A MESSAGE FROM Mrs M!

Well, the end has come and gone and now my Minions will be off getting themselves ready for Christmas in New Zealand and beyond.

As this is my last time with my Minions I just want to wish them love and light in the years to come. I will be watching your progress from afar, so continue to make me super duper PROUD!

You have been involved in so much learning this year, initially facilitated by me and then taken over by you.

Each and every one of you have added so much value to me as a professional and you are the reasons why I wake up in the morning.

Big loves my Minions💗

From Gru (aka Mrs M)

VIDEO CALLING COLORADO

On the last day of term 4, Mrs M received a call from her friend in the U.S.A whose class was researching other cultures and their dances. 

She wanted to know the meaning behind the haka and so being the obliging kind we told her that we could perform a haka for her 2nd Grade class.

What an amazing experience this was and WOW with what can be done with modern technology today.

Here are photos of us chatting to the students in Mrs Ceretto's class in Colorado, U.S.A.

     

      

CLASSROOM ECONOMY

At the end of every year, instead of a shared lunch Room 9 has a 'classroom economy AUCTION'. 

This means that we can buy and sell items that have been brought in by our classmates. This includes food, books, and items we have made. 

It is a great way to generate more money for our final end of year bank balances for our classroom economy programme.

Here are photos of us participating in our classroom auction, from set up to auctioning of items to SOLD OUT signage.

A great way to finish the year. 

          

          

          

          

           

 

        

 

          

 

          

     

As a class, we had $227, 000 in our classroom bank. An amazing effort of earning and saving done by the learners in Room 9.

Our classroom economy programme was a huge hit and an amazing financial success. 

The challenge will be can Mrs M's Minions of 2017, beat this amazing feat of saving and earnings? 

Only time will tell.

TABLOIDS

What a great afternoon we had as a whole school at our annual Tabloids events.
We got to work on our key competencies as we played, cheered and pulled our way to success.
Here we are having fun, fun, fun in the sun.

          

          

     

      

     

     

      

GEOMETROCITY

Thanks to a wonderful resource, we have spent the past three weeks designing, creating and building our very own cities.

We got into groups of mixed abilities, came up with a plan for our cities, named our cities, created our cities and then last but by no means least, we built our cities using 3D net shapes. 

Here are pictures of us working through the whole process.

    

    

    

    

    

Here are our completed cities.