Term 3 Pet Day

We had a lot of animals come to school on Pet Day. We saw ponies, cats, birds, rabbits, guinea pigs, hens and dogs - lots of dogs. We even saw Mrs Trotter's Vinnie! He was a really good dog. We saw all the dogs walk around in a parade with their owners.

Mufti Day

On Friday lots of us dressed up as super heroes. We had a lot of people as Spider Man, Elsa and Ninja Turtles. There were a lot of lovely princesses and fairies as well. Have a look at our class photo and see if you can recognise us.

Playground Materials

We we went walking in our playground to look at lots of different materials in the playground. We had to decide what the properties of those materials are and why they have been used.

Science Fun

 We made some clothes out of newspaper as part of a newspaper technology challenge.

It was a lot of fun but we found out that newspaper in NOT a suitable material for making into clothes!!

Science - Term 4

This term our Integrated Unit focus is Science. In Room 20, we are learning about  materials - what are they made of? We are learning about their properties and that objects are made of particular materials for a reason.

Here are hexagons that show how we grouped some materials.

Planting Fun

Miss Wood needed some help planting some vegetable and flower plants. She showed us what to do and our big friends helped us. We all agreed that we had had a great morning learning about growing food.

Term 4 Fun - In the Garden

We had a lovely day in the garden with Miss Wood and our buddies from Room 9. Our buddies are in Mr Ladbrook's class and they join us for Buddy Reading every two weeks. They are Year 7 and 8 students.

Miss Wood invited us to spend a morning taking part in her Garden to Table programme.

It started with the Buddies preparing food from our school garden. They made yummy salad to go into Vietnamese Spring Rolls.

Commonwealth Sports Day

 MOn the 24th September, the whole school had a Commonwealth Sports Day. We all had to dress in our house colours and  compete in a number of activities. We all lots of fun and the winning house was Rata!  

Writing Week

During Writing Week, we had lots of fun. We had to stop and write at different times during the morning and we had to write an acrostic poem with the word OAKLANDS. It was hard but we hope it will win the competition! It might even be used at our Jubilee!!

On Friday, we had a Pet Parade - Harold the giraffe even came!

We all dressed up as animals. Don't we look fantastic??

Room 20's Assembly

Yesterday Room 20 hosted the Kakano assembly. Because we have all been working on Creativity as our term's Integrated Topic, our item was The Music Man. We did a great job! Click below to watch our performance of the song.

http://www.youtube.com/embed/pY6a9Ubr1Us

Term 3 Gymnastics

We have had a great time in the hall learning all about movements and rolls. Room 21 joined us and we had a heathy competition about who were the best listeners and team !!

El Gregoe's Visit to Oaklands

We all loved watching El Gregoe's show about how we all have the power to make everyone feel good about ourselves and others

We listened while he talked about our value of Respect.

 Nico the puppet reminded us about using our WITS - Walk away, Ignore,  Tell someone, Stop! We accept and respect everyone in our school.

  

Maths Fun

Between the shapes!

We have been learning about Position and Orientation during the last 3 weeks of Term 2.

We had lots of fun and chances to play games where we had to go to special places when the teacher gave us an instruction.

We went outside and followed instructions about where to stand. 

In front of the shapes!

Our Hexagons

We have been using a new thinking tool called Solo Taxonomy. 

We used our ideas about relationships and then joined them up to demonstrate the Relational stage that shows us that a number of ideas can be linked.

Singing at Hui

Dance O Mat Fun

Room 20's visit to the CBD