Leap Year

Today is a special day!!!! It's the 29th of February and it only happens once every 4 years.  If you want to find out more about Leap Years, check these web sites out.


Leap Year


http://earthsky.org/earth/why-do-we-need-leap-years

Swimming

With this beautiful hot and sunny weather the best place to be in the school is the pool!!! We've been having fun and practicing our swimming skills at the same time.

 

 

 

 

Future Black Caps - KiwiSport Cricket

Meet The Teacher

 Here are the notes from the Meet the Teachers meeting tonight for those of you who were unable to make it. Thanks again to those of you who were able to make it.

Citizenship

W.A.L.T: Define Citizenship

W.A.L.T: Define Citizenship

Citizenship

A citizen is a person that belongs to a community where they all have something in common. You can be a citizen of a country, city or a group. For example, people who live in the same country, people in the same family group or people who go to Halsey Drive School.

Citizenship is when someone tries their best for their community.  A good and responsible citizen cares for their environment by picking up rubbish and not throwing their rubbish out of the window.  If there weren’t good citizens, then our environments would be like a landfill with 10kms worth of rubbish.

A good citizen is honest and helps other people. They are also a person who does the right thing and follows the rules.  If people didn’t follow the community’s rules things might get broken, people might get hurt and the community might not be a community anymore.

It is important to respect others in our community.  We show respect by caring for others, listening and treating people kindly.

Communities are made up of people that are diverse.  For example, our class is diverse because we are all from different countries and we look different.

We believe that being a good citizen is important because it means we can live in peace.  If everyone was a good citizen and we were helpful everyone will have a happy life.  If we weren’t good citizens it wouldn’t be a very nice place to live and the world could get destroyed.

Our definition is extended abstract because we have several ideas that we have explained and then we thought about citizenship in a new way.

Communities

Communities are groups of people that have something in common.  We wrote down some communities that we belong to. Tvisha wrote them on a pic collage for us.

Room 8's Singing

School Values

Our school values are:

Respect for self, others and our environment
Personal Excellence
Integrity
Diversity

We would like to share examples of how we can show these values.

Studyladder

Everyone has been registered for Studyladder.  You will get your log in on Monday when we glue them into Homework books. Here is the link:

Studyladder

Helpful Maths Sites

Here are some helpful Maths websites:

www.studyladder.co.nz
www.nzmaths.co.nz/families
www.bbc.co.nz/bitesize/ks1/maths/
www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and sequencing/caterpillar-ordering www.funbrain.com/brain/MathBrain/MathBrain.html

Family Feelings

For reading we read a journal article about what we like about our place in our family.  We then used the app Stripe Design to show our thoughts.

Room 8 2016

Te Reo

Inquiry

Numeracy

Literacy