Recycling Games

Answer questions about waste and the 3R's


Take the quiz to find out how much of a waster you are?



Play this 'Recycling' Game
















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HomeFun

Each week we will add some examples of the children's homefun. The children have two weeks to complete WALTs set from the previous two weeks work. The children also work on weekly spelling lists which have been levelled from their spelling tests.

Here are two examples of homefun from R16 - Olive and Hayley's. Aren't they doing well!

Artwork

Here is some of the art we completed last week. Aren't they great.

Thea Erichsen

Firth Deacon

Ronan Kaye

Hayley Secker

RESPECT

We are continuing our work on respect this week with a look at bullying - What it is, what it looks like, feels like and sounds like, where it happens and how we can help. We watched a video on cyber bullying and we were very sad to see and unhappy to see how the victim felt. We decided as a pod to make sure we never bullied anyone and to look after and support everyone at Wanaka Primary School. We came up with lots of really good ways to get help for the victim and to support them. We talked a lot about what bullying really is because most of us didn't understand it very well.

Environmental Education

On Friday we met with Simon who is going to work with us ona very exciting inquiry unit involving Zero Waste as part of our school Big Idea 'The Skies the Limit'. Simon is the person who works with the local schools and youth groups helping them along their journey towards sustainability. His role is partly funded by the solid waste department of QLDC and he uses two amazing education packages to help him do his work – Enviroschools and Zero Waste Education.

Our Year 4 children are very interested in the environment so this was an obvious context for us. Our Year 4 team and Simon were all buzzing with ideas about where thr children might take this.

Here is Simon's school blog address.Click on the link below.

http://www.wanakawastebusters.co.nz/at-school/blog/

And his other blog
http://efsqueenstownlakes.blogspot.com/

Co-operative Groups - Class Treaty

We have been learning about the Treaty of Waitangi and Waitangi Day. Today we wrote ideas for our class treaty and classified our rules under key areas. Here are some photos of our co-operative groups at work.

Pie Graphs

Today we learned to do pie graphs. We used a programme called Create A Graph to make our graph. We ddi a class tally chart of Room 16s favourite colours.

Reflection Diaries

This year we are using these to reflect on aspects of our learning. Here are some pictures to show children at work.

First Day of Term 2011

Today was the first day back for all Wanaka Primary students. It was great to meet my new class. We had a brilliant day and I would like to thank all my wonderful kids for making my day a very special one. We are focusing on RESPECT for the first two weeks of the term and already the children are coming up with great ideas about this value.
Here is a poem we shared today.

I RESPECT THE THINGS YOU SAY

I respect the things you say;
I respect what you think and do.

It doesn’t matter anyway
If I think differently from you.

You are a person just like me,
You are a person I accept.

Whatever feelings there may be,
We’ll treat each other with RESPECT!


HOW TO TREAT OTHERS WITH RESPECT
Treating people with respect makes your world a nicer place to live in, whether it's at home, at school, or out in your community. And it's easy - all you have to do is treat people the way you like to have them treat you.
Here are some of our ideas....

• Listen to others when they speak.
  
• Don't insult people or make fun of them.


• Value other people's opinions.


• Be considerate of people's likes and dislikes.


• Don't mock or tease people.


• Don't talk about people behind their backs.


• Be sensitive to other people's feelings.


• Don't pressure someone to do something he or she doesn't want to do.


• Show interest and appreciation for other people's cultures and backgrounds.


• Don't go along with prejudices and racist attitudes.


• Never stereotype people.


• Show interest and appreciation for other people's cultures and backgrounds.


• Don't go along with prejudices and racist attitudes.


• Try to learn something from the other person.

We live in a world made up of many different cultures, languages, races, and backgrounds. This kind of variety can make all our lives a lot more fun and interesting, but only if we get along with each other.
To do that we have to respect each other.