Room 17 Class Blog

Our Garden to Table programme with the year 7 and 8 students

Gardening with our BIG BUDDIES on PhotoPeach

Harper told us about her exciting news that she was a part of the colour run! Harper said "I went to the colour run and these are the photos my mum sent through. I got dirty at the colour run because this was after the colour run. I had numbers but at the end they didn’t call out our numbers."

Chloe W asked "how dirty did you get?" Harper replied, "Super dirty because I ran down a road with no cars and there were people throwing paint but not real paint. After I was a yellow minion because after I rolled in the yellow paint."

Jessie asked "Was it funny?" Harper replied "Yes. Because my sister rolled in the yellow paint first." Chloe K asked "why were you being silly (in a photo)?" Harper replied "Because I was hugging my granddad and he didn’t even have a white top because he wasn’t playing and then I hugged him"

Nathan asked "how fun was it?" Harper replied "Really fun but not fun if it got in your eyes. It was in Timaru and that was a long way."

School Disco

We got all pretty and handsome and strutted our stuff at the school disco. For a lot of these students this was our first school disco and it was very exciting! School Disco on PhotoPeach

Our trip last term to see Harold in the Life Education Bus

Harold the Giraffe visited Oaklands School on PhotoPeach

Collaborating with our year 7/8 buddies

In Friday's we are lucky enough to work with our year 7 and 8 buddies. They teach us all types of things and we get to practise our reading. We think they are pretty good teachers! Big buddies on a Friday on PhotoPeach

PE games: ball skills

We are learning to practise our aim while using balls.

Practising our aim with Jimmy on PhotoPeach

Numeracy: Numbers to 10

We are learning to solve a puzzle to 10.

Gemma and Maxwell had never seen this puzzle completed before but we worked together and collaborated with the help of our number knowledge - we worked it out! Look how proud we are :)

Key competencies: Relating to others, participating and contributing and thinking.

Junior and Senior School Partnership

On Fridays we have a fun programme organised for us by Mr McAven where the year 7 and 8's come to the year one classes and do fun activities with us. This will happen regularly. Check out the picture slidshows below! The chefs - Silverbeet Curry YUM! on PhotoPeach Tending to the Garden with our big buddies on PhotoPeach

Multicultural activity day

Thank you heaps to the efforts you have made at home to allow your child to be apart of a great cultural experience. A huge thanks goes to Kathleen Kingston and Chris Smith, our Oaklands ESOL (English for Students of Second Languages) teachers, who has been crafted over a week cultural learning for your child. This is a time were your child can celebrate who they are and learn about different cultures.

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