Dealing With Challenging Situations

As part of our inquiry work, we've been learning about strategies we can use when we face tough times.  Unfortunately life isn't always easy, and we have to be able to deal with lots of challenging things.  

Firstly, we made a list of all the challenges we might face during the next few years of our lives:

Next we came up with a massive list of things we could do to help us 'survive' the challenging situations.  We had fun playing around with the fonts and colours too!

Interhouse Flippaball

The annual Interhouse Flippaball tournament has started!  Lots of kids have signed up, and the first games were really even.  There were some great physical battles and tactics used.  Wonder who will come out on top at the end of the week?

Photographer:  Danielle

Swimming

We had an underwater camera at the pool today...

Jandal Art

How cool is our Jandal Art?  After choosing the background we wanted, we had to sketch out lots of ideas for funky and original patterns/designs to place on our jandals.  Then we used black outline pens and coloured pencils to colour our patterns.  They look awesome!  You can read about our reflections about our art, on our blogs.  Thanks to Mr Overeem from Maungatapere School in Whangarei for the great idea!

Self Portraits

We've done an awesome job of our self portraits - what a great way to learn about each other!  You can see a larger version of our art on our blogs.

Garden Time

Thanks to Ffion, Greer and Sophie for planting our class garden barrel today.  Nice job girls!

R6 Kids Should Be...

Today we brainstormed ideas for what we think kids in Room 6 should be - or try to be!  We're going to do a lot more thinking and talking about this, but we made a great start today.  Here are two awesome examples:

Here is the finished product - a fancy wall display!

Fun Day Friday (Thursday)

We've agreed to spend half of our swimming time on Fridays doing fun challenges and games.  We were very good at negotiating this to be on Thursday of this week, as it's Waitangi Day tomorrow!  

One of the challenges was to work together so that all three members of your team were standing on two noodles.  How hard could that be?

Then it was girls vs boys - the first team to get three people to stand up on a noodle raft for 20 seconds each, would win.  Check out the video!

Sidestroke

Having trouble with sidestroke?  Watch this video!

Baby Photos!

Don't forget to bring along a baby photo, or email it to:  room6@halcombe.school.nz.  Here are a couple of pictures of Miss Simpson, back when she was cute...

Week One Highlights

The 'Ideal' Teacher

Today we worked with a partner to brainstorm ideas about what our 'ideal' teacher looks like.  This will give Miss Simpson some ideas about how to be the best teacher possible!  Here is a summary of we came up with:

REALLY GOOD SUGGESTIONS:

My ideal teacher would...

• be happy 24/7, fun loving, makes jokes and pranks the kids sometimes
• plan fun activities
• recommend books
• help us with our learning
• hate tests
• love people
• be fair
• be caring and kind
• love sport
• give warnings
• be understanding
• listen to you
• give advice
• join in activities
• not tell us off if we got the wrong answer
• care for the environment
• give a good growling when needed
• not be fussy about handwriting and what our books look like
• let kids try to do things for themselves
• be creative
• be happy and positive
• love art
• be tough on bullies
• change the desks around every month

RIDICULOUS SUGGESTIONS THAT MISS SIMPSON WILL IGNORE:

My ideal teacher would...

• let us have free time every day
• bake stuff and give it to the class
• give us free lunch
• have a French accent and a moustache
• let us play computer games all day

Backstroke Action Shots

Lunchtime Fun

There is plenty to do at lunchtime at Halcombe School!  It hasn't taken us long to get stuck into lots of fun activities.  Here are some photos of the Room 6 kids in action today...

BASKETBALL

RUGBY BALL THROWS

SWIMMING

PLAYING ON THE BARS

Home Learning

Today we discussed home learning and what this means for our class.  Here it is, in black and white!

Mathletics

You wanted it, you got it!  Mathletics is back!  You can launch into it as soon as you get your password.  You are more than welcome to do some at home, though this is not compulsory.  Mathletics will be an important part of our maths programme this year, but in the meantime, get stuck in and refresh your memory about how it works.

MATHLETICS - CLICK HERE

Introducing Room 6

The 2015 school year has started!  It was a busy day, getting back into a school routine, but we survived!  A special welcome to the eight new students in Room 6 who are just starting at Halcombe School.  Check out our photos - what a handsome and beautiful bunch we are!