School Disco

This year, Cockle Bay had a Disglow - everyone got glow bands which looked fabulous - we had glow sticks, glow ear-rings, glow bunny ears, glow glasses, glow necklaces and glow bracelets.  The dancing was pretty good too!

We were still smiling, even after the lights came on

Support for Christchurch

Everyone in Room 18 cut out and coloured in a person to show their support for people in Christchurch, and to let them know that we are thinking of them.  When all the paper people were finished we stuck them together in a long line to show our solidarity.  

Other classes made a people paper chain too, and Mrs Stansfield posted them in one big parcel, which we hope will cheer everyone up.

Working together

We talked about working together collaboratively in Room 18.  To model what this would look like, we slowly unrolled a ball of string and everyone held on to it somewhere.  We found that, if only one person moved it, the whole string web moved, but if no one moved it it stayed still.  This model showed us that when we do something, it affects the whole class in some way.

Room 18's class treaty

We read the book, The Tree House Treaty, and we talked about the Waitangi Treaty.  Then we brainstormed things that were important for Room 18 to be a cool place to work and learn in 2019.  We wrote our treaty, and then every body signed it (except the teddies) to say that they promised to abide by the rules we collectively decided upon.