Home Learning - Week Eight Term Three

Home Learning was due to be shared this week in Studio 17. Yet again we had a variety of presentations, come and check out some of our pieces of work!

George's baking was a favourite with the class.

Jesse spoke to the class about his model hotel .

Sam and his mosaic work.

Willow shares her successes as a pony rider.

Ash share a little of himself with the class.

Olivia, Katie and Samantha teach the class the toothbrush song
and how to keep your teeth clean.

James spoke to the class about
his two pet cats.

Jacob does some building at
home to make a planter box.

Abigail designed and made some
pieces of jewellery.

Tennis Lessons

Thanks to funding from Canterbury Tennis, all our Year 3-6 children at KBS have been given the opportunity to have three 45 minute sessions for free with Rangiora coach Ian Allso. Studio 17 had their first session on Friday where they learnt how to volley the ball over the net and to co-operatively work with their partner. 

Brynn waits for her turn.

Studio 17 listen to their next set of
instructions.

                                                 

James is full of focus!

Grace keeps her eye on the ball.

Willow is all concentration.

Odd Shoe Day

Friday 13th September was Odd Shoe Day at KBS, a nationwide fundraiser for children who attend Camp Quality. Children from Studio 17 also got behind this cause by wearing red and black and of course odd shoes. As a class we raised $37 to go towards our school's total. Check out the shoes worn in our studio!

Robin, Katie, Sydney, Louanne and Kaitlyn.

Tayla and Makayla.

Grace, Olivia, Jesse and James.

George, Emily, Samantha and Abigail.

Ash, Luci and Sophie.

Student Led Learning - RISE

Our overall school focus for 2013 is RISE - Recognise, Inspire, Share and Engage. As part of our work in Term Three we have been sharing with each other and gaining a greater understanding of those who help us in our school and wider community.

We have also looked at the talents and expertise within our own studio. To develop our children's ability to lead their own learning, they have either independently or in teams planned a lesson to share with their peers. They have also needed to think about what teaching will take place, resources that they will need and any follow up materials.

Keep an eye out on our blog to see what Studio 17 can "share" with each other.

Trinity and Makayla teaching the class how to make a fruit smoothie.

Students were given a worksheet by the girl's and they were
asked to write down the ingredients needed and each step that
 had to be taken to make their drink.

The final product! Makayla and Trinity then took in their worksheets
marked them and gave feedback to each student.
Great job girls!

Volleyball Training

Studio 17 have just had their first session of volleyball where they are learning the skills needed to play

with the help of Fraser and Krystal from North Canterbury Sport. In our first session we learnt the basics of getting the ball over the net and rotating around, so that we got to be in different positions. We also found that it was important to work together as a team.

Who is going to get to the ball first?

Marli checking that his team are ready to play.

Getting organised ready to play.

Kaitlyn has the ball.

Cure Kids - Red Nose Day

The 23rd August saw various shades of red arrive at KBS, as it was Red Nose Day a national fundraising event for Cure Kids. A key focus at KBS is to look at ways that we can support others in our community. Therefore last Friday we ran a Mufti Day encouraging all staff and children to come dressed in red for a gold coin donation.

Below are photos of how Studio 17 got involved!

Marli, Abigail, Katie and Kaitlyn.

Samantha, Brynn, Willow and Jacob.

Olivia, Luci, Sydney, Jesse and George.

Sophie, James, Robin, Grace and Makayla.

Tayla, Emily, Sam, Nathan and Ashtyn.

Katie and Luci were voted by the class as the most creative in what they wore!

Te Tuna Poetry Recitals

On Friday 16th August Te Tuna Syndicate met in the school hall to listen to the finalists of our poetry recitals. Each studio were able to enter three representatives and it was a very tough choice for Miss Tainui to choose who was to go through from Studio 17. In the end and after much deliberation Sophie Kiddey represented the Year 5's and Robin Hodson-Seel and Sydney Sangster represented Year 6.

A big thank you also to Mrs Lott and Mrs Kite who were our judges on the day, not an easy job!

Year Five representative - Sophie Kiddey who came second overall.

Year Six representative - Robin Hodson-Seel.

Year Six representative - Sydney Sangster who came third overall.

Wearable Arts

During Term Two Miss Kersten came up with the idea that our whole school should get involved with creating a piece of wearable art as we were going to enter four pieces into the Christchurch Primary Schools Cultural Festival in Term Three. So our class got together, brainstormed ideas based around the theme "Out of the Wardrobe" and then individually or some of us chose to work in a team, our creations came to fruition.

A big thank you to many of our parents who helped us to sew, stick, glue, solder and hunt out a variety of materials so that our creations could be made.

Check out what we came up with!

Jacob as a zombie.

Robotic Jesse.

Ben, our very own walking, talking spiderman.

Ice Maiden - Grace with her team Trinity and Makayla.

Luci called her piece "Square Bear."

Ashleigh the cowgirl.

Willow and Sophie as a dolphin.

Wired robot, Sam can be seen peeking through.

Samantha and Olivia as the walking purse.

Sydney and her flightless bird creation.

Milk Arrives at KBS

Kaiapoi Borough School has taken on the "Milk in Schools" progamme run by Fonterra. Our studio is responsible for delivering the milk to each Year 1-6 class every day and making sure that the fridges are kept stoked up with milk, so that is nice and cold for drinking!

Katlyn tries out her milk!

The girl's sip their way through their milk carton after lunch.

As they finish off their milk, the boy's have to fold them up in a special way ready for recycling.

Sophie has her milk too!

Our Buddy Class - Studio One

This year our Buddy Class is Studio One which is a class of Year Two students taught by Mrs Henderson. We try to spend time with them every Friday afternoon either in their studio or down in Studio 17. Some of the activities that we have done are shared reading, art, we've played Rippa Rugby and we've helped our buddies create Mother's Day cards.

Below are some photos of when we had a shared lunch together.