Writing in Room 7,8,9

We in Room 7,8,9 have been practicing some different skills in our writing by re-reading and re-working our writing.

Beep! Beep! “Agent Animal you are needed immediately for  a mission in the snowy mountains” squeaked a voice from Lila’s bracelet. Lila wasn’t only an ordinary school girl she was also a secret spy agent! Lily raced towards her invisible rocket ship and started the countdown 5 4, 3, 2 ,1… blast off! Lily flew off into the deep blue sky.
“Almost there” screamed Lila in excitement. Suddenly there was a big, big bump!

Emily

You may wonder I was out past midnight. I must start at the beginning. My name is Tom. I was walking from soccer practice and I saw something unusual. I was staring at a dark mansion where a empty spot was.

“I should tell Noah,” I thought. I ran to Noah’s house and told him.

“We should go out at night,” Noah said.

“We should go out when!?”, I screamed.

“At night”, he said.

“Alright, i’ll go” I said questioning it. “But not to late!”

Brody

Dory, the blue and yellow fish kept asking where the orange fish was at. Dory eventually found him. The orange fish named Urple with her friend Durple. Then it went pitch black! Durple lit up place, before they found themselves inside...

Holly G

Explore Time in our new building.

It's the end of the first week in our new building and the children are loving our new spaces.

Todays Explore Time was a huge success with Storybird writing on laptops, games, crafts, dancing and some miniball.  

Good fun was had by all and it was a lovely way to end the week.

Music!

Rooms 10, 11 and 12 were in charge of running the school assembly this week. We had MCs, technicians and lights people helping behind the scenes. It was a busy assembly with lots of certificates to give out and notices to listen to. 

We were especially proud of our music performance that Mrs Osgood has been preparing us for!

Lunchtime Football

Lunchtime Football

We have been lucky enough to have two seniors from school come to work with Akeake students on Thursday lunchtimes and teach us some new football skills. We have practiced dribbling, passing, and shooting. Many thanks to Georgia and Luca!

Geometry

This week we have been learning about geometry which is a fancy word for 2D and 3D shapes. We have been learning the names of shapes, and finding things in our world that are shaped like cones, cubes, pyramids and other 3D shapes. 

We have also been learning how to draw nets for shapes so that we can fold them up and make them. There are some cool songs on Youtube to help us learn about shapes. Check out the videos below! 

2D Shapes Song
3D Shapes Song

                   

Maths Week

Maths Week

Last week we had Maths Week. There were problem solving challenging for us to solve, maths activities at lunchtimes, and some other fun activities. We had a Buddy Class Scavenger Hunt on Friday afternoon. We had to measure and estimate a range of different objects and things around the school.

                                      

Cricket Skills

We were very lucky this week to have Tim from Canterbury Country Cricket come in and teach us some skills. We practiced throwing, catching, batting a fielding. One of our challenges was to throw the ball up high and see how many claps we could do before catching it. The record in Room 12 was 9!

After practicing these skills we had a mini game with a batting team and a fielding team. We tried to keep score but we all got too many runs to count! 

At the end, Tim gave us all a bag with a foam ball and a poster to go on our bins at home. We have been having lots of fun playing with our balls (although some of them are already stuck on roofs and in trees at home).