Friday 24 March 2017

ASK ME ABOUT

Week 8:

CURRENT EVENTS: Remember when your day is....it is important that next week you bring Current events about local news. 

Cross Country Training: What are your goals for this event? What do you need to do to achieve your goals? 

ANZAC DAY: What were you thinking when you heard the gunfire blasts and the shouting? 
How do your think the soldiers were feeling?

HOUSE CAPTAINS: they were all presented with their badges during full school assembly. What a great show they put on for us. Way to go house captains! We have two in our class, Poppy and Gabby. 



Good Luck to the students from Ilam who are participating int he Canterbury Duathlon on Monday, two from our class, Luca and George. All the best and go hard out and try your very best. Remember that I will not be at school until later on Monday afternoon. Have a great day on Monday for the reliever and Miss Williamson. 

Have an awesome weekend: 


Go the Crusaders!




Balloon Bop

We learnt a new game this week called Balloon Bop: 

What is the objective of the game? 






What Did we learn by playing the game?


Basketball






Balloon Challenge

We were given a balloon, some string, a straw and sellotape. We had to try and get a message to someone using these items. 

We were learning to collaborate with our partner to complete the challenge. What were our thoughts?

















Saturday 18 March 2017

WEEK 7

What a sport filled week we have had during Week 7.


WELCOME: to Miss Williamson, our students teacher who has been with us for one week. She will be in Room 19 until the end of the term. We know she will enjoy her time in Room 19.

TWITTER: This week our Kidsedchat was about Culture. How appropriate to be involved in the tweeting about Ilam School. 

WRITING: 
Creative Writing has been our focus for the past week. This will continue on during Week 8. We have been looking at this book....

We have worked in pairs to come up with interesting ideas about one picture in the book. We have only looked at the setting. Check out some of our sentences below. 



A pitch black night, the glimmering lights stare at the young boy called Archie Smith.

Faint sounds of the wind howling could be heard through the open window of the darkness in the damp hollow room

As fog entered the window faint noises could be heard across the dusty country road with cars driving past as midnight approached.

a moonless jet black night while a boy was sleeping in his cracked old bed under his warm fluffy blanket

Faint noises. Slurred speech.
That was all Archie Smith could hear as he faked sleep in unbearable peril.
He knew that gleary golden rays of light were streaming over him.

His room was cluttered with his baseball  bat, half eaten sandwich and yoyo on the open  window sill it  had a baseball bat sitting next to a open window with a yoyo on the window sill. He had a toy sail boat on his wall

But little did he know he was in great danger. just then two white round eyes appeared on his wall and glared at him for the rest of the night.


Rain slashed at the thatched roof of his farmhouse. It was a small but sturdy one and held three bedrooms and a kitchen. Outside there were vast paddocks full of animals and a small stone outhouse

The boat sat on the shelf above as midnight approached. Two glowing lights appeared suddenly next to his bed

A cold breeze came through the open window and a tiny voice said “is he the one” but Archie smith slept on. You could hear redundant loud cars outside on the road.

READING: We have learnt about Information Maps: What importance do they play in our learning within reading? What new knowledge have you gained about the mammal you are reading about? It is very important at this age, for you child to be reading every night for about 20-30 minutes. The benefits of reading helps boost their vocabulary knowledge and understanding which then reflects in their writing. This is an important aspect of Literacy. Please could you check on your child's reading.

Every so often ask them about their book, 

  • Tell me about what you are reading about, 
  • What do you think will happen next?
  • What important message is coming through in the text?


SPORT IN WEEK 7

Firstly I would like to say a huge thank you to all of the parents who offered their support and help for our Senior School Duathlon. It is very much appreciated and required, so that any event is able to run smoothly. With any sporting event, there is always something that does not go as we (the spectators) would expect. Staff/teachers and helpers try to envisage as much as possible beforehand so that we can stop things from happening. We are always open to any feedback offered to improve. 

DUATHLON: I am so proud of the way that all of Room 19 participated in the event. You showed determination, GRIT and perseverance. I know that some of you feel you could have done better....keep that in mind as we train for the Cross country event in week 11. 




Congratulations to George and Luca from Room 19 who are representing Ilam School at the Primary Sports Canterbury event on Monday 27th March. 

CRUSADERS: On Thursday afternoon we had two Crusaders come and visit us. They told us information about themselves and we were also able to ask them questions. What did you learn about them?  Their names were Jordan Taufua and Jone Macilai.







FRIDAY was our last day with the Christchurch Boys High students. We have all learnt new skills to incorporate into the sports we were learning about, basketball, touch, hockey and football. 








Following Instructions


A couple of weeks ago we were very lucky to be given a fruit burst BUT we were also given a set of instructions to go with it. 


THOUGHTS BELOW




END RESULT



WHAT WAS THE LEARNING IN THIS TASK?

Tuesday 14 March 2017

Blog

Hi,

Here are some pictures of me sailing in Sumner at the C.Y.C (Christchurch yacht Club) in an optimist.😁


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Friday 10 March 2017

ASK ME ABOUT

Week 6 is over....What another busy week we had.

This week we have been completing alot of assessment: Reading PAT, Reading E Asttle, Writing E-Asttle, Maths PAT and Spelling. This has meant that our routines have been altered a bit. 

Wednesday we got to work with the Christchurch Boys High Boys again. This was a lot of fun learning skills in touch, football, hockey and basketball. 







GIRLS CRICKET:
Congratulations to our girls cricket team who played their last game against each other on Wednesday afternoon. Thank you for your commitment to learn new skills and get involved. I know that you all can't wait to play again in Term 4.




SWIMMERS: We are proud to say that we have 20 students who will be representing Ilam at the West Zone Tournament on Monday afternoon at Jellie Park. Good Luck to all of you! 

CAINE'S ARCADE: Check out the you tube clips for Caine's Arcade, I have put them under the Topic Page. 

KIDS ED CHAT: Yay today we got to have our first chance to Tweet this year. Tweeting was new to many of the students so there was a lot of new learning happening. What can you remember about tweeting. Check out this link to see what we were discussing today. 

DUATHLON: On Thursday 16 March we will all be participating in the Ilam Senior School Duathlon. Even if you don't have a bike you can ride a scooter or even just run. It will be a lot of fun and a chance to get outside and exercise. A great warm up for the Cross Country that is happening in Week 11. 







EMOTION POEMS

During the last 2 weeks Room 19 have been working collaboratively to write Poems about Emotions. 

They have been learning to:

  • Work as a team, sharing ideas and learning to compromise.
  • Add descriptive detail and upgrade words and sentences
  • Share Google docs and provide comments
  • Give feedback to another team using 2 Stars and 1 Wish
Below are the Poems:


Heartbroken

Anger

Disgust

Nervous

Embarrassment

Frustration

Excitement

Fear

Confusion

Thankful

Happiness

Annoyed

Joy


Fantastic Song

Tuesday 7 March 2017

AVA JANE

Ava Jane had a visit to Orana Park in the weekend. Wow what awesome photos




Monday 6 March 2017

Sunday 5 March 2017

WEEK 5



Another busy week in Room 19 this week. 

Our Emotion Poems: These will be published this week once we have completed them.

Maths: Stem and Leaf Graphs, How do we use these? How do we take our pulse and what does this have to do with Maths?

Christchurch Boys High School: Students from Boys High visited us last Wednesday to coach us in Basketball, Football and Touch. They will be visiting us again this week. What did you learn from the coach who was taking you for skills?






Miss Williamson: On Thursday we met our new student teacher from University of Canterbury who will be working with us from Monday 13th March

Science in a Van: What a fantastic display we saw on Thursday with a couple from Science in a Van. What can you remember about what they demonstrated? The photo and video below might help you to remember.















SENIOR SWIMMING SPORTS

Huge congratulations to all of the Room 19 students who went out there and challenged themselves at our swimming sports. You all did a fantastic job with sportsmanship, perseverance and behaviour. 





and then our House Relay