Screencastify! We LOVE it! Hope next years teachers will too!

I can't believe it's taken us this long to hear about it!

Trial run today. We are in pairs ad we are creating screen casts of techie techniques that we want our next year teachers to know about and use!

Watch this space!

Kidsedchatnz: Caine's Arcade - Are you an Entrepreneur?

Kidsedchatnz: Caine's Arcade - Are you an Entrepreneur?: We've been inspired by the story of Caine Monroy . You may have heard of him or seen the You Tube clip about his arcade. This week, we&...

Celebrating Success - 150 Years of Māwhera!

Coal bin by Railway Tracks

Listening to Mrs Edwards tell us about Brunnerton

Up close with a coal bin

The view of the Bridge from Taylorville side

The Last shift of miners before the explosion

Beside the BIG coke ovens. Leave a comment below if you know a fact about these ovens.

A family plot. What can you tell me about this family?

What do you think this symbol means?

Perimeter and area challenge!

Measure the perimeter of your selected area

Work out the perimeter and area

1 person take a photo of your area
1 person creates a google drawing
1 person draws it up neatly into your book (then take a photo of it)

All 3 (photos and google draw) must go onto your blog!

HAVE FUN!

Pressure from advertisements

Created with Padlet

Real Art Roadshow

Location and Direction quiz

Edward Online readings

Describe Bubble

LINK TO BUBBLE

Today's morning tasks!

Visit a class members blog and leave a quality comment on their blog. 

Choose 2 posts to comment on. Make sure they are different posts eg Main Stars and Literacy.

You can't visit your friends blogs so choose somebody different!

150 years of Mawhera - games

Games with Marsden Valley School. We are playing games that children would have played 150 years ago. 

Google Doc chat with our American Buddies

Greymouth 150 Years ago

• Watch these videos with a buddy. 
• What are the 5 most important things that you learnt about our region?

How well do you know reflect, rotate, translate... CHALLENGE!

Tuesday's Terrific Task

Task 1: Open your Mystery Buddies Doc and tell them all about our Main Stars.

•  Why do we do them? 
•  What are they? 
•  What do you get for completing them?

Make sure you add a Heading eg Miss Panther Main Stars so it fits into the Table of Contents. 

Task 2: Carry on with your own literacy activities

Reading 

• Update Shelfari and 40bc doc
• Complete blog post if you have finished your book

Writing

• Check your WALT's first then decide what type of writing you will complete.
• Plan your writing in your literacy book then see me.

Stuck for ideas of what to write about? Go to the draft writing table and choose an idea from the bag!! Or open your writers notebook...

Mystery Buddies

Our Mystery Buddies are feeling neglected....

Now that you know how to make a Table of Contents (don't try to do this until I have taught you...), please go and create headings and update the Table of Contents. I fixed up this one to show you what it should look like!

Then, you must create a new post in your doc. Maybe call it holidays? Or Main Stars? Or anything you like. 

Also ask another question to see if you can find out where they live!

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

This week we will be reading Chapters 5-9 of 

'The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane'. 

Some of you still have to do your predictions for your buddies. Click here to find your doc and write your prediction.

If your doc doesn't work or if your buddy hasn't left a prediction 

please email me and let me know ASAP!

On Monday I will teach you how to create a Contents Page in your doc to make it easier to find what we are writing about. Like this:

Week 1's activity is this: 

Questioning - Choose an event from chapters 5-9 to create questions for your partner to respond to.You will use your Google Doc to share your questions and then respond to your partners questions.

Huritau O Te Tai Poutini - 150 Years of Māwhera

Greymouth is 150 years old! It has been 150 years since our town was officially settled. Of course there were people here before that but that was when it was officially a 'town'!

Your first challenge: Think of your favourite place in Greymouth. It must be a place that was here go so you CANNOT choose 'The Warehouse' or the 'Skate park'.

Find a picture of what your favourite place may have looked like 150 years ago and paste it into this presentation.

Here's my favourite place - can you guess where it is?

Term 4 Main Stars

Thinking	Thinking	Relating to Others	Relating to Others
Go on a bug hunt in your garden. How many different species can you find.	Design something to promote 150 years of Māwhera.	Find out about Christmas or New Year in another country or culture.	Do something kind for others. Baking, write a nice letter or help them in some way.

Participating /Contributing	Participating /Contributing	Managing Self	Managing Self	Using Language, Symbols and Text	Using Language, Symbols and Text
Create a weekly meal plan incuding breakfast, lunch and tea. Work out how much this will cost from the supermarket.	Cook a meal from your weekly plan. Try and use something you planted last term (or something else from your garden)	Do something outdoors. Climb a tree and build a hut! Build a bird feeder or plant something in the garden.	WHAT IS YOUR IDEA FOR THIS MAIN STAR? Leave me a comment...	Find and recite a poem and find out about the author.	Design and create a decoration that could be for Christmas or Hanukkah or Diwali.

The 'missing' main star can be of your choice. Make sure it is something you are really interested in or LOVE to do. Leave a comment underneath telling me what you want to do!

Parents - please allow your child to complete these activities independently (as much as possible eg they will need your help with some parts of the activities). These activities help your child develop the Key Competencies that will allow them to grow and develop skills for life. 

We try and choose a variety of activities to extend your child in different areas. If you have a great idea please let us know!

Mystery buddies Padlet collaboration

Created with Padlet

Kiwi Kids Quiz Term 3 extravaganza!

Did anyone beat me? 

Leave a comment if you did! 

Show not tell 'Room 11' collaboration

Wicked Writing: Notebooks and ideas to put in it!

Notebooks and ideas to put in it!



Click the above link to see the idea behind our notebooks!

The Great Trade Off Game

As part of PrEP, we have been learning about money in all sorts of ways. Have a look at our individual blogs to learn about this game and to find out what else we have been learning about money!

Global Read Aloud 2014 - Starting Week 10!

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo

Breakdown for the 6 weeks:

TERM 3

Week 10: Chapters 1 - 4
TERM 4
Week 1: Chapters 5 - 9
Week 2: Chapters 10 -14
Week 3: Chapters 15 -19
Week 4: Chapters 20 - 24
Week 5: Chapter 25 and some other stuff

Each week will will read selected bits of the book and then we will discuss our thoughts with our mystery buddies. We call them 'Mystery' because we don't know exactly where they are. We suspect they are in the US but we will be asking them questions to find out!

Watch this space...

PrEP 2014

The countdown has started. 

Check out our Google site here!

We have applied for jobs, accepted jobs and created snazzy names for our ventures.

Now we are working on our business plans and marketing plans.

BUSY!

Mrs Bellis

From Room Eleven to you 

We would all love to say a humongous thank you to Mrs Bellis who has been is our class room for 5 weeks and three of those weeks she has been full on teaching which is a hard job because she has to put up with us all the time. 

She is an amazing lady and we really hope when she becomes a teacher and can take on her own class she will come back and teach at Grey Main.

Thank you Mrs Bellis you have taught us so much and we all appreciate it so much you have really touched our hearts and we are sad to see you go. 

We hope that when you have a class of your own the will all be so kind ( Even though they will not be as awesome as us) we know they'll be great kids.

So thank you again Mrs Bellis We have really enjoyed having you in our class room and we hope to see you again.

From Room 11 and Miss Panther

Ski Trip Tomorrow!

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 be out tomorrow!

If you need me, email me or text. I will be at school just before 6.30 so see you soon after!!

Don't be late!!

Gear List

Show some love to our 2 newest Room 11 bloggers!

Samara

Kaif

Remember they don't yet have blogging buddies so they need comments to help them learn how to leave a quality comment!

Miss Nissy's Te Reo Journey: Tuahiwi visit and pic collage

Miss Nissy's Te Reo Journey: Tuahiwi visit and pic collage:



VISIT Miss Nissy's blog and leave her a comment!

Marvellous Mathematicians!

Check out our LIP writing.

NEW BLOG ALERT!

Leave us a comment but make it a goodie. We want to know what you like and how we can improve. Please don't use the words:

• good
• ok

OR

• I like it

Please tell us what you like and WHY you like it.

Also look at our WALT's and give us feedback on them.

Thanks Miss Panther and the LIP boys

Sophie's Commonwealth Games Poem

Fencing

As I grip my Sword and Start to sweat

The referee shouts out fence,

I thrust My blade at my opponent's Chest

He obviously think that hes the best,

I feel my pulse Beating Hard

I can’t believe I've Come this Far,

I'm At the Commonwealth Games

My Family are all so amazed,

My opponent thrusts at me

I block his hits all with ease,

With one last hit I knock him down

The Celebration echoes all around,

I've Won it I've done it  

I hear the Cheers,

After all that training

After all those years,

Its finished its done

I've been crowned number one

And I shall cherish this memory for years to come

For the Art of fencing is my number one.

By Sophie

Caitlin's Swimming poem

Caitlin's Crazy Blog: CLICK HERE:

WALT: Show not Tell

WALT:  Use Adjectives

Swimming

I feel the freezing coldness touch the tips of my fingers

I kick as I am under water

I come up out of the water

I hear the crowd screaming at me

As I start my stroke                 

I feel a rush of excitement rushing through my body

I touch the wall I look around.

I had a feeling that I won the race.

They call out the winners

I hear my name called I listen

I won I actually won the race.

I walk up to the podem I stand at the top

I feel the heaviness  on my neck

It feels great I won

Whoooooooo.

Commonwealth Games 2014

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Passing the Commonwealth Baton