A message from Miss Bycroft

Kowhai Whanau Assembly Week 6

Last Friday Room 13 presented some of our learning at the Kowhai Whanau assembly. 

Our inquiry topic is about the ocean so we all chose a sea animal to research. 

We used a couple of different websites to search, read information and watch videos to find interesting facts about our chosen animal. 

We then painted a blue background and cut out our animal to create the artwork. 

Have a look at a few of them below.

We also had some superstars receive certificates at the assembly. 

Well done to Olive, Jacob and Senumi for all their hard work and positive attitudes over the past few weeks.

Our First Buddy Class

On Friday we had our first buddy class for the year. We are super lucky this year and we have two buddy classes! We have buddies from Room 1 (year 6) and Room 9a (year 1). 

We met our buddies and spent some time getting to know each other and drawing some pictures together. 

We are super excited to spend time with our buddies more throughout the year! 

Structure of a Recount

In Writing, we have been learning to write recounts. To help us with structuring our recounts, we did an activity. 

First, we looked at what goes into a recount. We used this poster to help us learn the structure. 

We were then put into groups and given a recount that was all mixed up. We had to work as a team to put the piece of writing into the correct order based on what we had learnt about the structure of a recount. 

It was a bit tricky but we all got there in the end!