Learning to take charge of our own learning.

In Room 7 we are learning how to be good learners. How to take charge and responsibility for our own learning. 
Today during literacy learning time, while Mrs Parker was with one reading group, the other groups were taking charge of their own learning. Some were reading and blogging about KiwiKids news articles, others were seeing what other people had been learning about by reading and commenting on blogs, while another group was reciprocally reading. 

Reciprocal reading is a cool strategy that we use to lead our reading groups without a teacher. As a group we take turns being the 'leader' and predicting, clarifying, questioning, and summarising what we have read. This helps us to help each other make understanding. 

Reciprocally reading Weka Group (from left: Vainikolo, Sean, Fasi and Danny)

 Pukeko Reading Group (clockwise from left: Charlie, Newsam, Salote, McKenzie, Trent) 

Egg Sitting Challenge Success

As our egg sitting week drew to a close we had many successful egg parents. 
Unfortunately there were a few fatalities during the week, and valuable lessons were learned. 

Congratulations to the teams who managed to keep their egg in one piece for the entire week. 

Loto and Charlie 

Luisa and Honey 

Nirvana and Whitney 

McKenzie and Sean 

Davarni and Shannon 

Egg-citement in Room 7

What an egg-citing start to the week. Today as part of the Keeping Ourselves Safe programme we have become chief babysitters of eggs. Yes, eggs. Fresh, not boiled, precious eggs. 

Four the next four days each pair of classmates have to care for their egg at all times. This is so that we can learn about all the hard work that goes into looking after others. Children have blankets for their eggs, and are responsible for their eggs 24/7. 

Children had to pick a partner, someone they could rely on to also look after their eggs as they have shared custody.
This is going to be an egg-citing challnege, a bit of an egg-speriment, and we hope that they all have an egg-ceptional week learning how to become egg-stremely great parents!

(from left, clockwise) Loto & Charlie with their egg 'Eric', Nirvana & Whitney with 'Taylor', Newsam & Salote

Amelia and Mary decorating their egg 'Caroline', and Davarni and Shannon decorating their egg. 

Unfortunately however, there have already been two fatalities with two teams eggs accidentally being dropped.  Very unfortunate events, but taught us just how careful we need to be. 

Simeon and Maselino with their Egg.... which suffered an unfortunate event.

Another unfortunate casualty.