Merry Christmas

Thanks for an amazing year room 19 

"Happy Holidays"

Love Mrs Gordon

How many parts of speech are there?

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Wearable Art - Catwalk

Hannah and Laura from Ginny Gordon on Vimeo.



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Harrison and Dillon



Callum, Mason and Guy



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  Caleb and Jack



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Elijah
 Ben and Neiko




Jessie, Heavaln and Sylvia


Hannah

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Our Wonderful WoW Creations

Wearable art

Room 19 beginning to convert their "Trash" into "Treasure"

Sunsmart

Room 19's presentation about how to be 'Sunsmart'





Remember "No Hat, No play"

Sensational Swimming

Lots of great progress happening.


 Keep up the good work Room 19

More Fascinating Fraction Facts

More Fraction Facts

Checkout our Educreation on Fractions

Room 19 Poetry Reading

OUR POETS IN ACTION

SOME OF ROOM 19 READING THEIR CREATIVE POETRY

Our Dress Rehersal

"STAYIN ALIVE"

 

IMG 0133 from Ginny Gordon on Vimeo.

Music's Number One

Music's Number One and so are we.

Congratulations to Kereru Syndicate for an awesome performance. 

 Room 19 you really did "Stay Alive"

Counting down to the Production.

7 Sleeps to go......

Danny and Hannah explain how we folded our fractions 

Photography by Laura

Folding Newspaper Fractions from Ginny Gordon on Vimeo.

Newspaper Fractions?

More Fractions Fun 

 We started with a whole piece of newspaper and folded it in half lots of times.

 We discovered: When we half a fraction the denominator doubles. When we half a fraction the denominator gets bigger. This means the the larger the denominator the smaller the fraction.


 Our fractions order was this: 1 - 1/2 - 1/4 - 1/8 - 1/16 - 1/32 - 1/64 - 1/128



 

Congratulations Danny

Congratulations to Danny 

who gained 'distinction' in the recent UNSW  Science assessment.

 

Fantastic Fraction Fun

Tu Tira Ma Nga Iwi

Syndicate Assembly (storm Friday with about half of our class) well done room 19.

Tūtira mai ngā iwi   AUE

Tātou tātou e 

Tūtira mai ngā iwi AUE

Tātou tātou e 

Whai-a te marama-tanga  ME TE

me te aroha - e ngā iwi!

Ki-a k' tapa-tahi,

Ki-a ko-tahi rā.

Tātou tātou e. 

Mixed up Fairytale Drama

FAIRYTALE ACTORS IN ACTION

Last Friday when the storm hit Room 19 didn't have half of our class and were unable to perform our Fairytale Play. This Friday however we were able to  perform it for the whole school.

Mixed up Fairy Tale from Ginny Gordon on Vimeo.

What fun and what a mixed up Fairytale it was!

Mrs Gordon is again really proud of your efforts.

Reading Is life changingly important

Sock Puppet Scripts

Room 19 had a fabulously creative time writing a 30 second script that they presented together on the IPads app called "Sock Puppets". 

Each group was given 3 items that they had to include in their very creative stories. Their learning intention was to "Entertain their audience". 

 Congratulations on a successfully entertaining project. Well done.

Be,je,sy Gr

Ry,He,Guy Rm19

Ha,pr,el. Rm19

Be,je,sy Gr

Sl,ab,ca Rm 19

Da, La, Ma, Sa

Olivia's And Jacks Rm19

How many ways can you measure an orange?

Oobleck! A chemical or physical change?

Our class had an awesome time with this experiment.  

  More pics of our gooey experiment.

Science Fun

Making Ice Cream

Is it a physical or chemical Change?

Kiwiana - Fruit and Veggie and Sand saucer creations

What creative students we have in Room 19

Kiwiana Day Wednesday 10th April

REDWOOD SCHOOL

Kereru Syndicate

Dear Parents and Caregivers,

As you are probably already aware, our Syndicate’s latest Topic study is ‘Kiwiana’.  We have been learning about what makes our culture and country unique.  In the spirit of ‘Kiwi Ingenuity’ and also taking inspiration from New Zealand’s iconic A & P shows, we are going to have a ‘Kiwiana Day’ in Week 10, on Wednesday 10^th April.

In class on this day the children will be asked to take part in two A & P related competitions.  They will be asked to create a ‘Sand Saucer Garden’ and a ‘Vege/fruit Person’.  Your child will need to bring the following things to school to make these creations:

Sand Saucer Garden

·      a saucer or plastic meat tray to construct their garden on

·      flowers, leaves, moss, twigs, stones, pebbles

·      small mirror or tinfoil if needed (may be used to create a water effect)

·      decorations/ornaments if needed (to add interest or create a garden theme)

Vege/Fruit Person

·      a selection of fruit and/or vegetables (these may be cut into shapes at home before being brought to school)

·      a small twig or stick for doing any carving (NOT knives please)

·      toothpicks

·      little stones (for eyes etc)

·      AND any other ‘bits and bobs’ that will help you make your creation

To continue our ‘Kiwiana’ theme on, we are going to have a typical Kiwi Barbeque for lunch. Your child will be given sausages and bread, with of course Watties tomato sauce on top!  We also intend making a ‘Kiwi Coin Trail’ and would appreciate it if every child brought a gold coin donation/koha, to place on this trail – this money will be used to help cover the cost of the BBQ lunch.  Students will need to bring more food from home to supplement their lunch. 

We will also be having a ‘Kiwiana – Top Town’ sports event and rotation in the afternoon.  Your child needs to come to school dressed suitably for these festivities.

Thank you for your continued help and support.

Claire Hughes, Rochelle Clark, Mark Kyne, Mike Heyes, Ginny Gordon and Carmel Wilson 

Kicking off our Kiwiana Unit

You can also hear some of the tamariki reciting their Mihi here.

Our National Anthem

20130315 122646 from Ginny Gordon on Vimeo.

Well done true Kiwi kids.

OUR PORTRAITS

Portraits 2013 from Ginnygordon

Room 19 worked really hard on their portraits.  First they drew themselves without any instructions then they practised lots of different ways of drawing facial features.  They then drew a more realistic idea of what they look like.

Well done team, Mrs Gordon is very proud of your efforts. 

Parachute co-operative fun from Ginny Gordon on Vimeo.

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Basic Facts practice