Welcome to Room 13

We are a hard working bunch of Year 3 and Year 4 kids in Otatara, Invercargill, New Zealand.  This week is our first week back at school and it has been good.  Mrs Donnelly has really enjoyed getting to know everyone.  We have chosen our Key Competency Goals and made birds to show which one we are working on. 

We made a poster of a key to show all the ways we use our manners. Mrs Donnelly tells us that we are pretty awesome at using our manners.

We have practiced working with others in a group and taking on a role.  The roles are Leader, Materials Manager, Reporter and Recorder.

Miss McLean is really helpful and nice and always has a happy smile on her dial.  She will be working with us all year in her last year of study at Otago University in teaching. 

We have lots of mini Brain Breaks during the day which we choose from a lucky dip pottle.  Our favourite ones so far are the Pretzel and Cowboy.  We are also really enjoying all the interesting clips on The Kid Should See This which we watch while we are eating our Brain Break food.

Today we shared some special items from home that showed our new friends some interesting things about us.  We learned that we have rock climbers, bakers, dog trainers, skiers, campers, horse riders, rugby players, swimmers, tennis players, artists, readers, writers, dancers, gymnasts and bike riders in our class.  What a clever and busy bunch we are!!