Gala Preparation

In Room 19 this week we have been busy preparing for our stall at the gala.  We are in charge of the "Ring a Drink" stall and will be setting up after lunch by the sandpit outside the Junior rooms.

We have spent several sessions this week designing, and then drawing, colouring and painting posters for use on the stand and around the school.

Boxes of drinks arrived this morning to cries of, "Ooo when we can we drink them?"  Many students have also brought in cakes and cupcakes to sell on the cake stall, and enter in the decorating competition.

Christmas and Gala fever is definitely in the air at Torbay School and in Room 19 at the moment!

   

Our Learning

Maths

Today in maths we went shopping!  As we will be dealing with money on our Gala stall tomorrow we did a recap from our learning on money earlier in the year.

I set up "Mrs Kelly's Shop" at the back of the classroom by labeling various items with a price.  The stereo was worth $35, a bottle of paint $4 and a pencil 20c.  The students were then given the task of  deciding how to spend the $50 they were given.  They were allowed to buy only 5 different items, but could buy as many of those items as they wanted.  The idea was they had to spend as near to $50 as possible without going over.  So for example they could buy  the stereo,  dice, milk carton, highlighter and a reward stamp as their five items - but to make it add up to $50 they could buy 1 stereo, 4 dice, 10 highlighters etc.

The girls hard at work working out. their shopping

The students enjoyed working out how much they had spent and how much change they had left.



Writing

Yesterday in writing I set the students a challenge of including adjectives whilst writing about what was in a mystery box.  They were allowed to hold and shake the box, and then had to write either a realistic account of what they thought the box might contain, or a creative account of what might be inside if it was a magic box.

The mystery box.

Today each student read out their writing to the class, and we wrote down all the different adjectives the students had come up with to describe the items they thought might be inside.  They did a great job as you can see!

Our adjectives!

Speech Finals

The Kawau Team Speech Finals were decided on Tuesday after Neve had been given a chance to share her speech.  The judges deliberated whilst the students sang Christmas Carols and then the winners were announced.

Well done to Summer, Capri and Sophie!

Neve gives her speech

The winners are announced

Although our representatives didn't make the top three I am still really proud of their efforts and the outstanding way presented their speeches to the class and the year.  Well done!

Performance Assembly

I always knew we had a talented bunch of students in Room 19 and today has proved me right!  This afternoon we had a Performance Assembly at school and many of our students were involved.

Tiara, Damien and Ethan wowed in the Junior Kapa Haka performance,  Emily shone in the Fan Dance.  Gabriella, Rebekah, Ellie, Janielle, Skye, Grete and Emily all showed off their singing skills in a performance by the choir, and Marcus demonstrated his ukulele prowess performing with his ukulele group.

Ka pai Room 19 - well done, great effort. Performance Assembly on PhotoPeach

Amazing MOTAT

On Monday the Kawau team went on a trip to MOTAT - the Museum of Transport and Technology.  The trip was a nice way to round off our inquiry learning this term on "Future Me - What Will I be?" and robots.

In the morning we all hopped on buses and arrived at our base for the day - the MOTAT dome. From there we split into groups and explored the various exhibits, rode a tram and had an educator led session about robots.  The students had lots of fun trying out the different activities - especially in the "Welcome to the Machine" and "Get Smart" exhibits.  Everyone enjoyed playing with the different robots, but I think it is entirely possible that the lazer maze was the big favourite.

Thank you to the parents that helped out on the day it was much appreciated.

Here are a few photos.


Trip to MOTAT on PhotoPeach