Week 7 in Rimu 5

Geographically, 'Rimu 6' as a class name makes sense for the classroom we are now in. We started the year as 'Rimu 5' and are now fantastic as responding to 'Rimu 5' or 'Rimu 6'. If you ever here of Rimu 6 being mentioned, that's us, but we're also Rimu 5. Make sense?!

Here are some wonderful members of our class accepting certificates this week at the Rimu Hui. There's an extra child, Libby, as she was awarded once for excellent co-operation yesterday at Discovery in our class. The others will let you know what they got their certificate for.

We had a fantastic visit by some ANZ workers. They talked about saving money and profit and loss (in relation to our Rimu Market coming up in two weeks). We've also been working with coins in class this week and doing a little shopping of our own. 

Check out this new game, 'Pop to the Shops'. It helps the children understand how to make up amounts using the coins they have and how to give change to customers. 

This is where it's great to know how to add and subtract multiples of 10.

The RIMU MARKET is Thurs 8th Dec. In the morning, your child will have a chance to be first in to buy their own bath bomb. You can send money in for this. In the afternoon, the whole syndicate will roam the classes looking to purchase left-over bombs and some sweets. More info to come! 

Reading Poetry

Robert

Marissa

Ryan

Ethan

Carson

Ollie

Joseph

We made it!

We started talking about being up in the block early this year. 

It was not long after that we anticipated moving into the classroom with a view. 

Lunchtime today, come rain or shine, was to be our moving time. With the help of 10 or so Kauri students and some of our own muscles, we did it! 

The kids aren't phased, some love the view (hmm, and me). Some love the feeling of being up high, and a few love the idea that they can practise their morse coding (a.k.a. self-designed sign language) to others down below.

Here's out view out onto the block...

KiVa rocks!

Being a great person and someone who thinks of others are some of the most important attributes we can hold. Standing by and watching someone being bullied is actually supporting the bully in a way. Telling an adult is not tale-tattling. Check out our quick drawings today showing what we can do if we see someone being bullied.

Bath Bombs Away!

Our Inquiry focus this term is around marketing.
What better product to market in a few weeks at the Rimu Market Day than bath bombs!
These will be packaged and ready to go. Here are some shots of the beginning stages in our process...

Junior Concert Performance by Rimu 5

Look at our great class doing their fantastic performance today at school. 

Discovery Time in Rimu

Here's a snapshot of Discovery Time this afternoon in Rimu 5 and out on the court.

Construction with straws and connectors. This tower ended up being as tall as the girls in a 4x4 formation!

A great buzz in the room with different children from Rimu interacting with each other to design and build amazing structures with straws and magnetic tiles.

Check out this house. These 6 children worked cooperatively to build this.

Wow, these look fantastic. Another group of students working collaboratively.

Wyatt and Storm, the start of some chairs and tall towers.

Can you throw a frisbee into a bin?

Some great work this week...

Some of the children have been learning about how to add 9 to any number. We first make 9 a 'tidy number', 10. We add 10 to the number and take 1 away. Next time we'll be working on adding 11 and 12.

Mrs H started some fabulous magical hand art on Wednesday. Here are two unframed but finished products by Wyatt and Marissa....

We're up in the block!

We arrived up on the block last Monday. We're here to stay. There's one more easy move to make into the fantastic room looking out over the harbour. This will happen shortly!

Plenty of space for the 25 of us...

Neat cubby holes for bags and hats.

Hello Rimu Tahi and Rua!

Symmetrical patterns during maths rotation today...

Recipes for a fantastic holiday...

We all wrote a recipe for a great holiday on Monday. Check out Joseph and Eva's recipes below.
Everyone also drew a map to start with to help plan for their writing.

Joseph...

Eva...

Superman's friend - independent time during Maths today

I made a Superman-Symmetry because Superman must have a friend. The pattern is the same on both sides.

Ryan

Calendar Art!

Check out your child's art. These can be professionally printed onto a

• calendar
• card
• notebook
• diary

for you to purchase. This is a school fundraiser, a notice will go home tomorrow.
The colours are a little off and the photographs will be of top quality as the art is scanned by a professional scanner, not photographed in this instance.

Here's a link to the company we use, do not order yet however, use the form that'll go home Wed 7th Sept.