Team B News - Week 3 Term 4

Week Three has seen Team B dispersed around the school for their leraning
environments. Room 5 and 7 can now be found working collaboratively in the
Performing Arts Centre, Room 6 are now in M1 and Room 8 are in M2. All of
the students are to be commended on their flexibility and ability to adapt
to their new environment. We are looking forward to our sparkling ‘new’
classrooms, which we will be moving into hopefully in week 6. Our main focus
in Inquiry this week has been on Kiwiana culture, particularly art and Te
Reo Maori. We have been wrapping up measurement for Mathematics and are
looking ahead to Algebra. Students have also written some fantastic creative
narratives this week. We are looking forward to next week, where we will be
immersed in the Arts, including dance, drama, music and Te Reo Maori. Make
sure you check next week’s blog to see what we got up to!

Week Two

Kiwiana was a focus once again for week two. We found out all about kiwi icons and followed Wiki around on his holiday adventures learning more about NZ history and places in NZ.

In Maths we finished off our measurement units all ready for testing in Week 3.

We learnt all about pourquois which are tales about how and why. Students wrote about different topics ranging from how the jellyfish lost its bones to why kiwis can't fly. They showed great creativity and imagination in these stories.

Amongst all our hard work we were busy stripping walls, packing boxes and moving furniture. Our big move was on Friday and it went very smoothly. Room 5 and 7 are now sharing the PAC for 4 weeks and Room 6 is in M2 whilst Room 8 is in M1.

As they say, change is as good as a holiday!

The start of Term 4

Hi to you all
Welcome back to school after the holidays. We hope that you all had a wonderful time with family and friends and that you spent some time just relaxing and catching up with each other.

This term is going to be another busy and exciting one and we are sure that ten weeks are just going to fly by.
The highlight of this week was the school cultural day and assembly that was organised by two students in Room 7, with the support and guidance of their lovely teacher and other students in the class.
Last term the Inquiry for our team looked at Human Rights with a focus on our community. These students investigated racism and decided to take some community action by promoting a cultural day to celebrate and aknowledge all the cultures represented at BBI. A great idea!
Students and staff dressed up in traditional costumes, flags which represented the many cultures at BBi were bought and displayed, and an assembly, focussing on sharing of cultures, music and dance, was organised. This was an amazing feat! Well done girls!
We also had a rotation in our team on Friday to support the idea of celebrating cultures and we focussed on New Zealand culture. Each class had a turn to make pavlova ( and eat it ), play stick games and sing, participate in gumboot throwing and enter a Kiwi quiz.

Here are some photographs






Other things to note:

Our Inquiry for this term focusses on the Arts.
Our fertile question is:
" Can our culture survive without the Arts?"
This week we have focussed on NZ culture and we have also done some map work. Very interesting!
Home study is up on a wiki and can be viewed at kiwianainroom5.wikispaces.com.
The teachers in Team B are also developing a resource for students to use on this site.

Athletics day is on Friday 2 nd November and we are training for this.

Team B classrooms are going to be refurbished. This processs will start at the beginning of Week 3 - after the long weekend. We will be moving out of our classrooms but we hope to keep everything running as smoothly as possible. We will keep you updated on this and let you know when we will be moving back into our lovely, newly decorated rooms.

Next week is Bandana week. We encourage all the students to support this worthy cause. Once they purchase a Bandana, they will be able to wear it to school for the week. There will be a mufti day for all those who supported this on Friday.

That's all for this week. Looking forward to another exciting and busy week next week.

TEAM B teachers.