MATAPU SCHOOL – Room 1 Talkback

Time: Lunchtime     Place: Matapu School Room 1   

Not many teachers have the good fortune to work in a place where the students are as hard working as this!  Great focus this week everyone, amazing to see people spending their lunchtime volunteering to get their work completed, and those E-portfolios look stupendous!!  Can’t wait for you to take them home and show your family what you have been doing in Room 1 this year.  Just a couple more days at school until you all get a well deserved holiday. 

Well done all you cross country runners!!  You all did Matapu proud in our Mountain to Surf cross country, great to see all those who ran this year who ran last year improved in their placings.  Great effort everyone. 

Those who have finished your menus we (myself and Mrs Ward) have had a good look at them tonight and are very pleased with what you have created.  Some great detail in them, I will have to scan a few to show everyone what you have done.  Super standard.

Well done Mihi for solving the What in the World is Behind WIZ.  It was the carpet in our classroom.  Quintin, you were close with carpet, but I wanted you to be more specific than that.  Look out for the next one, its a doozy!

polls – Take Our Poll

Great work today Room 1, I was extremely impressed with our question time after our a.v experience this morning.  You all retained a LOT of information.  These are pictures of our school having a lesson over the internet, talking to a DOC worker in the South Island with two other schools from around New Zealand.  Look more of this to come hopefully in the future!

Really impressed with some of your handwriting today everyone.  I decided to not just reward one person for your efforts, see if you can pick who’s writing made it to the blog.  For some of you who think you cannot write neatly, this proves that if you take the time you can do it!!

It’s back and it’s better than ever!! It’s been a while since we have had a WIZ challenge, and I have added a twist. If you think you know what is behind the WIZ, post your answers on this post.

Since you solved the problem solving question so quickly, I am going to give you another, that means two problem solver winners this week. Good luck with this one!

11 P in a F (S) T

What did you have for breakfast?
( surveys)

To help out the Green group in maths, lets take a survey!  Do you eat healthy breakfasts?  Do you eat breakfast?  Tick what you have for breakfast in our poll (nice choice of colour and design Quintin).
Great week last week Room 1, excellent to see you all putting in your words for the spelling rule and did you know we used the word “Garrulous” 47 times last week?  You all must have been very garrulous to use the word garrulous so many times!

Well done Alesha who got the puzzle last week, see if you can solve this one…
100 C in a D

Good to see everyone pushing themselves hard in our running this afternoon.  Don’t forget to remember how many laps you ran so you can put it into your file tomorrow.

Your challenge for spelling is to find the three exceptions to our spelling rule discussed today.  If you think you know, post your answers on this post.  Also don’t forget to get your Deciding work completed in your theme books.  Remember, the process is just as important as the end result, Mrs Ward is looking forward to trying out your programs!

    
As you can see by the photos, Room one has had a ball cutting up magazines to create their mosaics.  Mr Stoddart has helped us begin to create some outstanding artwork, can’t wait to see the finished products.  I am also looking forward to seeing the program you all set up for Mrs Ward’s triathlon training.  She has assured me that she will stick to what we set as her diet (and possible training program), so keep checking those ingredients!

Still no one has cracked the problem regarding the number 7 and Greedy Pigs, so that problem is still going.  Here is another one for you to solve for this week, to go with the problems you are all posting on the problems page, some of those are quite tough!  I am also looking out for Best Blogger at the moment, so get those fingers dancing on your keyboards.

3 W on a T

Good luck and keep blogging!