Goodbye from Miss V

MERRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE.

What a fabulous year.

I wish all of Room 6 students a wonderful holiday break and hope that 2010 will be a wonderful year!

All the best!

Christmas KidPix Pictures

The children have been really excited with Christmas coming up soon. So some of them decided to draw some Christmas pictures, using KidPix.

Story Writing using KidPix

By Chelsea

By Krystal

By Rhylee

During writing time the children of Room 6 have been using KidPix to draw their brainstorm pictures and then write their stories.

Serenity - Cooking Time

My Pet Shop by Krystal

This term we have been looking at different occupation people have as part of our

Social Studies theme. We read some stories about Pet Shops and Pet Shop Owners.

Krystal drew a picture of what her Pet Shop would look like, using Kid Pix.

Hairy Maclary by Alex

After Jack made his e-book of Hairy Maclary Alex decided to bring his Hairy Maclary book from home and wanted to make his own Kid Pix picture of Hairy Maclary. This is his picture of Hairy Maclary from Donaldsons Dairy.

Junior Jet Concert

The little yellow digger stories and poem

We are learning to be writers.

Room 6 retold the little yellow digger story.

Cody's story

Mia B's story

Nikora's story

The little yellow digger song/poem

We are learning to use Comic Life and Photo Booth!

We are learning to use Comic Life during reading time.

We are using Comic Life to represent the letter of the week.

Room 6 Photographers

Discovery Time

Once a week Room 6 takes part in discovery time.

During discovery time we are learning to:

share, take turns, cooperate and ask others if we can join in.

Aorangi Marae visit

Bb week: 15-19 June

Brainstorm of words starting with Bb.

We read the big book "Busy as a bee" and learned lots of facts about bees.

Look at the bees we made!

Here is the beehive

Here is the beehive.
Where are the bees?
Hidden away
where nobody sees.
Watch and you’ll
see them come out
of the hive.
One, two, three, four, five.
Bzzzzzzz...
all fly away!

Ww Week: 8-12 June

Brainstorm of Ww words.

We've been reading The Little Red Riding Hood story and made some wolf masks.

What is a Whale?

A whale is not as small as us.
Most whales are bigger than a bus!
A whale is not like a fish in the sea.
A whale breathes air like you and me.
A whale can’t walk upon the ground.
A whale must swim to get around.

A whale is a mammal just like me.
But it’s home is in the deep blue sea.

Fairy Tales: Using KidPix

Room 6 drew pictures from the Fairy Tales we've been studying, using KidPix on the computer.

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Jack and the Beanstalk

The three little pigs

Hh Week: 2-5 June

Brainstorming words starting with Hh.

We read the big book called Horace about a big hairy dog.

Take a look at our Horace paintings!

Humpty Dumpty Poem

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king’s horses,
and all the king’s men,
couldn’t put Humpty
together again.

Pp Week: 25-30 May

Our brainstorm of words starting with Pp.

This week we read the Big Book "Little Pig" and created some pig faces. 

Have a look!

Perky the Pukeko Poem

I’m Perky the Pukeko.
Happy as can be.
Down by the water,
that’s where you’ll find me.
All day long,
I’m where I belong,
hopping over logs
eating insects
and chasing frogs.

Learning to use the class camera

Discovery Time Learning Story

Jj week: 18-22 May

We brainstormed words starting with Jj.

We read the big book about the alien creatures called Jigaree and made our own Jigaree.

Jack in the Box

Jack in the box.

Jack in the box.

Quiet and still.

Will you come out?

Will you come out?

YES I WILL!

Fairy Tales

Room 6 is studying Fairy Tales this term and we have been using arts and crafts to create pictures from the different Fairy Tales:

Ss week: 11-15 May

We brainstormed words starting with Ss.

We read some stories about spiders and learned that spiders have 8 legs. Look at the spiders we made.



Incey Wincey Spider Poem


Incey Wincey Spider
climbed up the water spout.
Down came the rain and
washed the spider out.
Out came the sunshine
and dried up all the rain.
So, Incey Wincey Spider
climbed up the spout again.

Ff Week: 4th-8th May

We brainstormed words starting with Ff.

We made Poggy Frogs and Flowers for Ff week.

Flick the Little Fire Engine

I'm a little fire engine

Flick is my name.

They won't let me put out fires

isn't that a shame.

One day I'll be big and strong

and fight evert flame.

When there is a fire they'll say

QUICK

Call the little engine.

Call the little engine.

Call the little engine.

FLICK!