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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
See the full PicLit at PicLits.com
Thomas
See the full PicLit at PicLits.com

Naomi
See the full PicLit at PicLits.com

Aaliyah
See the full PicLit at PicLits.com
Jenna
See the full PicLit at PicLits.com

Adam
See the full PicLit at PicLits.com

Ella
See the full PicLit at PicLits.com

EARTHQUAKE!

Who felt the earthquake early Saturday morning?
See if you can think of some really good ways to describe it. Are you ready to write about your experience? Remember we are working on making our writing interesting.

See where the recent earthquakes are: http://www.geonet.org.nz
Find out more here:  http://earthquake-shakeup.wikispaces.com/

Can you describe the types of buildings that have been damaged the most by the earthquake in Christchurch?
When you see the helicopter video footage see if you can see and describe what has happened to the ground:



Hmmm, amazing. How do you think the people of Christchurch are feeling right now? Could you describe their thoughts and feelings?

3 Way Conferences

You should have the '3 Way Conference' information by now and have made an appointment:

3 Way Conferences are on Tuesday 7 September and Thursday 9 September 2010.

To book an interview, go to www.schoolinterviews.co.nz and enter the school code found on school website

The children have their goals and reflections ready! I look forward to meeting with you.