Our favourite toys

As part of our Turangawaewae Statistics unit on getting to know each other, we all brought in a favourite toy from home. Here we are with them...

We then tried sorting them into groups...

...we ended up with six groups of toys; a marble track; crystals; hand-held toys; stuffed toys; toys with wheels and toys with bodies. Can you tell which group is which?

Room 16's favourite colour

Room 16 are ready for their swimming lesson!

New Room 16 2014

Everyone was very exciting in Room 16 on Wednesday 29th January. It was the first day back at school and we were all enjoying getting to know each other. Spending time playing on Putikitiki was a one of the favourite parts of the day. 

We learnt how to play on the tyre swing safety and fairly so everyone can have a good time. 

 
We also learnt how to be safe while climbing in the tree.


I think everyone in Room 16 will be enjoying exploring Putikitiki during lunchtimes now their are in Totara team.

Patterns all around us!

We have just started algebra in Room 16. We decided to see if we could see any patterns around us - we saw lots!

Do you see the patterns too? 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Syllable Poem

We used Alan Bagnell's Endangered Bird poem as our model to write our own poem with the same amount of syllables in a line. 

Traffic Lights

We love playing our new game Traffic Lights that Mrs Hughes introduced to us. 

The leader writes down (in secret) a four digit number. The others have to guess what that number is by writing their own four digit number on the board. The leader then gives them a code to let let know how close they were to the leaders number:
 

✓ Right number, right place

.   Right number, wrong place

✕ Wrong number 

This helps us to read four digit numbers correctly, understand place value, write our digits correctly and help us think logically while being great fun! As you can see many of Room 16 students choose to play it during choosing time.

Thank you Mrs Hughes!