Arts Week Activities

During Arts week we had the opportunity to work with other year 6 classes! We took two drama and two dance workshops. We also did Visual Art with our own teachers. 

Drama

Room 1 loved doing the freeze frames with Mr Mac. 

Can you guess the scene/s we are creating here??

Click here for 'Freeze Frames' Video

Dance

We learnt a lot about how to 'feel the beat', Room 1 did a fantastic job. 

Click here to see room 1 feeling the beat

Visual Art

During arts week we began our Autumn artwork (Yes it's no longer Autumn... but the leaves were EVERYWHERE). This is only the first step to creating our new pieces. We used real leaves found around the school to create our realistic prints. It can be a tricky process but it was such a fun experience seeing our prints revealed!

Click here to see Caitlin's response!

Click here to see Xavier's first print!

Click here to see Saralee's first print!

We love dressing up!

A Solid effort from Room 1!

We love giving our all to school activities and events, especially when it's an opportunity to dress up :D

Our Artists

 Our Dancers

 Our Mimes (some even tried to stay silent all day!)

 Our Fashion Designers

Principals Award

CONGRATULATIONS CAITLIN!

You brought energy, enthusiasm and creativity to Arts Week this Term. A very well deserved Principals Award!

CONGRATULATIONS JACK!

A huge Thank you to the PTA for the Mathathon draw. I know Jack is super grateful for his prize and it is well deserved (he got 100% in his test)!

Break out

Break out

The break out was so fun and I enjoyed it so much. We were all crowding around a table with all the clues that people had found and there were people at the table putting all the clues together. We had 45 seconds left to complete it, but we did have an extra 10 seconds.

By Kees.

Time Inquiry

This term Room 1 has been working on learning about time. 

We looked at different time zones around the world. We also looked at some countries that have the same time zone as us. Fiji was one of them. 

We also found out why 12 is at the top of the clock. In early Egypt, there were people that looked at the sky. They saw where the sun was. At 12.00pm the sun was at it's highest point. And, on a clock, the 12 is at the highest point. As time evolved the clock evolved to. It was made into sundials which were sticks planted into the earth. Then, the sundial evolved into the clock that we have nowadays. 

We have also found out that am stands for ante meridiem, which means before midday and pm stands for post meridiem which means after midday.

Our most recent work around time has been Analogue, Digital, and 24-hour clocks. We can now tell the difference between them. For example, six 0'clock pm is the same as 18.00 or 6.00pm. 

We have learned a lot about time. It hasn't just been part of our Maths it has also been part of our Inquiry

By: Samantha and Ashton

The Buddhist Temple

Chinese Calligraphy

At the Buddhist temple, the first thing room 1 did was calligraphy.

We learned to do Chinese calligraphy. Calligraphy is a way people write in many different countries. We practiced writing Chinese characters. We had lots of fun doing this, but I think I was the only one who didn’t finish!

Thank you for ALL the parents who came along, especially my dad Adrian, Noah's mum Lynn and Blake's mum Amanda. You are awesome!

From Riley

Buddy Class

Every Friday we pop into our year 2 buddy class Room 21!

We help them with their spelling, by taking and marking their spelling tests. We absolutely love connecting with other classrooms in the school.

Room 1 Mrs. Cometti is very proud of how you look at for these guys on the playground and help them in their learning. You are so patient and gentle. Keep being the amazing year six leaders you are!

The Buddhist Temple

Wishing Well

At the Buddhist Temple, one of the things we did was pray at the wishing well.

We lined up in a line and 1 person at a time we kneeled down and put our

hands together, and wished for something. Then we rang the bell and bowed.

After we gave our wishes we went and had lunch.

              

By Heath

Fraction, decimal and percentage word Problems

Room 1 has been working on math word problems over the last two weeks. We were making them by our self, then solving each other's. Here is an example of Jack and Wilmer's math word problem. We are Looking forward to making more math problems.

By Jack

Warehouse Letter

Room 1 decided to send a letter to the Warehouse because they were asking a couple of students to buy a plastic bag in exchange for a token. They were just trying to help our school pool.

17 the Crest    

Pakuranga

Auckland

New Zealand

Dear the warehouse

To whom it may concern,

My name is James Robb, I am a student at Sunnyhills school.

Three of my classmates were told to by a plastic bag for a token. It cost them ten cents for a bag. It says on your website you are trying to reduce the amount of plastic bags, so why do you have to sell a plastic bag for a token?

One trillion plastic bags are made every year, and approximately 380 billion plastic bags end up in the ocean. A large number of animals die every year.

I understand that the money from the plastic bags funded the school pool heat pump.  but I just don't understand why you have to buy a plastic bags to get a token. Instead of giving a customer a token when they buy a plastic bag, could you instead give the customer a token if they don't use a bag?

I like shopping at the warehouse because you always have bargains. Thank you for helping us get the heat pump. Thank you for reading this letter, I hope to stop selling plastic bags.

Yours sincerely,

James Robb

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Congratulations Jamie and Riley. You really deserve those awards. You guys have been showing great growth mindsets in class, especially in Maths. You guys never give up in class and that's why you got those awards. You always have smiles on your faces and room 1 are so lucky to have you. Keep it up.

From Adam

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Life ED Van= Life Education Van

Room 1 and Harold

We learned about our needs and our well being that we need food, water and sleep to keep going for the whole day. We also learned more about the brain and the lungs, heart etc. We all contributed and we shared our learning too. Harold would come out and tell us a joke. His rule was we had to laugh. Whenever he told a joke we would all laugh. One of the jokes were "Why was the giraffe running around the bed, because he was catching sleep"  Harold said. Everyone laughed. And we also played a game of charades we acted out things from a card like drinking water. The Life ED Van was PHENOMENAL

By Shaye

Warehouse letter

Room one and I decided to send a letter to the Wearhouse, it is about them encouraging people to buy plastic bags, just to put a token in the pot. All the tokens would go towards winning our school pool heat pump.

This is what I wrote...

Dear The Warehouse Pakuranga

To whom it may concern

Hello, my name is Blake Pritchard, and I am a student from room 1 at Sunnyhills school. I am writing to you because I do not get why you have to buy plastic bags just to get a token. I have heard that three of my classmates have come to the Warehouse wanting to put a token in the box. However, they have been encouraged to buy a plastic bag, even though they had a reusable bag with them! All they wanted to do was try to get our school pool a heat pump.

I do like shopping at The Warehouse, your prices are super low. Thank you for the heat pump in our school pool, it is very warm in there now. In fact, I did go for a swim this morning and it was so warm I could have stayed in there the whole day. Before I would be begging to get out, that's how cold it was!

Did you know that one trillion plastic bags are being made right now, and over 380 billion of them go into the sea each year?

I found out that your website says that you are an environmentally friendly store, and "take pride in customer service." Though when you say that, some of your staff members are encouraging people to buy plastic bags. It's just preposterous! Still, it says you want to "help customers live more sustainably" Then why do you encourage people to buy plastic bags? It also says on your website that "we take waste and recycling seriously," it's better for both the environment and the business", yet your staff members encourage people to buy plastic bags.

I understand that the purchase of plastic bags is what funded our school pool heat pump. However, it has come to my attention, that the amount of plastic bags sold to our local store, is causing more pollution. As a class, we thought the money raised from reusable bags could go towards the tokens instead. Another option could be to sell compostable bags and remove the sale of plastic bags.      

I do like to shop at the warehouse, but I don't understand why we have to buy a plastic bag just to support our school, please stop the encouragement of plastic bags.

Yours sincerely

Blake