Miss T's Classroom.

Here is a link to the NZ Post Children’s Book Awards 2012 shortlist.  Start reading and then you will be able to vote.

And here are our teams for the Mastermind event that will take place in early Term 2. Reading of the books will start very soon. We have bought some already and some I have put on reserve at the library.  We will need three copies as we have three teams!  I will put in the date when I find it out when the actual day of the mastermind is.  A lot of close reading is needed.

Senior Teams:  Yes we have two teams, and almost had enough for three teams.

Siabhaon                                                               Breellen

Teegan                                                                   Antonio

Simone                                                                   Vicky

Joseph                                                                    Jordan

Connor                                                                   Daniel

Junior Team – one

Evalina, Clemmie, Lauren, Therese, Jasmine

As you know we will be having a visit by squirrel in the last week of term – hope he/she arrives on time. We are being asked to participate in naming squirrel, so get to and vote! You may have to vote from home, I am not sure how it will work once someone votes from school, we will have to try it out.

Also this blog might be a great place to leave those quality comments.

If you are needing some help with figuring out the highest common factor and the least common multiple of numbers, a few of the boys in the class have made a video to help you sort it out. There is one error in their presentation – can you spot it?

We have learned about using various mental strategies for smaller numbers. Now Teegan and Simone show how we might manage larger numbers for solving subtraction with whole numbers.

As you will have noticed it’s not all serious.

In week one and two we discussed quality commenting. I am delighted to note that there is some excellent quality commenting going on from some of you. Well done.

Here are the set of slides so that you can refresh your skills about commenting. I will also put them on the separate commenting page for easy access as the year goes by.

Today some of Room 8 have gone out learning to sail.  I just met a Dad down there who said, “We never did that in our day!”  Sadly I have to say they never did it in mine either.  It looks heaps of fun.  Well done those who chose to go.

As you know I have set you the task of writing three quality comments a week.

One on the class blog. (Thank you Antonio, Jordan and Emma for being first).

One on a student blog in the school – and paste that into a word document in a Commenting folder within your named folder. Date the copied comment.

One to  a student outside our school – and paste that comment into the word document to keep a record.  Its a good idea to record where you made that comment as you may need to go back and reply to the comment the person has made back to you.

Here is one place to start commenting outside our school.

We are now two days into the new term.  So here we are settling into our Room 8 classroom yesterday.

Sorting books and things into our individual buckets!

And some exercise books into shared containers.

And down to work !

How are you finding the new school year?  What do you like or dislike about our new space?  What’s your feelings and thoughts around our buckets?

Any other ideas you would like to share and how these might be put in place?