Farewell Room 23 2010!

We wrote a positive comment to each other this week, sang lots of Christmas chorals, and have made some Christmas decorations too. We have enjoyed each other for the last time this year. Thank you for a wonderful year and have a well earned Christmas break.

Love and hugs
Mrs Kruijer

Christmas

It December and that means it Christmas.

Santa is coming.

There is some Christmas pictures that you could look at.

By Naomi

You are fantastic Naomi! I was about to add something about Christmas but you have done it for me!

Week 8

Outdoor Education Week next week: Queenstown Primary School ODE Infromation
Check this link if you have lost the information booklet. Have a great week!

room 23 kids'Fotobabble

Sophie Fotobabble

Korero tm4 wk8

Ella's Fotobabble

Naomi's Fotobabble

Ruby's Fotobabble

Room 23's Fotobabbles

Outdoor Education next week

In preparation for next week we have a lot of different activities happening at school.
Tomorrow (Tuesday) afternoon is Bike Afternoon. There was a note that went home on Friday last week along with the ODE programme. We will be looking at the bikes and seeing if they are good to ride and if you can ride a bike. If anyone has a spare bike at home and you are happy for some else to use it, can you please bring it in for other children just incase they do not have one. (By Aaliyah)

The programme is also on the school website: Outdoor Education Week Programme

Korero

In the homework books you will find a peer assessment of your child's Korero presentation. Check it for feedback.

Raw video: Robot camera inside Pike River mine

By Naomi

You are a clever thing Naomi!
We had a minute silence today at 12pm for the mine workers and
our thoughts are with the families who have lost loved ones.
Thank you for adding this video.  It is very interesting to be
able to see inside the mine.

Home learning

Just a quick reminder that Home learning this term is the Korero rotation which everyone is doing a wonderful job having themselves prepared for their turn. This is a self management exercise as well as practicing those presentation skills of speaking clearly to an audience.

Reading - every night from their classroom browsing box.
Spelling - from the STEPS programme. Each week your child will bring a list from the programme to learn and these are tested within the programme. I would like to also see these words put into a sentence each in the homework book.
Maths - There are lots of activities on the blog that link in with what we are doing in the class. For activities that are not on the computer you can play maths games such as King of the Mountain. This is a dice game; roll 2 dice and add, subtract, divide, multiply the numbers together. You can also use playing cards in a similar way. The emphasis is quick recall of basic facts and just knowing the basic facts to 10 and 20.

Our School is an Enviro School and are reducing the photocopy sheets of work that get glued into books that are often not completed or get lost.

In my day my small country school did not have a photocopier and we had to write into our own books! Interesting how dependent we can become and how times change!

The home learning I have given is to reduce the impact on the environment and to support the students self management. I try to support all the different ways of learning and try to give a variety of options that fit within the busy lives of children. Home learning is developing the self management skills that students need in their future lives.
It is the 21st Century!

Fantastic Brainstorming!

Fantastic to see the brainstorming some of you have posted onto the blog! Here are some different displays you could try:

Taxedo Creater
This creates the words into a shape of your choice.

Wordle
Very similar to Word It Out! and Taxedo

JAPAN - Word cloud - WordItOut

JAPAN - Word cloud - WordItOut

Naomi

Word cloud made with WordItOut

Ruby - Word cloud - WordItOut

Ruby - Word cloud - WordItOut

Word cloud made with WordItOut

Very nice Adam!

Word cloud made with WordItOut

Smashed Window!

We had a big surprise on Monday morning when we came to school. One of our big windows had been smashed!
I wonder who could give an information report onto this Voice Thread about how the window was replaced? Please add your comments.
Thank you Aaliyah and Tasmin for taking the photos.

Red Nose Day

RED NOSE DAY THIS FRIDAY! WEAR YOUR RED NOSE AND CLOTHES!
Bring a gold coin to raise money for CURE KIDS

Offical website: http://www.rednoseday.org.nz/

JAPAN

This is Japan's things I am going to tell you.

Our class has been learning about where in the world are we from. We have been making and slide show.

I am going to tell you my flag, my clothing, my money,my building, the animals, the climate, the population and the food.

Japan's language is Japaneses

You could go on Wikipedia and find out some more stuff

by Naomi

Japan's flag

Japan's clothing they are called Yukata

Japan's money

Ready to do some research?

National Geographic Kids - a good site to search
Word It Out! - put your keywords in and make a word cloud!

Word cloud made with WordItOut

This week we are going to really get into our 'Where In the World are You From? inquiry and start to put together our posters. Click on this site to check you are ready.

WE WILL BE SWIMMING EACH DAY FOR THE REST OF THE TERM. PLEASE BRING SWIMMING TOGS EVERYDAY EXCEPT FOR THURSDAY, PE DAY.
- Everyone must wear a swimming cap

Our Inquiry - Where in the World are we from?

How are you going to find out about where in the world you are from?

Ask Mum and Dad

Safe Kids Google

– about the country

– flag

– food

– money

– population

– National Anthem

– Climate

– Language

– Myths and legends

Look in books from the library or at home

Does your family have a website you can look up?

How are you going to present it to the class and your parents?

Could wear the clothes from the country

Make a poster

Make crafts from that country

Power point – Michelangelo expert

Blog

Email

Give a speech

PhotoStory

Work with a buddy – from the same country

Make a movie

Put it on a USB drive (memory stick)

PRESENTATION IS WEEK 8

Writing an Infromation Report

WALT: write an information report

We have learnt that www is short for World Wide Web. When we are searching for information www will search the whole wide world and we can get to see lots of rubbish.
A safer search for kids is Kids Google: http://www.squirrelnet.com/search/Google_SafeSearch.asp
We searched for what an information report is and found this fantastic site: http://www.writingfun.com/writingfun2010.html We can try to write our own information reports onto this site.

week 4

This week our personal writing has been about our Athletics day reflections. Watch our PhotoStory about Athletics Day. If your child knows your email address you will have received an email with a story attached. Thank you if you have already replied to your child.


Our Inquiry is researching about, 'Where in the World are we from'. The children will be asking you questions about where they are from, their ancestor origins including culture, dress, flag, music, buildings and language. Please help them with their research.

Can't wait to learn about our class community :)

More Grammar

Click on these links to find some cool grammar videos that you MUST watch. They will inspire you to write good stories!

Pronouns song
Pronouns

Grammar School of Rock

See more videos under the Words and Grammar heading on the right hand toolbar.
Nouns, verbs and adjective videos.

Athletics Tomorrow

Athletics tomorrow!!

Remember to bring sunhat, sunscreen, water bottles and lunch.
Suitable clothing to compete in: Shorts, running shoes, tshirt and a warm top.
Saftey Pins!

Get Well Charlie!

Where in the World are you from?

Ok Kids, this term we want to find out all about YOU! Where you are from and about your culture. We have started this unit by looking at the Commonwealth Games. These were held in Deli, India. Here are two videos from the games:


We have some questions we talked about and would like to find the answers too. If you know the answer please add an answer into the comment area below:

• What is the Commonwealth?
• What is the population of India?
• What is the population of the Commonwealth?
• What are the buildings made of in India?
• Why does each country have a different song?
  

Cross-country

You were all amazing and did so well. You should be proud of your efforts. See if you can find yourself in the photos. I tried to get you all but you were so fast the camera had trouble keeping up!


Sophie's Dad thought this was fantastic!

Term 4 Newsletter

Room 23 Home Learning Term 4 2010

Have you checked out our class blog yet? There was a lot of fun learning that happen as you will see on the blog and expect more again this term!
Our Year 4 team Inquiry is ‘Where in the World?’. That is finding out about the different cultures we have within our classroom. The children will present about themselves and their culture. Watch the class blog as the term develops.

Term 4 events are:
• Cross country this Wednesday afternoon.
• Athletics Thurs Week 3, 28nd October.
• Outdoor Education Week 9
Watch the school website for updates.

Weekly Home Learning:
Reading: No changes there! EVERY night read the book you bring home. If you do not bring home a book, read a book of your choice for at least 10 minutes. Remember to fill in the back of your homework book and get Mum or Dad to sign it.

Spelling: This term we will use the ‘STEPS’ computer programme. The children will have a list of spelling words to practice and learn that has been identified and generated by the programme. They will work on this programme during our literacy block during the day between 11-12.30. Please pop in if you would like your child to share this programme with you.

Maths: At times you will have basic facts worksheets. Time yourself and try to do them faster each time. Do some maths on the class blog.

Online Learning: More home learning activities are on our class blog: http://qps-room23.blogspot.com This also links in with what we are learning in class.

Korero: See programme attached

Mrs Kruijer ☺

Korero

Week 2 Introducer Prepared talk Mime Joke Poem Current Events	Tues Ruby Ella Luca Alex Olly Briar	Thurs Sophie Cougar Savannah Adam Michelangelo Katie	Fri Charlie Thomas Jenna Tasmin Aaliyah Anyone
Week 3 Introducer Prepared talk Mime Joke Poem Current Events	Ella Luca Alex Olly Briar Ruby	Cougar Savannah Adam Michelangelo Katie Sophie	Thomas Jenna Tasmin Aaliyah Anyone Charlie
Week 4 Introducer Prepared talk Mime Joke Poem Current Events	Luca Alex Olly Briar Ruby Ella	Savannah Adam Michelangelo Katie Sophie Cougar	Jenna Tasmin Aaliyah Anyone Charlie Thomas
Week 5 Introducer Prepared talk Mime Joke Poem Current Events	Alex Olly Briar Ruby Ella Luca	Adam Michelangelo Katie Sophie Cougar Savannah	Tasmin Aaliyah Anyone Charlie Thomas Jenna
Week 6 Introducer Prepared talk Mime Joke Poem Current Events	Olly Briar Ruby Ella Luca Alex	Michelangelo Katie Sophie Cougar Savannah Adam	Aaliyah Anyone Charlie Thomas Jenna Tasmin
Week 7 Introducer Prepared talk Mime Joke Poem Current Events	Briar Ruby Ella Luca Alex Olly	Katie Sophie Cougar Savannah Adam Micelangelo	Anyone Charlie Thomas Jenna Tasmin Aaliyah
Week 8 Introducer Prepared talk Mime Joke Poem Current Events	Ruby Ella Luca Alex Olly Briar	Sophie Cougar Savannah Adam Micelangelo Katie	Charlie Thomas Jenna Tasmin Aaliyah Anyone

Korero

This programme is a daily activity where children can practice their oral language skills of presenting and listening. This programme will run on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Children have a timetable so they will have to be organized. They may need help in finding, organizing and practicing for their day, especially at the beginning.

If you have any questions please come and ask Mrs Kruijer.

Introducer – The introducer stands up and introduces the day’s programme, asks for questions and then comments and thanks the speaker.

Prepared Talk – Present a topic that interests you i.e. birds, ballet, cubs, fishing, an interesting person …, Write some key points on cardboard and if possible show pictures or items to do with the talk. Email cyndik@queenstown.school.nz if you need to, or bring a memory stick with the information on it. Keep it to 1 – 2 minutes.

Mime – Choose a simple topic to mime to the class for them to guess. E.g. A child in the swimming pool playing a game, a person walking up Mt Everest.

Joke – Find two jokes that you like and try to memorise them, if you can’t write them on a piece of card.

Poem – Present a favourite poem that you have practiced reading with expression. (It has to sound fantastic), use your poem book for some ideas.

Current Events – Present newspaper, radio, or T.V. news. Prepared it at home and comment on it.

How to – Present a short talk on how to do something that is of interest to you. It may be how to tie knots, how to get around an internet site, how to play a card game, etc.

Can’t wait to see what the children bring to share.

Cyndi Kruijer

Facebook

I am interested to see if I can generate more comments onto the blog. To reach a wider community I have add to my Facebook this comment:

Check out our class blog. The children use it daily as a tool in their learning and for homework activities. Although something is missing; comments. We would love to see more! I am interested to find out how social media can be a motivator in children’s learning. To help I am trying a social media, Facebook, to connect with a wider community. Comments are moderated on the blog but please still add your comments and I will add them onto the blog. The kids would love to hear from you. I am particularly interested in connecting with a class, any class, does not matter what the year level is, who might like to Skype, email, wiki, blog with Room 23 QPS during term 4. Leave a comment here if you are interested, Thanks.

The class would really like to see more comments from parents too, please.

Happy Holidays

Have a wonderful well earned rest these holidays!
Remember to check out the children's poems in the posting below the Stomp posting. The children made their own instruments out of recycled rubbish and wrote a poem about the rubbish bought to school. They have presented it as a song/rap with their instrument.

Enjoy and I look forward to seeing everyone after the holidays.

STOMP

That was fun! The build up to this performance included experiences that each of the Year 3 teachers gave.
Mrs Gray taught the students some elements of drama, Mrs Excell made art with rubbish,
Mrs Crochrane shared with the children her trip to Egypt and taught the children how to write their name in hieroglyphics,
I taught the children to play the ukulele and
Mrs Metcalf helped Miss Sherra.
As you can see it was a team effort and the children learnt many different skills. What I enjoyed the most was working with and getting to know the children from different classrooms. The children enjoyed mixing with different groups of children from each classroom.

Listen to our Rubbish Songs!

Katie

Aaliyah Adam

Alex Briar

Cougar Ella

Jenna Luca

Michelangelo Naomi

Olly Ruby
Savannah Sophie

Can you leave a Plus,
Minus and Interesting comment about our songs please?

We are learning to make our writing interesting for the audience and read clearly with expression.

Listen carefully because there are some very important messages about the rubbish bought to school! Briar Ruby

Student Research

Naomi found this link. There are some great pictures!
First Where The Wild Things Are Images

Savannah found this great picture

Video Games | Where the Wild Things Are | Launch Trailer

XBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii

We made Talking Books!

Alex read Stunt Flyers:




Charlie, Sophie, Ruby, Aaliyah and Briar read Storm:

Where The Wild Things Are

The Gruffalo has terrible teeth, terrible claws, a terrible jaw, turned out toes, knobbly knees, purple prickles all over his back and a poisionious wart at the end of his nose. Sounds like the Wild Things!

WALT: Write your own story using your imagination.

Criteria:
Research the story 'Where The Wild Things Are'.
Use adjectives, verbs, noun and similes
Time words to put the story in sequence.
Think about a problem and a solution.

Let you imagination roar, fly, soar and go wild!

STOMP!

Parents you are welcome to attend our performance on Thursday at 2.15 in the school hall.

Cross-country Race is postponed

Too much rain! Postponement is now next term. Keep these note for reference.

All parents are welcome to come to the Recreation Ground and watch your child take part.
The 7 year old races are due to start at 1.50pm and 8 year olds at 2.05pm. Boys and Girls are separate races and these are approximate times only.

Please ensure your child wears shoes suited for running, no sandals or jandals. They will also need to bring a drink bottle, a sunhat and wear sunscreen.

Children are welcome to wear their house colours on the day.

If you would like to take your child home after they have competed their race, you must see me first.

Look forward to seeing you there!

What can we do with all the newspaper?

What do you think needs to be done with the rubbish ?

The video recordings are very funny! I think we might need to figure out why the sound did not record :)

Positive comments

Today we talked about positive words. Words that we can use as positive comments when we give feedback and encouragement to others. The children made their own Pic-Lit and saved it onto the blog.
The Pic-Lit user and password is the same as the class blog logon. Have fun at trying these at home. I look forward to seeing some Pic-Lits appear on the blog.

See the full PicLit at PicLits.com

Ruby
See the full PicLit at PicLits.com
Sophie
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Thomas
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Naomi
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Aaliyah
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Jenna
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Adam
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Ella
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