Fruit in Schools

I like having Fruit in Schools because the fruit is yummy and free. The fruit helps you every day. The best thing is that the fruit is not vegetables. They buy good brands, and the fruit is good for you. The fruit is very fresh and very healthy.

Fruit in Schools

I think that the fruit that we have is delicious.

Fruit in schools

I like fruit because it keeps you healthy and is yummy and it's free because the government pays for it. We have fruit like oranges and apples, pineapple. If I haven't tasted it I will still try it.

fruit in schools

I like fruit in schools because it is good for your health. It is yummy, free and I like the pineapple because it's juicy and sweet. We have fruit in schools every Wednesday.

Fruit in Schools

The best thing about having fruit in schools is how it is free.you stay healthy.
Sometimes it does not taste nice because it is soft.The food we get keeps us healthy.

Fruit in Schools

On Wednesdays we have fruit in schools. I really like the pineapples and apples. It is delicious.
I really enjoy the fruit. Ella and I like our oranges whole. The apples are crunchy to me. I think it is good to have fruit in schools because it keeps your body healthy. I eat my fruit, even if I do not like it. I will always eat it. Having the fruit is a great opportunity because it makes you stronger at everything you do. I think we should thank the government for everything they do.

FRUIT IN SCHOOLS

THE best thing about Fruit in School is that the fruit is yummy and the pineapple was very hard. The apples are very sweet.The oranges were so sour that my eyes went watery. The bananas were yummy and the strawberries were so juicy that I wanted more.

Healthy juicy Fruit

In Fruit in Schools,I like the fruit because it's really juicy and cold. When we have pineapple it's kind of sometimes hard and sticky.I really like fruit in schools. Sometimes the fruit is quite soft and crispy. I don't really like the apples because they hurt my teeth.

fruit in schools

The best thing about Fruit in Schools is having free food. I like having apples, pineapple and oranges. I like how it's at school. I wish we had it every day. It is good because we get to try different fruit. I like pineapple because it tastes juicey.

fruit in school

I like having Fruit in school because we can taste different kinds of fruit every week.

sometime we get juicy pineapple , sweet oranges or crunchy apples.We need fruit to keep us healthy so it is great to get free fruit at school.

Fruit in Schools

The best things about fruit in schools is...
that you get free fruit. It is really heathy. It is also tasty and fresh. The oranges are really juiciy. Sometimes have a lot of texture. Sometimes hard. The bananas melt in your mouth. The fruit we get is oranges, pineapple, kiwi fruit. Some is scrumptious. They can be crispy and floury. It is also good for your body. Sometimes they can be bitter, maybe sour but
taste nice. I wish we got it every day. That would be fantastic and good. The fruit is sometimes yuck. But I still eat it.

Healthy eating

I like healthy food because......
it is fun having Fruit in Schools because it is free.We get it every wednesday which is cool.
Sometimes it is yuck and sometimes it is yum.Some I like and some I hate.It is all kinds of fruit we get for healthy eating.I like the juicy pineapple.

Fruit in Schools

The best thing about having Fruit in Schools is the fruit. The fruit that we have that I like is apples. The fruit I hate is pineapple, oranges and kiwi fruit. But there's still more I hate.

Fruit in Schools

the best thing about Fruit in Schools is apples because they are juicy and delcious cut up.The best thing about fruit in schools is there all free & fresh ,good as well. Some other people like to eat other fruits .Having the fruit is the best. Juicy & delicous I meen it they do buy juicy delicious brahds alot of that are bad that are bad

articulate and delicatessen

What does articulate mean? Can you send a definition of this word, or put it into a sentence?

What about delicatessen?

homework week 7

This week you can do your spelling homework online!

Send your spelling homework activities as a comment to this post. Make sure you don't have any spelling mistakes in it, though! Include the title of your activity.
Word shape - this one is probably hard to do on the computer. You could do Same beginning letters/sounds instead.

Who will be the first person to post one of their spelling activities?

Bath tub racing

Some background and History of this Daring Event.

as the city of nanaimo's "Centennial event"that year,cloes to 200
tubbers(in every type of craft imaginable).
the idea was conceived to showcase nanaimo to the world , with the first races beginning with the "Nanaimo to Vancouver Great International World Championship Bathtub Race" in 1967.

From Nicholas and Tyrell

Bathtub Capital of the World

Here is our first comment to our Blog Homework Challenge:

Nanaimo is the "Bathtub Racing" Capital of the WORLD.
From Ami


Did you even know that there is such a thing as Bathtub Racing? Are they racing down a river in a bathtub? Or do the tubs have wheels? Could anyone find out more about this?

Well done, Ami, for finding out this vital piece of information!

Blog Homework challenge

Room 2 was very excited to see that we had some visitors to our blog from overseas. If you look in the Feedjit window next to our posts, you can see that we had visitors from all over New Zealand, and from the following places:

• Zurich/Switzerland
• Oklahoma/USA
• Nanaimo/British Columbia/Canada

Your challenge is to find out more about any of those places and post your findings as a comment to this post. It could be anything like where this place is, how many people live there, and anything else.

Let's see who is going to be the first to add a comment. If you don't have internet access at home, you can use the classroom computer to do this before school.

Centurion of the Week 4 and 5

Week 4

The Centurion of the Week went to Jessie-May for displaying the virtues of courtesy and respect at all times.
You are always polite and respectful towards other people, whether they are staff members or fellow students. Well done.


Week 5

This week's Centurion went to Shane for displaying the virtues of courtesy and respect as well. This proves how important these age-old values are even today.
Shane, you are a very well-mannered and courteous person in our school who is respectful to everyone around you. Keep it up.

Certificates Weeks 4 and 5

Our Classroom Certificates went to the following children:

For their consistent effort in doing their homework

• Layton
• Megan
• William

Well done, it is great that you have developed sound homework habits.

For her wonderful attitude and achievement at school

• Abigail

It is great to see how you try your best at everything, Abigail. I am really impressed with your positive attitude.

Calendar Fundraising

As you can see on the side, we have added our penguin pictures onto our blog. You can view the picture in colour. This will hopefully help you decide how many copies of the calendar you want to order (if any at all). Calendar forms need to be returned by 20.11.08 please.

Fireworks poem

fun
interesting
red packets
eat food
works good
orange
rock
knock out
scream

halloween

H alloween is a good day of the year
A nd I was going with Zoe but Tess asked if she wanted to come around to her house
L ots of candy
L ots of walks
O h how so wonderful it was trick or treating
W e had lots of fun
E ach of us got lollies
E ach of us had to go home at a certain time
N ow that was fun, except for the long walks.

friday

From school when we came home I found a santa sack.
Really I was suprised.

I ate my chewing gum first.

Dad had a crunchy bar, Mum told me.
And Mum let us have an apple.
Yummy apples they were.

acrostic poem

Disco's are cool
I went to the disco with bee
So I got two hotdogs
Cool
Other people danced

going to Izaih birthday

B eautiful
I zaih
R eally nice cake
T ank
H appy Birthday
D arren was there
A t the birthday it was cool
Y ummy food

acrostic poem

bendy branch
object the attack sometimes
winter is good to them
improve on the fireing
narrow the target then fire
archers' weapons are bow and arrows
reach the target
rest of the archers like the young ones do stuff
older ones sometimes train
wind makes the arrows faster

computer

Cannon
Oh that's cool
My go
Pirate
Un slow
Telescope
Exciting
Really fast
Ship

the box

the box
hoki fish
elephant fish
brown trout
octopus
x-ray fish

by Jerry

Christchurch

Cool when the kids were there

Halloween was on friday

Red faces after having tomato sauce

I stayed for ages until 7.00

Stopped at KFC for tea

Television was turned on

Children were there

Hamburgers we had for lunch

Umbrellas you needed

Rain came after the sun

Catches with the ball

Hot when we got up there

Ellas poem

My dad felt bad
he felt sad
and very very mad
not glad.

poem

DANCING TO THE MUSIC
INTERESTING MOVES ACROSS THE FLOOR
SIRENS AND FLASHING LIGHTS
COME AND JOIN THE FUN
ONLY 9 TO 12 YEAR OLDS

Certificates Week 3

This week's classroom certificates go to the following two people:

Nic - effort in art
I have been very impressed with Nic's effort and time that he put into drawing his seal for his calendar picture. He took his time to get it to look the way he wanted it to look. Well done, Nic.

Troy - increasing independence
Troy has made great progress in working independently during our reading programme. He sits down to get his work done in the time that he has and his not distracted by other people.
Great effort, Troy!

Centurion of the Week 3

This week's Centurion certificate goes to Nakita for being ICT literate.

Nakita has impressed with the enthusiasm and ease in how she navigates our blogsite and wikispace. She is very confident in posting comments and adding posts, logging in and out of the sites.
Great attitude, Nakita!

My Speech 2

Hello,

I have improved in my Speech

By Ami

Centurion of the Week 2

This week's Centurion is Ella. Ella shows great persistence (or perseverance) in her class work. She does not mind trying hard and not giving up when something is difficult. Well done, Ella.

Certificates Week 2

This week's certificates went to:

Kit - Effort and progress in Long Jump

Jack - Effort and progress in Long Jump


It is great to watch you two how you try really hard at improving your skills. It will be exciting to see how you go at the school athletics.

Zoe - Conscientious worker

You have a great work attitude and work so well without having to be reminded. Your work habits are excellent.

Going to Jarrod's house

On Friday I went to Jarrod's house. We went to the river on the 4 wheeler. Jarrod's friend was going ballistic with the 4 wheeler. We met up with Tony. He had a 2 wheeler. It was a 250cc motorcross bike. He was in the lead when we were having a race. Then we went all the way out to Oamaru. On the way back we went to a bridge to have a swim. We were jumping off it.

pig hunting

On Saturday my family went up the lakes and it was raining
so we put the skrim up.The next morning me, pop and caleb
and brendon went pig hunting. It took quite a while to
catch a pig but at last the dog started barking
and pop stuck the pig then brendon and caleb
caught a pig too ours was the biggest pig
then we went back to camp.

my frends

On monday i went to baxters to play. We got some togs on and went down to the creek and swam in it. Then we went up and got the little blow up boat and went down the creek with it. It was fun. By jordan.M.

Ellas post

In the weekend mum said that we could have a water bomb fight.Isaac tipped a bucket of cold water over my head.Me andIsaac went up to our next door neighbour and threw a water bomb at her and so she got a bucket of water and tipped it over my head. It was realy cold.

Going to Kits house

On saturday I went to Kits house and I stayed the night.In the morning, Kits dad cooked me bacen and eggs, and he cooked Kit bacen and a omlit, and then I went home.

Tayla,s post

I,m learning to do the forward criss cross because I haven,t been practising the forward criss cross thats why i can,t do it.I hope I can do it later in my life.

speech

Hello my name is Nakita I am learning to write a speech.

In my speech I am writing about my family.

I need to work on reading it off by heart.

by Kita Wita

Megan's post

Hi, my name is Megan and I am going to talk to you about long jump. I want to go further than I can because I would like to jump off the whole pit.

Jessie mays post

hello I am going to talk to you about my hand writing .
I am learning to link. It is hard Iam going to know this when I take my time.

JORDAN WOOD

Hi I am Jordan. I am learning to skip when we are doing fitness.

jerrys post

I am trying to jump two metres on long jump

pe

I am learning to jump further than 1 metre in long jump

learning how to skip

Hi my name is Jordan.m and I'm trying to skip criss croos

blog

hello,my name is Layton and I am learning to put stuff on our blog and it is easy sometimes.But sometimes it is hard but i am trying to.

Ella's post

Hi, my name is Ella. I am learning to skip to 100 times without stopping. At the moment I can do 50.

blog

Hi my name is Isaac I am learning to put stuff on the blog.It is easy to put stuff on the blog sometimes.

skipping

Hi My goal is to do the backwards and forward criss cross.I will know I have done this whenI do the back and forwards criss cross.Now thats the end bye-bye.

By Zoe

skiping

skipping

Bonjour our names are Zac & Joshua.We are learning how to skip to 150 skips in an hour .

My Speech

Hello, at school we are learning how to write Speechs.

My Speech is about Horses.

I need to work on writing faster.

By Ami

blog

Howdy partner! My name is Liam and I am learning to put stuff on the blog.
It is pretty hard to do it but I'm trying.

Learning how to skip

Hi my name is Darren. I am learning to do the backwards criss cross.

my intention for skipping is to learn front and back criss cross

skiping

I want to improve and be able to do 25 skips or more without stopping and doing backwards crisscross.

Centurion of the Week 1

This week's Centurion of the Week certificate goes to Hamish for displaying the virtues of respect and perseverance. Hamish shows respect for people around our school by treating them nicely and showing consideration.
Perseverance means that you try hard at achieving or completing something even though it might be really difficult. It means that you don't give up, but you keep working or trying hard. Hamish has displayed this virtue many times in the classroom. He does not shy away from trying hard and not giving up.

Classroom Certificates Week 1

This week's certificates went to

• Cruise - Welcome to Room 2! It is great to see how well you have fitted into our class. We hope you enjoy being a member of our class.
• Jordan M. - Effort in Reading. You impressed us this week with your contributions during our guided reading programme. You really think about what you are reading, and you are willing to offer your thoughts and ideas.

Room 2 Wikispace

Check out our new wikispace where you can find out more about our classroom programme, view children's work and check out exciting links.

(We have only just started this so keep coming back to see new additions.)

in the holidays

In the holidays I stayed 2 nights at Tayla's house. We played with Kyra and Quatin. We played Mums and Dads. I was the mum of quatin, Tayla was the mum of kyralee. We played on the tramp, and I was doing backslammers on the tramp.

holidays

In the holidays Dad, Mum, Maryjane and I stayed for tea at Grandad's and Heather's but first we went to the Oamaru Warehouse. Me and Maryjane got a new candy land game. Then we went to grandads. We played our new game. I had pizza. Mum, Maryjane and Dad had something different.

Shanes

hunting

In November Shanon, Chris, Josea, Dena and I are going hunting. We are going to camp. I hope I get something. I use a 22magnum.
by Jack

The lakes

On Saturday Isaac got 9 fish. Layton got 1 fish but I got the line tangled up.Then Layton and Isaac went down to the bike jumps and Brodie fell off by going to fast.


from Layton and Isaac

Holidays

In the holidays i stayed at Jessie-mays house and we played with our babies.Then we played on a push trolley and jessiemay was the driver somtimes i was the driver to.

Holidays

In the holidays megan came over to stay the night.We had a lot of fun.

We are blogging!

We are learning to write a new blog post. We will all have a turn at writing something about our holidays.

Welcome to Term 4!

Hopefully, everyone has had a nice and relaxing holiday, and is ready for the last term of this year. Please read our latest Room 2 Newsletter which will also go home as a hard copy:

13 October 2008
Dear Parents and Caregivers,

I hope you had a nice holiday with your child/children, and that they (and you) are ready for a new term.
This term is going to be just as busy as last term with lots of exciting things happening.

Celebration of Learning
Thank you to those parents and relatives who were able to come to our celebration of learning last term. It was great to have so many of you there. The children really enjoyed sharing their work with you. I look forward to the next celebration of learning at the end of this term.

Ulearn 08
I spent three days at Ulearn 08 in Christchurch together with my fellow teachers from Centennial School. This was a conference for teachers and schools who are part of the ICT professional development. It was a wonderful experience to learn and share along 1700 other teachers from all over New Zealand. My focus for this conference was to learn more about blogging and wikispaces. I learnt lots of new things which I want to try with our classroom blog. Please visit http://room2centennialschool.blogspot.com regularly to find out about Room 2’s learning. It would be great if you could pass on our blog address to any family members or friends around New Zealand and the world.

Children’s photos on blogs
From time to time, photos of the children will be published on our classroom blog. Please note that their last name will never be published, only their first name.
If you do not wish your child’s photo to be published on our blog, please fill in the opt-out slip below. If I do not receive a slip back, I assume that you are happy to have your child’s photo published. Please feel free to contact me if you have any queries regarding this.

Homework
This term, our homework routines will be a bit different. The children are still expected to read every night and to fill in their reading log. They are also required to complete a variety of spelling activities during the week. Reading logs will be checked daily, but spelling homework will only be handed in and checked on Friday morning. Please look out for the new homework sheet in your child’s homework book.

Stationery
If your child brings home a stationery list with item that he/she needs, could you please make sure they bring the money in a named envelope to me (not the office), or buy the items somewhere else. This is to ensure that they have all the material they need for this term. Thank you.

Ulearn 08 Christchurch

At the moment, I am attending the Ulearn 08 conference in Christchurch with the other staff from Centennial School. It is a wonderful experience to learn and share along 1700 other teachers from throughout the country. I have learnt lots about blogging, podcasting, voicethreads, and all sorts of other exciting things.
Check out ulearn.org.nz if you are interested in finding out more about this conference.

Celebration of Learning 2

It was wonderful to have a good number of parents, grandparents and caregivers at our celebration of learning on the last day of school. It was great to see lots of children who were keen to share their learning with the audience. Thank you very much.
If you are one of the children who were too shy to share, there will be another celebration next term.
In the meantime, enjoy the rest of your holidays!

Celebration of Learning

On Friday, we will have a celebration of this term's learning in Room 2. We will begin at 10.15 am. Everyone is welcome to come along and see what we have been up to this term. Time permitting, we will share our scrolls, character descriptions, our inquiry findings and the beautiful Kakahu (cloaks).
We hope to see you there!

Abigail

It is not going well because I haven't been here much. I will try to always be here and when I'm away I should read books about the topic.

Isaac

My inquiry learning is going well because I like doing the work. I need to work on using the Internet.

Tayla

Learning about Chinese language and people is going well. I am finding more information about China. I need to work on how to get my stuff about Chinese language and people to save on my file.

Jessie-May

My inquiry is going well because I have got some information. I need to work on how to use the Computer properly because there is a lot on the Olympics.

Shane

It is going well because I have learnt heaps of information about police in China. I need to work on searching faster on the Internet.

Liam

It is going well because I have got 3 pages of work on the Great Wall of China. Some of it is about why people wanted to conquer China.
I need to work on not talking a lot to my friends.

Ella

My inquiry learning is going well because I have found out a lot of information about the Olympics. It is getting easier to find information. Now I need to find even more information on my topic.

Troy

My inquiry is not going well because we only have found three facts about our topic. We need to find more facts on our topic.

Layton

My inquiry is going ok because I have only got a page and a half in my book. I need to find more information on the computer. I also need to work on using the computer and finding the right keys to type in.

Nakita

My inquiry is going well because I have written a lot into my topic book about Daily Life in China. I need to work on using the Internet on China.

Darren

My inquiry is going well because I know how to do lots of things on the computer. I need to do it faster because I am slow.

William

My inquiry is going well because I am learning more about China. I get my work done faster when I am not talking to anyone. I also need to find out more information about the Great Wall of China.

Ami

I think my inquiry isn't going too well because the Internet hasn't got too much information about Daily Life in China. I need to get more key words and finding websites that are actually good.
I think blogging and learning about Daily Life in China or any other thing is fun.

Jordan

It is lots of fun. Now I need to work on the Internet for information about China.

Nic

My inquiry is wicked because the Internet has lots of information about Chinese swords. I need to go into more websites with information.

Zoe

My inquiry is going well because I have included lots of information about the Olympics. I need to learn how to know what to write down from the computer.

Children's posts

Over the next days we will be adding children's posts about their Inquiry. We had to think about how our inquiry learning into our chosen topic was going, and what we still need to work on. Feel free to make a comment on our learning.

Our virtual cat

Today we had fun installing our virtual cat onto our Blog. He/She will follow your mouse and purr if you rub his/her tummy. Have fun!
PS We need a name for him/her. Do you have any suggestions?

More Panda Pictures

Here are some more pictures. I am learning how to insert more than one picture into our blog!


This is really easy. I am pleased with myself!

Panda

I found this cute Panda picture in Zoe's folder. I am learning how to add photos to our blog, so here we go!

China Inquiry

Room 2 has continued with their China Inquiry this week. Each one of us chose an area of interest for our inquiry. The topics we have chosen are Olympics, The Great Wall of China, Daily Life in China, Swords and Police in China. We are learning how to use the Internet to search for information and to decide whether the information we have found is appropriate for us. We keep asking ourselves if we understand what we are reading.
When we find a website we can do the 5 finger test - if there are more than 5 words in the first paragraph that we don't understand, it is probably too hard for us to understand. Next week we will be learning how to take notes from a website or a book.

Who am I?

Hello everyone,
today during reading time we made up "Who am I?" quizzes about well-known fairytale characters. We had to give three clues, the first one had to be very general. The second one could be more detailed but should still not give away too much information. The third clue would then be very specific.

Can you guess who this one is about?

I live in a forest.
I have to stay in bed because I am sick.
I get eaten by a wolf.

What about this one:

You can eat me.

I have buttons on my tummy.

Ginger is part of my ingredients.

Can you post a harder one for us to figure out?

Room 2 is ready to blog!

Kia ora,
this is Room 2's classroom blog. It is very exciting to learn about blogging, and I am sure that the children will have lots of fun doing it.
Have fun reading our blogs and feel free to add your comments.
Mrs Rehmann