A Life Like Mine

We started our new inquiry social studies topic today!

We found it interesting looking at some photos of children's bedrooms and tried to match up the rooms with photos of children from around the world.

Jenna had the idea to take photos of our bedrooms at home and see if we can work out which class member the room belongs to.  If you would like to do this - please email me a photo of your bedroom by Monday next week.

We are still doing well at building up our reading stamina in Daily 5.  I hope you are reading daily for enjoyment at home for at least 15-20 minutes.  If you email me a 'Read to Self' photo - I will put your photo on our blog.

Have a great week!
Email - vanessa.ireland@halswell.school.nz

Week 3 already?!

Wow the last two weeks have flown by!!

We are getting really good at building our stamina in Daily 5.  We have reached 20 minutes in Read to Self and 6 minutes in Read to Someone.  Here is a video that Miss Tempero took of our whole learning team reading!

We also had some great learning team photos taken of us that afternoon.

We really enjoyed having Mr Lee join our classroom last week.  He is training to be a teacher in Korea.

We got our collage portraits finished last week and they are up on the wall looking amazing!

WEEK ONE!!

It has been a great week.

We have been getting really good at building our reading stamina up while reading independently in Daily 5.

In maths we have collected data (information) in statistics on the most common colour jellybeans in a packet - we couldn't believe that there was only 1 orange out of 291 jellybeans!  We found out that pink was the most common colour.

We then looked at what the most popular colour car was in Room18 families and found out that it was silver and graphed the results!  Did you know that apparently silver is the least common colour car to be involved in a crash?! We are going to do some more investigating next week and collect data on cars that drive past Halswell Road.

We read a really cool book about being different called 'The Hueys in The New Jumper' by Oliver Jeffers.

Here are our unique Hueys...

Today we started our mosaic/collage self portraits that we will be finishing next week.

We are very lucky to be big buddies to the brand new children in Room 1.  We enjoyed meeting them today and are going to make sure we are the best buddies!

Remember to vote for our new blog pet!  Have a happy weekend!

First day of school!

Thank you Room 18 for a wonderful first day of school!

I can tell already that it is going to be a fantastic term with a great class! 

Happy Holidays!!

GOOD BYE ROOM 18!!
It was a busy last couple of weeks!
Enjoy your holidays and I will look forward to seeing you all in 2013!
Keep a look out for updates on our blog in January.

I also said I would update you that... Baby Ireland is a girl! :)

PHOTOS!!

Room 18 have had fun with a new temporary class member - Quackers!
Thank you Grosse Ile Cycle 2 Class for letting us look after him!
Quackers travelled all the way to us from a set of islands called the Magdalen Islands.  Their island belongs to the province of Quebec, Canada

Here are a few photos to show what Quackers has been up to...

We all knew it was Quackers straight away when Mrs Ireland received the package.  We have been eagerly waiting for Quackers to arrive for nearly 3 months.  We confirmed that it was Quackers when we looked for clues on the package!

Quackers with Room 18 being silly

 Quackers reading a book about ducks in our school library

Quackers enjoying the fresh air out in Oxford with Angus and eating his grub! 

Quackers helping to measure accurately to make Sponge Bob Square Pants

 Quackers with his 'Dancer of the Day Certificate' with the Kelly Sports Dance girls!

Last week we were also very lucky to have the South Learning Centre come to our library to work with us.  We worked in pairs with an ipad to do a book review using Puppet Pals.  It was heaps of fun!  Here are a few photos...

       

   

Here are a few photos from when the V8 Motorsport Racers recently visited our school!

                            

Term 4 update!

We have had heaps happening in Room 18 over the last couple of weeks! Here are a few photos to show you what has been happening!

 

We skyped a class from New Jersey in the USA last week. We are going answer some more questions soon and write to each other through Google Docs. They were affected by Hurricane Sandy.

On Wednesday we also were really intrigued by the solar eclipse! Miss Tempero brought some special eclipse glasses to swimming so afterwards when we were dressed and outside we got to see it!

 Today we have learnt about why the moon looks like it changes shapes. Can you remember the 8 phases of the moon in order?! We made the phases of the moon using Oreo biscuits!