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!