Explore time 2018

Book Week

Our Favourite places to read

Thank you to everyone who shared their favourite place to read. 

Check out the Room 19 students below

This photo of Yoonji was taken in the Korean National Palace

BOOK WEEK

We have an exciting week coming up as it is Book Week at Ilam. There will be so many different things happening.

The Book Fair begins tomorrow. Please come along to the library and check out the books that are available. 

Dress Up Day is on Thursday. Have you though of who you might dress up as. 
Below are some ideas:

Week 4

Once again time is flying by. This is what happens when you are having fun and learning.

During week 4 we started on our speeches. We have been learning about persuasive techniques and the importance of using these when writing our speeches. They are listed below.

1. Rhetorical Questions
2. Exaggeration
3. Emotive language
4. Repetition
5. Facts and Statistics
6. Groups of 3

STOCK MARKET:

On Tuesday we were lucky enough to have Karen come in and provide us with some more information about the stock market. She gave us ideas about different shares and also the industries. What did you learn from Karen?

VANSHIKA: Well done to Vanshika who went along to the staff room on Friday at morning tea time. She presented about an Indian Food, samosa, for part of her Cultural leadership role. They were very yummy. 

Book Week

Book Week is not too far away! 
One fun activity the children can opt to do is take a picture of reading in their favourite place! This could be up a tree, in a tent, on a mountain... the possibilities are endless!
This will be advertised in the school newsletter and on Face book. If you could please advertise on your blog or through your weekly updates this would be fab!
THINGS TO REMEMBER:
-Photos can be emailed to me at linda.ewen@ilam.school.nz  starting the Monday of Book week and finishing no later than 5pm on Wednesday 22nd August.

See below for examples

DANCES FOR SCHOOLS

Wednesday 8th August

Today we had Ezra from Dances for schools come and work with all of the seniors and a couple of middle school classes. Wow what an awesome time we had.
Check out the clips below. A couple are of photos and the others are videos. 
Thanks Mrs K for the first 4.

Toothpaste and Toothbrushes

HI there 

Room 20 would like your help.

TERM 3

Wow Week 2 of Term 3 completed. Where has that time gone. 

Many thanks to all of the parents for the great turn out to our learning conferences. 

Our first day back had Room 19 completing a flash mob for Mr Marsh as it was his birthday. 

DONUT news, all of us sharing what we got up to in the holidays. 

WEEK 2: What an awesome day to have our West Zone tournament. All the teams displayed fantastic sportsmanship. 

When we got back from Tournament there was a game of silent ball. Look at where the ball ended up.

On Wednesday were were very fortunate to have scientist from University of Canterbury come to Ilam to show us some experiments. We were all fascinated with what we learnt. What was the most exciting activity for you?

During the first week of term we made rubbish bags out of newspaper so that we could collect any rubbish from our lunches during the week. Check out the video below. After two weeks this is some of our results. Our next step is to see what changes we could make to lower the amount of rubbish we make. Stay Tuned to see what we come up with