Waihola Day

It was a wet and wild Waihola Day! We still made the most of it and everyone had a fantastic time. A big thank you to all wonderful friends & families that came along to help out. Here are a few photos of students at the initiative course. We will be adding some writing about our experiences over the new few days.

Lily, Poppy-Jade, Demi & Nick working their way across 'the Alligator Pit'

It's a Room 7 pyramid! Liam Br, Reuben, Sophia, Paton, Rhiarna & Hannah looking strong & steady!

Super Sentences!

Over the last few weeks we have been focusing on writing great character descriptions. One of the activities included watching a short movie called 'Blackface' about a hunter on safari who is in search of the immortal golden monkey. He is a pretty nasty character!
After watching the clip we brainstormed ideas as a class about what the hunter was like on the 'inside' (personality & behaviour) and on the 'outside' (appearance). From this list we then developed our character descriptions.

Every week Mrs Jackson will select 'Super Sentence' from our writing. Here are the 'Super Sentences' from this week...

The hunters black rings around his eyes reminded me of a curious raccoon but with a pointed long nose. - Tessa He gave me an evil glance - I could tell he would take way too many. - Isaac His cheek bones are high and his lips are thin and brown. - Josie He has very dark black rings around his eyes that remind me about the sky at night. His large safari hat shades his face so much it seems to be black. - Hannah

Meet Room 7 2016!

Here we are! Well most of us anyway -unfortunately we have Ava, Reef & Michael missing

Room 7 2016 

Being silly!

Te Waka: Our great journey

Kupe and the giant wheke

Maths in Room 7

Over the last two weeks we have been exploring statistics. We talked about what statistics is used for in our everyday lives, including how statistics might be helpful at a school and a nationwide level. We discussed how local governments needed to know lots of statistical information about who lives in their area to determine how many schools they need, medical services and emergency services. Big companies use statistics to keep track of their products - what is selling and what is not. There were so many ways that statistics were useful - we were surprised!
We have been focusing on interpreting graph data and making statements that are clear and specific. To do this we have been using bar graphs, dot plots and stem and leaf graphs.
See some of our student work samples below.

Briar's ice cream dot plot example.

Liam Brady has been working hard in maths this week - here is an example of one of his bar graphs.

Welcome to Room 7 2016!

Welcome to Room 7 2016 - what an amazing year it's going to be! We have a fantastic group of 30 year 5 students in our class. Mrs Jackson is our teacher.

Our blog will be used to keep everyone up to date with 'news & happenings' in Room 7.  We look forward to sharing our learning with you all!