Our Photos: print & download them

Room 9 has its very own photo site!

Whenever we take photos during class or at special events (ie. swimming carnival, class trips etc) within a few days they will be uploaded to our Flickr site.

This is GREAT for parents/caregivers/relatives as you can click on the photos to make them bigger and then print them or save them to your own computer!!

You can also view a random display of our photos near the bottom of the sidebar (to the right) on this webpage.

ENJOY - click on the screenshot below to visit - swimming carnival photos uploaded also!

Our Favourite Things!

Today we had our ICT computer time in the library. We worked with our buddies on Kidspiration which was the programme that Rachel used to record all of our learning for our audio conference.

Today since our topic is "All about me" we did a mindmap of all of our favourite things!

First we wrote our names in the middle. Then we chose some pictures that were of things we liked. Underneath each picture we had write the name of our picture. We had to find 5 things we liked with our buddy or by ourselves. Then we used the pointy arrow to point to all of our pictures. Monique and Rachel printed our pictures out and helped us save them. Tayla and I printed our own pictures! By Josh

This is what two of them looked like:

Well done Josh for uploading these images for us!

Our Learning from our Audio Conference

Here is the Kidspiration mindmap that we made of our learning on the LEARNZ Audio Conference.

Click on the image if you want to see it larger.


What do you think of our learning??

LEARNZ Audio Conference

Today we were lucky enough to have our very first LEARNZ Audio Conference.

Our topic has been the rocky shore and marine reserves.

We used a very special phone called a polycom (in the photo it is the space-age black thing that looks really strange). It allowed our whole class to listen to our guest speaker Kara and the LEARNZ teacher Mike. It also let us speak into it so that everyone else who was listening could hear. There were two other schools that were asking questions.

We got to ask our 4 questions about the rocky shore. Victoria, Sam, Joseph and Tayla were especially chosen to ask Room 9's questions.

Some of us found it hard to listen to the answers as we had no visuals to look at but we will get better at that! After the audio conference we made a mindmap of all our learning on Kidspiration and we will post that later for you to look at!

Blend Activity - bl

Today we celebrated the learning we have been doing about the blend "bl" this week by doing a blend activity. We will be doing a great, fun making activity related to our blend of the week each Friday.

We revised the sounds that "b" and "l" make and how they sound when they are all run in together to make "bl". We also started a special book called "Our Blends Book" where we will record all of our learning each week.

These were the "bl" words that we thought of...

• block
• blowfly
• Blenheim
• blossom
• blanket
• blunt
• blackberry
• blow
• blue
• black
• blood
• blob
• blank
• and the list goes on....

Today we made a "BLOCK", we had to follow some directions, colour, carefully cut, glue tabs and assemble our blocks. Here are some photos!

Swimming!

We have started swimming each day. Room Nine goes swimming near the middle of the day, which works out well because by then we are just starting to get really hot!

At the moment we are being put into groups so that Rachel and Jane can best teach us new fabulous swimming skills!

First Day at School for 2007!

Welcome to Room Nine!

I hope you all had fabulous holidays and found the time to relax and enjoy yourself! It was great to meet many of you this morning and a big thank you for having children's stationery ready to go too!

We are in for a fabulous year full of fun, laughter and LOTS of learning! We hope that you will enjoy sharing in our discoveries on this class blog which we will update regularly. During Term One I will be teaching Room Nine how to do simple posts and add their thoughts to this site. After that.... maybe they'll master some posts themselves!

A blog is short for "web log" and is like an online diary that is archived and displayed chronologically. Feel free to give this website out to family and friends (especially those overseas!). It is a great way for you and them to feel involved in your child's learning and education. You can also "Subscribe" to our blog by entering your email address into the subscription box to the right - this way you will receive an email informing you of when our blog is updated!

You may be interested to have a sneak peek at the class blog created last year with my year 2/3 students at Mapua School, we have recieved national and some international acclaim for our fabulous efforts! Having a sneak peek will let you know what our blog will end up looking like over time as we add more posts.

I hope to see most of you at our Kahihatea Syndicate "Meet the Teacher Night" next Tuesday. Until then... make sure if you're around school you come in and introduce yourself to me!!

Kind regards,
Rachel Boyd