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Some Great Writing!

MrC — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:28:05 +0000

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 great job. (If you click the pieces of writing it will make it larger and easier to read)

Figuring out Probability

MrC — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 02:15:17 +0000

We have been calculating probability in class this week. This is one of the groups explaining how to calculate probability to solve a problem.

Occy the Octopus

MrC — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 20:48:51 +0000

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 please post down ideas of what the legs on Occy could represent, things that are important to our classroom.

Two page spread!!

MrC — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 20:36:54 +0000

We have just had a great write-up in the Stratford Press about the stuff we are doing at Matapu. Here is a snippet…

Have a Hangi…Matapu Style…

MrC — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 04:05:47 +0000

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 the Hangi food and there were a LOT of hands helping out. Special thanks to everyone who turned up on the day and to those who helped with providing us with food and equipment, and to those who organised this event. It was a great fundraiser and it was great to have so much help!!

More tree planting…

MrC — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 03:47:45 +0000

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…

Special visitors

MrC — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 03:45:20 +0000

As part of our World Theme we had a few special visitors. Can you guess where they are from?

World theme

MrC — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 03:23:59 +0000

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 to plan more thoroughly at the beginning of our research this time. We used these planning sheets to make sure our research was focussed and everyone had a job to do.

Heritage movies…

MrC — Tue, 11 May 2010 00:27:40 +0000

This is one of our projects about NZ Heritage we finished last term. Check out others on our Theme page on this blog!!!

Multiplication strategy…

MrC — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 03:01:47 +0000

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…