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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