Merry Xmas!

Yum! More treats! This time from my mum Anna! We have sweet treats to eat before we go to the matinee!

Last post for the year!

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LAST POST FOR THE YEAR!!

A little sad is how I'm feeling! Saying goodbye to our class for the year!

It has been a fantastic year! We have learnt so much together on the beginning of our digital journey. I am lucky enough to be keeping some of this year's Room 11's to continue on the digital path in 2014.

Nervous? Yes!














But very pleased that I get to take so many of you with me. Chromebooks - here we come! Google drive - we will be better at what we create. Hapara - we love you! No homework books - my favourite!

We will still be handwriting. We will still be doing calculations in our books. We will still be reading real books, visiting the library, creating art and going outside for games. SO DON'T panic!

See you all on Monday for our last rehearsal for the concert.

Tuesday will be final goodbye day! Make sure you turn up for your treat!

2000 visitors!!

Thanks Aunty Lyn for our amazing cake!! Yummy!!!!

Check out @mathspirates blog post about the Pirate Ship Challenge!

MATHS LIKE A PIRATE: Pirate Challenge 4. Create a Pirate Ship: Thank you  @mrsplumsclass   for this SWASHBUCKLING Pirate Challenge! - AWESOME! The challenge: How can you and your tea...

Christmas Advent Calendar

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10th Anniversary of the Dot!

End of year review

Highlights of 2013:
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Fave ICT skill I have learnt is...

Achievements:
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ICT problems and how we got over them:
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My goals for 2014:

Reading -
Writing -
Maths -
Other -

MATHS LIKE A PIRATE: Pirate Challenge 4. Create a Pirate Ship

MATHS LIKE A PIRATE: Pirate Challenge 4. Create a Pirate Ship: Thank you  @mrsplumsclass   for this SWASHBUCKLING Pirate Challenge! - AWESOME!

 The challenge: How can you and your tea...

MATHS LIKE A PIRATE: Pirate Challenge 1: Build a bridge

Exciting! This is a maths challenge we are involved in tomorrow.

MATHS LIKE A PIRATE: Pirate Challenge 1: Build a bridge: How can your team of buccaneers build a pirate bridge  that can hold the weight of a raw egg? How many raw eggs can your bridge hold...

Room 11 - Please comment underneath with your estimate of the number of eggs your bridge might hold!


Pirate challenge from Jacinda Panther on Vimeo.

Kidsedchatnz: Tweet of the Week

Kidsedchatnz: Tweet of the Week: Who won Tweet of the Week at today's Kidsedchatnz birthday celebration? Watch the video to find out!

Can you spot our Room Eleven tweets in there?

What is your favourite present ever?

Hmmm to minecraft or not to minecraft...

From a student's point of view!

Teacher stuff about minecraft!

Tahlia's Comments

Alvin Lee's 3 comments

Auryn's 3 comments

Friday blogging challenge

a. Commenting on these local environment blog posts from Australia

b. Commenting on these food blog posts from Sweden

c. Commenting on these food blog posts from Korea

You can complete your 3 comments in any order BUT you must screenshot your 3 comments into 1 new blog post called PEER ASSESSMENT - BLOG COMMENTING. Make sure you copy the 3 comments as you do them.

NEXT WEEK your tuakana/teina will give you feedback on your commenting. 

Our Local Environment

Here are our links to our posts about Our Local Environment!

Ella F Sophie Ella RW Libby Zoe Catherine Mitchell Sophia Riley Byron Tahlia Darian Alvin Lee Kaha Samantha Nina Anaru Preethi Zachary Zane Auryn Saxon 

Here are some photos of the amazing landscapes close to us!

Traditional stories and festivities of NZ

Magnificent Myths!

Ella RW - How Maui slowed the sun

Ella F - How Maui caught the Fish

Libby - Rona and the Moon

Anaru - The Taniwha

Kaha - Matariki

Nina - Pania of the Reef

Zoe - Tane and the Stars

Sophia - Mako and Tuatara

Fantastic Festivities

Samantha - Waitangi Day

Auryn - Easter in NZ

Mitchell - Guy Fawkes / Bonfire Night

Still fine tuning before publishing:

Abby - The legend of Poutini

Alvin Lee - How Maui brought fire to the world

Tahlia - Kapahaka

Sophie - Rona and the Moon

Riley - How the Kiwi lost his wings

Zachary - Creation Myth

Darian - Maui and the magic jawbone

Saxon - Christmas in NZ

Preethi - ANZAC Day

Catherine - Christmas time in our church

Our local environment!

Our 'It's a small world' blogging buddies want to know all about our Local Environment.

What do you think this means?

What would you like to know about their local environment?

Comment below with an answer to both questions. If someone beats you to your question you will have to think of something else!

Music Appreciation Week 2 - Classical

MONDAY
Vivaldi - Four Seasons

We thought we could hear violins, a piano, a bass...

We thought the seasons were in this order:

Libby:
Winter, Autumn, Spring, Summer

Mitchell:
Summer, Spring, Autumn, Winter

Malachi:
Summer, Spring, Winter, Autumn

TUESDAY
Flight of the Bumblebee

WEDNESDAY
Beethoven - 5th Symphony

THURSDAY
Vangelis - Conquest of Paradise

NO ONE knew that this was the Crusaders theme song! Disappointed!

Songs to learn!

Extra Space activities for experts (Thanks Miss Nissy)

COMPULSORY - REPORTPrepare a report about a planet (how big is it? What is the surface of it like? What is it like compared to earth?) or the first space launch (when did it happen? Which country was involved? Who was the first person in space?)

COMPULSORY - POWERPOINTCreate a powerpoint about one of the things in space (planet etc) to inform people about it. Slides: name, then one question and answer per slide about your chosen topic include pictures.

FAST FACTS
1 List 8 objects found in space.
2. Describe what happens to bring about day and night.
3. How many people live on earth? How many of them have been to the moon?
4. Choose 2 planets and write 4 facts about each of them.
5. How long does it take for the earth to spin around once? How long does it take the earth to go around the sun?
6. Explain why people wear spacesuits and carry their own air on the moon.

TRAVEL BROCHURE

Design a travel brochure for trips around our solar system.

PUZZLE/GAME
Make a puzzle game based on the facts that you have learnt about space.

NARRATIVE
A portal has opened in the space-time continuum, allowing you to travel to another galaxy. What are you doing when you discover the portal? Which galaxy is it?Describe what happens when you arrive at your new world. What problems might arise for people from Earth who encounter aliens? Would it ever be possible for us all to get along?

NIFTY NEWS
The alien race you meet offers you a video camera to record a message to send back to Earth. In your video, briefly explain what has happened to you, and include some clips or still photographs from your new home.

ZANY ZOO
The zoo near your new home is full of strange species. Draw, label and describe some.

Twitter - kidsedchatnz

Today we all took part in Kids Ed Chat NZ.. we were tweeting about Reading and Books.

Here are some of our tweets.

Here are some of the tweets of other schools.

Check out more information at this website!

http://kidsedchatnz.blogspot.com.au/

Kidsedchatnz: Mascot and Badges

Kidsedchatnz: Mascot and Badges: Guess what arrived in the mail today? The new Kidsedchatnz mascot and badges!  The mascot is a twitter bird and it is going to travel arou...

A Typical School Day in Sweden and South Korea!

Way up north Sweden and Ms Rances 4th Grade Class

Click the links above to read about A Typical School Day in Sweden or South Korea.

The links I had on our blogroll was incorrect so PLEASE - leave a comment or 5 for our blogging buddies in Sweden and South Korea.




Comment below if you do telling me who's blog you commented on! There may be prizes when we return from holidays.

The Snail and the Whale visit Room 11

The Snail And The Whale from Jacinda Panther on Vimeo.

Check out the Snail and the Whale's blog here!

My favourite food! By Miss P

My favourite food includes all the of the following:


Roast chicken with roast potatoes, veges and cheese sauce!

Corned Beef (cooked in the slowcooker) with sweetcoarn and mashed potatoes!

Apple crumble and custard!

Chicken korma with garlic naan bread!

Chicken and sweet chilli stirfry (with 2 minute noodles)!

Fresh raspberries and blueberries with yoghurt.

Porridge with brown sugar and peaches.

Jellytip icecream!

Banana chocolate ice cream (chocolate dipped)..

Oh I'm hungry...


Check out the rest of Room 11's fave food via this link to our shared blog It's a Small World!

Canada mystery skype

https://www.surreyschools.ca/schools/woodwardhill/Pages/default.aspx

Check out the class we mystery skyped this morning.. Leave a comment underneath telling me one thing you learnt about this class!

Kidsedchatnz: Wednesday 25th - Topic: Term Reflection

Kidsedchatnz: Wednesday 25th - Topic: Term Reflection: This week's topic for Kidsedchatnz is a Term Reflection. Check out the questions! Q1. What were your highlights for this term? Q2. W...

Miss Neame and Phases of the Moon!

Moon phases

Miss Neame (Our student teacher) has been teaching us about Phases of the Moon! 

This is our first attempt of taking photos showing the phases of the moon.

We have made a plan of how to take better photos so look out for our next attempt.

Do you know what the different phases of the moon are called?

Can you tell us why the moon changes?

Snail and The Whale.

Snail and the Whale pyramid

This is Jordyn at the top and Nadia and Meagan in the middle

and at the bottom we have Nina Libby and Catherine .

And Ella.

Kaha and Anaru carve!

Here is Anaru and Kaha skinning the tree to smothen it so we could paint it. 

Here is what we will carve on our amazing tree. On the right there are our vegetables and to the left are our maori traditional food. Our standing wood is called pou.

Ski trip with 'The Snail and The Whale'

Joseph, Darian,The snail and the whale over looking the southern alps.

Joseph, Darian,The snail and the whale in the rental shop looking at the gear.

Joseph, Darian,The snail and the whale in front of the school van in Porters.

Libby, Tahlia,The snail and the whale in Arthur's Pass on the way back to Greymouth!!

It's a Small world Challenge 2

This week we are sharing what we do in our breaks (or recess) and for fun in the weekends!

Write a post including photos and videos. Start it today and edit it over the week. 

We will then share it with our blogging buddies and find out all about them.

Remember that other children want to know what is DIFFERENT to them so think about what we do that makes us unique in NZ.

Year 6 Ski Trip

I hope you are all in bed Room 11 - ready for an early start tomorrow morning! Porters is open and the roads are clear at this point.

Hopefully the sun will come out tomorrow!

If you need me, message me on here or twitter and I will check in the morning. I will be at school by 6.30 so see you soon after!!

Don't be late!!

Our first day with The Snail and the Whale

Libby and Nina are Day 1 hosts.

Snail and the Whale meet Sharon in the office.

This is our Stephen (Mr Wood). He LOVES picture books! 

This is Royden and Leah with The Snail and the Whale .

This is Mrs O With the Snail and The Whale.

This is Ashley and Bronah the PE Shed monitors with  the  

Snail and the Whale. 

 This is Ryah, Adison and Ella With the Snail and the Whale.

This is the Snail and the Whale on the climbing wall.