Roll n Draw

Ms Higgins enjoys creating activities which encourage students to work and communicate well together. This group activity, Roll'n Draw was a result of watching how a student went about starting an oral language activity about drawing as a group. He began with a simple curve and Ms H thought "how effective". The idea is to have a number of simple shapes on a dice. These are starting shapes. Each group has a different leader each time and they start the drawing using this shape. Group members take turns or draw all at once. They decide together what the drawing is about. After only 10 minutes the groups share and comment on how they helped each other and shared ideas to get the drawing they have. Come back to check out the results in a future post. Meanwhile here are photos showing the fantastic sharing going on with the group members.

The 'All Blacks' collaborate on their masterpiece.

 

The 'Princesses' work on their creation.

The Importance of a Name.

 

 Room 1 had a special visitor this term, whaea Natasha, who helped us pronounce Maori words correctly. We played games and sang songs and had a really good time. Everyone completed a special display about our name for the classroom wall.

Heritage Park.
Room's 1, 2, 7 and 8 went to Heritage Park. These are some of our lasting impressions.

• 'At school you had to have your fingernails checked'
• 'The dirty children got scrubbed.'
• 'Baths were made of wood'
• There were no trousers for girls or shorts for boys.'
• 'Rich people had carriages.'
• 'Poor people walked.'
• 'The oxen's horns were on the wall.'
• 'There was a family burial plot.'
• 'Knuckle bones were made from real bones. It was a boy's game'
• 'Ring a rosy is over 400 years old.'
• 'We got to walk on stilts.'
• 'We a giant tug of war.'
• 'The first computer game was 'pong'.'

A big THANKS to all the parents who came to help. Room 1 are working on some thank-you letters for you.

Thank you cards

Hi Room 1,
Here's a snap of Victor reading his thank you cards. I took them to him on Father's day. Well done with having two paragraphs in your writing. Victor said that each letter was different. That goes to show what a great job you all did Room 1!
Ms H