Last day in Room 12

A big Merry Christmas and happy safe holidays to all!!!! Our special thoughts also go to our families who have relatives in Samoa affected by the cyclone xx

12:12 on 12/12/12 in Room 12

The big clean up begins

Getting ready for assembly this week

Day one of our maths inquiry sorted

Tree up and advent calendar hanging. Today's advent was sharing our Xmas feast and/or our favourite Xmas song... Then a game of soccer.... What will tomorrow bring????

Our third inquiry...Christmas

Busy beavers exploring ideas for their Christmas inquiry while Christmas songs sang out in the background : )

Year 4 camp

A morning at the farm followed by a steep climb up the hill then swim, monorail, flying fox, trampolining, balance bikes and mini-golf. About to wrap up warm for the camp fire!!

Dance battling

Pio the star battler from room 12 at the disco

Gangam style!!!

Thanks to the PTA for great discos

Room 12's kiwikid news

We love kiwi kids news- we have now got our own page- check out Connor and Eli's news article about the eruption. You- tube clips embedded too!!!

Our final day of our paper inquiries

It's all go evaluating our creations.

Thanks!!!

What a yummy lunch on a great day- thanks to the Salvation Army!!!!

Well done to Mr Bates & Mr Kunowski for organizing a great day!!!!

All ready to go

Room 12 - colorful like a rainbow!!!!

Finishing off the 'creating' our 3 inquries

Here are our puppets, masks and paper. An outstanding day in room 12!!!!

Self directing our learning

This morning room 12 have split into 3 groups: Pasifika puppets, masks and cards. We look forward to sharing our learning....

Just another inquiry- week 6

Miss Brown asked us to plan week 6- here are our first thoughts....

Our lanterns

Last week we made different kinds of lanterns. Check out our cool lanterns!!

Fruit fractions

We made fruit kebabs for maths today. Thanks to Lynley, Shukoor and Connor for chopping up our fruit!!

Continuing our lantern inquiry

We made glow stick lanterns- this was definitely a perseverance activity!!!!

Just a morning in room 12

The triangles and squares are working on their maths while the rectangles, pentagons and hexagon begin their next paper inquiry- lanterns.

Paper inquiries continue

Today we added to our spiderscribe pages and Eli taught us how to make paper balloons!!

Our technology challenge

Today Room 12 are making paper cups as part of our paper inquiry for the next 2 weeks. We are learning to make evaluations as part of our paper cup challenge. Look out for more updates....

Plastic Inquiry with a twist

This afternoon our literacy included more of our plastic fantastic inquiries.... The sea turtles are designing an outfit to be worn to White Sunday using white sheets of paper and plastic bags. The elephants, leopards and the lions finished their plans and the Rhinos added more to their spiderscribes.

Craft sessions

Today and tomorrow the Middle Syndicate worked with the Rainbow group ladies to make Xmas boxes. Most of room 12 went this afternoon and the rest are going with Lynley tomorrow afternoon. Great listening of instructions room 12!!!!

Lots going on in Room 12 this morning

The 2 Rhinos today are trialling a new mindmap tool to share our technology inquiries- here's Connor working with Marquis and Eli working with Caleb. Eli thinks this tool is way cooler than spiderscribe. Connor likes spiderscribe.

Our technology inquiry

We are beginning an inquiry... What can a plastic bag become? We have a timeworn of 2 weeks to work through this big question.... We'll keep you updated!!

Outstanding display of self managing today!!!

We managed ourselves this morning... Finishing our scooby doo movies, creating our calendars, explaining our holidays, devising our 'shop', finishing our maths testing and reading !!! We all think it's awesome to be back at school : )

End of term yay!!!

We evaluated our term and began ideas for next term. Check out our
PMI - Have a happy and safe holiday!!!

Scooby doo movies

This week we wanted to make scooby doo movies. We have been planning them; our storyline and then our slide screen shots with Mrs McIntyre and now we are using the app explain everything to make our movies.