Holidays!

I still cannot believe that a whole year has passed! It feels as though we should still be half-way through the year, but, be that as it may, the year five students from room six will be moving into year six ready to take on new learning challenges and responsibilities. I would love to thank every single one of my students for all of their hard work throughout the year as they engaged with each other and learnt a multitude of new things.

As a beginning teacher, I did not know what my first year of teaching would bring and now can honestly say that my students this year only developed my passion for teaching and I can't wait to see what the new year will bring.

I hope all of the room 6 students and their families have a wonderful and safe Christmas and holiday break. Students please remember to keep up with your reading and maths practice. You can go to the library and join the holiday reading program (click here to sign up) and you can practice your basic facts here.

I will leave you with a picture and video from our Kauri Whanau celebration assembly, I was so proud of room 6 for their amazing performance! Click here to check out the video from our Facebook page.

SVA Project = Mission Complete!

Room 6 worked so hard to plan and follow through a student volunteer project. We helped Sunnyhills School to stay gold green by cleaning up the school grounds through picking up rubbish, weeding the gardens, washing and getting rid of broken sandpit toys and moving mulch to the western boundary gardens. We also helped some buddy classes with new entrance and year one students to create Christmas cards that they can take home and share with their families. 

I am so proud of all the effort that the students put into this project and I know that they learnt a wide range of skills to help them. 

Check out the video attached that was made by our storytellers about our project day.

Environmental Studies are FUN!

Wow! I am super impressed with all the Room 6 students who have been working hard in their Environment classes. They have planned and created movies to promote the wonderful outdoors. Have a look at some of the completed films here  and here on Mrs Daniels YouTube account.

What do you think about nature? Please leave a comment and let us know!

X-Factor was FANTASTIC!

Well done to all of the participants who performed at our school X-Factor this week. I was stunned by the talents that our students have.

Nicole sang beautifully and Mia and Lauren presented a wonderful dance they choreographed together.

Thank you to all of the students and parents who donated money, this is going to the Kampung kids in a village school in Jakarta. The money will go towards providing them hot lunches.

One of my favourite items was the piano, what was yours?

Student Volunteer Army

Welcome back to term four! I hope you all had amazing and wonderful holidays.

As our inquiry subject this term, the year fives are all researching and then following out a student volunteer project. We have registered with the Student Volunteer Army who focus on organising projects to help communities.

We will be asking our families and friends for ideas of what we (as year fives) could do to help our community in any way. If you have any ideas and are not a room six student please comment your ideas below.

If you are a room six student, you need to research ideas from here and comment them into our class Padlet here.

If you would like to look into what the Student Volunteer Army does and who they are, you can visit their website here.

We can't wait to read your ideas!

Teach the Teacher

A huge thank you to Carter, James and Cade who have all shared with us their fabulous teach the teachers. We all look forward to teach the teacher on Fridays as it's very exciting to learn new things from our peers. 

Carter brought in some very interesting science experiments, he showed us the bouncy egg, growing crystals and reactive water. 

James showed us all how to make beautiful friendship bracelets. It was a little tricky at first, but we managed to get it!

Cade wowed us with his karate skills and knowledge. He taught us how to defend ourselves in different situations so that we can make it to safety. 

Check out the photos from these sessions here. 

I can't wait to see what we will learn next week. Tell us what you think it might be.

Welcome to Science Week!

Wowzer! What a fantastic way to kick off science week.

We were treated to an amazing presentation from the wonderful people at Science in a Van. We learnt a lot about the three laws of motion and saw some super interesting experiments.

My favourtite part was when Steve (the chicken) was strapped to the rocket and then was blown into the ceiling. What was yours?

Please check out some more EPIC videos and pictures and leave us a comment!

Thank You Shiloh

On Friday, Shiloh presented her Teach the Teacher. It was FANTASTIC. Shiloh taught us all about her family's culture... Dutch.

There were so many interesting facts in her slide show, she gave us some dutch waffle to try, showed us a tiny portrait her aunt had painted and she even taught us a sentence in dutch.

Wow! Well done Shiloh, it was a wonderful Teach the Teacher. I can't wait to see what comes next.

Patterns are Interesting!

In week 5 we looked at Pascal's Triangle and last week we look at the Fibonacci spiral. We are starting to discover that there are patterns everywhere we looked. Finding patterns is something that anyone can do and we enjoyed it so much!

Here are some pictures from our pattern searching:

Can you find the patterns in these?

Teach the Teacher: Part Two and Three

We have some amazing and passionate students in room 6!

Thank you to all the students who shared their teach the teacher last week and this week. Peyton showed us how to create a lava lamp in a bottle, Nathan showed us how to make a vinegar volcano and Tait shared some awesome information about her passion, gymnastics.

I love watching the students take charge and teach the whole class because they all work so hard to prepare for their lesson. Well done Peyton, Nathan and Tait - you all rock!

Check out our photos and videos!

Who will be next? What will we learn next?

Cross Country

Wow! I knew I had some fantastic runners in my class but I was completely blown away on Thursday at our cross country. Every single person did their absolute best and I am so proud of them all.

Congratulations to: Sophie, Chloe and Grace who made the inter-schools team!

Here are some action shots of the room 6 athletes.

Dancing The Night Away

Congratulations to Sophie who worked very hard to learn and then perform a dance at the Dance Festival!

She was absolutely wonderful on stage!

If you would like to come and see the dances from Sunnyhills, just pop on into our whole school assembly next week on the 17th and we promise you will be blown away.

Scooter Skills

This Monday we enjoyed an amazing session with Andy from Auckland Council. He taught us how to ride our scooters safely.

First we learnt how to make an emergency stop.

Second we practiced our skills on four different courses.

Lastly we play a game that helped us with our gliding.

It was soooooo much fun!

Check out how we did below:

Teach the Teacher?

This week was our first week trialing 'Teach the Teacher'. This is where students get the opportunity to present an experiment, slide show, recipe or even a share a cultural tradition. Two lucky students will get the opportunity to present something each Friday for the rest of the term.

Our first student, Chloe, shared with us an enormous amount of information about her passion of cheerleading. It was so interesting learning about the different stunts, roles within a team and seeing video clips of people tumbling! Well done Chloe, you did a fantastic job and a special thanks to her awesome helper Sophie.

We are looking forward to Peyton and Benjamin's presentations next week.

Have a great weekend everyone and stay safe.

Tread Lightly Everyone

This week we were very lucky to have the Tread Lightly Caravan come and visit our school. They provided us with fantastic activities that got us thinking about our environment and what we could do to try and reduce our footprint.

Thank you to our wonderful parent helpers! We would not have had a great time without you.

Please click on the link below to check out some of our photos.

Photos

Did you get to see the Tread Lightly Caravan? Did you enjoy it as much as we did?

The End of Term Two!

My oh my, the time has flown by!

We are half way through the year already! To end term two with a bang, we watched our amazing gymnasts/dancers/cheerleaders Chloe and Tait perform a special piece they choreographed together at the whole school assembly. Well Done girls! it was fantastic and we can see that you put a lot of hard work and practice into your moves.

We also had the wonderful Peyton receive a Principals Award for her hard work in reading. She has been extending herself and it is really starting to show. Well Done Peyton! Keep up the hard work.



I hope you all have amazing and safe holidays, see you next term for more fun and lots of learning!

Sneak Preview

Hello Families

We have worked very hard to produce an amazing piece of art during art week to show at our art exhibition next week.

Please come down to the hall and have a look!

Here is a sneak peak at a few of our art pieces.

New Zealand's Newest Actors and Actresses

This Monday kicks off arts week at Sunnyhills School and we are loving it!

The year 5's are doing an arts rotation where they will get to experience some dance, drama and creative arts.

For drama we started with a warm up of different walks to portray different people and things (this got us really excited and loud!). Then we played some charades where we needed to act out things like washing the windows while our team tried to guess what we were doing. Finally we listened to some sentence starters and had to create a freeze frame to show what happened in the sentence and then what we thought would happen after (carry on the story).

Here are some pictures of us being amazing: