Wednesday 20th March

NOTICE: Weetbix TRYathlon students - please bring your blue t-shirt and medal for the group photo tomorrow

Friday:  Mufti-day - gold coin donation


Today we managed to get many, many students onto mathletics. We put this down to the fact that we had a pod of 10 laptops available and the wonderful work of our 'Mathletics Techies'. Charlotte, Grace and Jamie have been trained up on the desk tops and lap tops. They are able to go through the complete set up process from switching on the computer, to entering access codes, to trouble shooting issues around whether to use Chrome, Firefox or Safari (hint: Chrome), to shutting down the computer correctly.

Today when any issues came up they took control and sorted them out, which allowed students to get them maximun time on mathletics possible. It also allowed Mr F to work with the reading groups, thus helping us with our learning.

Grace, Charlotte and Jamie will now pass on their knowledge to 3 other students so that we progressively work towards 30 confident, competent Mathetics Techies.

CONGRATULAIONS: to Scott for being the first student to share with the class that he has read for 25 nights. Scott got to stand at the front of the class, and we stuck on his 25 nights sticker.

Whenever a student reaches the 25, 50, 75, 100, 125, 150 etc milestones we will celebrate this by giving them a 'round of applause' at the start of the day.

Well done, Scott. Onwards to 50 nights.

Today Sophie shared her book ' Ingenious Jean' - she does indeed posses an uncanny resemblance to the main character.

Handwriting:

Our focus for handwriting is: sitting letters on the line.   We are also adding flicks to our letters and some students have been given a 'slope sheet'. The letters we are focusing on are the 'down and around' letters - n m h k r
We came up the sentence: My mum has a ruby kangaroo - this includes all of the target letters.

Seems that handwriting is quite popular. Melahyke was overhead saying" I love handwriting, I want to do it everyday" -

CLASS SONG:

It seems that there are some budding musicians in room 5. Grace and Charlotte have written a number of songs, a heap of students receive ukulele, guitar or piano lessons and a couple of other students are writing songs.

Today I blew the cobwebs off the guitar and introduced a 'blues rift' in 'E'.

Then, I introduced students to the world famous 'Room 5 Blues' song.

The first verse and chorus go like this:


Verse 1

Well, I get up in the morning, about 8
I get dressed, comb my hair, yeah yeah

Chorus

I go to school, yeah yeah
I go to school, yeah yeah

I go to school,  Room 5, is really cool


Now, this is only the start. I have challenged students to help me write more verses for our 'Room 5 Blues' song.

Once we have a few more words we will record it and put it on the blog.