http://mrcsblog.com Lifelong Learning Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:29:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://mrcsblog.com/2010/07/22/some-great-writing/ We have been calculating probability in class this week. This is one of the groups explaining how to calculate probability to solve a problem. http://mrcsblog.com/2010/07/22/722/ 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 ... http://mrcsblog.com/2010/06/28/occy-the-octopus/ We have just had a great write-up in the Stratford Press about the stuff we are doing at Matapu.  Here is a snippet...         http://mrcsblog.com/2010/06/22/two-page-spread/     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 ... http://mrcsblog.com/2010/06/16/have-a-hangi-matapu-style/   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... http://mrcsblog.com/2010/06/16/more-tree-planting/ As part of our World Theme we had a few special visitors.  Can you guess where they are from? http://mrcsblog.com/2010/06/16/special-visitors/ 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 ... http://mrcsblog.com/2010/06/09/world-theme/ This is one of our projects about NZ Heritage we finished last term. Check out others on our Theme page on this blog!!! http://mrcsblog.com/2010/05/11/heritage-movies/ 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... http://mrcsblog.com/2010/04/29/multiplication-strategy/