You may have noticed something different about our blog…namely the header picture is gone.  That was last year, this is 2010, so we need your ideas for a new header for Room 1 – 2010.  It really needs to be something that is significant to our school and classroom and it must contain you!!! Email [...]

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I have been adding some new pages recently, specifically to do with our spelling, theme and writing.  One of our spelling groups is working on developing their vocabulary with learning a new word a week, then finding out synonyms and antonyms for that word, as well as using them in sentences.  Our new theme page [...]

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At the moment we are focusing on having a purpose for our writing, which means ensuring that we have a clear idea that we want to develop throughout the story. We have started a few of these stories in class using this planning template. I am going to post some cool examples as the students [...]

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I know that this isn’t your classical dive into the pool, but something like this takes a lot of guts!!

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Check this out everyone!!!  Register your own name and post your results on your blog, even email me how you are getting on.  Some of the activities are GREAT!!  See who gets the high scores!

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