Practice

Friday 21 October  - Today the seniors of Elmgrove are on assembly.   There are songs and a talk about the value of this term.  Here is a sneak peek of the assembly.   Come along to the assembly.  Here is a photo of the value which is empathy.  Empathy means step into the other person's shoes (see how the other person feels). Here is a video of some of the school song.

Art

Friday 21 October - Today in room12 we are doing buddy reading with room 2&3 in the senior block. We do this every week on a Friday. Here is a photo of kids on the fortress reading, of course!  Here is video of kids reading books.

Quick 10

At the start of the day the senior syndicate does Quick 10.  First the syndicate meets in room 11 to discuss the picture we are writing about today.  A the moment the Olympics are on and  Lisa Carrington won two medals (gold and bronze) and she carried the NZ flag at the Rio Olympics closing ceremony and around her neck is a gold medal.  Our picture today is LIsa Carrington with the gold medal around her neck and carrying the flag.   While we are writing Mrs Williams comes around and gives as Class Dojo points for being on task.  At the end of each week Mr P adds up all of our dojo points and the top six point scorers get a bar of chocolate.

Reading

Today we are reading "Wonder".   This part of the book is called  "Jack Will".   The chapter is called "Switching Tables".   The book Wonder is about a kid called August who had a face disorder (Craniofacial Disfigurement).  There are different parts in the book.   Some of them are written from August's friends and sister point of view.  Here is a picture of one of the pages in the book.  There is 1082 pages in the book.

Here is the book trailer for Wonder.

Sign Language

We are learning our spelling using NZSL (New Zealand Sign Language).  Here are the sheets that we're looking at.  Ethan is signing his name last name and birthday.

Matariki Activity

This afternoon we have Mrs Baxter and she has brought a Matariki activity.   The activity is a art one. Here is a photo of what we are doing.   We are allowed to use felts, colouring pencils and pastesl but when we do the waves and the background we can use different colours.   The people and the waka had to be black, red but the skin could be white brown and black.  Here is a photo of my work.

Joel George

Maths

Today in room 9 maths at the start we did number houses.   We have to put the numbers in the right place, like the number in the tens you would have to write "t" for tens.  Here is my work.  Joel.G. Here is a video of what we are doing next for maths.

Singing

Room 9,10,12 are learning a song for Matariki night by tomorrow NIGHT! As well we are doing a Haka and a greeting. here is video move's in the Haka.  Here is photo of the title of the song that we are dong tomorrow called Matariki Waiata.

Game

Today we are playing three games with room 10 and room 9.  The first game is long ball, the second game is stopball and the last game is non-stop cricket.  Today I am playing long ball.

How to play: First you hit the ball if you are a batter and then you have to run to the end of the field. The fielding team try to hit you with the ball but if the catch the ball then you are out!

In the photo Anna is ready to hit the ball and RUN!  Sadly I got out on my run but I think I did a good job!

Henk

Today we having a visit from Chatbus.  Chatbus is were you can chat if you get mad or upset about something.  Here is a photo of Hank and a video about what you can do in the bus, what is in the bus and it tell you what you say in the chatbus stays in the bus but if an adult hits you then the chatbus will contact your family.

Maths - Comparing Decimals

Today in room 9 we do "Switch Over" maths.   We are learning about decimals and which decimals are bigger or smaller or equal then each other.  Here is Noah's work on decimals he got 8 out of 9.  The skill in this is the "mouth" will eat the biggest number.

Story Teller - Andrew Wright

Today we have a storyteller visiting.   His grandmother, grandad and his mum were all blind and he got a pudding bowl haircut.  Later in the story he stole plums from a giant plum tree then he jumped over two fences and ran over the big hill.   Next he fell and landed on the plums.  He needed glasses and he got all the letters on the eye testing chart right because his new glasses were "milk bottles".
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