Wednesday 7 November 2012

Margret Mahy visits room 6 this week

We have been reading Margaret Mahy's stories and poems all week and then Isaac and his family loaned room 6 the wonderful Margaret Mahy collelection just out in the shops, that has a CD of Margaret Mahy  reading the stories she wrote. It is called "The Margaret Mahy Treasury". It is so wonderful to hear her voice. The children have been selecting their favourite Mahy characters for the Friday Character Parade ... I wounder who will come to school on Friday morning ... I think we will see The Witch from "The Witch in the Cherry Tree", and lots of sharks  from "The Great White White Man-Eating Shark" and dragons and lions from "The Lion in the Meadow", a few pirates from "The Great Piratical Rumbustification" and some children from "A Summery Saturday Morning".

Friday 14 September 2012

Spring Fever Hits Room 6

We have been talking about all the exciting things that happen when Springtime arrives, like baby lambs being born. Farmer Lukas brought his lamb "Otto" to school and we all stroked him. Otto had a soft, curly, wool coat and we loved stroking him. We were surprised when we touched him, to feel how warm and silky he felt. He talked to us too and we got to feed him milk. His tail went crazy when he was drinking the milk. Farmer Lukas said that meant that Otto was happy.We have been studying Nursery Rhymes and we changed "Mary Had A Little Lamb", here is our new poem

Lukas had a little lamb, little lamb, little lamb,
Lukas had a little lamb
he brought to Parnell School
It made Room 6 tip-toe quietly, stroke him gently and feed him milk.
Otto"s tail went wagging fast
to say he loved us all.

Farmer Lukas said  he was happy, he was happy, he was happy
Famer Lukas said he was happy
to bring his lamb to school.

The room 6 children 
laughed and squealed, laughed and squealed, laughed and squealed.
The room 6 children laughed and stroked, and wouldn't come back inside.
Mrs Browne was there too, was there too, was there too,
Mrs Browne was there too and
loved it too!

Yesterday we planted our class garden with Spring flowers. They are Petunias, Primroses and Cyclamens.
We googled how to prepare the garden soil first by completing a google search and finding a You Tube clip showing us how to do it. Some of us did not like feeling the mud and seeing the worms, but we carried on and now our garden looks fantastic. We can't wait for our flowers to grow and bloom.

Enjoy your Springtime weekend, maybe you could all plant something at home this weekend. 


Friday 7 September 2012

Room 6 went to the Museum

We have been talking about our visit to the Museum on Tuesday, 4 September. We have made a list of the things we enjoyed the most:
The T-Rex (Josh)
The big model of the Maori Pa site (Harry)
The olden days toilet (Isaac)
The butterflies (Matthew)
The olden day jail (Ella M)
The Wharenui was the body of the ancestors and the stories (Nika)
The big T-Rex (Reema)
The stories in the Maori House (Wharenui) Afrina
The Haka (Lily) and the olden day jail
The big airplane and the big dinosaur and when my Mum came (Luca White)
The Music Rock that made music when you hit it (Chloe)
The butterflies. My favourite was the red one white white spots (Cici)
The plane and the volcano room (Addy)
Doing the Haka (Oscar)
The olden day jail (Lukas)
The dinosaur babies (Budur)
Olden day toilet (Ella B)
The penguin statue (The Emperor Penguin was bigger than all the room 6 students) Zeyad
The dinosaurs (Devin)
 The olden day houses and the olden day sink where you washed your hands and the army stuff and the kiwi (Luca H)
The gekos and lots of stuff too (Mrs Browne)
A big thank to Mrs Judith Bassett (especially for the coffee!!)
Mrs Kyong Huh
Mrs Amanda White
Mrs Kim Randall
Mrs Helle Westergaard (Lukas' Mum)
you were the best parent helpers and our children had a great day because of it -
Thank so much, it was neat spending the day with you. Love from room 6 and Mrs Browne.:)

Friday 24 August 2012

Yesterday our whole school went to Aotea Centre for Kiwi Kapers 2012. Here are some of the things we said about our trip:
"The music was peaceful" - Josh
"We saw the Parnell School dancers on the stage" - Lukas
"The music was loud when the horns blew loud" - Nika
"The drums were loud when the drummers banged hard on the drums" - Addy
"It was peaceful there, I really liked the dancing" - Lily
""There was a beautiful soprano in a red dress" - Ella M
"The drummers were kids and they did really well" -Luca H
"The violins made a pretty sound" - Ella B
"I loved the harp, it made a really soft sound" - Chloe
"The lady's song was so beautiful, it made me think of having a dream" - Harry
"The drum was making a clippy-clappy sound" - Reema
"The dancers jumped over the roses in time with the music" - Oscar
"The bus was fast. I liked the trumpets best"- Isaac
"We were really high on the bus. The violin was small but there were lots of them" - Zeyad
"The seats went up and down by themselves, I liked the golden trumpets." - Luca W
"The guitar was loud" - Devin
"I liked the dancing and we did the Zumba with the dancers" - Afrina
"The red heart said 'Move to music."' - Cici
"I liked the flute best" - Matthew.

Monday 13 August 2012

Police Education Officer Visits Junior School

We had a very enjoyable visit from Constable Julie and Constable Cyrus today, to talk to us about how to stay safe when crossing the road. Did you know that children have to be 10 years or over before they can cross the road alone. Until then the children need to cross with an adult (or a child 10years or older). We will be continuing a Road Safety focus for another three weeks. Tomorrow, is Junior School Wheels Day, so bring along some wheels if you can.

Tuesday 19 June 2012

19 June Blog

Kia Ora Mums and Dads of room 6
We are writing this blog together today using our projector so we can all see it as Mrs Browne writes it!! Wow.
We want to say "Thank-you for coming with us to the Marae and learning us, we had a great time"
Our favourite parts of the trip:
  • learning stuff around the Marae with the big kids
  • being inside the wharenui
  • making the fish
  • seeing Whaea Celess
  • seeing her cloak
  • learning the haka and speaking Maori
KA KITE ANO
KIA ORA
from room 6

Monday 18 June 2012

Parent student conferences



We now report on an age based /time at school system. I am emailing parents now regarding times for the conferences. If you are not contacted, you will see Mrs Browne in term 3 and 4. Ten students will see me this term and term 4. Please ask if you are not clear.

Friday 15 June 2012

We went to the Marae


Room 6 and Room 4 waiting to go into the wharenui.
What a wonderful day we all had at the Marae. Thank you to all the parent helpers who came with us, the children and I were happy to have you along to experience the beautiful Orakei Marae. Ka kite ano, Mrs Browne.

Friday 16 March 2012

Hello from room. 6
We have been talking about our topic "Landforms" today. We put our white thinking hat on to talk about all the facts we know about Volcanoes. We have drawn a picture of what we know in class. This weekend could you all become researchers and find out some facts about volcanoes. We also want to know which volcano is closest to Parnell District School.

A big thank you to the home support in reading and alphabet learning. Room 6 students are making super progress towards knowing all the alphabet letter names and sounds by the end of term one.

For the students who have mastered the alphabet, it would be very helpful if their next goal is to learn how to form all letters correctly. This will help at writing time. We are sending home a letter formation sheet to help with practise.
Thanks everyone, have a happy weekend and enjoy the sun.


Wednesday 14 March 2012

We are planning our Education Outside the Classroom (EOTC) visit to Tiri Tiri Matangi Island on Wednesday 28 March. We will leave school at 8.15am and return at 5.15pm. Please remember to return permission slips to Mrs Browne ASAP. We have filled our parent positions  ... thank you to our first six parents in this morning. Our learning focus is the landmarks around us, how they have been formed, recognising the unique aspects of them (i.e. how do we recognise them) and the conservation aspects of preserving our native flora and fauna on Tiri; why is it important.

We are making a big push on learning all our letter names and sounds this term. We have a class goal of everyone knowing over half the alphabet names and sounds by the end of this term ... April, Thursday 5th.

In Maths our class goal is to learn to recognise all numerals to 20 and everyone be able to count back from 10 by the end of term.
Thanks everyone.

Monday 13 February 2012

Monday 13 February 2012

Welcome to our new toy .. we are now blogging from room 6. Today was our second swimming session, we have a third this Friday and our last swimming session the following Friday, 24 February(please note that the last session has been moved from Thursday 23 February as the pool has maintenance that day). We are loving our swimming times at Parnell Baths here are some photos including the neat staff at the pools that are teaching our children.