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It will be fun to make our own story next term.
Here she is in traditional abya that women wear.
She went for a camel trek through the desert.
This her view from her apartment.
She teaches in a number of schools. This is one of the classes in a girls' school.
In response to a need to have more of a structured way to help children learn their basic facts I made up this programme of finely leveled basic facts practice sheets. Parents wanted to have copies of the sheets for home practice so I made this wiki up that has all of the leveled sheets for download and web links that support that knowledge learning. The link will always be at the top on the right hand side of the blog when you need it.
After we had had a bit of a chat I took the laptop outside for a bit of a tour. The teachers loved our playground and our trees to play in.
It was an excellent connection. Their teacher, Brian, was the teacher who introduced us to our phones. We like using our phones when we read.
Do you want to get better at knowing about maths?
Today we played netball games like Octopus and Dots.
We had lots of fun at these wicked games.
We raced each other. We had to skip five times with a skipping rope, go over the ladder and hurdles and shoot two goals.
The Dots game is when you turn over a dot to a flat side or a bumpy side.
Why pay lots of money for the Simon Game when you can get it on line for free. Network 9 blog in Palmerston North had this on their blog so I borrowed the game for you. The best I could do is 15. Let me know in the comments if you can beat me!
We are learning how to correctly place speech marks. On Friday we looked at the quizillion words that you can say instead of said. This web site will help.
This podcast can also be found on iTunes- to find it search iTunes for Allanah.
When Mum says,
"I'll be there in a minute."
She really means,
I'll be at least another half-hour."
But when Mum says
"I want this room tidied NOW, or there'll be trouble."
She really, really means it!
A poem by Margaret Schroder
New Zealand School Journal
Tammy is a beginning teacher learning at the University in Regina, Canada. I made a connection with her professor, Mr Shareski, on Twitter and through his blog. He asked us to help the learners in his university class make connections with classes around the world. Tammy chose us.
Conor's Mum comes from Ireland. Today she and Conor got all dressed up to celebrate St Patrick's Day. At school we took a photo of Conor and his Mum, we sung an Irish song and played the four leafed clover game. We wrote an Irish story in writing time.
Last Friday I saw the Prime Minister, John Key. He was at the Ellersie Flower Show in Christchurch. He walked past my brother and I. We just stood there. The Prime Minister said, "Why are you not at school?" I said that I was on a long weekend.
On Friday I worked with another group of teachers, this time in Palmerston North. They were very keen to learn and caught on to how to add sound and pictures to their class blogs.
I spent the weekend discovering Wellington. On Saturday Mini-Dylan and I went to Te Papa to see the Pompeii Exhibition. What do you know about Pompeii?
On Sunday we visited the Karori Sanctuary where I saw my first wild tuatara and a few magnificent kaka.
Last Friday we had Crazy Hair Day when Allanah was away. So Jodie taught us. Jodie took a photo of all of us and emailed this photo to us to put on the blog. We raised money for the Relay for Life.
Today I spent the day in Masterton sharing our blog, audio and learning with teachers all keen to learn and do some of the same things that we are doing. Mini-Dylan sat happily on my computer and helped people when they put their hand up.
After school today Allanah left to spend two days in the North Island leading groups of teachers to show them how we do the things that we do on our blog. Allanah hadn't been to the Nelson airport in while and liked the new sculpture on the wall there.
She flew and Mini-Dylan flew over the Marlborough Sounds on the way to Wellington. It was a beautiful day for flying and Allanah was happy that Mini-Dylan decided to come too to keep her company.
Even though I am now in the Wairarapa Santana got her homework photos to me to put on the blog. Look how tidy her homework is now. Well done Santana.
As part of our Keep Ourselves Safe learning Constable McKitrick came to talk to us about different kinds of touching.
For our homework this week as well as reading and spelling you had to do some useful work around the home. Isaac took our camera home and took a before and after photo of his bedroom. The before photo shows how it was and the after photo shows how it is now it is all nice and tidy.
We were going to find out more about where they are but our internet was playing up yesterday so we couldn't look at Google Earth or their website. We will just have to do our best and see how it goes.
The Zoe's must have been on a roll with the homework. Zoe G did a great effort with the homework book as well as her spelling. This is what a good effort with homework might look like. Well done Zoe.
This is how our spelling notebook should look after it has been home and the spelling words have been learnt. Zoe S did really well to learn all of her words and get them 100% correct.
The idea is that each child gets a username and password which I have already organised. Then you log into the site and play other eight year olds from all over the world at basic facts.
P.S. If I had known it was going to be this popular I would have done it ages ago. A whole heap of kids wanted to play on through playtime and lunchtime. Raewyn told us that the senior class at Upper Moutere are staying late at school and going to play until midnight tonight. Not many maths books will motivate kids to do that!!!
Today we are starting independent reading activities. This website called Reading Together, is an interactive reading one where you can change parts of the text to suit you and you get to change the characters in the story as well.
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