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.
1 comment:
Just what is a fertile question?
This is a very strange adjective to use .....in describing a question.
As opposed to a sterile one??
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