Hi everyone and welcome to week five! Only three more teaching weeks before I head off to Japan and the lovely Miss Arthur takes over the teaching role in Room Four. I hope to Skype you all from Japan and am looking forward to seeing all your familiar faces and sharing my experience with you. I'm also planning to do lots of filming so I can bring back snippets of what life in Japan is like.Do you think it will be different to life here? In what ways? Do you think schools in Japan are different or do you think they learn many of the same things that we do?
This week in Japanese we are focusing on the first 10 Katakana characters
a ア
i イ
u ウ
e エ
o オ
ka カ
ki キ
ku ク
ke ケ
ko コ
Check out this funky little song to help you remember your Katakana:
Triathlon!
Well done to all the triathlon finishers for Friday's triathlon. A special congratulations if you really pushed yourself to achieve your very best. Well done! I was very impressed with the standard of competition on the day and the fitness levels you displayed were outstanding - Yokodekimashita! よこできました！
Dairy Farm
Tomorrow we head off to our local dairy farm to learn all about this important resource. In class this week, we have posed the question:
"Why are dairy farms important to New Zealanders?"
Some of the categories of importance that we have come up with already are:
Money - for the workers and for the NZ economy
Food - primary products like milk and cream - butter and cheese etc
- all the other types of food that milk is used for - like baking!
Jobs - not just those that are filled by dairy farm milkers, but also fencers, excavators, truck
drivers and factory workers
Health - calcium (ca) is important for our bones to stay healthy and strong
When I look at some of the questions we have written to be asked tomorrow, I notice that many of them centre around the career of dairy farming. I wonder how many of you will work in the dairy industry at some point in your lives?
Some of you even wanted to know how old you had to be to work on a dairy farm? Have any of you been present at a milking already?
BMX Track!
How exciting it has been watching the progress of our brand new BMX track! Room Four are very lucky because the track is right outside our window and we've been able to watch all the progress. Mr House has just finished telling me how impressed he's been with those students who have been out there helping him to refine the track and jumps. Young and older have lent a hand and been part of the construction of this great resource. It certainly looked like great fun when I was out there on duty today! I also want to thank those students who are helping others out.... those older students who stop to help younger ones to put their chains back on etc. Some of you have even been coming to me asking for your helmets to be refitted - well done! This is an important cycling - keeping yourself safe! On that note, please get your BMX track permission slips back to school asap.... as well as your Motu Big Bike Ride forms.
Try this interactive quiz to see how good your cycling knowledge is:
Also - check out this interactive learning object at TKI on friction and bicycles:
(Remember that our Username is Matawai and our password is m39ub8j3)
I hope you are all having a great week!
Please remember to do your homework and bring your gumboots tomorrow for our field trip to the dairy farm!
Happy Learning!
Mrs Williams
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