tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83213670442770019052024-03-14T07:06:50.996+13:00KWS-RoomoneWe are an enthusiastic class of Year 2/3 learners and we love sharing our stories.Amanda Binghamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13967212812428514100noreply@blogger.comBlogger61125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8321367044277001905.post-15595815061584612712015-08-14T21:23:00.000+12:002015-08-14T21:23:09.903+12:00Term 3 Week 4<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We learnt some T-Ball skills at the <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Bay of Islands Softball Junior League Roadshow</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">. We teamed up with Room 7 on a Junior School rotation where we participated in b</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">atting drills, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">throwing drills and b</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ase running.</span><br />
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Amanda Binghamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13967212812428514100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8321367044277001905.post-34095463419193546362015-08-09T18:56:00.000+12:002015-08-09T18:56:49.935+12:00Term 3 Week 3<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have been learning how to 'hook' our reader by using sound or dialogue to start our writing. On Thursday we wrote the first sound we heard when we woke up in the morning. </span><br />
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Brmmm, brmmm. (Che)<br />
"Wake up", said Mum. (Troy)<br />
Silence. (Davalamayne)<br />
Mmmmmm. (Jas)<br />
"Waah. Nana, I want you!" (Sky)<br />
Chrchrchrchr. (Chryzler)<br />
"Woof. Woof." (Catherine)<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hopefully these intriguing story openers have made you want to read more of our stories. </span><br />
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<br />Amanda Binghamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13967212812428514100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8321367044277001905.post-54073334812999136842015-07-31T21:55:00.000+12:002015-07-31T21:55:02.414+12:00Term 3 Week 2<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In case you didn't see a copy of our Room newsletter for this term, here is a link:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This week for our music inquiry we investigated ways to make sound. Some ideas were very innovative and we made lots of noise with our new class band!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On Friday Honey and Catherine created this monument using milk bottle lids:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Amanda Binghamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13967212812428514100noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8321367044277001905.post-91008173596111924182015-07-24T22:33:00.000+12:002015-07-24T22:35:04.304+12:00Term 3 Week 1<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is great to be back at school. Room 1 had three days of fabulous learning with Mrs Morgan-French while Mrs Bingham was away. We have been practising our pirate song "Avast! Ahoy!" with Room 13 for our school production. We will be the scariest pirates that you've ever seen - some of the boys are showing their scary pirate faces in this photo:</span><br />
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<br />Amanda Binghamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13967212812428514100noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8321367044277001905.post-19274403660347501342015-07-05T22:15:00.000+12:002015-07-05T22:15:12.279+12:00Term 2 Week 11<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The last week of term went quickly. We have started practising for the school production next term "Pirates vs mermaids". Room 1 and Room 13 will be singing a song together. To get into pirate mode Che and Te Kawana made a Friendstrip called "Bad to the Bone".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Amanda Binghamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13967212812428514100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8321367044277001905.post-19101781331063941622015-06-28T10:17:00.000+12:002015-06-28T10:29:39.483+12:00Term 2 Week 10<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have some new board games in our classroom. Hibiscus, Veishali, Jas and Sky enjoyed playing Snakes and Ladders.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For art we created some new self-portraits for our classroom wall. They are 'falling back in space' self-portraits as part of our Matariki inquiry topic. First we traced around our hands and feet with pencil - we made our pencils 'whisper' so it was easy to rub out if we made a mistake.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On Thursday we had a hakari but we were so busy eating that we don't have any photos of our delicious kai! We had heaps of food including fry bread, cupcakes, sausage rolls, chocolate biscuits and hot chocolate. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We learnt the matariki macarena and made some string figures. It was tricky at first but we kept trying until we got the hang of it. Here is a video we made in class (our first attempt at green screening).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>W</b>inter cold <b>W</b>inter is cold</span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Last week at school I made a costume in Room 15 because it was Passion Week. Passion Week is when we split up into different classes to do different things.</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In Room 15 I had to make 50 scales. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">On Monday we had to make one scale then we had to help everybody else do one. On Tuesday we had to make the rest of the scales for my mermaid costume. On Wednesday I sewed my costume together. On Thursday we watched Peter Pan after morning tea. On Friday we finished my costume. I had fun.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Last week at school we had Passion Week. I was in the wheels crew. The wheels crew was in Room 6. We learnt about wheels. We made some cars with circle wheels. Then we made some nachos. Then we went to the skate park. Then we made a ramp and then we went back to the skate park. It was cool.</span><br />
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Amanda Binghamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13967212812428514100noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8321367044277001905.post-30970811305384428582015-05-15T21:22:00.001+12:002015-05-15T21:22:21.039+12:00Term 2 Week 4<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Christian, the street unicycling world champion, taught us how to ride unicycles this week. We showed lots of perseverance and great teamwork.</span><br />
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Amanda Binghamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13967212812428514100noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8321367044277001905.post-31902690166670007822015-05-08T21:06:00.000+12:002015-05-08T21:06:11.600+12:00Term 2 Week 3<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We wrote some cinquaine poems this week. They are five lines long. The poems make a diamond pattern - 2 syllables on the first and last line, 4 syllables on the second line, 6 syllables on the third line and 8 syllables on the fourth line. We all tried to use precise adjectives and verbs. Here are some of the poems we wrote:</span><div>
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Amanda Binghamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13967212812428514100noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8321367044277001905.post-26620984300609129022015-05-01T20:51:00.000+12:002015-05-01T20:51:47.455+12:00Term 2 Week 2<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We wrote some powerful war poems this week. If you are at school check them out - they are in our publishing window. Che wrote his thoughts on a mini whiteboard during free choice:</span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Duffy Theatre came to school on Wednesday and performed "Duffy and the Library Adventure" for us. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last week Jacob's mum asked us who's the tallest person in our class. We stood in a line from tallest to shortest to check and found out the tallest person is Troy.</span><br />
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Amanda Binghamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13967212812428514100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8321367044277001905.post-9337073907106333322015-04-24T21:37:00.000+12:002015-04-24T21:37:28.142+12:00Term 2 Week 1<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are all excited to be back at school for Term 2. Azalea had her birthday on Tuesday and shared a cake with us.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Amanda Binghamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13967212812428514100noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8321367044277001905.post-29361011170979805482015-04-02T20:16:00.000+13:002015-04-02T20:16:08.725+13:00Week 9<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We had a very active day on Monday. First we had Project Energise with Whaea Gina, then we had our last swimming lesson for the term - no more swimming until Term 4. In the afternoon we walked over to Kaikohe Intermediate to watch the rugby game. Kaikohe West won by 3 tries. Do you think our chant "Go West, Go West" helped them? We do!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On Wednesday we went over to Room 15 and made a korowai for Mrs Bingham:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On Thursday the Easter Bunny hid some eggs in our classroom. We were really good at finding them, then we estimated how many there were. Charlie-Gurl came up with a good strategy so we made groups of 10 and it was easy to see there were 90 eggs. We divided them into our Easter baskets so it was fair and took them home to share with our whanau.</span>Amanda Binghamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13967212812428514100noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8321367044277001905.post-19140145080313819142015-03-27T21:52:00.000+13:002015-03-27T21:52:29.921+13:00Term 1 Week 8<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have been thinking about how we learn: who helps us, what do we use and where do we learn? We drew Learning Maps:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Next term we are hoping to make some videos to share our learning goals with you.</span>Amanda Binghamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13967212812428514100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8321367044277001905.post-18324811076472985102015-03-21T09:16:00.001+13:002015-03-21T09:16:08.294+13:00Term 1 Week 7We had 100% attendance on Wednesday so we took a new class photo - our new header photo!<br />
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We also had a Duffy Assembly and Harmony went up on stage to represent our class. We couldn't wait to start reading as soon as we got back to the classroom.<br />
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Quite a few Room 1 students have been attending Drama Club at lunchtimes with Miss Nicola. They learnt how to make a video book using Book Creator on the iPads. Back in class, they made a Mr Men book to show the class. We are hoping they will teach us all how to make our own books. Check out their book here:<br />
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<br />Amanda Binghamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13967212812428514100noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8321367044277001905.post-25779595401234257332015-03-14T17:12:00.000+13:002015-03-14T17:12:40.766+13:00Term 1 Week 6<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We did some more fabulous artwork this week. On Monday we spent the morning with Miss Nicola designing birds. We brought them back to class to add colour with dye. Here are some photos of the work in progress:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Amanda Binghamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13967212812428514100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8321367044277001905.post-1007697440003460842015-03-07T10:46:00.000+13:002015-03-07T10:46:21.976+13:00Term Week 5<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We had another busy week at school and worked so hard that we earned a whole 40 minutes of free choice on Friday! On Monday Whaea Gina came to teach us some cooperative games and we went swimming. We spent lots of time with our buddy class, Room 9 on Tuesday and swam again on Wednesday. After writing recounts of our Kiwi House trip we published them on Thursday. Here are a couple of examples of what we did:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We went on our big trip to Whangarei on Friday to visit the Kiwi House. Thank you to the parents who came with us: Veena, Alan, Rebecca, Rachael, Karen, Jennifer, Philippa and Lyndiana. I hope you had as much fun as we did! </span><br />
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<br />Amanda Binghamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13967212812428514100noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8321367044277001905.post-252489036076676592015-02-13T20:22:00.000+13:002015-02-18T03:59:30.657+13:00Term 1 Week 2<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We had such a busy week! On Monday morning Tessa from ASB Getwise came to teach us about money. She taught us her superhero slogan: "Speed to your needs and wait for your wants".</span><br />
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Amanda Binghamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13967212812428514100noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8321367044277001905.post-31104276488238263202015-02-08T14:47:00.000+13:002015-02-08T14:47:56.338+13:00Welcome to 2015 in Room 1<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What a fantastic start to the year! We spent the 4 days at school getting to know each other before enjoying a beautiful long weekend for Waitangi Day. </span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On Tuesday we planted some cabbage seeds in our class garden box. We are looking forward to making some coleslaw when they grow. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here are some of the fabulous self-portraits we created on Wednesday:</span></div>
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Amanda Binghamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13967212812428514100noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8321367044277001905.post-74763912165941709822014-12-01T21:39:00.000+13:002014-12-01T21:39:31.434+13:00Term 4 Week 7<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We went for an "art trail" walk around Kaikohe on Monday. Here is some of the art we found:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the way back to school we were invited to visit Santa's grotto. It had only just opened and we were the first visitors!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Trinity enjoyed looking at the beautiful decorations.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Amanda Binghamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13967212812428514100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8321367044277001905.post-52602039140561911952014-11-23T18:17:00.000+13:002014-11-23T18:17:35.250+13:00Term 4 Week 6<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We wrote simile poems this week. Jazmine earned "Writer of the Week" with her poem.</span><br />
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