Room 5 supporting the Make a Wish foundation & Star Writers of the Week!

Today we all supported the Make a Wish foundation by dressing up. The theme was I wish I was.......
Room 5 had some awesome costumes! As you can see Room 5 were very creative. We had doctors, zombies,pirates and many more cool dress ups. Well done and thank you Room 5 for supporting the Make a Wish foundation.
This week we also celebrated our Star Writers. It was too hard to choose just one so we had 3! Congratulations to Connor , Karez and Reef for their efforts during story writing time.

Fire Safety

This week we will be looking at fire safety. Tonight students from Room 5 will be taking home a Fire Escape Plan. Students will work with their family to draw a map of their house and work out a plan to get out of their house in case there is a fire. Below there are a few resources to look at and learn about fire safety.

Fire Wise Kids : Has games and videos to look at around fire safety.

http://www.firewisekids.co.nz/

Tamati and Sam get firewise - online book

http://www.getfirewise.org.nz/resources/Tamati_and_Sam_Get_Firewise_Story.pdf

Week 1 learning in Room 5

Welcome to Term 4. Each week we want to show you what we do in Room 5. Below are a couple of pictures from our reading tumble.

While I read with a group, the rest of the class is working as a group on an assigned activity.  

In the first photos the group are completing the ABC train. They then had to match an alphabet card with a picture that started with that letter - for example matching A with the picture of an apple. Ariana had an idea and suggested that they line the cards up with the train.

The third photo shows a group during our maths lesson. We are learning to count on from any number. Each student was given a caterpillar that had a number (under 10) at the start. Once they had their caterpillar they had to complete the number line by finding the numbers that came next.