Week 3

Hi all

I hope you had a great weekend following children around the winter sporting codes - it's amazing to see how many of the children are involved in winter sport.

At school, we are in for a busy couple of weeks.

The Barefoot 7's are on Thursday.

This Friday, it is the Tough Guy and Gal Challenge - half of Room 6 are going to give it a go so look out for the photos!

The Hawke's Bay Individual Orienteering Championships take place on Sunday.

Next week I will be out of the class Monday (Interface IT conference - Taupo) and Tuesday (National Young Leaders Conference - Palmerston North).

The HNI Tech Tasters trip has been postponed - new dates will be advised later.

In the classroom, we are now 1 to 1 with electronic devices.  We have a mix of chromebooks, netbooks, pcs and ipads to assist our learning.

The children now have their own email address and will be creating their own blogs using blogger rather than kidsblog.  I have a more user friendly interface  - Teacher Dashboard - where I can monitor all documents, emails and blogs from my desktop.

In Language we are continuing to learn to write expositions and reviewing our learning about adjectives.

In maths we are learning to use multiplication strategies to solves problems.  Children need to be regularly working on their Maths Knowledge steps and getting these assessed.  All children have access to a 30 day trial of IXL maths to improve their maths skills.

Our country study is under way and children's work should be available for you to peruse on-line this week.

If parents want to see IT in action or have any queries- feel free to drop in and ask.

Have a great week!