Buddy Class Time

Every Friday we spend time with our buddy class Room 7. It is a good chance to use our Mountie skills and be great Mounties.
We share our weeks learning and help our buddies with their Reading, Spelling, and topic.

This week we helped our buddies with their Life Education Art activity about the bones in their hands, and then they shared their home reader with us.

Room 15 Visits The Life Education Bus!

Parts of our brain.

Watching the Harold movie.

Self explanatory.

Playing mind games.

       Thing necessary for survival.

Life Education Visit

Room 14 had our first Life Education lesson on Monday.   It was very interesting to learn all about the different parts of the body and to see the amazing Life Education Van with all of its lights and models.  It was fun when we were able to choose the colours of the lights.  We even met Harold the giraffe.

Camp Ngaruawahia

Wow, camp was a blast!!!
Orkney Team had a fantastic time, even despite the weather.  We were proud of our children who were using their 'positive mindsets' to overcome challenges and challenge themselves.  A huge thank you to our fantastic parents who made camp such a success.

Autumn Art

Term 2: Week 1 and 2 we have developed being a Mountie during our Art Lessons.

We have been learning how to blend paints to produce sunset scenes with Autumn Trees.

Learner:  Mountie is an Artist: Learn new skills, try something different,  attempt and try various techniques using different brushes.

Communicator:   Share our ideas and ask questions to clarify thoughts. 

Team Player:   Share our design ideas with others. Help each other with each step. Be patient and take turns when using the equipment.

Self Manager:  Listen carefully to instructions and attempt techniques. Work to a time frame to keep on task to complete activity. To persevere when things get difficult or tricky.

Come and visit our classroom to view our finished artworks, or visit the office foyer in week 5 and 6.

This week we have been learning about Personification. Please check out Seesaw so you can see your own child's best examples.

Powerful Learners

This week we brainstormed ideas about what powerful learners do.  We had so many great ideas!

Powerful learners know what they are learning, they use the success criteria to help them, they self assess honestly, they know what their next steps are, they reflect, they are communicators, learners, self managers and team players. 

We created a tagul to display all of our ideas about powerful learners!

Baby Picture Competition

Oh the fun we had with our baby picture competition.  What a great way to introduce our topic this term... Personal Growth.

Some pictures were really obvious, others not so much. 

Burger Making Day

Today we made our burgers.  While we were making our burgers we wrote the steps for the recipes and took photos for our posters.  The burgers were so nice and so huge!!!!

Room 15 have been learning about 'Active Reflection' so we can think deeply about our learning.

 We have also been learning about 'Growth Mindset' and the 'Power of Yet'. Ask your child what they learnt about Mojo this week.

Burger Planning

After completing our Healthy Food Unit we looked more closely into food we like that but weren't sure exactly how healthy they are.  One food was takeaway burgers from McDonalds and Burger King. How bad could they be? Bread, meat, cheese - all natural ?
Unfortunately we found that our lovely burgers were loaded with chemicals, many that we had no idea what they are.

So we have decided to make our own healthy burgers.  Here are some photos of our planning and organising.