Adding In Parts

Kia Ora All,

Here is another maths strategy that would benefit all the students in Ruma Ono to practice at home and it's easy to adjust to different levels. I recommend watching the video with your child and coming up with examples to practice together. Perfect Friday night fun for the whole family.




Rock On,
Mr M

Inquiry Wall

We've kicked into gear with our inquiry by recording our prior knowledge about plants. We've also discussed what plants students may like to grow. I'm hoping to get some seedlings started in the very near future, so your child may talk to you about what they want to grow. Below is an image of the inquiry wall to date. Special thanks to Sonny for thinking of a humorous title for our inquiry.

Movies

Verily it was an epic term with our "Film It" inquiry theme. Here are two videos Room 6 were involved in. Mr Sinton-White did an amazing job with the Paroa School Anthem music video and the students in Ruma Ono did a great job writing, filming and editing the class movie.

Rock on,

Mr M

Literacy Circle

We've been thrashing the Novel Studies hard this term. I aim to meet with groups every second day and have the groups share what they've been working on and discussing the book on the days that I don't meet with them. I caught these guys running a tight session with heaps of respectful listening and intelligent comments going on. Here is a small slice of reading life in Ruma Ono.

Rock on,

Mr M

Official Paroa School Anthem

Kia Ora All,

Here is the Official Paroa School Anthem. The school band is ready to unleash this bad boy in assembly in week 5. Mr Sinton White will be doing some filming from week 9 onwards. We'll use the footage to create the ultimate music video. We're super excited about this one! Make sure you learn the song so that you can sing along in assembly and in the music video.

Rock On,

Mr M

Home learning fun with multiplication place value

Kia Ora Whanau, 

Here is a video that supports some of the learning going on in maths this week. Please view and do some practice examples with your child if you choose to engage in home learning. Feel free to adjust the numbers to be bigger or smaller or include decimal places to make the examples you do harder or easier.

Rock On,

Mr M

Excuses

Kia ora All,

This arvo I read the class a chapter from an Andy Griffiths novel where the main character comes up with an excuse for not doing their homework. The book is really funny and aimed perfectly at the age level of these students. We did a Writing Territories session (check my planning under Writing if you're not sure what this is) and most of the class were keen to try their hand at making up excuses for not doing things. 
   If you haven't looked at any writing from your child this week and were after an activity to do with them I would suggest getting them to try to write some excuses, or better still write some with them! Here are some ideas around this:

• Make up a list of 10 excuses for why you are not able to: go to bed, go to school, tidy your room, do your homework or finish this activity.
• Imagine someone just asked you to do one of the things from the list above. Make up a conversation between two people in which you use your list of excuses to try to get out of it.
• Alternatively, you could present your excuses in comic book format or as a pocket book.

Enjoy the writing,

Mr M