Homelearning

POHUTUKAWA HOME LEARNING TERM 2 2011

The smarts are the different ways in which children learn. This homework helps to develop the smarts children have strengths in and those they need to develop.

This term you are to choose 1 activity from each of the Smarts, and then complete 3 other activities of your choice. Remember to do your maths, spelling and reading and that they are signed off each week. After each activity is completed write down the activity and a short reflection on how well it went. You will present your outcomes to your class in wk 5 & 10.

People Smart

Cook 2 dinners for your family. Write down what you cooked and have two family members critique each of your meals.

Choose a different culture to your own, learn how to say three different commands in their language eg hello, how are you and goodbye. Find out what the country celebrates and how it celebrates.

Discuss with parents and do some voluntary work for an organisation eg SPCA or for someone in your neighbourhood.

Music / Picture Smarts

Take photos of your top 5 places in Rolleston and record why they are your favourites.

Make a dance up for your favourite song to perform in front of your class (can work in groups).

Make an instrument from recycled materials.

Draw or paint a piece of classical music as it plays.

Make a garden, bedroom, park etc in a shoe box.

Number/Word Smarts

Complete two science experiments and record what you did, how well did it work, what was the science learning involved?

Complete 5 soduko and glue into your homework book.

Complete 5 crosswords and glue into your homework book.

Body and Kinesthetic Smarts

Develop a two week fitness plan and complete.

Learn to juggle and share with the class.

Learn how to knit and make something to share with the class.

Get creative with wood and nails, bring in your end result to share.

Nature Smarts

Do some gardening for your family or neighbours. At least 1 hour.

Go on a bush walk with your family and take photos and record what you observe.

Make a chart to identify native birds or trees. Take photos or sketch, name specific features and name to bird or tree.

Do something in your community to enhance nature. Eg plant some plants, pick up rubbish on the street, write to the council about lack of rubbish bins.

8 Block Closure, Learning for Top Decklearners on Studyladder

Dear Parents and Caregivers

As you will be aware, the 8 Block will be closed again on Thursday 16 June. My suggestion to caregivers and children is that the children use Studyladder on this day to practise many of the skills that we have recently been learning in class. I have updated our Studyladder today and the link to this and other educational websites are down the right hand sidebar of our blog, so there are tasks everyone!! Mackenzie is currently our class winner on Studyladder, as she has a Bronze Medal, well done Mackenzie!!

Stay safe everyone

Mrs Stewart

A regular school team

In a school there are a number of people who help run the school easily with no glitches along the way.

At school there are many people who help so here are a few and one of which is a principal Mr Morall. Mr Morall is nearly and almost the heart of the school. He is the one who does the news letters, arranging guests to come to the school and he is the one you go to if you get in really big trouble!

Another person is Mrs Tucker who is a Financial Controller and she is the one who is in charge of all the money and some of the notices.

Mr Treeweak is in charge of many many jobs so we have to heartfully respect him. He is the caretaker, the rugby coach, and a main role of a school.

The teachers and the children are the ones who bring it all to life. The teachers have all this knowledge stored up in their brains ready to teach the children.

A whole bunch of people are the ones that make a miracle school and miracle people live life to the full extent.

Reggio Discussions

We have been discussing a number of interesting ideas during our Reggio time!!
Mrs S has documented some of the things we have been saying, we are then going to highlight the bits of our conversations that are relevant to help us plan our next steps for our project. See the pages opposite to view some of the great conversations we have been having!!

Multiplication

Flash Games for Kids

Flash Games for Kids

September Earthquake

It was 4.35am and I was fast asleep then all of a sudden my bed started shaking.I was still half asleep and then I realised it was a earthquake. I started screaming and then my dad picked me up and cared me to the door frame. when I got to the door frame,the earthquake had finished and I saw my mum at the door frame with my sister under her door frame. We all stood under the door frame for about an hour while still having aftershocks. My mum and dad went to get a torch and we stood for another 15 minutes still under the door frames with our touches. We all went into mum and dads room to sleep.when we woke up we went to have a look at the damage. were broken pieces of glass off mums vases that her gran gave her. we went to have a look in the in the the pantry and we couldn't even open the door because everything had fallen on the floor -what a mess with food broken crockery and it smelt. there was a shelf in the in the garage and it had buckets of paint and it fell on dads truck.luckily only one bucket opened but there were lots of dints on dads truck. Later on that Saturday Natalie my friend came around with her dad.her dad spread chicken manure on our paddocks in a big. Natalie and I were talking nonstop about the earthquake we still had no power and they said we were going to have another big aftershock so we packed up including our dogs and left for Ashburton to stay with our Nana.

Tekon-tustle-toor

Today while I was slowly nevertheless carefully creeping up the steep rock about two metres away from the top of Jelly mountain, something pounced at me and all these thoughts suddenly rushed through my brainy head and, honestly, I thought I was going to die! the creature slowly eased away from me as I eased away from him, terrified. Meanwhile the strange mammal was smiling at me from ear to ear and thats when I realised it was not smiling at me, it was smiling at Maria's dairy which I happened to be holding at the time.

It must have thought I knew Maria because it suddenly did the strangest thing.I held out the diary thus it was in the creature's reach and it took the book by its mouth, put it on the ground, later that moment it came and amusingly fell asleep on my lap.

Thats when I realised the mammal was a Tekon-tustle-toor!The creature was not fierce,it was as calm a an enraged fish!
Therefore when you go to Jelly mountain,DO NOT kill, treasure, these endagered species. What exeptional animals we have got!

Alara

My night on Jelly Mountain

As I slipped out of the back door I felt a twang of sadness as I looked up at the home I had known as a child. But that was behind me now. I tiptoed to the back of the house where my quad bike was kept. I turned the ignition key and the engine started up in a soft low purr. Swinging my leg onto the bike and hauling myself up, I pointed my bike away from the house. Soon I was heading towards the entrance to Jelly Mountain.

Half an hour later I was crawling through the tunnel to the top of Jelly Mountain. As I reached the top I was almost blown over with the force of the wind. It was a very chilly wind and I was only wearing shorts, a t-shirt, and sandals. I tried to make a fire but the wind kept blowing it out as it roared around me like a pack of hungry lions. Suddenly I heard a commotion that (surprisingly) was louder than the wind. As I entered the tuatara clearing an amazing sight met my eyes. A young huia was surrounded by the Jelly mountain tuatara and was making an ear splitting racket. I rushed into the clearing, scooped up the little huia, and ran out again. I had completely forgotten about the wind and it nearly blew the tiny bird out of my arms. Suddenly my common sense kicked in. I lowered myself into the pit that I had had to climb up earlier that evening. As I plopped the little huia onto the ground my stomach growled. I pulled a cheese sandwich out of my pocket that I had nicked from the pantry earlier. I sighed and looked at the half-starved animal. He probably needed it more than I did. I held out the sandwich to him. He snatched it from me and began to devour it. I piled some leaves together and lay down. Pretty soon I was asleep.

The next morning I woke up and it looked like it was midday. The sun was blazing and it was extremely hot. I went off in search of food. I found a refreshing looking bush with juicy looking raspberries that were just ripe. When I returned I shared the berries with the huia who I named 'Hu-hu' Later that day I discovered an old well and got some surprisingly fresh water. I made up my mind right that instant to live on Jelly mountain for the rest of my life. Who knows? Maybe, when I'm older, I might write about this adventure. I'll call it: My night on Jelly Mountain....

Red & Black mufti Day

Our mufti Day

On friday 11th march 2011, Rolleston School had a mufti day to raise funds ,for the refugees of christchurch who have lost so much due to the 6.3 earthquake on 22nd Feburary. the organisers of this day would like to say thank you to the people who have made this day about the people of Canterbury who have lost so much. we are proud to say we raised 800 & 52 dollars to help in the re-build of our lovely city.

School Mufti Day

On Friday the 11th of March there was a mufti day to raise money, and collect food for the refugees of Christchurch city. They have lost so much due to the 6.3 Earthquake. Everybody came in Red and Black mufti and brought either:
1. a gold coin donation
2. a non perishable food item (canned food)
3. old school uniform for the city children to use while at our school.

The organisers for this day were
Deena, Caitlin and Charlotte K-S 6B6
Elizabeth 6B3

We were quite impressed when we heard how much we had raised. We raised $852.60.
Mrs Stewart got a photo of us all after assembly and we all looked great in our red and black mufti.

We had lots of canned food and money to give and it was great to have a mufti day to help out.

It was a lovely day and we had great fun. On Friday the 18th of March we have the day off as there is going to be a ceremony held in town to remember those who have passed away in the 6.3 earthquake.