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
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Adam
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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.

Listen to our writing!

We have been working on making our reading and writing more interesting. We read a story with no ending called 'Amina's Blanket' and we have each written our own ending. See if you can hear if we have used adjectives, verbs and similes. Also if we have varied our sentence beginnings. Listen to our fabulous reading too.

Thank you Parents for helping us at the Snowfarm

We have each made our own thank you PhotoStories for the parents who helped us on the Snowfarm trip.
See if you can hear the Key Competency; Thinking, and the Value; Caring, in the thank yous?

Snow Farm 2010

Snow Farm

A reminder we are going on the Snow Farm trip on Tuesday. A letter has gone home with your child. Check the book bag.
Be at school by 8am. Meet in the classroom. Parents who have paid and are coming you will be assigned a group to look after while up at the Snow Farm. Parents please carpool. The children go in the bus with Mrs Metcalf and myself. The bus ride is part of the experience but children may travel home with parents if this has been arranged with me.
Remember to bring helmets, warm clothing, jacket, gloves and a plenty of food. The school has some helmets if you don't have one.
Return home around 5pm.

There are some outstanding accounts. Please make your payment for the ice skating and Snow Farm at the school office.

Fluffy the Talking Cat

We used the design process to make our own talking cats.
We worked in groups to brainstorm a story with a problem and a solution about the cat.
The talking Cat (Louis thought of this idea to add this link. It works!)
We shared our stories and chose one to go onto the blog.
We chose Naomi's story.

Rubbish problems and good things

Hear our comments about the rubbish around our school.

Reuse Rubbish Badges

On Monday next week we are going ice skating. We had to make recycle badges.

We planned our badges in our art books. After that we checked with a buddy to see if they thought it looked good. We found the coloured paper that we wanted out of the recycling bin.

I feel proud of myself because I have always put a little t all the time in my name. Now I know not to.

By Thomas

Remember we have Ice Skating at 9.30. Come to school dressed in your gear and we will leave at 9am. Thank you parents for your offer of helping to drive the children to the rink. See you on Monday :)

Reduce reuse and recycle

Home learning Week 2

Look who did their homework! Well done to these children for thinking and creating something that involved reusing and recycling.

Our Assembly Item

Here we are!

DANCE and RHYTHM

This Term we are discovering the elements that create dance and rhythm.

Week 1 Term 3

Wow! What a surprise it was to have an assembly item to do in the first week of term. You were amazing and I think you all should be very pleased with the item. USE YOUR MANNERS! I will get the video onto the blog next week. (I cannot work out the camera and need to talk to someone at school who knows :)

I hope the class newsletter made it home. Here is a copy here:

• Recycle and reuse with Simon from Wanaka Waste busters, week 2. Mon and Tues, 11am. Wed and Thurs, 2.15pm.
  
• Ice skating, week 4, 5 and 6
• Snowfarm Nordic skiing, week 5
• Cross country

Watch the school website for updates.

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: Learn the words in your homework book. Test Friday!

You can add a sentence to the Wiki story on the class blog.

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 They will also link in with what we are learning in class.

Homework books will go home on Monday and need to be back in the class by the following Friday to be marked.

Weekly news ideas:

Starting Week 1 holiday news and the following alternate weeks starting week 3 own news told to your class group.

Looking for a challenge? Alternate weeks starting week 2 present to the class a new dance, musical instrument, song or rap using recycled items and ideas. It is up to you to be creative.

Happy Holidays

We farewell 3 from our class who will be starting at Remarkables Primary School Term 3.

Rei, Rosa and Blake.

We have sent a letter with them for their new teacher explaining our class blog and how we can Skype too.  We hope they will be able to get in contact during term 3 and 4 through our blog or Skype.  Maybe we could share and read to each other through Skype.  Let's hope we can.

Hope you enjoyed the learning this term.  

Happy Holidays :)