Keeping ourselves organised

Term 3 has led us to think about how we keep ourselves organised in Room 7 so that we can make the most of our learning time. We talked about what we need to do to be organised throughout the day. 
Below are the ideas that we came up with:

Over the past few days we have been focusing on doing these things without having to be reminded. We have been getting better and better at managing ourselves, and this means that we have been making better use of our learning time. 

Look how beautifully organised our class was this morning before the bell rang! 

Some of us have also made posters to display as reminders of how to be organised. 

Welcome Back Tamariki!

Week one of term three has kicked off with a bang. We have some fantastic programmes happening this term including Keeping Ourselves Safe, Fair Play, Poetry, Speeches, Persuasive and Narrative Writing, Multiplication strategies, and film making.

This week we have started writing poems, check our individual blogs (linked down the side of the page) to see our creative writing.

Today we practiced a relay and discovered all the reasons why fair play is important to us. It helps the game become more fun when we practice taking turns and following the rules that we all agree on.

Taking turns in a adventure course

Following rules, and playing fair!

We've also had fantastic success so far in our maths thinking. we are learning to use Stage 5 and 6 strategies which means solving maths problems using our times tables instead of skip counting.
Check out some of our multiplicative strategies that we used to solve how many bunches of 5 can fit into 320. Check our other Math blogposts to see some useful videos showing how to use smart strategies.