Wednesday, July 22, 2009

100 Days of School

This week we began "setting the scene" for our inquiry topic on "Rights for the Disabled". We discussed what being disabled means and experienced what it would be like in various situations. We had a go at painting with our feet.............

...... and walking around blindfolded with the help of our Room 5 buddies.

On Wednesday afternoon we met some new friends from Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. They are at NMIT for 7 weeks studying English and looking at sustainability in New Zealand. We showed them our digital story of "10 Ways to Save The Planet" and they showed us a Vietnamese duck dance!


Thursday was the much anticipated 100th Day of School. A fabulous time was had by all despite the wet weather outside. We made 100 Day crowns with 100 pictures on them.


Jenny brought in 100 soft toys........

...which we counted by sorting into groups of 10.

As a special treat at the end of the day Will's dad and Nico's mum led a sing-a-long on their ukeleles accompanied by plenty of enthusiastic parents. What a fabulous experience for us all, we are already planning another one for the end of the year! Thank you to everyone for all the amazing 100 Days projects you have produced with the children at home.

This week we will be starting the "acquiring knowledge" phase of our inquiry by writing effective questions to ask visually disabled experts. In literacy we will be revisiting the digraphs ou oi ue and er. Our tricky words will be 'you' and 'away'. We will be learning to write simple instructions about our before school jobs and writing some more thank you letters. In maths we will be practicing our number bonds to 10 and skip counting in 2's. Folk dancing starts this week so start practicing those side steps and skips.
Finally thank you to everyone for booking their parent interview times using the new online system and I look forward to sharing your child's successes with you in the coming week.
Reminders
Parent interviews Mon, Tues, Wed
Monday: Library books due back
Wednesday: Walk to school day
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6 comments:

  1. AnonymousJuly 26, 2009 at 3:01 PM

    I LIKED YOUR MUSIC! I LIKE YOUR CROWNS. WE HAD A 100S DAY PARTY TOO. i LIKED HAVING LOTS OF TREATS AND A SHARED LUNCH!
    ROOM 8 STUDENT http://room08sps.blogspot.com

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  2. room08spsJuly 26, 2009 at 3:35 PM

    It looks like fun room 11! We had a 100 days at school to! SB.

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  3. AnonymousJuly 27, 2009 at 6:01 AM

    Hallo, from Germany to all of the teachers and children of room 11. What a wonderful and exciting time have you had the first 100 days at school and we are very happy, that we can take part in your learning. We love to see your paintings, and to hear your little poems and we are very interested in your new inquiry topic. We wish you all instructive weeks and we hope we can see your beautyful school next summer, when we will stay some weeks with our grandchild Jenna and her parents. Love to all of you, Gerlinde and Karl-Werner from the other side of the world. Gerlinde

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  4. AnonymousJuly 27, 2009 at 7:21 PM

    it was fun in your class when i was 5

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  5. AnonymousJuly 30, 2009 at 12:18 AM

    Congratulations on your wonderful blogs. You have a very clever teacher. Keep up the good work. From Jenny's Warren

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  6. AnonymousAugust 1, 2009 at 11:09 PM

    Hi Buddies, Congratulations on winning last week's BEST BLOG! You did have fun on celebrating 100 days at school. I hope we can catch up at Buddy time this week.
    From Viv

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