Kia ora

Welcome to our Room 14 blog.  We are a FANTASTIC class of Year 5 and 6 students from Belfast School in Ōtautahi.  We hope you enjoy following our journey of learning this year.  Please comment on our blog to show us that you have read our posts and are interested in what we have been doing.  All of the links for our individual links are one the left hand side of this blog.  Hope to hear from you soon:)

World Down Syndrome Day, which was on 21st March, is a global awareness day which has been officially observed by United Nations since 2012.  Its purpose is to advocate for rights, inclusion and well being of people with Down Syndrome.

This year we wore our most colourful socks or mismatched socks. #LotsOfSocks

 

The first few weeks of this year have flown by.  We have been learning about all of the routines and setting ourselves up so that we can get busy with some great learning.

Swimming has been a big part of our focus so far this year with swimming every day, swimming lessons and swimming sports.  It was a little chilly and wet for some of our lessons but luckily the swimming sports day was a lovely sunny day.

We are making sure we are having Fitness, Mindfulness and Super Silent Reading every day.  We really liked using the sand art website to relax and create some wonderful looking scenes.

This week we are getting ready to start posting onto our own individual blogs.  This will be a good way to display the learning that will be happening in Room 14 this year.

This term in week 5 we were learning to use alliteration. Alliteration is when two or more words begin with they with the same letter or sound. They don’t have to be the same letter if they sound the same, just like c and k. We used our new alliteration skills to create a poem. The theme of the poem had to be a season and I picked summer. I used google drawing to create this DLO to present to you.

I found alliteration challenging at times because I would struggle to think of words that begin with the same sound. To overcome this challenge I used word hippo to look for synonyms. This is how I turned to hot sand in to scorching sand. Some alliteration we have heard before and that made it easier.

Do you think this looks like something fun that you would like to try? Which line do you like best?

Thanks for reading my post, I hope you enjoyed it!

Kia ora

We are a Year 5/6 class at Belfast School in Otautahi, Christchurch.  We have just set our own blogs up in the last couple of weeks and you can see the links for these blogs down the left-hand side of this blog.  We are hoping to share our amazing learning with you each week.  Make sure you keep visiting to see what we have been up to.