Class Meeting Minutes - Term 3, Week 3

HERE IS WHAT WE DISCUSSED AT OUR CLASS MEETING:

1. LAST WEEK WE ENJOYED: 

Narrative writing, Football Literacy, Wet Day Monitors & the Olympics!

2. IN WEEK 4 WE ARE STILL GOING TO IMPROVE:

Presenting our work neatly in our books

3. AT CLASS MEETING THE CLASS TALKED ABOUT:

Free Time from Cut It Out (Keziah)


Dictionaries in desks (Harrison) 
Keziah is now the 'Dictonary Monitor'

Class Singing (Jorja) 
This will now happen every Friday

Class Novels (Jorja)
Mr Ish will chose the class novels rather than us deciding and voting

The top groups in Week 2 were:

1st:  We Have'nt Really Decided (33,033,000points)

2nd: Unfortunately Attractive  (12,038,000 points)

3rd: Here Comes Trouble (12,022,000 points)

4th: Mine Packers (1,017,000 points) Mr. Ish's slaves!

Terrific Times Tablers in Week 3 were:

Katie, Jorja, Anna, Pieta, Jessica, Nikita, Finn, Zac, Cullen, Curtis, Sammi

Sensational Spellers in Week 3 were: 

Roisin, Katie, Jorja, Anna, Alexa, Isabella, Pieta, Jessica, Nikita, Maiya, Lauren, Elliot, Finn, Jesse H, Zac, Cullen, Joseph & Sammi

Stupendous Certificate Earners:

Aston for using the 'Listening' Habit of Mind in Writing 
Jorja for using the 'Be Clear' Habit of Mind in Maths
Jesse H for using the 'Have a Go' Habit of Mind in Spelling

By Deputy Chair, Ben Harding

HELLO THERE EVERYBODY ....

Well, the weather has definitely taken a turn for the worse...maybe it has something to do with Roisin returning from her big Swiss adventure???? (I'm joking Roisin. It's great to have you back)


The term is flying by, it's hard to believe it's Week 3 already! We've been busy in class, starting learning some new multiplication and division strategies, writing narratives, planning our iMovies, planning our Habits of Mind posters for the school, enjoying the Olympics, getting stuck into some Football Literacy (with Tim Bush from Mainland Football every Thursday) and are about to start thinking like frogs...


Speaking of the Olympics, Mrs. Warren has our own STA Games planned for Week 11. Also, I plan to have our own wee inter-class 'fun' Olympic Games with Room 23 and Mrs. Ford's class next week. 


CLASS LEADERS
Congratulations to Cullen and Ben. Cullen has been elected the new Class Chair and Ben our Deputy Chair. They're getting the hang of running our 'vocal' weekly class meetings! Class Meetings are held every Thursday and it's a chance for the Room 27 to discuss a number of things. Have a read of our Class Minutes. 


CAMP
A big thank you to those parents who put their name's forward to be camp helpers this year. Once again, we had a great response. Mr. McKenzie has notified those parents who were both successful and unsuccessful in the ballot. Speaking of camp, now could be a good time to get your kids to help 'raise' the fund for our camp at Hanmer Springs. The costs haven't been confirmed yet, but will be in the vicinity of $130. The activities at Hanmer include; walking, cycling, orienteering and others that use the local area. There's not long to go now - Week 3 of Term 4!


B.D.O
We have booked Ten Pin Bowling for the last week of the term and the cost for this, and buses, will be taken from the Term 3 Activity Costs. Any money that is left over will go towards camp costs.


HOME LEARNING
Expectations of spelling, reading and basic facts are still in place. Please make sure that your child completes this each night (Monday to Thursday), without doing the work for them. Please record their success with a tick () or a cross () in the space provided. For those who would like more work for their children, the Team Up website is what I'd recommend - teamup.co.nz. Also, the class blog has lots of links to fun educational sites.


WEEKLY QUIZ
Each week we'll be doing a quiz. You'll be able to view the quiz by clicking on the link at the top of the blog. See if you can beat the your child's score!


IMPORTANT DATES
Week 5:   Zone Winter Tournament
Week 6:   School Assembly
Week 7:   Central Winter Tournament
Week 8:   Class Poetry Competition
Week 9:   School Assembly
               Syndicate Poetry Competition
Week 10: Talent Quest 'prelims'
Week 11: Talent Quest Finals
               B.D.O
               STA Games


As always, please contact me if you have any queries about our class programme or your child's learning or behaviour. Speaking of behaviour, check out what Flynn's latest trick is...

Ka kite ano,
Mr. Isherwood

Class Meeting - Term 3, Week 2

HERE IS WHAT WE DISCUSSED AT OUR CLASS MEETING:

1. LAST WEEK WE ENJOYED: 

Football Literacy with Tim from Mainland Football

2. IN WEEK 3 WE ARE STILL GOING TO IMPROVE:

Calling out (When Mr Ish is talking)

3. AT CLASS MEETING THE CLASS TALKED ABOUT:

Justin Bieber (Katie)

Go Home Stay Home (Jesse J)

One Direction (Maiya)

Bags (Anna)

Roll Race (Aston)

Ask before using stationery (Damian)

The top groups in Week 2 were:

1st: Unfortunately Attractive (18,038,000 points)

2nd: Here Come Trouble (11,025,000 points)

3rd: We Haven't Really Decided (7,038,000 points)

4th: Mine Packers (5,040,000 points)

Terrific Times Tablers:

Sensational Spellers: 

Stupendous Certificate Earners:

By Deputy Chair, Ben Harding

The Olympics - 3 days to go!!!

We've been getting excited and learning about the Olympics in class. Have a look at the fabulous videos and links on Olympics page of this Blog.


Today, each child selected an Olympic Hero to do a bit of research on, and complete a 'Hero Cube'. The children will now be known as their Olympic Heroes for the duration of the Games. 


Also, we are having an Olympic Mufti Day:

When: Friday 27th July
Why: To support the Olympics and have a 'fun'raising day
What to Wear: Dress as an athlete or wear the dress of your favourite Olympic country
Cost: NOTHING, no money is required.

Class Meeting - Week 1, Term 3

HERE IS WHAT WE DISCUSSED AT OUR CLASS MEETING:

1. LAST WEEK WE ENJOYED: 

The holidays!

2. IN WEEK 1 WE ARE STILL GOING TO IMPROVE:

lining up and calling out.

3. AT CLASS MEETING THE CLASS TALKED ABOUT:

Call it out, write it out (Anna)

Game of Life (Mr Ish)

ask before use (Damian)

Asking for the time (Elliot)

The top groups in Week 1:

1st: Here Comes Trouble (11,636,960 points)

2nd: Mine Packers (256,720 points)

3rd: We Haven't Really Decided (221,200 points)

4th: Unfortunately Attractive (25,880 points)

Terrific Times Tablers:

There was no test last week

Sensational Spellers: 

There was not test last week

Stupendous Certificate Earners:

Elliot, Jesse, Arnie,Nikita and Lauren

By Deputy Chair, Ben Harding

Welcome to Term 3!

HELLO THERE EVERYBODY .... 

Welcome back after what hope was an enjoyable holiday. Term 3 is going to be full of sport, The Habits of Mind activities, Olympics, Frogs, (yes - FROGS!!!),  AVAILLL, Narratives and iPad-ing!

With Room 27 such a fabulous and wonderful group of young people I am looking forward to getting stuck into some great learning.

Here's some jokes to get you giggling...

What did one eye say to the other? Thereʼs something between us and it smells 

What did one eye say to the other? He got a little behind in his business

What kind of plants are good in dark places? Bulbs 

What do witches do best at school? Spelling 

What do you get when you cross a comet with an owl? A hooting star 

What do you get when you cross a centipede with a chicken? Enough drumsticks for everyone

What happens when two snails have a fight? They slug it out.