Expressing Ourselves

More strange people, how and why are they expressing themselves????

Express Yourself

Who is this person and what are they doing?????

Inquiry Express Yourself

We have been thinking about how people express themselves. In Circle Time we thought of good ways and bad ways to do this.

Choice and Challenge

Today we made Oaty pancakes in Choice and Challenge.  We made lots of pancakes. Halley helped us make them.

Here is the receipe:

1/4 cup of milk
3/4 cup rolled oats
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon of salt
2 - 3 tablespoons of sugar
1/2 cup of flour
2 teaspoons of baking powder
25g of melted butter.

Pour the milk over the rolled oats.  Add the rest of the ingredients.  Cook , both sides, in a fry pan with a little butter, until they are golden.  We had Maple Syrup with ours.

Amber Rose

Amber Roses brother, Bradley is starting school on Monday.  He got a certificate from his kindergarten.  Bradley is really lucky to have Amber Rose as a big sister and she is going to help him settle into school.

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Skool stars

We have been expressing ourselves through music and dance as part of our Inquiry Learning of Expressing Ourselves.  We have been doing skool stars and we will be able to see ourselves on a DVD at our Learning Celebration.

Expressing Ourselves

We have been Expressing Ourselves through our art work. We made pictures of some feelings and thoughts that we sometimes have.

Wha Whanau

On every second Friday we have a Community Time or  Wha Whanau.  We meet in vertical groupings, that is with children from different classes in the same group.  We learn more about the Freeville Flyer Characteristics and have lots of fun practising them. We are practising Co-operating with others so that we can all work together for the same things and have a fun time doing it.

Our Poems

We have been learning how to write poems.

We will know we have done this when we have done the following:

Followed the structure
Started each sentence on a new line
Used puncuation correctly
Expressed thoughts and ideas that are special to me

Here are some of our poems.

Courtney
It means great and pretty
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It is like a beautiful flower
We went roller blading
My gran
My gran showed me how to knit
2 weeks ago when I stayed the night
Courtney
I will never give up

Sophie
It means honest speedy and bright
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It is like a river
It is going to Hamner
It is the memory of my pet puppy
When we bought her
Sophie
It means I believe in doing my best and never giving up

Milly
It means delightful playful and glad
2001
It is like luscious ripe grapes
It is going to Australia
It is a memory off my step brother
Mum and Dad taught me to walk
9 years ago
Milly
It means all my lovely family

Dathan
It means joyful, brave honest
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It is a river with crocodiles sand snakes
It is going camping
Its a memory of my Nana
Who taught me to be honest
When she was alive
Dathan
It means to never quit

Express Yourself

As part of our Inquiry, on Express Yourself,  we have been learning how to express how we feel.  We had to close our eyes and then think of something that made us feel angry, feel happy and feel disappointed.  You can tell from our faces how we were feeling.

Room 6 and sunhats

It is the start of summer. We are all wearing our sun hats... even when the sun is not shining.

Name Poems

We have been expressing ourselves through writing poetry. We have been writing name poems about ourselves or other people. We had to remember to follow the structure, use adjectives, put upper case letters at the start of the line and make it neat so people could read it.  It also had to make sense. 

Newsletter

15 October
The term has started in a really positive way. We have been revising our maths basic facts, in particular subtraction. We have been thinking about all the strategies that we use for reading. We are trying to use them whenever we are doing any reading. We have been writing poems about ourselves. We are practising for skool stars and putting together a dance for the filming. This has been interesting. In Circle Time we discussed bullying and tried to work out why people do this, what it is and some strategies of how to deal with it. There was some interesting discussion. We are doing this on Thursdays now rather than Fridays because as part of our Inquiry Learning we are doing the Arts on other days.


Sunhats.
The children need to be wearing their sunhats. If they are not they will be told to sit under one of the trees, in the shade. They can still play there but they need to stay in this area.


On Tuesday morning I will be at a meeting here at school. On Thursday I am going to a seminar put on by Whahakata House, to learn more about different issues that can affect children. Mrs Q will be in for me.


Don’t forget to check out our blog. www.room6@freeville.blogspot.com I am also putting the newsletters on the blog.
Fair
If you are able to help with the Fair, on 3 December please let me know. The times available are from 2pm to 7.30pm. Team Freeville would like to know as soon as possible. They are half hour slots. I will send home a copy for you to fill in and return to school.


Thank you for the contributions for the treasure hunt at the fair. If you have anything that you can donate to this we would really appreciate it.
Calendars.
If you have any orders please get them to me by 29 October.


Book Orders for Book Club
Please give these to me by the 4 November.


Gym
We will be going to the gym over at QE2 in November. The cost is about $32.00. You will receive a notice about it. You can also start paying for it now if you wish too.


Choice and Challenge
This term we are joining LT1 and 2 for this. There are a number of options including Baking, Flying Objects, Computer things, Hockey and Sherbet. Each week the children have a choice of what they participate in.