Term 3 2011.....with Room 10

Hello everyone! Yes! We are back after a lengthy gap for a whole range of reasons......some controllable and others not....but here we are.

The snow was probably our biggest event to mark the new term. It was so exciting for us to be so involved with snow and for more than a few minutes. Yes 3 days gave us a really good taste of it. There were even snowmen on our playing field here at school and a couple of little ones outside Room 2 that were made by some of the Year 7 and 8s. Hope you like the photos everyone!

The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

Room 10 have begun looking at Eric Carle as an author and an illustrator. Go to YouTube for more of his wonderful stories and pictures.

stretching before we train

Warmup Stretches

Daily training for the big race

Training at School for the big race

Cross Country with Room 10

Cross Country with Room 10

Room 10 Cooking for the Ruahine Team's Shared Lunch on PhotoPeach

"Walking In My Shoes".......our Inquiry

Our Inquiry topic........."Walking in My Shoes." Today we looked at 2 photos of people with buckets. We tried to think of why they had the buckets and what they might be doing. Here are some of our wonderings and thinkings. What do you think?

DressUp as Your Favourite Character Day

Inquiry - Homes

We are wondering about these houses now. If you are wondering too you might like to put your wonderings on to our blog for us to see.

who built these houses? -Lilee Rose

I wonder where these houses are? -Krystal

I wonder what street they are on? Do they have a street? -Charlotte

I wonder who lives in these houses?-Cyan and Tahlia and Miss Carter

I wonder if the houses are old? -Briannah

Why do they live in a different house? -Clint

Was it built a long long time ago? -Greer

I wonder why they look different to our houses?- Liam

I wonder if they will fall down?-Tamaiti

I wonder what they made them out of? -Alicia and Mrs Elvy

The 2 Little Pigs and Rooms 9 and 10

The 2 Little Piglets Come to Visit on PhotoPeach

The Hen and Chickens in Room 10

Hen and Chickens Come To Visit on PhotoPeach

Swimming with Rooms 9/10 on PhotoPeach

Lady Bug Note Generators

Teddy Gram Note Generator

Our Marae Visit to Woodville

We went to spend the day at the Woodville marae with our buddy class, Room 5. We learnt so much about the Powhiri......the welcome on to the marae, and we learnt to weave a fish and a flower with flax. We also heard some of the stories that are told about our area. We got to know Maryanne and we think she is a great story teller. She also explained to us so many things about the marae. We loved our day and Maryanne loved our waiata...our songs.

Today is supposed to be a very hot day. We know what to do on very hot days.

**We can go into our school library if we are too hot at lunchtime.

**We can sit in the shade of a tree.

**We can put some sunscreen on us to stop us getting sunburnt.

**We can wear our hats.

**We can sit by a building in the shade.

**We can stand in front of the fan in our classroom for a while to cool down.

**We can wear cool clothes.

**We can drink lots of water to help us to cool down.

WOW!!! We know a lot about keeping safe and well on very hot days.

We have been watching and watching and watching every day since we started back at school, First of all we had 11 eggs. Then we had 11 caterpillars but we knew we would not have enough food for them all. We gave 2 to our best friends in Room 9 and 2 to lovely Room 13. Have you worked out how many we had left????? Well! We have watched caterpillars turn into chrysalises and butterflies hatch out of these. What a busy time for our plant and for all these creatures. It is all a little bit MAGIC!!!

WELCOME TO 2011

Hello everyone! We are due to get up and running next week when all our necessary forms for blog and internet permissions are returned. Please get these back to our classroom as soon as possible because then we can start sharing our learning activities with you all. Take care and have fun!