Room 22
Latest HomeworkStudents should be bringing home their diaries each night with details of their homework requirements as well as any other important notices or reminders. They should be showing this to their parents regularly and getting it signed in the appropriate space on Thursdays. Each night students should have spelling words and basic facts to learn. About once a week they will also have a small current events summary to do. The roster for this is up on the wall in the class. They should also be reading a book of their choice for 15 minutes each night, which gets recorded in the reading log at the front of their diaries when they have completed it. Students are expected to complete their homework tasks. Please let me know if that puts undue pressure on your family. Current Events TemplateAs requested, here is the current events template we use in case people forget to take one home. Blooms VerbsIn our class inquiries and in our homework from now on, we will be using tasks based on Blooms verbs to encourage higher level thinking skills. It is important that we move on from simply regurgitating (or worse, cutting and pasting) information that we find on-line and start actually processing what we find out. In case they are needed at home I have attached a sheet of Blooms verbs. Knowledge, Comprehension an Application are lower level thinking skills. Analysis, Synthesis and Evaluation are higher level thinking skills. Book Review TemplateAs part of our oral language/homework this term we will also be doing book reviews. As I know it has been useful for some students to have the Current Events template online, I have also uploaded the Book Review template in case students realise at the last minute that they need it and have forgotten it.
February 22
Thank you to all of those families who sent along beautiful flowers to commerate the anniversary of the February earthquake. They made our school look lovely, and since we are room 22 I think we were especially deserving of the lovely arrangement the girls made in a road cone outside our class!
Wheelchair Rugby
On the 23rd of March Steve Hannon, Cave Creek survivor and New Zealand wheelchair rugby representative came to talk to us on the topic of "My Strength". After he spoke he taught us all how to play wheelchair rugby. It was awesome!
         
Our Estuary
In term one our science topic has been "Our Estuary" where we have studied the bird and animal life of the estuary and also looked at the effects of the recent earthquakes on it. We have finished this term with a trip down to observe the birds and other creatures that inhabit our estuary. Lorna, who is doing her PhD in seabirds came down with her telescope and showed us a lot of different birds, then we gloved up and went down onto the mudflats to look at the crabs, snails and worms. It was a lot of messy fun.
              
Easter Hunting This easter Room 2 (our lovely buddy class) invited us to join them on an easter hunt. It was a very warm day so it was a race against time before all of the chocolate melted. It didn't take everyone long to find their two eggs each. What a nice way to end term one. Thanks Room 2 and Kim.
       
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