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Week 3 Update

Room 18’s Topic

In Room 18 we have been learning about Egypt. Today, we made a mindmap about what we have learnt about Ancient Egypt. Lots of people put something on. Things like; Egyptians invented writing and; pyramids are made out of limestone. We have learned loads of things about Egypt. This afternoon we've started writing our names in hieroglyphics. We will take some photos once they are finished.

Term 4

Hi To Everyone,

I hope everyone liked Funky Hair Day last term, we are all wearing wide brimmed hats now so we stay safe in the sun.
We are loving learning about Egypt! We are starting to make Power points, pick a paths, Comic life, word documents, plays, and photo stories.

It's Term 4 and we are back into swimming. We are swimming in Week 1 & 2, & 5 & 6. So we will need to bring togs everyday!!! :-)

Our Social Skill for the first two weeks are our five basic needs. We are using role play to show our understanding of these.

We are having a big push on Statistics and are using the NZ Maths site and logging on to Digi Ops.

Junior Production 2009

Video Clip

Check http://videos.howstuffworks.com/hsw/27320-ancient-egypt-the-ancient-egyptians-video.htm this out....

What's been happening for us in Term 3

In Room 18 this term we've been doing lots of drama, dance, literacy and maths! We had a fantastic time last week performing in front of an audience. Thanks for coming to watch! :-)

We would like to thank Katie, Jerusha & Jill for writing a great script, Laura & Kate for taking our dance groups, the wonderful whanau who supported us by making costumes, tie dying & helping on the night, Daniel & Cameron for doing the lighting and sound and for all the teachers who supported us throughout this term.

Funky HAIR day is coming up this Friday!!!! We have Full School Assembly so it's going to be a wonderful end to the term. Just quietly, we are also going to watch 'Storm Boy', thanks to Sam Robinson's Dad... we read the book and now we get to see the movie...we are looking forward to this.

Next term we are going to be studying... EGYPT...we are soooooooooo excited and we are going to be getting ready over the holidays so we will be doing a bit of research to prepare ourselves...
Here are a couple of links to get you started...

http://egypt.mrdonn.org/index.html

http://www.flushing.k12.mi.us/fjh/brust/egyptmath.html

Ok well comment back and tell us what you think...

See you,

Room 18

Maths Week 2009 (Week 4)

Let's get thinking maths, maths and more maths... Log onto this website http://www.mathsweek.org.nz/ and use your username and password that you were given today to earn maths money. You can then go to an auction and actually win prizes!!! Come on Room 18 let's get winning and learning at the same time.

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We have a survey on your favourite fruit on our blog.

Please let us know the fruit you prefer so we can do some statistical thinking in class.

:-)

Room 18

Te Reo

Ki Ora Te Whanau,



We are learning our body parts (te tinana) in Te Reo this term. What do you think of our performance???

MATHS update

Hi to the Parents and students,

Check out this website for information and ideas on the numeracy project and ways you can help your chn with mathematics at home:

http://www.nzmaths.co.nz/node/453

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Term 3...wow

Welcome back and what a super term we have coming up. We have lots of exciting learning to do this term. We are in our production term and will be working on 'The Creation Story' from a Maori perspective. We will be dancing, singing and enjoying some dramatic performance learning. Our other area of learning is Keeping Ourselves Safe and this is all about understanding our feelings, and learning strategies that help us to keep safe and make good choices. Our Social Skills carry on through out the term and we are breaking down the connecting behaviours- listening, supporting, encouraging, respecting, trusting, accepting and negotiating. Our first focus is listening!!!
I am looking forward to Week 3 & 4 (04/08/09, 11/08/09) to catch up with parents and share what's been happening over the last two terms. I would love the children to come along to these to explain and share their learning experiences with you too!!

At home the children will bring home a library book every Monday and their spelling so please keep on with this and any maths activities and games to support their learning will be super.

Production will be in Week 9 so keep this on your calendar- 16/09/09 Matinee, 7pm show, 17/09/09 7pm show.

Keep warm and bring on the spring weather I say..

Looking forward to seeing you soon

Assemblies for the term are Week 4, Week 7, and Week 10
Sausage sizzles- 31/07, 21/08, 18/09

Room 18 :-))

Science Fair Prep

We are loving it

Science

Check out what's happening in Room 18..

Science in Room 18

Hi it’s room 18 checking you up on our science fair. Everyone has been very busy working nearly every day, man are we exhausted. We are so busy working we have spent more than 3 days. The most impressive I’ve seen so far is a lamp heating up an egg, the people in the group are Taylor, Jacob, Millie and James. They are investigating solar power. The egg is not edible but it works. The egg looks so YUM but we can’t eat it boo hoo… any way should we talk about others even if you don’t like it were going to talk about it anyway. One is putting water through a hole and it will go down the coke and sprite bottles and spin a water wheel. The next one is basically the same but more complex the water runs down one bottle and goes down little holes so spinning the wheel and so they don’t have to go and get some more water they have a water catcher it sucks the water down in to another bottle. Well that’s all I know. You know when I was writing this the experiments were taking place. When I heard about the science fair to me I felt really bad but I was put in charge of my group and I thought well it can’t be that bad can it, and it isn’t. So if kids are reading this please for science sake give it a go, it can be really fun so please try it please… well I think you’ve heard enough from me today so
BYE SAM

The Disco

Dear Diary
On Friday I went to the disco and it was fun. I was dressed up like my self. It was a whole lot of fun because my friend and I were dancing. My friend was dressed up like a farmer he had a top on and a wig for hair. My friend and I were playing and dancing all night long.
After the disco I got into the car and then my bright yellow glow stick popped like a dinasour hatching out of its egg. It blew and went all over the car. When I got home I went to bed because I was so tired!

Hydro Power you tube video

This may be good to look at. This is a simple overview of how hydropower works.. remember it's only 7 weeks until the Science Fair. We are going to start some experiments this week looking at different ways of generating power using water.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htT_8sFJx1w



Remember to check with your parents before going on You tube to view this movie please

Term is coming up fast..

Hello there all you super cool Room 18 players,

This term our integrated unit, as you already know, is going to be about sustainable energy!!! What is it I hear you say??? Well I challenge you to find our as much about it as you can. Room 18's focus is hydro electricity!!! :-))

One student has already been on the hunt and has come up with this awesome website

http://www.electrocity.co.nz/Resources/

You can play games and learn about our topic and the code you will need is KM14905 and our school could be in to win!!!

Well I hope you've had a wonderful holiday and find out what ANZAC means and tell me why this day is so special to New Zealand....

See you Monday

Allsorts of Weblinks

Hey all, check out the bookmarking site below to find lots of learning sites and more, parents there might be a thing or two that interest you in relation to education and more.. click on the link and have a look. :-))

http://delicious.com/room5kapiti/?page=1

Literacy Activities

Check out the BBC bitesize to test you literacy & numeracy skills- some fun & games that assist your learning, so have a go and tell us what you've tried and recommend the games to your friends at school. :-))))

Learning is FUN!!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks1bitesize/literacy/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks1bitesize/numeracy/

Just click on the links and get playing!!!

Try this out for a challenge

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/games/questionaut/pop.shtml

This brainteasing activity will challenge you to find the hat, sounds simple, give it a try. You must answer various questions in order to move to the next level..challenge yourself and let me know how you go.

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