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Here is a selection of some great pieces of writing from Room 1. Our focus for these was to include descriptive detail from our five senses, to include our thoughts and feelings and to use descriptive adjectives and verbs so it makes it more interesting to read. I think these three girls have done a [...]
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We have been calculating probability in class this week. This is one of the groups explaining how to calculate probability to solve a problem.
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A while ago we all took a vote on what our classroom mascot should be. A mascot being something that represented our class and something that we could throw around and take photos of in different places. Occy the Octopus was the Champion. BUT we have forgotten what things the legs represented. SO, can you [...]
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We have just had a great write-up in the Stratford Press about the stuff we are doing at Matapu. Here is a snippet…
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We have recently held a Hangi for a fundraiser for our school camp and to help with other school expenses. The stones were piping hot when we put the food down and the steam from the wet towels and sacks was really, really…steamy!
We had to make a LOT of dinners with [...]
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One thing we seem to do a lot of is tree planting!!! We have just planted another 100 trees along our fence line in the hopes of creating a bit more shelter. Now we just have to wait for them to grow…
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As part of our World Theme we had a few special visitors. Can you guess where they are from?
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At the moment we are looking at different things to do with other countries. If you look in our theme page you can see just what things we are investigating. Part of our learning involved reflecting back on things we can improve on. One of those things was to improve our organisation, so we tried [...]
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This is one of our projects about NZ Heritage we finished last term. Check out others on our Theme page on this blog!!!
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This is Anita explaining a multiplication strategy we have been discussing in class. Her group can use this to find out the answer to some pretty tough questions…
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You are a member of a space crew originally scheduled to meet up with a mother ship on the lighted side of the moon. However, due to mechanical problems, your ship was forced to land on a spot 320km from the meeting point. During re-entry and landing much of the equipment on board was damaged [...]
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We have just spent a few Fridays creating some clay models, bowls and animals. Here are some pictures of how we fired our clay in a kiln that we created at school. As you can see by the pictures of some of our creations, it could have done with a little more time in the [...]
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Welcome back everyone to term 2, 2010. We have heaps going on this term as we continue our theme by looking at different places around the world. Really looking forward to that!
In the meantime, here is some math work for some groups. Check out these problems this morning for maths and see how you go. [...]
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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!!!
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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 will keep [...]
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