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!

 

                   

Willowbank and Ko Tane!

Last Wednesday we had lots of fun at Willowbank Wildlife reserve. We spent the morning exploring the park and checking out the animals, we then stopped for lunch in the farmyard and after that we went to Ko Tane, a Maori village, where we watched an amazing performance before learning and performing ti rakau (stick games), the haka and a poi dance. Check out our performances below!

Haka

Brayden performed The Haka for us this week.  

He has determination and pride on his face. 

 I am sure Piri Weepu would be impressed!

Brayden has also started an excellent letter to the All Blacks.

We have been writing letters to practice writing in paragraphs.

I am looking forward to a fun Friday tomorrow.

1st week of Term 4!

We have had a busy first week and now can enjoy a lovely long weekend with Labour Day on Monday! 

We welcome Emma to our class this term.  Emma has returned to Halswell after living in England for 2 years.     She was lucky enough to get to go to watch Trampolining and Canoeing at the Olympics before she returned home to New Zealand.

This week we have done Geometry in maths this week.  We know that a decagon has 10 sides and a dodecagon has 12 sides.  We have got very quick at knowing our 3D and 2D shapes in Loopy and got a record time of 1.06 minutes!

We have learnt what prefixes and suffixes are:

We know the difference between a simple sentence and a compound sentence.

Simple - I have a dog.

Compound - I have a dog and her name is Daisy.   (Ollie's sentences)

Seamus shared his animations that he made at home.  Here is one of them:

We are looking forward to a great last term!  Especially to our upcoming trip to Willowbank.

We also found out that we will be getting an ipad to trial in our class for the term so can't wait to use it!

Quad Blogging 'Limbrick Class - England'

Room 18 check out another cool blog that is part of our Quad Blogging group.  They live in Chorley, England (which is not too far from Manchester!).  I know we have a couple of big Manchester United fans in our class!

They have posted a video of them singing 'Doe a deer', I wonder if any of you know which movie that song comes from?  They have also been doing some '5 sentence challenges', we will need to do more of them and the 100 word challenges next term. 

I hope you are enjoying your holidays!!