Special Visitor

Today Bethany's Grandma Gwen came to Room 11. She taught us a song. It was cool. She gave us a present. She gave us two presents a koala and a pencil.

By Ollie

Bethany's Grandma came to visit us and she always looks on the blog. Today she came because she wanted to give us a present. She comes from Australia. The presents were a koala and a pencil. Thank you very much!

By Mitchell

Bethany's Grandma came to visit. She came all the way from Australia and she gave us a cute Koala and a pencil. She thought we were very clever. The presents were very precious because they are cool.

By Catherine

Today Bethany's Grandma came to our class and she is from Australia. Everyone was excited because she brought us presents. She gave us koalas and a pencil and on it's top it says "I love Australia!" She taught us a song and she thought that we are clever. She looks on our blog and that's how she knows we are clever. She is cool because she gave us presents.

By Lucy

Today my grandma came all the way from Australia to New Zealand. I was ecstatic. I love her so so so so so so so much!

By Bethany

Bubbles!

Wow Words

Can you think of some describing words for this video.

Room 11 - 11:11am-11/11/2011

Skip Counting

Instructions

We are learning to write a set of instructions.

Today we had a go at following a set of instructions. We know that good instructions need...

- A title

- A list of things you need

- Some helpful pictures

- Steps of what to do in the right order

O'clock

Thank you for your great photography Mckenzie.

Time

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have a go at this game. See if you can get the clock to say the right 0'clock times.

Super Writer

Chance wrote a fantastic recount about what she did in the holidays. She used all of her 'Super Writer' skills! What 'Super Writer' skills do you think she used well?

Grasshopper Tennis

"Tennis was fun because we were bouncing the ball with our tennis racquets." Mitchell

"I liked hitting the ball over the net." Charlotte

"I liked bouncing the ball because I liked the ball coming back up." Kyah

"I liked it because I hit the ball on my racquet. It was cool." Catherine

Smarty Pants

We are learning to re tell a story using pictures and words.

School Production

In the School Production we were 'Moon Critters'. We did it at The Regent Theatre. It was lots of fun and a lot of people came. We got to watch the other classes dance too. I really liked 'The Clouds'. By Cyan

On Tuesday it was the School Production. Miss Evans was in charge. I felt nervous because my mum and dad were watching me. I saw my dressing room. It was loud. Room 11 and Room 12 were Moon Critters. We had masks on. Boys were red and girls were pink.

By Bethany

Ashhurst School Production was amazing.I was proud of my self. I likes the Moon Critters. I saw lots of people and there was lots of smoke. I think the boys were the best. I liked my line. There was red and there was pink Moon Critters. The people cheered for us. I heard lots of noise.

By Liam

SLIME!

We made slime. It was fun. We made it because we filled the 'Positive Pebble Jar'. It felt funny. By Maarino

Busy Busy Busy

In Room 11 we have been extra busy! The last few weeks have been great, but we haven't had time to post and comment on our blog. Miss Evans is going to post a few videos and pictures so you can see what we have been doing. Be sure to leave a comment.

Go the All Blacks!

In the weekend I got a autograph from the All Blacks. He was number 6. It was Kaino. He got two tries.

Story by Daine.

On task at reading time!

Miss Evans caught Alicia and Makayla working hard, practising their spelling words. Keep up the great work girls!

Quality Questions

We are learning to ask "Quality Questions". Knowing how to ask a "Quality Question" helps us to find out more.

What would you like to find out about this picture? Leave a comment.

Hundreds, Tens and Ones.

We got three cards each and had to place them in the Hundreds, Tens or Ones column. We had to try and make the biggest number out of the cards that we had. Did you Know that JD won 3 times in a row!!!

Collage Moon Critters

Do any of these 'Moon Critters' look familiar to you?

Buzz Groups

Every Friday for News Room 11 has Buzz Groups. We all share our news in groups and then a leader from each group shares their group's news to the whole class.

We talked about what makes a good Buzz Group leader...

* Use a a clear voice.

* Make sure every body gets a turn.

* Make sure people are listening.

* Listen very carefully and remember everyone's news.

It's Snowing!

We all got to see the snow in the weekend. This is a photo of the snow on the ranges, outside our classroom window!

In the weekend my brother was so excited because in 8 years it hasn't snowed. After school I am going to the ranges. It might be closed.

By Mitchell

In the weekend I heard thunder and hail. When I heard the thunder I curled up in a ball. I saw snow on the mountain and when I was walking to school I saw ice! Snow is fun.

By Catherine.

Number One!

Bethany and Lucy had a go at re telling the story "Number One" with puppets. It is very quiet, you will need to turn the volume up.

Awesome effort girls!!!

A Tiger in a Car???

Today Miss Evans showed us a picture of a tiger in a car. I think it's silly. I wonder where it is going? Maybe it's running away. Tigers are supposed to be in the zoo.

By Charlotte

I have never seen a tiger in a car before. That is funny. I think the tiger is going to the zoo.

By Liam

Number Bonds to Ten

Do you know your number bonds to ten? See if you can keep up!

Super Writers

Today we wrote about what we did in the weekend. Our goal was to use correctly spelt 'speedy words' and listen carefully to the sounds we can hear in 'tricky words'. Marino, Jeremy and Cyan worked hard to achieve this goal! Kapai!

In the weekend I am going to the cafe in Whanganui and I am going to the park and I am going to the gas station on the way to Ashhurst and I want to go to my poppas.

By Jeremy

In the weekend on Saturday I went to the church with my mum and my aunty and my brother and my cousin and me.

By Marino

In the weekend my nanny came to my house for four sleeps. My dad said I was old enough to cook dinner but he was tricking me and Kahu. Me and Kahu and mum made pikelets. They were yummy! We all had some. On one of the pikelets had a shape that was a tree. That tree was big. I had one pikelet when it was Saturday night because I was hungry. The one I ate was fluffy inside.

By Cyan

Welcome to Term 3

Term 3 is going to be BUSY and EXCITING!!! We have the school production 'Cosmos Conundrum'. We will be doing lots of singing and dancing and drama. We will also be learning about SPACE!

Red Nose Day!!!!

Flynn is getting better and better!

Flynn is learning to read without pointing with his fingers. He is doing a great job!

There's a Leaker on the Speaker.

We created our own version of Dr Seuss's 'There's a Wocket in my pocket.'

We had to make up rhyming words and take a picture of where we could see our made up creature. We used kid pix to draw our creatures.

Ronald McDonld

Ronald McDonald came to visit! He was very tall. He had red hair and huge red shoes. He taught us all about road safety. He taught us our poem of the week.

Stop

Look

and

Listen.

Before you cross the street.

First you use your eyes and ears

And then you use your feet.

The red light always says to stop.

The green light tells you go.

The orange light means careful,

important things to know.

Quality Questions

We watchedthis amazing video of hundreds of fish jumping out of the water.

We are learning to ask quality questions.

We use words like...

WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, WHY and HOW

Here are the questions we asked...

Walking with the dinosaurs

Have a read of Jayden's super writing about his trip to Auckland to see Walking with the dinosaurs.

In the weekend we went to Auckland. We went up the Sky Tower. It was fun. We saw the dinosaurs and and we went to the museum .

The Cat In the Hat

We had a go at illustrating just like Dr Seuss. We drew the Cat in the Hat using crayon and dye. Then we wrote our own version of the story the Cat in the Hat.

It was a wet wet day and the children had Nothing to do. But then BANG! The Cat in the Hat came out of nowhere. Then he made the fish go up. He made a big mess. Then Thing 1 and Thing 2 made an even bigger mess and then they saw mum. But the Cat in the Hat came in with a cleaning machine. Then he cleaned up the mess.

By Daniel

Reading skill practise

Practise using the magic "e" when you are reading and have a go at this fun game.

Magic "e" - Reading Game

Rhyming Activity

Have a go at this fun rhyming game.

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Reading Photo Task

Mitchell was given a task to capture photos of his class mates on task at reading time. This is his first time using the camera.

Please leave a comment... What do you think he did well? What could he do better next time?

Dr Seuss

We are learning about Dr Seuss and all of his wonderful stories. We know that Dr Seuss uses lots and lots of rhyming words.

Watch this video of 'Green Eggs and Ham' and see what rhyming words you can hear.

Leave a comment and tell us what rhyming words you could hear.

Thank you

A BIG thank you to everyone for leaving comments. The children and I LOVE hearing from you and what you think about our learning experiences. We love sharing our learning on our blog and look forward to reading your comments.

P.S if you are having trouble leaving comments or are unsure how to do this please pop in to see me I am more than happy to help.

Thanks again!

Miss Evans

Talking Dog Buddy Writing

We worked together using our teamwork skills to write a story about this video. We hope it makes you laugh as much as we did.

We watched a movie. It was about a talking dog. It was funny. He wanted food heaps of meat.

By James J and Ollie

Today we saw a funny dog. It was talking. It wanted some food and the person was being mean to the dog. It was really funny. It was cool.

By Lucy and Jayden

The dog was funny and the big person was teasing the dog. The movie was very funny. The dog was silly. The dog was very funny and the dog was hungry and sad because the dog wanted some chicken.

By Makayla and Kayla

Three little ducks

Check out our re telling of the story "Three Little Ducks" We used Kid Pix for our illustrations.

Our busy, wacky and yummy day!

Today was a very busy day for us in Room 11. It was wacky Hair day and Pajama Day and The Ruahine Teams Food celebration. We hope you enjoy the photos!

Popcorn Words

Click on the ink below to play Popcorn Words. How many words do you know?

Popcorn Words - Early Reading Game

Kick Catch Throw

We are learning a range of large ball skills. Today we worked on kicking the ball.

Red Hat Thinking

We figured out that we eat about 7 meals a day and we eat lots of different types of food. Most of the time we eat what ever we want. After watching the East Timor video we could not believe that some people can only eat 1 meal a day!

We put our red hats on and got thinking!

East Timor

Everyone needs food to live!

We have been thinking about how much food we eat, when we eat it and what foods we love and dislike. Now we are looking at how other people use food. We watched this video to get us thinking. What do you think? Leave a comment!

Dominos

In Room 11 we love to make dominos in the morning. It is fun.

By Jayden and Daniel

Autumn

We collected Autumn leaves and made a class Autumn Tree. We came up with some key words about Autumn.

leaves, cold, red, trees, orange,

gold, ground, brown, falling, yellow

Here are some stories we wrote about autumn.

It is nearly winter. The leaves are trying to fall off the trees. They are turning brown yellow red gold orange.

By Kayla

The leaves will fall in Autumn. They will fall on the ground.

By James J

Today it is Autumn. I can see yellow and brown and red and gold and orange and green.

By Makayla

The trees and the leaves are changing because it is Autumn.

By Renee

The leaves are falling on the ground. Autumn is here. I like Autumn because I like the colours. I can see gold yellow and orange.

By Catherine

Dinosaur Maths Group

We are are learning to count in tens. We can use the abacus to make any number up to 100 by counting in tens.

Tens and Ones on PhotoPeach

Ball Skills

This term we are learning a range of ball skills. Today we practiced rolling and bouncing the ball.

Super Writer Ollie!

Ollie did some Super writing today about duck shooting. He worked really hard to write tricky words using the sounds that he could hear. Ka Pai

Term 2 is Here

Save Water

We have been thinking all about how different people in different places use water differently. We know that lots of people don't have much water so we want to do our best to save what we have.

Red Nose Day Song

Cure Kids Red Nose Day is coming up in November and we are learning this song as a school. Have a practise over the school holidays.

Wonky Donkey

We saw this video in assembly last week. We love it and hope to do some super writing about the wonky donkey. watch this space for our stories.

Miss Evans showed us a movie of the Wonky Donkey. By Renee

The Wonky Donkey is funny because he farted on the bird. By Maarino

The Wonky Donkey is funny because he only has three legs and one eye. He is cranky in the morning. It was in assembly so the whole school listened to it. By Catherine

Shapes!

Red Hat Thinkhing

When we use our red hat we think about peoples feelings.

We put our red hats on and thought about how it would feel to have no or little water and how it would feel to have to work very hard to get our water.

This is what we thought...

hungry, thirsty, sick, exhausted,

tired, dirty, sleepy, smelly, sad,

miss people

How would you feel?

Leave a comment.

Writing about Spongebob Squarepants

Daniel

Ollie

Makayla

Bethany

James

Speedy Words

Chance was a super writer today.

She tried really hard to use correctly spelt speedy words like...

I, went, to, the, it, me, and, we.

Very Clever!

We are learning to order numbers to 20

Biggest to Smallest

Smallest to Biggest

Water Inquiry

We are thinking about walking in someone else's shoes. We are learning that "All people use different things in different ways."

We are beginning by thinking about WATER.

Click on the brainstorm to view our wonderings.

Please leave a comment and tell us what you wonder about this picture.