Room 17 MVS 2019

LAST JUMP JAM SESSION FOR ROOM 17 FOR THE YEAR!

C heck out these amazing athletes and winners!

Jolly Jars for FAMILY FUN NIGHT! Great work Year 5's. Can't wait to see how much money we made!

The students in Rooms 16 & 17 have been completing their Passion Projects on their websites. Please ask your child if you can view it because they look great! Here is just a sample of what the students have done. Ka pai tamariki. P.S the students will be completing Information Reports linked to their projects :-)

Great start to the week. The students have completed their End of Year MVS Active Learner Survey. Good to see there have been shifts in their learning.

What an absolutely inspiring young woman Brylee Mills is. Ask your child what they thought of her speech today and what impact it had on their mindset? In fact, check out some of the comments & reflections the students have written on our website! Mr Moore introducing Brylee Brylee talking about the obstacles in her life that haven't stopped her from achieving so much. Brylee showing the students how she can tie her shoe laces with only one hand. Incredible!

Music with Mrs Sinclair in week 1 Working on another collaborative art project

Welcome to Term 4. I hope you had an exciting holiday? Have you checked out our new website for Rooms 16 & 17 yet? The feedback from the students has been really positive & we're excited to see where this goes. We would appreciate any feedback from you with regards to this new initiative. https://sites.google.com/view/mvs-year5-room1617

Congratulations to Emily & Sophie. Awesome effort girls!

Rona and the Moon By Sophie Long, long ago there was a whare in a valley. There lived Rona, her husband and their two children. On the long twilight evenings they would listen to all the wonderful, relaxing noises of the valley. One night when the children were in bed, Rona’s husband wanted some wai, Rona was just settling down when her husband started yelling at her that there was no more water left. Rona was angry because of the way her husband yelled at her, and thought, “Am I the only one capable of fetching wai?” She snatches away the calabash and stormed down to the creek on a munted uneven path... Marama the moon allowed her silvery splendor to be covered by a cloud. The night sky became pitch black. Rona, on her way to the awa, tripped on a root of a tree and fell, the calabash flew through the air before smashing against a rock. Rona was furious, she drew herself up and swore at the moon. Marama reached down from the sky and grabbed Rona; Rona’s feelings...

The students were asked what two iconic kiwiana makes them feel like a Kiwi. There might be a little bias towards the All Blacks with the World Cup coming up 😉 

Thank you to the parents who came to share in our lunch and look at the art work the students had completed. Check out these amazing cultural costumes too. Great work guys!

Maori version of Rock, Paper, Scissors = Toka, Pepa, Kuti kuti. The students also learnt a new game using the words Maunga, Awa and Waka. When I said Maunga, the students had to get into pairs with their hands up like a mountain. When I said, Awa, the students had to get into groups of three & wave their arms like a river. When I said Waka, the students had to get into groups of four, one behind the other, rowing like they are in a canoe. LOTS OF FUN! Ka pai to Matua Araz for teaching Rooms 16 & 17 the Maori version of Senorita. What a wealth of talent he is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e772oHQMzs

Look at this amazing Family Tree that Dylan brought in. Thank you to all the families who have contributed to our Celebrating Our Cultures. What a wonderful opportunity for the students to create as many words as they can with the above letters. So far, Jessica in Room 17 has created about 750 words, but we do know of another students in our syndicate who has created over 1000. Can you do better than this?

Congratulations to Jessica and Micaela for making it through to the school speech finals. What an awesome effort to both girls. An even bigger congratulations to Micaela for coming SECOND! Whoop! Whoop! Update: Micaela will be competing in the Inter-School Speech Finals as the first place winner will be overseas. Congrats again Micaela.

Congratulations to Tess & Micaela for making through to the Inter-School Cross Country zones. Here are some amazing photos.

What an amazing couple of weeks we've had with different students from other cultures visiting our classroom. Thank you to the Stevens & Hughes families for bringing in your Japanese visitors. We got them to work with a calligraphy pen creating our names in Japanese!

CONGRATULATIONS TO TESS & MICAELA FOR PLACING 1st & 3rd IN THE YEAR 5 GIRLS CROSS COUNTRY  

Great start to the week with a bit of competitive tennis! Cody decided to photo bomb a few of the photos. Here's another one!