Mr Carter

Room 11 has been a buzz with excitement as Mr Carter our college tecaher is back in teaching for 4 weeks. He has planned a fantastic unit on flight which we started this week. We have been been experimenting looking at gravity and weight. It has been lots of fun. The value of the term is Consideration and we have been focusing on manners. We have made some bunting with manners that we should always use at home and school. Gabi, Hannah and Zoe have also written a poem on manners which they turned into a verse for our manners song. They are performing at assembly today.

Where has the term gone???

I can't believe that the term is over tomorrow. It has been a very successful term in Rooom 11 with many children getting through to the school speech finals, and North Zone Cross Country. Hannah even won the Otago Year 5 Cross Country race. What a champion. Everyone took part in the school sports a few weeks back and many children have made it through to the North Zone Sports in relay teams. This is happening in Week 3 next term so we will look forwrad to that. Mr Carter has been doing some fantastic work and teaching everyone how to research and we can't wait until he comes back in Week 2 next term. Have a safe and restful holiday as next term will be full on and lots of fun. Happy holidays :)

So busy

It seems like a long time since we have updated the blog but that is because we have been so busy. We have had 2 snow days and a pyjama day. Last week we wrote our speeches which we will present over the next few weeks. There are some very interesting topics so this week we will be working on our delivery of them. We have also started taking self directed learning a step further in our room. We have variable learning spaces and you can sit where you like as long as you are on task. We are also able to choose when we do activities in the morning literacy hour. We have to tick them off on a list when we have completed them to a high standard. Come in and see our class in action between 9 and 11.

Cross Country Winners

Everyone ran really well on Tuesday in spite of the rain and cold conditions. A big congratulations goes to our winners.
Year 3 Girls Charlotte 1st, Annelise 2nd
Year 3 Boys Ben 3rd
Year 4 Girls Hannah 1st, Zoe 4th
Year 4 Boys Josh 4th

I was proud of all the children who ran and ran and ran.Your training paid off.

Writing Competition winners

Congratulations to Gabi and Josh for being the Room 11 writing competition winners. Their stories were outstanding.

No cross country today

We were all really disappointed that the cross country was postponed today. It will be held on Monday or the first fine day after that. So we have our fingers crossed for Monday. Mrs Jolly has just come back from Seoul and she bought us all a fan or it could be a book mark. We loved the angry birds one but we were not so keen on the hello kitty. Next week we are off to the Art Gallery to work with John on Kiwiana art so we are really looking forward to that. We will upload some pictures after our trip.

Interviews

Thank you to all the parents and children that came along to interviews this week.It was a pleasure to be able to share the childrens work and achievements. I am sure that the Learning Snapshots gave you alot of information about your childs progress over the past 6 months. The door is always open at anytime if you would like to see the classroom in action.Have a great weekend.