Pause, breathe and smile

On Thursday Room 7 started their first mindfulness class with Kerry. We learnt to describe what mindfulness is, to eat and move mindfully and to pause and breathe!
We learnt that mindfulness can help us in our life every day because it teaches us to stop, reflect and be grateful for small moments.
It was a very fun lesson. The kids had some homework to do. They need to practise mindfulness while brushing their teeth - what do they hear, feel and do.

Here is the meditation that we are practising this week.

Duffy kids

This week Tai and Hope received a Duffy book each in assembly. Both girls have working really hard on the maths knowledge and strategies.

Well done girls!

Writing

                      Room 7 are awesome writers. 

We are learning to write for an audience and make our stories really interesting so people want to read more.
Part of our learning has been around self assessment (when we check our own writing) and peer assessment (when we check our buddy's writing)


Here is a video of Frazer and Isaac self and peer assessing

Maori language week

Room 7 had a great time during Maori language week. We did lots of learning and lots of laughing!
Some kids learnt their pepeha. Ata did an awesome job of leading Room 7 every day for our Karakia. We learnt to use poi while singing E rere taku poi and we got very good at using the ti rakau. Room 7 visited the Marae and even got to part of the tangata whenua when welcoming the juniors.
                                                                   It the a fun week!

Samoan language week

Samoan language week - Vaiaso Le o Gagana

Last week was Samoan language week. Room 7 celebrated it by getting our experts in Room 7 to help teach us about the Samoan culture and its beautiful language. We learnt about Siapo and created a Room 7 tapa. It was a lot of fun scrunching up our paper to create the effect of the Siapo. We learnt to greet and farewell people as well as thank them. We had a healthy cooking experience where we made panikeke (we didn't deep fry them but used a donut maker instead) our poem of the week was moe moe Pepe which our girls recorded for us. Finally on Friday we dressed to impress in our cultural clothes. What a great week!  

Here are some pictures of our fun week and some helpful resources

Thank you Mainfreight 😊

Today Mainfreight delivered the most delicious apples to our school. Enough for every kid and even some for the teachers. Room 7 delivered to classes before school and there were lots of crunching happy kids at morning tea.

Thank you Mainfreight- the apples were delicious!

Fruit in schools

Every Monday and Wednesday Room 7 work very hard to sort and deliver the fruit to every class in the school. It is a big job but we love the responsibility. The children have to collect all the fruit buckets, collect the fruit in its boxes at the front of the school. It is very heavy! Lucky we are strong! Once we get the boxes to Room 7 we count out the fruit (on Mondays it means over 60 pieces per class) then we deliver it with cheerful smiles to the classes. Finally our last job is to flatten the boxes and drop off at recycling bin by Wayne's shed. All this before 9am!!!!

Room 7 children are awesome!