (because they are pretty special too). 

Some of us collaged the front of our cards and some of us just coloured them in, they looked really awesome!! 

Have a look us getting in touch with our creative side below... 

Indi and Paige making cards for their dad and grandad. 

Ihaka, Marnel and Te Koha colouring in their cards.

Here are some of Room 6 collaging their cards, looking good guys! 

Harrison, Nikau, Rereahu and Maria working hard on their cards.

Marble Jar Rewards

In Room 6 we have a class marble jar. 

We earn marbles to put in the jar when we work together really well, when we do our best singing in the mornings, when we are doing super awesome thinking and if we do a really good job tidying the class at the end of the day and get down to the mat before our clean-up song finishes.

We try to fill it up at least once a term and today we did!! So Miss Brown got Nikau to pick a marble jar reward card from the bag and he pulled out 10 minutes free time, awesome!!! 

Miss Brown thought we had been working hard all morning, so before we did our writing today we had our free time. We had learnt how to play some new games yesterday so she let us play with them, check out the photos of some of us playing with them.

Reneea and Maria playing Frog Hop! 

Jorja and Ihaka are playing Roads, Rails and Rivers while Maria watches.

Zayla, Indi and Milla are playing Traffic Jam. I hope you got the ice cream truck out in time! 

Homai te...

This term in Room 6 we are learning how to say classroom objects in Māori.

We have learnt HEAPS! But our favourite ones are kutikuti and pukapuka, can you guess what they might be?? 

*Answer is at the bottom of the post... 

This week we learnt how to ask someone to pass you an object, the phrase we learnt was


'Homai te_________' this means 'Pass me the__________'


so if someone asked you 'Homai te pene hinu' they would be asking you to pass the crayon! 

Check out our photos below of us practising using the phrase... 

Homai te pene rakau (Pass me the pencil)

Harrison and Ihaka are working well together

Kadugli and Poppie practising saying the phrase

I wonder what Jorja has asked Maria to pass her??

What did Reneea ask you to pass Marnel?

Nikau doesn't look happy about handing over his pukapuka

I think Cooper might be wanting the kutikuti

Hmmm I wonder what Te Koha and Ashley are waiting on Milla to pass them?? 

** kutikuti are scissors and pukapuka means book!!