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Archives for February, 2009

Hello from Rotorua

Hi everyone, I’m making this post from one of my breakouts in Rotorua.  My challenge here was to create a dramatic piece of comic using only a few photos given to me.  I chose to attack technology (mainly because the air conditioning isn’t working and its really warm in here and cooler outside!)  Also, I [...]

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Word of the Week…

Our new word of the week is impeccable. Have fun creating some interesting sentences with this word this week!!  (Mr C’s sentence) There have been a few impeccable samples of handwriting last week. I am going to be in Rotorua all week this week attending an ICT conference, so I’ll be learning some neat new [...]

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Vote for your Coucillors!!!

Click on FOUR of the people you want to be as our School Councillors for 2009. Make sure you only pick FOUR names, then click VOTE. GOOD LUCK EVERYONE! Who should be our School Councilors? ( surveys)

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Great Power Points!

      These are snapshots of the power points that Room 1 have recently completed that involved a variety of different activities based on our school. Unfortunately I had to cut a chunk from how they were actually presented in their power points in order to fit them into this blog, but you can get the general idea [...]

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“Highly Commended” video placing!!

A HUGE congratulations to our year sixes from last year with regards to their video entry in The Outlook for Someday’s sustainability competition.  We spent the last term of Fridays preparing our video for this entry and I have posted it for your viewing pleasure on the sidebar of our blog (sorry that it may [...]

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Word of the Week – Week 2

Righto, some good sentences with our last word of the week (myriad).  Your new Word of the Week sentences can be made on this post.  Your week 2 Word of the Week is pedestrian.  And remember, it’s not the walking pedestrian!!  It has been a couple of pretty hectic weeks so far, keep working on [...]

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End of Week 1

Great start to the week Room 1.  These are some of the neat pieces of writing you have created while trying to include our five senses and what we were thinking/feeling at the time.  Logan’s is on the left and Alyx’s is on the right.  Great detail you two, well done!!

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The Canine Caper

All right, this is where you can post your answers to this mystery.  Remember to explain how you come to your conclusions!!!

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First Day Back!

Great first day Room 1. You guys did really well researching your Halberg Teams today, and don’t be too frustrated if you didn’t find too much information, we will be working on improving that this year. Here is your first bit of homework on the blog, or…”blogwork”. Tomorrow you will be getting your word of [...]

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Poll Update

       Many of you may remember our cake poll, and this is the update of how the poll is going.  I have left it open for a bit longer to see if the left cake can sneak past, it looks a tight battle!!  The seniors also conducted two other polls on what we are having [...]

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