Maths Week 2011

We've just finished an exciting Maths week.  During the week we attended a World of Maths show in our hall, measured our body to make a body measurement garden, painted Mondrian master pieces, made origami hats, learnt some interesting maths facts and competed against each other in some challenging maths games.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mr J's special All Black Jersey.

 

Our caretaker Bob Johnson is very passionate about rugby.  He was proud as punch when he showed us this special All Blacks jersey which he bought recently.  There are only 2011 of these special commemorative All Black jerseys in the world.  Mr Johnson has number 425.  They are a souvenir from the All Blacks versus South Africa game held on 30 July 2011 at the Westpac Stadium in Wellington.

Bring on the World Cup!!

Special Term Certificate

Congratulations to JC for being room 19's second term recipient of Botany Downs Special Terrific Person's award.

A fantastic effort was made by JC all term who tried his very best in his work!

Congratulations and well done JC!

My Mum's Job

Our homework task was to find out more about what our parents do.  JC's mum is a Workplace Safety Co-ordinator at McDonalds.
We were fortunate that Brigitte Crowther could come into our class and talk to us about what this job means and how important it is to always consider safety first.  Mrs Crowther is contributing to society by keeping people safe in the workplace. 

 

THANK YOU MRS CROWTHER!

The Enchanted Forest

 

We talked about the different jobs we could do to help make our world a better place.  We all agreed that the world would be better with jobs that make people happy like musicians and actors.  We were fortunate to have a theatre company come to our school to perform The Enchanted Forest.  We learnt about the native animals that live in our bush and how to look after the precious treasures of Aotearoa.  Some of us even got to operate the puppets!

Contributing to Our Society: Labour or Leisure

Our new inquiry topic has been about looking at how people contribute to our society by the different jobs they do.  We thought about a job we could do that would help make the world a better place.

Firewise

Even though we have completed our Firewise inquiry topic, we want to share some acrostic Firewise poems as we think they are fantastic.  What do you think?

F iery flames were fast

I magine the flames igniting in an impressive explosion

R acing red flames were rattling

E scape very quickly

W ondering if there will be white flames

I magine the igniting inferno flames

S parks are flying around the hot house

E scape from your flaming enemy

                                                G B

F iery flames are fast

I inferno flames inspire me

R attling flames are burning

E xplore and escape from the fire

W ondering what is Firewise

I gniting burning fire

S cary sparks are flying

E xploring fire is not safe

                                                A S

F iery house is burning

I magine the inferno red burning house

R acing red house is rattling from flames

E scape very quickly

W ondering where the burning house is

I gnited burning house is very hot

S parks are flying around the hot house

E xpanding flames are fire red

                                                M H

F iery flames were fast

I magine the flames igniting in an impressive display

R ed big fiery flames

E scape from the burning house

W ise working flames wandering around the house

I nferno infuriating flames

S hocking fiery flames are sparkly

E xploding flaming house is expensive

                                                J C