Classic Hits

Thank-you Christian. On Wednesday 22 May the radio station Classic Hits came to Maraekakaho School Room 5. I'm thanking Christian because his mother Natasha signed him in on a competition. The competition was if you enter on the internet or call Classic Hits you could win freebies for your own class room. The freebies were free vouchers for MacDonalds, Napier and the Aquarium in Napier. We all had the chance to ask Martin and Sarah some questions like whereabouts is your radio station and what sort of music did they play on their radio station.We also had the chance to win a free Kmart voucher. To win the Kmart voucher, Martin and Sarah would throw a dart at a piece of paper with all of our names on it and whoevers name it lands on wins the Kmart voucher. It was so much fun.

Reading Is Fun

Starting on Wednesday the 15th of May we started doing some awesome readers theatre. Readers theatre is a programme that's like doing a play but we are practising our fluency and having fun at the same time. In readers theatre we get to get into our reading groups, that are Concentrating Coconuts, the Unknown, Reading Robots and the Go Girls. Groups sometimes get teamed up to do the exciting stories Mrs B gives us. In readers theatre there are a few habits of mind involved to make it successful like thinking interdependently when we are choosing parts and sorting it out. We have to communicate with clarity and precision when we are saying our parts and managing impulsivity to stay focused while you are doing it so you know when its your turn to come in with your part. There are many more too. Our whole class got together to form criteria about what would make all of this successful.

Let's Get Fit

At the start term 2 Mark Atkins started coming in and doing P.E. with us. The P.E is a mixture of basketball, passing techniques, soccer, dribbling and rugby. Every class does P.E. with Mark at least once a week. Mark is in the Magpies training squad and very experienced with rugby. In my opinion this was a very smart idea because the students of MKK school are getting fit but having fun at the same time and what makes it even better is that Mark is a really awesome guy who uses all the habits of mind!