Welcome to Term 3 2012. Room 19 has settled well back into Lytton Street School routines. I am excited to be Room 19's teacher for the rest of 2012. Miss Lowe has had a great first half of the year and I hope the second half will be as successful. Somethings will be different in my teaching technic. If you have any questions or concerns please do not hesitate to come and see me. Our Inquiry this term is based on Treasures. Over the next few weeks your child will be asking you about their treasures, family name and family tree. Each week they will be bringing home Home Fun. This will be set up on Mondays and checked on Fridays. The children will have ten spelling words in total. Five from their list, based on their assessment, and five from their previous weeks writing. A small maths grid will be included, a weekly quiz, a poem and an Inquiry question. Children will gain Buzzy Bees for completing their Home Fun and for being able to recite their poem. I look forward to working with you to teach to meet the individual needs of your child.

Ms Mayne

End of Term 2

Friday is the last day of Term 2 and my last day with Room 19 and Lytton Street School. I would like to thank the students, staff and parents for giving me the absolute best start to my teaching career. The 2 and 1/2 years have been challenging at times, rewarding and a blast! Of course the best part about the time here has been meeting and teaching the children of the school and I will miss seeing Room 19s faces everyday!
All the best Room 19. You are in awesome hands! Learn forever and have fun with Ms Mayne :-)

With AROHA,

Miss Lowe

PrEP - What a great turn out for the market day. We all did well, selling out of our products. As a result, no one was in debt and turned over a very good profit. Well done for all the hard work, Room 19!
Check out the pictures of our stalls:

Room 17's stalls

PrEP Update

We have been very busy researching and planning our products for our business and writing C.V's with covering letters for the CEOs.

Here are the names of the businesses:

Markaia's venture will be making flax flowers as home decorations. 

Geena's venture is called "Beeswax". They will be making lip balm and hair gel.

Stephanie's group, S.S. Bakery, will be making 3 different baked goods.

Zephyr's venture is called fantastic pencil holders and they will be making 2-3 different pencil holders.

PrEP update!

CONGRATULATIONS to the following students in Room 19 for being selected as CEOs of their PrEP ventures: 
Geena, Markaia, Zephyr and Stephanie. 
These children are in charge of the 4 "businesses" in Room 19 and will soon have the task of reading CVs and hiring other students to work for them. 
Keep posted for developments!

Term 2

Welcome to Term 2. This is going to be a term full of great learning opportunities!
We are learning to Manage Ourselves.
Our Success Criteria:
- Have self control
- control your actions
- ownership ( manners, respect, learning, responsibility for your emotions)
- stop and think
- Hautoa (courage)

For writing we are going to be focusing on goal setting and persuading others to buy our PrEP products (yes, we will be doing PrEP!).

Our shared story this term is the classic - "The Witches" by Roald Dahl. Check out the next post for what we have "found out" about witches.

Homework: Keep the reading going - at least 15 minutes every night! So important. It doesn't need to be a school book-they could read the newspaper with you or a book from the public library.

Swimming: Every Friday this term, at 10.45am (this time may change to a later time).

How to Recognise a Witch

Witches can be any woman - they could even be your teacher or your next door neighbour.

• They always wear gloves
• They are bald
• Big nostrils - bigger than humans. 
• Eyes - the black spot in the middle changes colour. Fire and ice dancing in them
• No toes-just feet. 
• Blue spit

Swimming Week 4

2012

Welcome to Room 19 for 2012! We are back and ready to learn. This term, our school-wide focus is on AROHA - Akohia  Respect  Ownership  Hautoa  Ambition. For the first few weeks in Room 19, our focus will be on Akohia (Learning) and Respect.




I look forward to working with the students of Room 19. I'm sure it will be a fantastic year of learning!


Miss Nikita Lowe

To all the students and families of Room 19

A big thank you for the year. There have been some great opportunities for extra learning, with PrEP and Camp, as well as many various visitors to the school. Thank you to the children for being great students and all the best to the year 4's for next year-I will miss you! 
Wishing you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Have a great holiday. See you back at school at the end of January. 

Nikita Lowe

Limericks

This term we have been doing limericks! A limerick is a humourmous poem where lines 1,2 and 5 rhyme with each other. Lines 3 and 4 are shorter then 1,2 and 5 but rhyme with each other.Here are some examples:


Jaxon : There was an old man from greek
              he thought it was hard to speak
              he got in his car
              and went to the bar
              and suddenly he grew a beak    

Tai : A handsome boy in my school named tai
        who went to have some pie
        stop said a fat clown
       on his way to town
       but tai already ate his yummy kai

Caleb: Once there was a lad named bad
                he never liked to be sad or he would be mad
                he meet an awesome king
                and said ling bing
                and meet a friend called chad

abbey : Once i meet a puffle
                  who really liked to shuffle
                  he went to the disco 
                  then he went to bricos
                  so he had a chocolate truffle

Shi : There was once a girl named shi
          she went to go buy an apple pie
          she went to the store
          but she was way to poor
          so she came home and said hi then good bye

Bernadette: There was a dog name luke
                              and met a frog named duke
                               they went far away
                             the dog bought a beret
                              then they made some Muke 

Stu Duval Week 4

Stu Duval came to Lytton Street School. On the first day he put our ideas for a fairytale on the board. The characters names were funny especially the horse named 
Sorry. On the 2nd day he showed us how to draw cartoons like A-Z cartoons ,numbers zero- 1 MILLION and shapes such as Square,Triangle and Circle.He taught us stuff like z zombies, j cowboys, p parrots, x cats, 5 dog, rectangle whale and oval fish.We really enjoyed it!

             

Welcome to Term 4! Our learning focus this term is to Take Risks and Be Creative. We have been showing our creativity by writing Tongue Twisters. The other name for Tongue Twisters is Alliteration. Here are some examples of what we have done so far:

Jacob:  Shaun shot a shopping shop so Shelby shot Shaun with some snot.

Shaun:  Shimmering Sunshine shines of shiny Shaun

Geena:  Madman Manny Made Milk Madness

Ivoree:  Twinkle Toes tripped on two terrible teenagers

Alyssa L: Pesty Patsy pigs get plump by pies.

Tai:  Randy's Rhino's run madly

Malakai:  Madman Manny makes marvelous muffins

World Cup Sports Day

What a fun day! Our teams were Australia 4 and 5. At the various stations we did: Tag games, soccer skills, athletic skills and rugby skills. A lot of us used our Kia Kaha spirit and supported and encouraged each other to give the activities a go.
The winner of Australia 4's free swim voucher goes to Lillia for trying her hardest at each station. Well done!
There is one more voucher and the winner will be announced soon. Stay tuned!

This term we have been writing reports about animals.

Kia Kaha (bullying)

This term we have been learning to have self control. We have been learning this through the programme Kia kaha which means be strong. We have been doing Kia Kaha for 7 weeks. For Kia kaha we have been doing rights and responsibilities eg We have a right to a tidy classroom and our responsibility is to keep it tidy.A  Police officer has came in and talked about making the right choice.  

Check out the links to the Bullying YouTube videos under "In Class Learning". 

By Abbey and Jaxon

Week 3

This week we did some cooking as part of our Kia Kaha unit on bullying. We had to work together to make Marshmallow treats and Lolly Log. They tasted delicious!

 

Term 3 so far

At the beginning of this term, in response to the Possum Magic big book, we cooked ANZAC biscuits.
Here is what we did:

Today we made ANZAC biscuits. Miss Lowe put us in 3 groups. I was in group two. We went to the technology room with our Possum Magic book and we got split up in our groups then we washed our hands. When we had washed our hands we go straight into cooking. First we put flour, sugar, coconut and rolled oats in the mixing bowl. After that I got to put 2 tablespoons of Golden Syrup in with a bit of butter. Miss Lowe stirred the butter and syrup well. Someone stirred the baking soda in the boiling water. When the baking soda and boiling water was mixed it got tipped into the syrup and butter. Then we put the syrup , butter, baking soda and water into the mixing bowl. When we had mixed it all up we made it into balls and squashed them with a fork then we put them in the oven. When they were cooked we tasted them. They were YUM! A few minutes later we wrote about it. I liked making ANZAC biscuits-it was fun. I enjoyed putting the Golden Syrup in the bowl.

By Geena.

Market Day

Market Day

On Thursday it was market day. I walked around a lot but then suddenly I saw a lolly cake store called Lovely Lolly Cake. I bought a small box and went off. I saw my mum and she gave me $1.00. I also saw a Pet Rock store. I bought a blue rock with 2 googly eyes. I called him Bubbles. I also got a bowl. Then the whistle blew. That meant that I had to start work. I worked for a little then some members from the crew came back so I had a little shop. I bought a drink and some friends poured sherbet in it. That made it taste yum.
Alyssa M did the same thing. I went back to work and a lady from the newspaper came and took a picture of me and Shaun. Flash! The camera was bright. A few kids bought a card but not that many. They were going to the food stores. Most of the food stores were shut down. Mrs Wilton-Scott came over and shut down our job so that meant SHOPPING but there wasn’t that much to buy so I went back to my classroom and put my stuff on my desk. I went to where we were sitting and suddenly Miss Lowe came out of no where and said that we had to stay outside and finish our food and drinks and then she went inside room 17. Me and Alyssa M started talking about what we did then Alyssa told me my tongue was green. I told her hers was, too. We pretended we were aliens. Everyone laughed then the bell rang. I knew it was lunch time.
When the day was over I went home and told mum all about it. It was fun at Market Day. I learnt that you can ask for a work break or you can earn a break.

By Geena


PERFECT MARKET DAY

On Thursday the 9th of June it was a busy Market Day at Lytton Street School. Inside the hall it was very noisy. I could hear lots of popping from the popcorn machine. I heard lots of crushing from when the ice was in the blender. It made a lot of noise. Actually I think it was most of the noise. I was selling the Gingerbread Cookies. They had green and pink icing with sultana’s on top for some more decorations.
I saw lots of people there. It was like a traffic jam. Suddenly it got noisier and noisier. My mum came really late so she didn’t get to buy anything. Mum had ten dollars. We spent it on tea. It was a really busy day. The sad thing was that some peoples money got stolen, but it was a great day.

By Shi