Room Ten

2011-11-24T20:39:00.000-08:00

Congratulations!!

Week 5 Certificates
Oscar - Achievement
Steffen - Values

What Clever Readers
Nearly to 200 Nights Reading - 25 Nights to Go!!!

Amazing 150 Nights Reading

Congratulations 125 Nights Reading

2011-11-16T20:18:00.000-08:00

Congratulations!!

Week 4 Certificates
George - Heart of Achievement
Elena- Achievement
Koby - Values

2011-11-10T22:42:00.000-08:00

Christchurch Show

What a fantastic day we had at the A &P Show. Thank you to all the fabulous parents that helped and looked after us for the day.

What Clever Readers!!!

Outstanding 150 Nights Reading

Fantastic 75 Nights Reading

2011-11-08T22:30:00.000-08:00

What A Great Way To Start The Day!!

2011-11-03T23:00:00.000-07:00

What a Treat!!
Isaacs' cat has just had kittens. They are three weeks old. We were very fortunate to have them come and visit our class. They were cute, fluffy and tiny. They were very scared and we all made sure that we looked after them carefully.

Congratulations!!

Week 2 Certificates
Krystal - Achievement
Phoenix - Values

What Clever Readers!!!

Outstanding 150 Nights Reading

Amazing 125 Nights Reading

Fabulous 100 Nights Reading

Fantastic 50 Nights Reading

Great 25 Nights Reading

2011-11-02T23:02:00.000-07:00

Term Four Begins

The Tree That Could Not Be Cut Down

Retold by Ron Bacon

We all had fun retelling the story of 'Rata and his Canoe.' This story links in with our topic studies this term where we are looking at what we can do to care for our environment and wildlife. This carries on nicely from the term three unit and our trip to 'Halswell Quarry.'

Congratulations!!

Week 1 Certificates
Jake - Heart of Achievement
Lachlan - Achievement
George - Values

2011-10-31T23:19:00.000-07:00

Term Three Ends

At the end of the term Lauren did a WONDERFUL PRESENTATION about 'Milking Cows.' This was one of her goals which we set together at the beginning of term three. She certainly did a lot of research and took some great pictures on her grandparents farm. We all loved hearing about what she had learnt and Mrs Warren was amazed at what she had done!

Our Big Day Out to Clip and Climb

Thank you to Mrs Simpson for taking great photos of our
Big Day Out!!

Our Koru Artwork SnapShot

2011-09-28T21:57:00.000-07:00

Halswell Quarry Trip

What a wonderful, sunny day we had at Halswell Quarry last Wednesday. It was great learning outside in the park, especially having Park Rangers to teach us about the environment. Our activities were...

Take a blinded folded friend on a tree walk and describe the tree
Bug and insect hunt with a microscope
Tree and insect game with our parents
Puppets and story - learning about keeping the park clean

Thank you to all the wonderful parents for helping transport us all over to Halswell Quarry and helping out with the groups!!

Congratulations!!

Week 9 Certificates
Phoenix - Heart of Achievement
Sophia- Achievement
Emily - Values

2011-09-21T22:59:00.000-07:00

Congratulations!!

Week 8 Certificates
Javahni- Achievement
Cole - Values

Athletics Coaching
Over the last two weeks a group of university students have taught us some athletics skills - Jump, Throw, Run. This has been an exciting way to begin our school athletics training. We are all looking forward to our school Athletics Day in week six term four.

What Clever Readers!!!

Outstanding 125 Nights Reading

Three Digit Number - 100 Nights Reading

Congratulations 50 Nights Reading

2011-09-15T18:42:00.000-07:00

Congratulations!!

Week 7 Certificates
Krystal - Heart of Achievement
Isaac- Achievement
Sophia- Values

What Clever Readers!!

Amazing 125 Nights of Reading

WOW 100 Nights of Reading

Congratulations 75 Nights of Reading

Christchurch Museum Came To School

Have a look at what we did when we had a visit from the Christchurch Museum. We learnt how to use some treasures from Early Polynesian Life. We were also shown some of the damage that was done in the museum when the earthquake happened in February and June. We are all looking forward to visiting the museum now as all the things have been repaired.

2011-09-06T22:27:00.000-07:00

What a Sporty Class!!

In term two we focussed on a range of different skills for winter sports in hockey, basketball, soccer, netball and not forgetting ball skills. We applied these skills in simple games. For the first part of term three our class are learning new skills in soccer.

Lachlan has become the teacher because he has been playing soccer for a long time and has many skills to teach us. Today Lachlan has taught us how to dribble with the right technique, making sure that we use our sides of our feet and not to go too fast so we have control of the ball. We all look forward to him teaching us new skills in the coming weeks.

Congratulations to Jake who is the Player of the Year for his rugby team in 2011!!

Cricket Coaching

We had fun learning new skills in cricket, even though it was freezing outside.

Shared Book

Last week our shared book was called 'Fearless Phil' Written by Jill Eggleton and Illustrated by Raymond McGrath. Jill Eggleton writes lots of different stories which we read in class. We all enjoyed reading 'Fearless Phil' and there were some tricky words too which we learnt. Our class are working on reading together, reading without mistakes and reading with expression (pausing in all the right places). Have a listen....

Outstanding 100 Nights Reading

Amazing 75 Nights Reading

Wow 50 Nights Reading

Library Show

Today we had two librarians read us lots of stories. We all enjoyed acting out, taking part and listening to the stories.

2011-09-01T00:49:00.001-07:00

What's your Opinion??

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Poetry Competition

Congratulations to all room ten children for presenting their poems so well. I am sure you will enjoy listening to them.

Congratulations to Archie, Quillan and Koby for being the class winners!!

Buddy Class Time

Congratulations!!

Week 1 Certificates
Jake - Achievement
Archie - Values
Lauren - Heart of Achievement

Week 2 Certificates
Archie - Achievement
Jake - Values

Week Four
Akki - Achievement
Thomas - Values
Cole - Heart of Achievement

Week Five
Fynn - Achievement
Lauren - Value

2011-07-18T21:24:00.000-07:00

Room Ten's Pukekos

Over the past couple of weeks we have been very busy with our pukeko art work. Have a look at the pictures below and see if you can see the steps we took to create our wonderful pukekos.

As part of writing we have been looking at RECRAFTING our sentences to make them more interesting. Using the pukekoes was a great way to tie this in. In the clip below you will see our finished pieces of art work as well as the writing we have done.

Congratulations to Cole and Sophia for fabulous descriptions and Koby for outstanding art work. These three had the privilege of going down to visit Mrs Warren.

Our Big Maths Dice

As part of our class warm ups, Miss Campbell brings out her special dice. She changes the cards in the dice depending on our Maths' focus. We love taking turns at using them.

Data Projector

What a great teaching tool! Since Miss Campbell has changed the room around we use the data projector all the time for our learning. In the pictures below we are completing our handwriting on the floor. This helps us with our upper body strength. Some of us are trying to get our desk license.

Koby and Oscar

Koby and Oscar came to visit. Room ten are looking forward to them being a part of our room from term 3!

Big Day Out Gymnastics

In the last week of the term we visited the Christchurch School of Gymnastics. We had so much fun learning new skills. Phoenix was spotted for having great posture and jumping techniques. She was allowed to go on the big trampoline too. It certainly was a great way to end the term.

Congratulations!!

Week 10 Certificates
Lachlan - Heart of Achievement
Samantha - Achievement
Fynn - Values

2011-07-09T22:31:00.000-07:00

Phonics

Every morning we do 20 minutes of phonics to help us with our writing and reading. Have a look at the steps we take...

Popcorn Words - Call out all the words that rhyme with the sound of the day.
Rhyming Strings - Say and clap three rhyming words in a row.
Phoneme Fingers - How many different sounds are there in the word
Robot - Move like a robot to each different sound in the word. Then blend the sounds together to make a complete word.
Read - Say all the words associated with the sound of the day.
Write - Write words and silly sentence on the whiteboards.

Skip Counting

We have been learning to count forwards and backwards up to 100. Have a look at the clips below. See if you can skip count forwards and backwards in 1's, 2's, 5's and 10's afterwards. You may also like to join in.

What Great Readers!!

75 Nights Of Reading

50 Nights Reading

Assembly Songs

2011-07-06T23:13:00.000-07:00

Congratulations!!

Week 10 Certificates
Phoenix- Achievement
Quillan- Values

Congratulations!!

Week 9 Certificates
Steffen - Achievement
Leia - Values

2011-06-25T21:55:00.000-07:00

Congratulations!!

Week 8 Certificates
Lauren - Heart of Achievement
Lachlan - Achievement
Cole - Values

What Clever Readers!!
75 Nights Reading

50 Nights Reading

2011-06-10T21:24:00.001-07:00

Congratulations!!

Week 6 Certificates
Leia - Achievement
George - Values

Pikelets

St John's Ambulance Visit

We learnt about the three emergency services...

1. Fire Brigade

2. Police

3. Ambulance

When we need one of these services...

1. Ring 111

2. Say our address, city and phone number

When the children can tell me their address, city and phone number I will give them a St John Ambulance certificate!

2011-06-05T17:52:00.000-07:00

Congratulations!!

Week 5 Certificates
Isaac - Heart of Achievement
Emily - Achievement
Elena - Values

What Clever Readers!!

50 Nights Reading

25 Nights Reading

Balloon Blow Up

By Cole

You will need...

Baking Soda

White vinegar

Balloon

Bottle

Hypothesis /Prediction

I think the balloon will pop up like an aeroplane on the mat.

Observation - What Happened

We put the baking soda in the balloon and then we put the white vinegar in the bottle. After that we put the balloon on top of the bottle. We shook the balloon too.

Conclusion

The ballon blew up because the white vinegar mixed with the baking soda in the bottle.

School Assembly Songs

Thanks To Lauren's Family for This Clip!!

2011-05-27T00:45:00.000-07:00

Congratulations!!

Week 4 Certificates

Archie - Heart of Achievement

Thomas - Achievement

Javahni - Values

What Great Readers!!

50 Nights Reading

25 Nights Reading

Fun With Clay

Over the last few weeks we have been having fun with clay. Have a look at what we have been up too!

2011-05-26T00:26:00.001-07:00

Our Big Science Week!!

'Science Alive - Fairy Tale Forensics'

'Science Alive' came to school. We had so much fun experiment, making hypothesis, observations and conclusions. We had to find out who was going into 'The Three Bears House.' The evidence came to Lucy. Have a look at some of the experiments we got up too!

Science and Writing

Our writing this week has been on the science experiments we have been completing in class. Have a look at the steps we took for each experiment. In the other slideshow below, are a few examples of their writing.

We made

Porridge
Ooobleck Glue
Butter

2011-05-16T00:13:00.000-07:00

Room 10 is a 'SMART CLASS'

We have been learning about what our personal strengths are, by using the 'Smarts.' This enables us to know what each of our classmates are good at. It also helps Miss Campbell plan programmes that meet the individual needs. Some of us are 'Smart' in two areas. Have a look at the pictures below.

Body Smart
Nature Smart
Logic Smart
Word Smart
Sound Smart
People Smart

Morphing Ourselves

We had lots of fun with 'Photobooth' and changing (morphing) our photo. We all had turns at being the helper and experimenting with 'Photobooth.' These pictures will be apart of our 'Smart Display.' Who can you recognise?

2011-05-13T22:44:00.000-07:00

Autumn

Look at our fabulous cameos. We used our senses to describe Autumn. Congratulations to George and Archie who were sent down to Mrs Warren for brilliant descriptions!!

2011-05-06T00:30:00.000-07:00

Amazing 50 Nights Reading!

Wow!! What Clever Readers - 25 Nights

What a great sportsman Jake!

Coaches Award 2010/2011 and Player of the Day!

2011-05-05T23:29:00.000-07:00

KABOOM

This term our inquiry unit is on " Fairy Tale Forensics." We are very excited because we will be doing lots of science experiments this term. This week we experimented with "Fizzy Sherbet" and Archie brought an experiment in for us to try. It was called "Blow Your Top." Some of us were also selected to work with Mrs Howison to complete a milk experiment too. Lauren wrote a great explanation the following day and was sent to Mrs Warren for her brilliant piece of writing about the milk experiment.

We made...

Predictions (hypothesis) - What we think will happen in the experiment.

Observations and drawings - Watch and draw what is happening at each step.

Explanation - What happened in the experiment?

Conclusion - Was my hypothesis right or wrong?

Have a look at some of our explanations of what happened in each experiment.

The Big Milk Experiment

By Lauren

You will need...

3 teaspoons of food colouring
1 dish of milk
1 cotton bud with 1 drop of dishwashing powder on it.

Prediction

I think the milk will turn all different colours like pink, purple and orange.

Explanation

When we put the food colouring into the dish of milk there were three colours in the milk. Then we put a cotton bud with dishwashing powder on it and the colours were swaying and twirling. Our one turned pink.

Fizzy Sherbet

You will need...

2 tablespoons of citrus acid
1 tablespoon of baking soda
8 tablespoons of icing sugar
2 tablespoons of raro crystals

Mix all the ingredients in

Explanation

When we did it we all had to stand back and then it exploded. It was fun. We got to taste it. It tasted sour and it was bubbly. Samantha

The fizzy sherbet was yucky and I was sick. Steffen

It fizzed in my mouth. By Sophia

It felt like my tongue was exploding. By Isaac

Blow your Top

You will need...

Salt Dough

6 cups of flour
2 cups of salt
4 tablespoons of cooking oil
2 cups of water

Mix all ingredients in

Put bottle into a saucepan
Mould the salt dough around the bottle.
Fill thr bottle with warm water
Add drops of food colouring into the bottle
6 drops of detergent
2 tablespooms of baking soda
Slowly add vinegar into the bottle

Explanation

When we poured the vinegar into the bottle it reacted to the baking soda and it came out of the bottle. By Quillan

When we put the baking soda into the bottle it fizzled. Then when we poured vinegar into the bottle it came out of the top like lava from a volcano. By Cole

Blow Your Top - Whole Class Prediction and Explanation

Prediction

It will turn into a rainbow - Krystal

The volcano will explode - Samantha

The red stuff inside will explode - Thomas

Explanation

We had to make the salt dough for the volcano first and then we put the dough around the bottle in the middle of the saucepan. In the bottle we put all the ingredients in but when we put the baking soda in it started to fizz. Next we poured in some vinegar slowly and the vinegar reacted with the baking soda. It exploded like a volcano with lava running down the side.

Conclusion

Samanta's and Thomas' hypothesis were right but Krystal's was wrong.

Have a look at the steps we took to complete the

"Blow Your Top" experiment.

2011-05-04T22:56:00.000-07:00

Our New Classroom

We were so excited to start term two because we have a new classroom. Have a look at the exciting things we have done this week!!

Pirate Day

We had so much fun at Pirate Day last term while Miss Campbell shifted us into our new room. Have a look at what we created with Ms Dowd with green screening and photo booth...

2011-04-18T00:08:00.000-07:00

Holiday Time

It's hard to believe that we have ended the first term of school for 2011. I hope you all have a wonderful, relaxing holiday and I will see you all again for term two on the 2 May.

Just a few reminders:

1. Reading Crusade - Write down everything you read over the holidays and remember to register your reading at http://christchurchcitylibraries.com/readingcrusdae.

2. Check out some of the websites on our class blog and have a go at playing some games.

3. Look at your goal setting sheets and work on your goals at home. See if you can find some fun ways to practise.

Upper Body Strength

In the last week of term one we had a go at climbing the pole in the playground. We wanted to see who had great upper body strength and who still needed some practise. Have a look at who can climb the pole in the movie below. Some of us will keep practising and as soon as we can climb the pole Miss Campbell will put us on the blog.

2011-04-10T20:00:00.000-07:00

Phonics Programme

Over the last term we have been looking at rhyming words as part of our phonics programme. I found this utube video clip using the "at" word family. Have a look!!

1. Can you think of anymore words using the same word family?

2. Think of another word family such as "en," "og," "ig," or "ug."

How many words can you create? Have a go at writing them too.

2011-03-31T21:40:00.000-07:00

2011 Cross Country

Wow what CHAMPIONS. The training certainly did pay off and all the children gave it a go. What stars!!

2011-03-30T22:53:00.000-07:00

Reading Plays

Over the last few weeks the Seahorses (reading group) have been learning about plays. They have learnt...

Importance of following along while others read, so they don't get lost
Coming in and reading on the right cues
Reading with expression and fluency
Reading in a big loud voice so the audience can hear them

Have a listen to "The Three Billy Goats Gruff" which they performed in front of the class. Next week they will share if for syndicate assembly

Starring

Cole and Jake - Narrators

George - Troll

Samantha - Littlest Billy Goat Gruff

Lauren - Middle- Sized Billy Goat Gruff

Quillan - Great Big Billy Goat Gruff

2011-02-14T22:40:00.000-08:00

Writing

In room 12, we love writing about our everyday experiences and always write for a purpose. To improve our writing we do writing in different ways. Sometimes we may write a...

Recount - our everyday experiences
Cameo - short piece of descriptive writing
Recraft - make our sentences more interesting and not boring
Teacher Dictation - sounding out those tricky words
Environmental - sketching our surroundings and write about it
Exploring Language - adjectives, verbs, rhyming words, conjunctions, similes, metaphors or personification etc
Genres - narratives, transactional, poetic

At the beginning of each session we always have a large written model. As a class we discuss different aspects of it and sometimes we may do a piece of writing together. This shows us what things to include in our own writing. There is always a goal we have to achieve. Before we start, we each get a small copy of the model to stick in our book. This allows us to highlight things we like or sometimes we may have to find something specific i.e adjectives. When we are finished, Miss Campbell highlights where we have achieved the goal.

Cameo and Recrafting Writing

Have a look at some cameo writing we have completed. Can you see all the adjectives we used to describe the food.

Pencil Grip

I have pinched this idea from room 17's and room 4's blogs. Have a look at the correct way to hold a pencil. Can you hold your pencil like this and write neatly?

Fun With Bubbles

I blew a bubble and it disappeared. Samantha

I blew a bubble and the bubble was big. Lachlan

My bubble went over my head, around my pocket and into my underwear. Archie

My bubble floated into the air and popped! Fynn

I blew a bubble and the bubble flew into the air and then it popped. Lauren

What are our goals for the Junior Duathlon?

Grasshopper

Leonie found a dead grasshopper in her garden and brought it into the classroom to share for news. We were all fascinated with how small and fragile it looked. The next day we used a magnifying glass to look at it more closely!

Statistics

We have been learning about pictographs at school.

Before we created a pictograph we needed an investigation question. Our question was 'How do we come to school?' To gather the information we used a tally chart. We had to remember that if the total was big, we had to group in lots of 5.

A Pictograph Needs:

Title
Pictures
Labels
Key

Bar Graphs

Today we had a new investigation question 'What sports does room 12 like to play?' Instead of making a pictograph we made a different kind of graph - a bar graph

A Bar Graph needs

Title
Sub Headings
Vertical and horizontal axis
evenly spaced numbers and names
Evenly spaced bars
Straight bars

We have 23 wonderful children in our class who show a love for learning!!