Show not tell 'Room 11' collaboration

Kiwi Kids News

Here are links to some of our latest Kiwi Kids News. Each week we choose an interesting article (sometimes it takes forever to choose our favourite) and then we summarise it for each other to read!

We add in a link to the original article so Miss P can check our facts and sometimes we also add in a video or a image to go with the article.

On Friday's we complete the Kiwi Kids News quiz. Some of us get 10 out of 10 and some of us... don't.

Caitlin

Zoe

Byron

Finlay

Jimmy

Holly

Dillon

Callan

Angus

Josh

Maya

Brayden

Alex

Samantha

Kate

Sophie

Mitchell

Yotam  

Te Ora

Lillie

Ella RW

Max

Things I love in our classroom

Our chrome books - even if the cords are a bit untidy today!

Our 40book challenge centre - complete with cushions! 

And the beautiful day outside! 

Happy Thursday Room 11!

Picasso Art Work

Artist: Pablo Picasso

For art Room 11 have been making Picasso art.

To make this we had to look at pictures on the internet to get ideas of what it should look like. 

Step 1: We found a big head in a magazine that would be suitable to make into Picasso Art.

Step 2: We found some eys, mouth, noses and hair to put onto the big head.

Step 3: When we were finished we cut out the picture so that there was about a centimetre width pf white around the head.

Step 5: We glued our work onto black paper.

That's how to make GREAT picasso art.

Student Led Conferences

Wow! What a great evening. I met with most of Room 11 and their parents last night to help the children share their learning and goals.

The Room 11 children had a great time teaching their parents how to use Little Bird Tales and Padlet. Check out our reflection padlets.

ps If your parent forget to fill it in, ask them to do it at home.

Created with Padlet

Created with Padlet

Our first lines - using Little Bird Tales

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Room 11 = AMAZING

So spoilt today! The children in my class and I had a discussion about birthdays. I told them that in the UK I always celebrated my b'day at school with my class but in NZ because it was in the holidays I never got to have a 'party' with my class.

Well it's true that children do listen... sometimes!

Today the girls in my class showed up with a b'day cake (can't wait for the gluten free, dairy free recipe), cards, chocolates and a CD with 'Happy b'day' on it. They remembered the candles and they had kept it hidden from me until just before lunchtime.

What a special bunch of people I spend my days with! The fact that my b'day is in January was irrelevant...!

Easter Egg Extravaganza!

As an Easter celebration we decided to decorate eggs, bake some treats and make a basket for all our treats!

Equipment:
Hard boiled eggs
Dye
Wax crayons
Paint brush
Ice cream containers
Tissues

Steps:

1. Hard boil your egg

2. Use wax crayons to decorate your egg. 

3. Use Easter patterns and lots of colour. 

Be very careful so you don't break the shell.

4. Carefully place your egg into an ice cream container filled with the dye. 

Roll it around and paint the dye over the egg.

Here are our finished products!

We would love to see your decorated eggs.

Have you ever decorated eggs?

What is your favourite pattern?