MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Gosh hasn't the year flown! I have to say I have had a fabulous time with you all and you have given me some special memories to treasure. I am, truly, sad this year has ended because you have all been wonderful. You should be all very proud of the progress you all have made this year since the beginning of the year. YOU ARE LEGENDS!

I wanted to add a photo collage of some of the photos taken throughout the year but have had some technical problems. Look back through the blog and you will see them anyway. I will keep the blog going as many of you would like to keep accessing it next year too. I really look forward to seeing you online.

Have a fabulous Christmas holiday :)
Mrs Kruijer

PS: Santa would love to hear from you: santac@merry_christmas.com

Week 8

We listened to three fantastic prepared talks this week:

Michael

Bonny and Ben

Our paintings are going to Russia! Daniel's mum is taking our paintngs to a Russian orphanage to brighten up the walls. We hope they enjoy our kiwiana! Olga came in and translated the words into Russian. It was fascinating to watch her write the words and to listen to her say them. We also tried to speak in Russian. I wonder who remembers how 'hello'
is said?

Korero Morning Programme

Prepared Talks this week were:

Zack about Kookaburra's. Your were very well prepared. Try to talk to the audience, look at them and direct your voice to the audience and use a clear voice.

Daniel
Well done boys!
There are still some people unprepared and are not doing their homework. Everyone knows their turn will come and it is not a good feeling when they know they are not ready.
Looking forward to next weeks prepared talks: Micheal, Ben and Bonny.

Week 7

It was awesome having Daniel's Mum visit today and share her story about the orphans. Just amazing. We are well on our way with ideas and making posters, books and art. Sue is having a clothing drive on Friday. If you have any unwanted clothing you could give her please bring it along to school.

Homework this week:
Mathaletics - a letter went home today about this amazing programme.
If you cannot get onto a computer play King of the Mountain with 2 dice and quick addition and subtraction. If you are feeling really clever try multiplication and division.
Korero - check what you are doing this week and be ready.
Reading - read 2 chapters a night of a book you are reading at the moment. Or read the book from school.
Spelling - find 6 words from your writing book. Write a sentence with each word. Spelling test Friday.

Simon is visiting again this Wednesday to plant spuds into buckets. If you have an old 10ltr bucket we could use for this please send it along on Wednesday.
Wednesday we are also sharing each Year 3 class worm farm inquiry. Pop in and visit if you can.
Friday is Pet Day. A notice went home about this today.

Orphans Aid International

This week we have something very special to do. Daniel is soon to go on a big adventure with his family to visit orphanages. Follow this link to find out more: http://www.orphansaidinternational.org/
You must watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV2qPDUJnTY
There are some amazing people in our community. Daniel's family are organising a clothing drive before they go on their adventure. If you can help we are going to make some posters next week. Sue is going to share her story with the children on Monday at 11am. Parents, you are welcome to attend.
Poster making will be Wednesday, Thursday and Friday 11am.

What a week 6 it was!

Korero talk presentations were by Jessie Rose and Hannah. Well done girls! Comment please in the box below what you thought about their presentations. Jessie-Rose and Hannah you could post a comment explaining what your presentation was about.
If it is your turn next please remember to have your presentation ready.

We also had a music man visit. He taught us how to play the ukulele. Hannah took photos.

Year 3 TRYathlon

TRYathlon

Hi everyone!
A letter went home today with details all about this. The children are organising themselves into teams. Please check with the notice to make sure everyone will be ready for the race on Friday!


Worm Farming with Simon from Wanaka Wastebusters
Please bring along to school on WEDNESDAY things you can use to make a worm farm. We are making worm farms with Simon on Wednesday at 11pm.

Korero Morning Programme
Well done Zack for making comments about the presentations made in the morning programme last week. You are a star!
I am not in the class tomorrow so the programme will run Wednesday, Thursday and Friday instead this week. Sorry I didn't warn you before the end of today :( Tuesday students will have their turn on Wednesday.

Here are the Hens!

Middle School Tryathlon

This is happening next Friday 20th November. The students can compete individually or in groups of 2 or 3. The running will be around the school paths, the biking around the field and the swimming in the QPS pool. A notice will go home about this before the end of the week.

Korero Prepared Talks

There were three wonderful prepared talks this week;

Gareth's owl talk,

Seth's talk about horrible animal facts,

and Mitchell's talk about worm farming.

Thank you boys.

What I want everyone to do is to either sign onto the blog. Do you remember how to do that? I might have to go through that on Monday. Or just post a comment into the comment box below. Could you please comment what the speakers did well and what they could do better next time. Please think about your comments carefully.
Check the Korero sheet to find out what you all are doing next week. It has been really great to see the work everyone has put into the first week.

We are rapping!

Verb Song

Today we began work on our rapping songs.  See if you can find some raps on the internet.  Here is one I found.

Simon from Wanaka Waste Busters Visited today!

Simon has heard about the wonderful work we have been doing with the worm farm and food scrap investigation.  He gave us a surprise visit, so....  we shared what we have been doing!  Michael was a mind of information.  You are very into this Michael!  It is wonderful!  See below our chart where we are ploting the food scraps and water we are giving the worms.  

Zara is looking after the water.  Zack and Hannah are looking after the chook bucket and Michael is looking after the worm bucket.  You are doing all an excellent job!

Our next investigation is how to make a worm farm work well.  We are collecting water bottles and are making small worm farms out of them. 

Korero Morning Programme

The information about this programme went home last week and I know many of the students are ready to go!  Please check your child's homework book if you are unsure about this programme.

This week is as follows:

                         Tuesday               Thursday                 Friday

Introducer         Elijah                    Jinho                       Kendall

Prepared Talk   Gareth                  Seth                        Mitchell

Mime                Jessie Rose           Hannah                   Zara

Joke                  Elise                     Daniel                     Zack

Poem                Michael                 Ben                        Bonny

Current Events  Georgie                 Dondu                    Lucy

How to             Kazzia                   Uta                         Jack

The prepared talk I will put in as a posting onto the blog.  The children are to make a comment about one other than their own.  Say what they like and what could be done better.

Problem Solving

This week we have been Problem Solving.

How much food do we give the worms each week?

How much can the chooks have? 

How often do we water the worm farm?

Kids, can you add a comment explaining what we have done to investigate these problems.  Who is in charge of looking after the worm farm and what do they need to do?

Yummy pictures!!!!  Thanks Ben and Daniel.

Writing an Explanation

We are learning about writing explanations.  Last week a reporter from the Southland Times visited our class and talked to us about how to be a reporter and how to write an article for the newspaper. We learnt a lot of interesting things about being a reporter and the newspaper.  
An Explanation makes clear how or why things are as they are, or how things work.  I wonder if anyone could explain this picture? 

Puzzle Maker

http://www.puzzle-maker.com/

Looks like a fun way to learn spelling words!  Make your own word search using your weekly spelling words.

Bird Talk

Shared reading and writing this week we learnt about how to teach a bird to talk!  I was delighted to watch on Saturday night at 7pm this episode of 'Birdland'.  In this episode there was a tui who could talk! If you missed it here is the link.

http://tvnz.co.nz/birdland/s1-e4-video-3086833

Worm Farming

RAP

WALT: Features of Rap

See if these examples have these elements:

Strong Beat

Rhythm

Slang

Repetition

Fast Talking or chanting

Week 1 Term 4

Do you know your Pizza SMARTS?  We have worked out our SMARTS and the SMARTS we need to work on.
Discover yours here: Pizza SMARTS
Kids, if you can, add your name with your SMART here:

Nature Smart

Body Smart

Word Smart

Maths/Logic Smart

Picture Smart

Group Smart

Music Smart

Self Smart

 

Hey everyone! It is Term 4!

Hope you had a really good holiday and feeling rested and ready for some more learning!

Maths:  TIME  

Yes, we are going to begin the term with learning how to tell the time.  Have a look at these links:

http://www.teachingtime.co.uk/draggames/sthec3.html

http://www.teachingtime.co.uk/clock2/clockwordsres.html

http://classroom.jc-schools.net/basic/math-time.html

http://www.softschools.com/time/tellingtime.jsp 

Some Time music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5ZxQ8tnAG8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHU9dN0Itrk&feature=channel
http://video.search.yahoo.com/video/play?p=michael+jackson+do+remember+the+time&n=21&ei=utf-8&fr=moz2&fr2=tab-web&tnr=21&vid=0001537518322

A Story Teller came to school

Photos taken by Elise

Cross Country Term 3 2009

Photos taken by Hannah.

Dance

WALT: Identify and explore through movement the dance elements of body awareness, space, time, energy and relationships.

• Michael Jackson
• Billy Jean
• Moon Walk
• Black or White
• Bad

See us Dance! 

Inquiry WALT: Why do we recycle, reuse and reduce rubbish?

• TM8" style="font-weight: bold;">Michael Jackson's Earth Song

Obama's Education Message

http://teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=125501&title=Obama_s_Message

I found this quite inspirational. You might too. Just ignore the American references and the message is the same for all students anywhere.

This might be of interest too:
- 3 Steps to 21st Century Learning

The Gruffalo

He's big and scary. He has a poisonous wart at the end of his nose!
For reading and writing we have read the story, written letters to the author, looked at all the interesting words and made true and false statements about the story. We have also made puppets and made plays. As you can tell we have been reading The Gruffalo! But there is more! Click on this link and find out......

http://www.gruffalo.com/

By Lucy, Zara and Bonny

We did some art with Mrs Western!!!!!

We did some art with Mrs Western it was really really fun! Some looked like bulls but we were
only doing symmetry.

by Bonny

Geometry - Transformation

WALT: Explain in your own language what SYMMETRY is.

• http://www.linkslearning.org/Kids

WALT: Explain in your own language what REFLECTION is:

WALT: Make geometric patterns by translating, reflecting and rotating.

• http://www.coolmath4kids.com/tesspag1.html
• http://www.mcescher.com/
• http://www.mathcats.com/explore/tessellationtown.html

WALT: Name common two dimensional mathematical shapes

• http://www.firstschoolyears.com/numeracy/shape/interactive/shapes.htm
• http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/online/simpleshapesort.swf
• http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/online/shapereveal.swf
  

Ice Skating and Snow Farm Photos

Beware of the Big Bad Wolf

Read our stories!

Go to the Wiki link and click on the folder, "Beware of the Big Bad Wolf".

Ice Skating and Snowfarm

Ice Skating - Tuesday, 1st September.
Let's hope the weather will be kind to us and let us go this time to the Snowfarm on Wednesday, 2nd September.
Remember to check the gear list.
The bus leaves at 8am and will not wait so make sure you are at school between 7.30-7.55.
Listen to the radio for a cancellation.

We have been learning.....
What to do instead of playing internet games!
The children have noticed that I have been blocking through our internet filter the internet games. Here are some suggestions of what to do instead of playing on the internet games from the QPS Tecki Experts:
Z Drive inschool network resources.
Art Rage - create some individual art on the computer.
Pivot stick man - Create your own animations: http://www.snapfiles.com/get/stickfigure.html
Storybook Weaver - make creative story books. On school computers.
Games on the computer - Programes - Games
Comic Life - http://plasq.com/comiclife-win - PC Windows version. (Free on Mac computers)
Alice - http://www.alice.org/index.php?page=downloads/download_alice
Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video.
Class Blog!
I am sure there are more things you can do instead of playing an internet game. Be creative and make some suggestions. Go on!

Improper Fractions
WALT: what does the numerator and denominator mean in improper fractions?
Find out here: http://www.mathsisfun.com/improper-fractions.html

Free Rice

For each question you get right rice is donated to the hungry people in the world.

http://www.freerice.com/index.php

I have added this to this weeks homework.
Change the subject by clicking on the subject tab at the top.
Once you have answered the first question you can change the level. It appears at the bottom.

Breathing Earth
This is incredible! http://www.breathingearth.net/
Hold your mouse over a country to see the population size, births and deaths and CO2 emissions.

Week 5

Snow Farm on Tuesday!!! Don't forget. A notice went home yesterday. You need to be at school by 7.55am for a gear check. The bus leaves at 8am. It is a big day so ask Mum and Dad to pack you a big lunch.

This weeks Talking Book:
Featuring Kazzia, Bonny and Hannah



Parents you can make a comment in the comment area about how well the girl's did. Did they speak clearly, make the words sound clear, use expression and gave the reader time to turn the page.

Oh Wow!!!!!!

What amazing children you are! Remember everyone can see this so make sure what you write and share is what you would like your Mum's and Dad's to read.

Dondu and Jessie Rose worked together to make a Talking Book this week. Great reading Dondu. Well done!




Who would like to write about the learning we have done in class this week???
Fractions
Kia Kaha
Writing - Little Red Riding Hood
Reading

THIS IS COOL

:-} I just learnt how to open this page!!!!! Yeah I 've found out how to add a picture. I got this picture off my own BRAINtastic!

BY KAZZIA

About My Cute Cat

My cat is called Loodya but for short we call her Loolu.She goes very crazy and jumpes up at the curtains.My mum goes crazy at my cat when she is on the bench.I like my cat because she comes on my bed basicly every night.My cat is crazy,cute and fluffy.

By Seth Mawhinney!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ice Skating

Ice skating was so much fun. I zoomed around the ice like a rocket ship. My mum said she was cold standing there watching us. She should have come on the ice as well.
Zack

Wicked Zack! Here is a photo to go with your story.

ICE SKATING lucy

hello room23 ice skating was really,really fun!!! First we put our ice skates on then we put our gloves after that we put our helmet on - click - then finally we got on the ice, yippy - i went as fast as a fish in the sea. I'm sure you did to!!!

Well done Lucy!

ICE SKATING!

We're going to go ice skating this week. Its going to be fantastic YA! Also I have all the gear.
Does room 23? But on Tuesday I can't go because my mum is sick. SORRY!
But I can come on every other one.

Wonder who this wonderful writer is? Could you please add your name at the end of your messages please? We had a super time at the ice skating rink today. Would someone like to write about it?
Mrs Kruijer :)

Wicked Week 3!

Where are the weeks going!
It is wonderful to see your postings beginning to appear. What computer whizzes! Now that you have had a go at adding a post I want to get you to start adding posts about the learning that has happened during the week each Friday and to also add a goal for the class for the next week using the Key Compentancy, 'Thinking'. Who would like to start by adding a report about what we did this week? Go on, challenge yourselves!

Maths Week
Next week, starting 10 August, is Maths Week. I have included the Maths Week link for homework: http://www.mathsweek.org.nz/

Ice Skating
Don't forget we have ice skating on Tuesday. I only have one parent who can help us get to the rink so if you are free please can you help us? Please be at the classroom by 10.30.

Ka kite anō

Mrs Kruijer

my speach. about my kitten

keti pia. i think thats how you spell it? my speach is about my kitten estie I LOVE HER. shes the most cutest kitty on earth.

i have some photos of her' there really funny and cute you will really

like them. i hope so?

from bonny

Lovely Bonny! Well done! You have said hello by saying 'I am fine' in Maori. If you want to say hello you need to think about what we use in class each morning. Well done for trying.

Ka kite anō

Mrs Kruijer

Thinking Competency

We had fun making a movie today. We had to make it on the digital camera because there was something wrong with the video cameras. Technology!

Our Oral Language focus is to speak clearly and to look at the audience. Some of us found that a challenge. Please add a comment about our speaking and looking at the audience in the comment box below.

My Playstation

My Playstation has cool games. Ben 10 alien force is my favourite game. I like playing it every day.
Prince of Peru is what I would like. I will have to save my money to get it.
Daniel 3 /8/09

My Brother

This the Talking Book that Seth, Mitchell, Elijah and Zack made. It is awesome!

My Brother

Today when we were up at Coronet sking, my little brother Lucas lost his first tooth... He was pretty excited and very lucky, because he still managed to find it in the snow!!! I wonder how much money he will get from the Tooth Fairy tonight and if he will give me some of it?

Finding Tips Talking Book

Yahoo! Hannah and Lucy worked quietly and persistently together to get this talking book to work. You are stars! Enjoy their Talking Book!

Hi this is Zack and Bonny

We are working with Mrs Kruijer. We have learnt how to get into the blog and to add a posting! Yahoooo!

My Speech

Hello room 23.My speech is about my cat. I've got two pictures, one of them is her sleeping on my back when I was sick!The other was her under a table when she was a kitten but she is a cat now. Her name is Crystal the Crazy cat

By Hannah Ryall

Maori Language week

See if you can say and use these greetings:

http://www.korero.maori.nz/forlearners/basics/lessons/tahi-wordlist.html

http://www.maorilanguage.net/phrase_drills/phrase_drills_lesson.cfm?learningsubcategoryid=1

Make your own PhotoStory. It is a free download:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/photostory/default.mspx

Blogging

It was wonderful to have Zack and Kazzia's mums join us this afternoon to learn about how to post a posting onto the blog. I came up against a glitch, technology eh! I have found what was wrong. The schoolzone provider that filters our internet traffic blocks 'Web ads' through the student logins. I was trying to log in as Zack but couldn't get to sign in because it is attached to what the filter sees as an advertising banner. If I had gone through my own logon I would have been ok. Also the user should be the full email address. A few glitches but we have sorted them. I am hoping the children will have access at school too because I want them to look after the blog.

User: room23children@queenstown.school.nz
You know the password.

It should be all straightforward at home. I am only an email away. We will have another look next Monday if you would like to pop in at 1.30pm to learn about posting onto the blog.

Talking Books!
Some of the children are working on some pretty cool looking Talking Books. We haven't quite got them saved correctly for adding onto the blog. Watch this space!

Ice Skating and Snow Farm
Ice Skating is weeks 4, 5 and 7: Tuesday 11-12noon
Snow Farm week 6: 25th or 27th August
Watch your child's bookbag for a letter coming home soon!

Week 1 Term 3

We have had an amazing week! Wonderful to see those computer whizzes using the blog homework. I know you have had to help Mum and Dad too! We are all learning together.

Numeracy: Fractions
This week was an introduction week to Fractions. Finding out what we know and what we can learn more about. We have had a good look through the 'SkillWise' learning sites. Some were too difficult but it was fun seeing what they were about.

room23children
It has been impressive how well you have all developed your skills using the computers and the camera. I am going to give you access to the blog so you can add your own postings. We will practise in class and you will have to teach you Mum's and Dad's at home. We will do this Monday afternoon at 1.30 if any Mum's and Dad's want to come in and learn too!
Remember to think about our THINKING Key Competancy: "I know when I am thinking when I think about what to put onto the classroom blog." You can share your news or a project you have made!

Talking Books
In reading this term we will be making Talking Books. We are learning to speak clearly with a clear voice and to think about the audience. When we make a Talking Book we think about the punctuation, speaking clearly and stopping at the end of each page so the reader has time to turn the page. Watch the blog and you will see our Talking Books soon!

Movie
This week we have been making a movie in writing time. We have had to work together in teams and are making a storyboard that will be made into our movie. Watch this space!

Kia Kaha
Mrs Menzies started this unit with us this week. We have looked at differences and similarities we each have and made a Y chart about what is bullying. Next week we will have the Police Education Officer visit at 9.05 on Tuesday, 28 July. Also 9.05 Tuesday week 4. Thank you for returning the forms. I see many of you would like to attend the lessons. Mrs Menzies is taking the lessons Thursday afternoons at 1.30. If you have any questions about this unit please do not hesitate to ask. It will run all term and it is schoolwide.

Have a great weekend :)

Term 3

Homework!
Maths
Parents there were too many options listed under 'Homework' on the left toolbar for the children so I have taken out most of the maths links and made a new area under 'Maths Links'. Most have certificates and worksheets. The kids can print these out at school or at home and they are to glue them into their homework books so you and I can see them. Each week I will move a link so there will be a weekly maths site for the children to do.
As well:
Flintstone Spelling Contract on the wiki using their 6 weekly spelling words from their writing books.
Reading is a must every night. The other websites are optional but useful. Any questions just ask.

Kids!
Have a look at this site: http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/grammar/
We will be using it throughout the term. Have a go at the activities. I think it is a great site!

Fractions is our Numeracy focus this term. To give yourself a head start take a look at these sites. We will also be using them throughout the term.
Introducing Fractions:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/numbers/fractiondecimalpercentage/fractions/introduction/
Simplifying Fractions:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/numbers/fractiondecimalpercentage/fractions/simplifyingfractions/
Comparing Fractions:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/numbers/fractiondecimalpercentage/fractions/comparingfractions/
Finding Fraction Parts:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/numbers/fractiondecimalpercentage/fractions/fractionsofquantities/

Term 2 has ended!

This week we made paper planes in maths! Our question was how can a paper plane fly far? Jack made the ultimate paper plane out of magazine paper. Jack's plane flew the furtherest. He measured it to have flown an incredible 9 meters! If you would like to make your own plane take a look at this link. http://www.paperairplanes.co.uk/planes.php

Jump Rope for Heart.
Thanks for supporting us. Our class raised the most, a whopping $300! With Zack making the most individual amout of $127.00. (sorry I cannot remember the cents, Zack!). You will be rewarded for your efforts next term Zack! Well done!


Thanks to Zack's Mum for the photos.





Hana visited us today and shared some stories her mother had written about her brother James. We made a mural about one of the stories, "Finding Breakfast". We thought it was a very funny story!

Have a great holiday!

Some Plays for you to listen to.

Hello Gareth!

Thank you for your emails Gareth! It sounds like you are having a wonderful time with your family in Wales. We can see you have been looking at the blog because the red dot on the world map on Wales is quite large!
We have had a few birthdays in our class and we know you are celebrating yours too! Happy Birthday and we hope you will have a wonderful day. The class is quite different without you and Kendall! Hope Kendall is having a nice time away too.
Keep sending your emails :)

Book Week!!

It was fantastic to have Lucy's Dad visit and read his favourite comic book to us!

For Book Week the children chose funny books.
Parents if you would like to come in and read please just pop in with your choice of funny book to read to the class or a group of children. Dad's especially! I have some books in the class if you can't find one.

Book Mark Competition: The children can make a book mark at home. Winners will be announced at the Book Week Parade on Friday.

Lunchtime Reading in the Library: Local celebrities will be invited to read stories each lunchtime in the Library.

Book Character Parade: Dress up as your favourite book character. The Parade will be held on the tennis court by the Library on Friday at 2.30pm.

Look at us!

What types of worms are composting worms?

We have found out a lot of interesting of worm facts. We have found out earth worms are great recyclers because they recycle soil, plant material and dead animals. But because we are thinking about the rubbish in the school we want to know which worm is the best worm to compost our rubbish so we can make compost for our school gardens. Everyone in the class got busy and googled worms and found Tiger worms are great composters. Bonny found the classification of Tiger Worms on a website she found. See if you can find out some more information from these websites:

http://www.gardenews.co.nz/worms.htm
http://www.bucketofworms.co.uk/worms.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenia_fetida
http://www.originalorganics.co.uk/the-best-worms.htm
http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/caer/ce/eek/earth/recycle/compost2.htm

Videos:
http://www.5min.com/Video/Composting-with-Worms-how-it-works-5031
http://pbskids.org/dragonflytv/show/wormfarm.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ4uYXHydoo

Homework

I have been adding different links into the Homework area. Hope you have found them good. I have not seen any more certificates. Seth has been the only one. If you do not have a printer please write into your homework book or add a comment on the blog to show you have got a certificate. Please make sure you are either using the Homework links or doing your homework into your books.
We talked about this at school. Homework can be either done online through the blog and reading your daily reader from school. Spelling words are used to add to the story on the Wiki.
Or into your books on the worksheet, write sentences for each spelling word and read your daily reader from school every night.
Just something to think about, parents, when you think your child is wasting time on the computer playing games through the links I have provided. Computers give children more 'hits' at gaining and securing knowledge more than any other way.

Report Writing!

WORMS!

This week we have been writing reports and have found out some fantastic information about frogs to write about. Next week we want to write about worms. Here are some links to help you:

http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/worms.htm

http://yucky.discovery.com/flash/worm/pg000102.html

http://www.naturewatch.ca/english/wormwatch/virtual_worm/Digestion.swf

http://yucky.discovery.com/flash/worm/

http://www.thinkingfountain.org/w/worms/worms/worms.html

www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/worms

Baking

See if you can remember the procedure you used to bake some things in the class. Add your instructions in the voicethread. You need to explain the procedure so that anyone listening or reading your instruction can also make it. I have sent an invitation to your emails. Find my message and then follow the link to get there.

There is some fantastic work being added to the Baking VoiceThread! Well done! I really enjoyed Hannah's video. You could be on TV taking a cooking show one day Hannah! You just missed out how much we need of the butter, sugar and rice bubbles. Also how hot the pan had to be. Do you remember all those parts too? I can almost make Honey Bumbles and Chocolate Bumbles now. See if you can add to what Hannah had to say.

Week 4

Well what a week!
It was Hana's last week with us and we gave her a suprise party! Thanks parents who were able to send in some food. I know it was short notice! Hana was delighted and had a lovely last day with the children.

This is what we have done this week.
Instructions and making posters with a message has been our writing focus. We made a book of new skipping moves. You can read it anytime you visit the class. It is in the library.

It is fantastic to see the wiki story is well under way. Also have a go at the VoiceThread, Lucy has! It is under the 'Rubbish' heading. The rubbish you see is a photo from a school rubbish bin and this is quite a typical rubbish bin. Some children may be bringing too much lunch to school!

Week 3

Have you seen the wiki? What a fascinating story unfolding. Remember you will not get a sticker on the homework chart in class each week until you have added to the wiki story using your weekly spelling words. Remember to 'Login' on the wiki. If you don't you will not be allowed to add a comment.

Super Seth! You have got a certificate for completing one of the online maths activities. Remember to glue the certificates into your homework book.

Parents please be aware and it is important you help to encourage safe internet usage. Some things you can do is to get your child to revise and watch http://www.hectorsworld.com/.
You will also find a lot of helpful information about internet safety at http://www.netsafe.org.nz/.

This week we visited the Recycling Plant at Frankton:

More homework

I am really impressed to see parents trying really hard to get into the homework online! The wiki was a bit of a disaster so I have found another one. It looks a lot easier to use from my end so I hope you also find is a lot user friendly! Follow the instructions on the right hand side tool bar.

In Maths we have been learning about multiplication and division so have added these links to the homework list.

http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com/games/meteor/meteor.html
http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com/games/demolition/demolition.html

A really effective way to get your child to read is to use this: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Download onto your computer. It is free. The children are familiar with Audacity because we have it on the classroom computers. They read their reading book recording onto Audacity. Save their reading onto your computer and then you have a wonderful record of their reading that you keep and listen to whenever you like!

With the oral language morning buzz groups we have been learning to be a good listener. Could you please add a comment about what a good listener is? Check out our Animoto video!

Homework Term 2

Download Tuxtype. Learn where the letters are on the keyboard: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/tuxtype/Tuxtype2-1.5.3-installer.exe?download

Maths:
http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com/games/alien/alien.html
http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com/games/mission/mission.html

Do these at least once during the week.
Use your spelling words in the Wiki story.
Read a book every day.
Write into your email blog about what you have learnt during the week and set yourself a new goal for next week.
Go to it!

We have a class wiki!

http://room23qps.pbworks.com/

This is the wiki link and a new one. Lets hope it easier than the last one! This term your homework is going to be put onto the wiki. What I want to do is use your spelling words and add to the extended story in the wiki. Follow the link and I think you will find out how to do this.

Our writing self assessments

Listen to our acrostic poems and hear what we have learnt in writing in term 1.

Acrostic Poems

We have been using our skills using adjectives, nouns and verbs this week. We have made Acrostic poems using our names.

We used this website to help us: http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/acrostic
Have a try.

We also Googled and searched for more examples.
What do you think of these ones Zack and Kazzia wrote?

Zack is my nickname
Always nice
Caring and friendly
Kind
Especially likes food
Runs really fast
Yet dances like a star!

Kazzia is kind
And amazing
Zoomy with friends
Zippy around the room
Intelligent at school
Always caring

Zara's photos

Really cool photos Zara!

Try this survey.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=JbVM836dcayZi_2fk_2bywEi3Q_3d_3d

Parent assessment of our assembly item!

Well parents, yes you too can assess our work!
Please follow this link. It will take you to a bubble mindmap where you can add a bubble and comment. A bubble will appear but you won't get to the one I have started until you have signed in. Top right.
User name: room23
password: room23
Find the saved Assembly item file, click on the folder not the words. A bubble map that I have started will appear. You make another bubble by hovering over the main bubble. You will see where to make another bubble and add a comment inside your bubble.
We will be looking to see what you have to say!

http://bubbl.us/edit.php

Wow! Fantastic Assembly Item!

Hi I am Zack!

Well Done Zack!
This time with sound!
Have a wonderful birthday and holiday!
We look forward to seeing your big smile when you get back.

Outdoor Education Thank you's!

Listen to our thank you's. Enjoy the photos too!

Lucy!

Hi, I am Lucy. Hope you enjoy my talk and photos. Please leave me a comment.

Cool Kazzia and Super Seth

Wonderful photos guys! We enjoyed hearing all about you today!

Wordle

Have a go! We made Wordle cloud posters using all the words we could think of about Outdoor Education.

You will find Wordle in our school Del.ic.ious social bookmark site:
https://secure.delicious.com/login
User: queenstownprimary
Password: qps4429120

I use this site in the class too. You will find a lot of useful internet sites here.

To find Wordle click on language or words down the right hand tollbar.

Great Homework options

Make Your Own Maths Worksheets
Download this free program and you can create your own basic facts worksheets to practice at home. http://www.schoolhousetech.com/Math/Download.aspx

There are lots of great websites to visit to have fun and at the same time getfaster at doing basic facts. Get really speedy at + and - to 10 then practise to 20.Blast the sums that come down like space invaders. Great for getting fast at addition!
http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com/games/alien/alien.html
Don't get slimed! Get fast at subtraction instead!
http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com/games/mission/mission.html
To make your own quizzes and worksheets, go to: http://themathworksheetsite.com/

Learn how to type:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/tuxtype/Tuxtype2-1.5.3-installer.exe?download
You might also be interested in TuxPaint and TuxMaths as well. Enjoy

This link takes you to NZ Maths Families. Help and support for you at home: http://www.nzmaths.co.nz/families/index.aspx
Wicked Maths: http://www.tki.org.nz/r/wick_ed/homework_help/maths/
Interactive maths activities: http://www.berghuis.co.nz/abiator/maths/intermathsindex.html

English Online. A New Zealand Ministry site:
http://english.unitecnology.ac.nz/resources/students.html