Cross Country

Here's a video Miss Sadgrove made from the photos she took at Cross Country. Click play and check out the photos! Miss Sadgrove has done an amazing job with editing the photos and putting it all together. Thank you Miss Sadgrove.

I have also taken some photos of Room 16 during cross country. However Google has updated their photo app. I'm still in the process of figuring out the best way to upload photos onto our blog. Will post the photos up as soon as we have figured out how.

Activity: Read and Draw

Read and Draw is an independent activity that students do as part of our reading programme. With this task the students will need to read the instructions that is given and draw what they have read. This activities gives students an opportunity to practice their decoding (reading unknown words) skills and to communicate what they have read through drawing.
The students in Room 16 have used the Explain Everything App on the iPads to complete this task. Here are some of the work that we have achieved so far. This was also another good chance for students to practice downloading a worksheet from our classroom Google Drive onto Explain Everything and to save their work onto our classroom Google Drive using the app.

Our next step will be to record ourselves talking about our picture with Explain Everything.

Shane's Picture: 

Here is Robbie's picture:



Here is Venia's picture:



Here is Melody's picture:

Story Writing - Ryan and Sargent

This week we have been learning how to write a narrative. To write a narrative we know that we need to have characters, setting, beginning, middle and end.

Today Ryan wrote a narrative on Mahe Drysdale winning the Rio Olympics. This is what he wrote in 20mins!




Today Sargent wrote a narrative about him and his sister. Push play and see what he wrote!

Today we tried to use the Explain Everything app on the iPads to show how we can use skip counting to quickly find how many teddy bears there are.
Here are some of the work that the students in Room 16 did.

This is Ryan:


This is Lesley and Monique:



Here is Aston and Sargent's work. They found a cool pointer on the app to show how they are skip counting. Good find boys! Thank you for teaching me something with the Explain Everything app.

Rhiana's Writing - Spider Legs Poem

Today we read a poem about having spider legs. So we took parts of the poem and wrote our own. Here's what Rhiana wrote.

Student Led Conference

Yesterday was our Student Led Conference at Glen Taylor School. It was a chance for our students to share their learning and achievements with their families. Thank you to all the families that came along to support their child.

Prior to the Student Led Conference the students in Room 16 had a practice with their buddies. We all took turns to be the student and also be our buddy's mum or dad. Some of the students in Room 16 became very encouraging parent for their 'child'/buddy with giving them some great positive feedback through out the practice and at the end. 

Ka pai to the students in Room 16. I am very proud of you all for sharing your learning with your families and buddy. 

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Daniel's Reading Response

We are back to implementing Explain Everything on the iPad in our everyday programme. Here's what Daniel did on Explain Everything after he read the book 'My Brother'.
Well done Daniel on giving this a go.

Warriors

On Wednesday the Warriors came to Glen Taylor School. We learnt about how important it is to keep hydrated, be well rested and to eat well. Did you know that children need 11 hours of sleep each night and adults need 8 hours of sleep each night?

Looks like I need to work hard on making sure I get at least 8 hours of sleep each night.  Room 16 students, I hope you are getting at least 11 hours of sleep each night!


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Gymnastic

This week we started our new sport for the term. This term the focus is on gymnastic. This week we learnt the different poses for gymnastic.
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