Room Two

Festival Review and World Maths Day

Hi Room 2

First of all, here is the link for you to provide feedback for on the Festival of the Arts play we saw on World War II and go in the draw to win $500 worth of electronic vouchers.

http://www.nzfestival.nzpost.co.nz/about-schoolfest/reviews/

Second, here is the link for the World Maths Day competition

www.worldmathday.com

Have a great time working on the website. The competition begins on Tuesday 4 March at 12:00 midnight and finishes on Thursday 6 March at 12:00midnight also. Here are some latest figures I was sent of how many are taking part.

1 million students
20,000 schools
150 countries
250 million practice questions already answered!

Have fun!

Theresa

Start of the Year - Khandallah School Picnic!

Welcome back to a new year at Thorndon School.

We have had a great start to the term and the class is really enthusiastic which is wonderful!

We will aim to put up a new blog post each fortnight. The students will take turns writing about what we have been up to and taking pictures to place on the blog.

Here are some pictures from our school picnic at Khandallah - enjoy!

Theresa Bowen

The exciting day begins!

Tom and Jacob - train style.

Exploring the creek.

Olive having a ball on the flying fox.

Suzie, Mrs Evans and the newest member of our class,
Rita, who will be working full time with Laura.

Isaac, Matt and Taylor

Annie and Gabby

Kayleigh

Homeward bound.

Sculptures

Drama for a morning

Dance with Liz

The kids experimented with locomotive and non-locomotive movement.

They created shapes using different levels and body parts.

We had a ball!

We are launching into our own dance exploration. Watch this space.

Mathletics

Mathletics is upon us!

You have all received your user names and passwords.

Sign in, create your online character and have fun!

Officially the two days are Wednesday and Thursday but you can begin earning points from today.

Here is the link.

http://www.mathletics.co.nz/

Remember, this year it is both Spelling and Maths so remember to have a go at both!

Stories, Inquiry and Swimming

This week Theresa has been reading us a story after lunch each day. So far we have read 'The Last Resort' by J.Patrick Lewis and Roberto Innocenti, 'My Uncle is a Hunkle' by Lauren Child, 'The Whisper' by Nick Butterworth, and 'Billy' by Kate De Goldi. They were all very different from each other.

On Thursday, some children went to the Central Zone swimming sports.

The people from our class who went were Asia, Hannah, Jessica, Jackson, Charquera and Daniel. Jackson got into the Inter-Zone. Jude taught us for the day because Theresa took them.

The students have been giving their Inquiry Presentations to the class.

It has been very interesting as the students asked some very good questions to research and have found a great deal of information about life on the Nile, both past and present. Well done guys! (Theresa)

Next week will be Book Week. We will be having a teacher come into our class every day after lunch to read us a book. On Friday, students are asked to dress up as a favourite book character. We hope EVERYONE will participate in dressing up.

We will also be visited by two children's authors on Thursday, Janice Marriott and Jan Farr. Have a look at Janice's website to learn about what she has written. http://www.janicemarriott.com/ (Theresa)

Also next week, a lot of people are going to the Winter Sports Festival with Theresa. They will be doing soccer, netball, mini-ball or hockey.

It has been a great week!

By Asia and Olive

Maths Week

This week has been so fantastic!

We have been doing a lot of maths and went to an art gallery.

We used the laptops every day for Maths Week (as well as our normal maths).

We did a Survivor Series and a Daily Challenge on the Maths Week website.

At the end of the week, the clues we found on the website questions gave us words that led us to the secret spot in the classroom to find the Maths Week Prize Tickets!