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.