UHPS Rocks the House!!!

Today it was GPK day at UHPS. We were so excited because we had two rock bands from Albany Junior High School. The bands played for us at lunchtime in the hall, playing some of their own music and also some music from famous rock groups including Guns and Roses. When they started playing we jumped up and down and danced and head banged along to the music! It was really loud!!! Maybe one day children in Room 16 will be in a rock band at Albany Junior High! Thanks for coming guys we thought you were awesome!!!

Prep Market Day!

We had fun at school today! The Tio team had their Prep Market day and we were able to buy products that the Tio team had made. We spent Tio dollars and bought all sorts of fun toys, food, trinkets, and even basket ball shots! Here we are at the market day with all our great buys. Thank you Tio team for putting on such a great Market Day!!!

What respect looks like in Room 16

We have been talking about looking after others today. We came up with this list of things that we think show that we respect others. Please let us know if you see us doing any of these things!!
In Room 16 Respect looks like:

• Letting people go through the doorway first
• Holding the door for some one else
• Helping people who fall over
• Letting others play with you
• Say please and thank you- use your manners
• Listen to the person who speaking without interrupting
• Smile ☺
• Say good morning to the teacher
• Put your hand up when you want to speak
• If someone offers you something, (e.g. sweet) take just one.
• Share with others
• Do as you are told straight away
• Be a good sport if it doesn’t go your way
• Say sorry if you did something wrong
• Ask people if you need to borrow something
• Be honest if you did something wrong
• Keep your things tidy and out of others space

Writing Progress

We are all working hard at improving our writing skills in Room 16. Watch as two of our learners explain how we assess our own Writing and set our next learning goals.

Sharing Our Learning:

In Room 16 we are getting ready to share our learning progress with you on the 14th and 15th of September. What will this look like in Room 16?
In our classroom we will be working through seven different stations and sharing our learning progress at each station. Mrs Millett will be stationed at Station One where we will look at our Student Learning folders and review our assessments which help to form our learning goals. The following stations will be as follows:
Station Two: Active Board Demonstration
Station Three: Writing progress
Station Four: Maths Progress and Maths game
Station Five: Reading Progress

Station Six: E Learning and our classroom Blog

Station Seven: Inquiry learning
What an exciting opportunity for us to share with you what learning looks like in Room 16! We hope you can all make it. Just book a time to visit us in Room 16!

Our Underwater Adventure

As part of our inquiry into "Interdependence" Room 16 and the Tipa team investigated the underworld at Kelly Tarltons.

How does sea life demonstrate Interdependence? We saw examples of sea life depending on each other through food chains, e.g (plant>plant feeders>animal feeders>decay feeders). We also saw interesting examples of ininterdependence with symbiosis (when one species relys on another for survival) with the relationship between the clown fish and the anemone!! It was also interesting learning about the special features that the animals in the ocean have to help them survive.

Tipa Pet Day!

The Tipa team had a very exciting day today! Family pets of all types and sizes came to UHPS for a school visit. The Pet day fitted into our Term's inquiry context- "Interdependence: Animals and Us", and also was a fun way to celebrate GPK day! We had dogs, cats, guinea pigs, rabbits, fish, frogs and even a turtle at our Pet day. Thanks everyone for coming along and making pet day such fun!

After our pets went home all of the Tipa children carried on their GPK animal fun with a pet mask parade! Room 16 and the Tipa children did themselves proud making some very cute, cuddly, scary, true to life and funny looking pet masks! Well done everyone:)