Pride Award Winners

Pride Award Winners

This week in Room 1 Ben received the Principal's Award. He had been away for two weeks on holiday. When he got back he was behind on his climate change work. So he had to work hard on it, so he could catch up. He completed his work in time so he could have it up on our open day website. Also this week our P.R.I.D.E certificate winners were Jayden, Kaiden, Sapphire and Tatiana. They received the award because they used diligence also. They have been diligent because they have been working very hard in class for the past few weeks. Next week there will some more awards to give out.

Room1 Mana News 24th July: Mana the Lion

Summer and Cassidy were awarded Mana the lion for there diligence at working through their time table. Rm1 are working like high school students. We have a time table with the days work to do and we are learning to work independently through our learning tasks.

Room1 Mana News 23 July

Mana the Lion.

Cassidy Muway got Mana for using her Diligence by working on the right thing to improve her leaning. 

Here's Cassidy she is working hard on her work.


By Liam Smith.

Room1 Mana news 22 July.

Mana the Lion.

The first person who got Mana was Reuben Smith he got it because he was showing his initiative.
Everyday as soon as the bell goes he does his work. He has his work out and started without being asked to.

This is Reuben doing his reading with Mana Lion.

By Liam Smith

Term 3 Reading. Inferring.

A learning need for Room 1 readers is to practice the reading comprehension strategy of inferring. To do this we will be looking at why inferring means and practicing inferring with small excerpts of text. We will then keep a track of our inferring using tables like the ones below that differentiate literal meanings we glean from texts and inferred meanings. Look out for your students versions of these tables (and their vocabulary building work) n their blogs this term).

Example of Vocabulary Building Learning Activity

Here's an example of a vocabulary building activity:

Term 3 Reading: Vocabulary Building

Hello everyone. Here is some term 3 reading work I am planning. One of the cornerstone learning needs for students at every level is vocabulary building.

This week we will be looking at vocabulary from a text called 'Gary the Worm.' We will use challenging words from the text to develop our vocabulary building strategies.

By designing definitions and reflecting on how we came to the definition, students are encouraged to become metacognitive about vocabulary building strategies.

Tori and Bonnie Visit Room 1

Today we had special visitors. Tori and Bonnie are from Auckland. Tori goes to a school called Christan School. She has come to Opunake Primary to find out what kids would put in a box to give to other children. The rules for the box are it has to be under 25 dollars and it has to fit in a shoe box. The kids wanted to put: 

- lollies 

-stationary 

- books 

in their boxes