ASB Financial Literacy

Today we had a financial literacy session with Jeff. It was so interesting. We learnt about income, expenses and savings. We learnt how credit cards work and budgeted for a holiday to Fiji!

Our bubbles

This morning we started by shared some of our vivid experiences with each other. We talked about who was in our bubble, best memory, things we missed, things we enjoyed and much more. We shared our ideas in a creative way. Have a look below. 

Gymnastics!

Today we had our first sports session with Nick in a long time. We went over some basic gymnastics moves:

Pike-feet together

Straddle-feet apart

Tuck-body curled

Stretched-body elongated and stretched out. 

Can you look at the pictures below and guess which is which?

Oh the excitement!

The surprise on their faces when they returned from Breens and saw that we had a new interactive TV! We had to try it out with a movie at lunch. This new piece of technology will be utilised by the senior teachers. It will be used predominantly out in our shared space where guided group sessions are run. 

LEGO Master

Today Troy brought in the mustang he built from the LEGO he brought with his birthday money.   Troy has demonstrated the virtues of perseverance and creativity. It has taken him two and a half days and over 300 instruction steps to complete! Tino pai Troy we are impressed. 

Let’s get writing!

The seniors are participating in a nationwide writing swap run by School Kit. Room 22 have been partnered up with Maeroa Intermediate in Hamilton. We have been preparing poems to send which will be collected by courier next week. Students at Maeroa Intermediate are doing the same. 96,000 students are participating this year. Today we used 3D glasses to unveil hidden messages within the class poem we wrote yesterday. 

Storytelling!

This term we are working with a Scottish tale called The Piper's Boots. Mrs J told us the story yesterday and then we drew pictures for our story maps. Today we had to use our picture cues to re tell the story to a buddy. Oliver impressed the class by showing enough courage to retell the story to the whole class from his memory!
He has us all hooked, what a great storyteller you are Oliver.