Music learning with Miss Bashnee.

Room 7 really enjoy their music lessons every Monday mornings with Miss Bashnee. We have been learning about instruments, genres of music and also reading musical notes. Salote created a google slide to share what she has been learning.

Learning about special effects and cultural costumes from other cultures. Here is Telesia and Newsam's presentation about their learning.

Learning about special effects used by other cultures. Davarni is a very dedicated K Pop fan and is interested in Asian cultures. Here is her learning about Japanese makeup.

Telesia's learn, create, share about her learning in Science Intensive.

A reply from the Prime Minister.

In Writing, Mary's group have been focussing on writing to and for a specific audience. One of the topics was to address the issue of having a liquor store so close to our school. The Ihimaera writing group all chose a specific audience to write their letters of concern to. Most wrote to the owner himself but Mary decided to write to our Prime Minister, Jacinda Adern. The letter was e-mailed to her office and an automatic reply came through that the letter has been received. Also around this time, Jacinda Adern had her baby so there was a delay in her reply. However, on Tuesday this week an e-mail came through with a written reply from the Prime Minister to Mary's letter. Here is a letter and we are so excited appreciative that the Prime Minister replied to Mary.

Novel reading in Room 7.

A shared class novel is a must in Room 7. Everyday after lunchtime we have our shared novel where Mrs Tofa reads to the whole class. It is a time of listening, thinking, imagination and sharing of ideas about the book. Right now we are about to finish Danny the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl.

It has been an entertaining book and we are very excited to see where the story ends. Right now we are on chapter 20 where Danny and his father have completed their big project on Mr Hazel's pheasants. However, the turning point is when Mrs Clipstone came with the pheasants in the pram but the birds were flying out of the pram because the sleeping pills were wearing off. 

Does your class have novel reading? If so what novel are you reading right now?  We would love to keep sharing our shared novel with any classes so do let us know.

Its five weeks now since we started gymnastics. We surely have come a long way. Our confidence is greater than when we started and we are finding new ways to challenge ourselves in the activities. Here are some photos from our session today.