Rugby league

This morning we played tag to warm up.  We all came out with our warm jackets on and after tag game all jackets came off.

We are now working on our foot techniques.  We had to run out passing the ball and side shuffle at the same time with our partners.  Next we had to run straight at an angle, side shuffle to the right than pass the ball. That was a good work out for us.

We learnt that we had to communicate as a team to work together.  P.s every time we lost the challenge our group had to do seven push-ups.   

by Seble & Alantay

Guess how many...

Cubes … sit here in the tub?

There are 10, 50, or may be 100? If you know it, you can place guess.  Click on the ‘comments’ button and then write how may cubes there are, according to you.  Remember your first names only.  Anyone may guess, even mums and dads can participate. All children and teachers from Rosebank are invited to take a guess.  There might be even a prize for the right guess.

Fraction fun

Today we have been learning all about fractions.  We found fraction of shapes and fractions of numbers.   We have learned what a fraction is and discovered a new mathematical word denominator meaning the number at the bottom of the fraction that tells how many the whole has been shared by.  A few of us were discovering how many ways we can colour a half in a certain shape lots of people had so many different ideas.  We had to have creative minds to complete this task.  

By:Sophie & Losa

Acrostic Poems

Click on picture below to read some of our acrostic poetry.

If you did an Acrostic poem, what words would you choose for your name?

Kiwi Sports Rugby League

Today Room 28 started learning rugby league and our coach was Matiu from Sports Waitakere.  He will be teaching Room 28 every Thursday 9 am till 9.40.  We started off today by playing rock paper scissors game.  We had to walk around playing paper, scissors rock and if the person lost they had to hold on to our shoulders and walk behind us.  

Next we played a passing game.  We had to run to the middle and pass the ball to the person in front of us.  We had to run at the back of the line and wait for our turn again. 

 

What is Culture?

Created with Padlet

Today Room 28 children made chickpea patties and coleslaw with Sanitarium Nutrition Service team. We learnt how each plant food belongs to a family. Some plant food families are seasonal and grow better during certain times of the year. Broccoli, cauliflower, brussels sprouts are all part of the brassica family and they are winter vegetables. Jemma explained to us which plant food you can get protein from and why proteins are important for your body.

We worked in groups of seven per station.  Every member had a job and it was special making these vege chickpea patties.  After we had cooked our patties we all sat together with the decorated table all ready for our burgers.  We ate and ate.  Some children found the sweet chili sauce too chili and went running out for water.

Click on the picture above to see our slides.

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I hope you have had a relaxing enjoyable break and managed to avoid all the coughs and snuffles that seem to be around at the moment.  It was lovely to see all parents at the parent interviews last term and to share your children’s fabulous achievements. You should be very proud of them because I know I am. 

Term 3 is ten weeks long and we have a lot of exciting things planned.  Here is an overview of the topics we will be covering:

Our inquiry topic of study this term is “Adaptation”.  Our students have been taught the inquiry learning process, this includes, brainstorming, time management planning, locating information, selecting information, putting the different information together, presenting the information and finally reflecting on their learning.   Your support for their research inquiry project for this term would be appreciated, visits to the library, internet surfing and may support in their presentation as well.

Writing: The main focus is on writing explanations. The objective is to recognise and understand how texts are constructed for audiences and situations, making links to our

adaptation unit.

Reading: Recognise and understand how texts are constructed for a range of purposes, audiences, and situations. Make connections between text and adaptation unit, focusing on explanations.  Students will also be reading for enjoyment and for personal fulfilment. They will be sharing and discussing stories they enjoy reading.

Oral Language: Speech Competitions. Children will be constructing a speech independently in class and practising at home. There will be a class competition leading into an interschool competition.

P.E: We will start the term off by learning the skills of rugby league. For the second half of the term we will be learning a variety of games that we can play in the playground.

Digital Citizenship: Keeping safe and ethical behaviour online.

Health: Why do people adapt?

Arts: Adapting basic scripts to movies.

Communication – If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to come in and chat before or after school.  If I am unable to talk, I will organise a time to catch up with you.

Kind regards,

Shal Singh

Human chain: senior students unite to move books to new location

There was only one way to move all reading resources to the new location that was to form a human chain. 

Senior school children to help move reading resources from Kotahitanga building to new location.  And they did it all by hand, forming a human chain that took book boxes after book boxes from one building and put them on the shelves in the other.  

These are some of the boxes that needs to move

 All lined up and ready to go.  Teachers do we have enough children?  

 

What they have formed a human chain and books are on their way.  Hurry up clean up!

 This is fun!

     This boxes are empty! 

 

 

Mrs Bell has joined us and this shows Rosebank working together as a team.

 

Shahieda and Mesepa making sure all boxes go in the right places.

 

We are nearly done.              All books at new location now.

Room 28 would like to see how many children can fit inside the storage container.  How about next term we try and fit the whole school inside this big gigantic container.