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?

Labels for Exercise Books:

Mathematics

Draft Writing

Religious Education

Working with Words

Work for other Teachers

Reading

Writer Notebook

There will be an extra one, leave that at home until you find out which one you run out of, and then that can be used. It is best to buy them now because of the bargains in stationery at this time of the year.  You will have two Mathematics books, label both and bring with you to school.

These people already have their Writer Notebook at school as we kept it here at school.

Breellen, Daniel,  Jordan,  Siabhaon, Emma, Teegan, Miggy, Cameron, Jessica, Joseph, Charlottem Simone, Sahara.

Please place your name on things like glue sticks, scissors, earphones.  Please place your earphones in plastic ziploc bag and label the bag with your name.

Large boxes of tissues do not need naming.  We keep these together and use them throughout the year.  Please hand them in to me on arrival the first morning so I can tick your name off the list.

If you have any questions, please leave a comment.

It’s time for all of us to vote.

Do it at home.  Only one vote per day from an IP address, so at school only one person’s vote will count on any day, so we will set up a roster!  Vote at home.

Here are some categories you might like to vote in!  Watch out for Teegan, let’s support her.  Street Talk is in the video/podcast category, and vote for which free web tool you have enjoyed or used and like.

Vote for Teegan! And Street Talk!  I have!

And in Best Media/Podcast, scroll down and find Street Talk. I think they deserve our vote, we have enjoyed their shows.

And by the way, you also might like to vote for Sue Wyatt in the Lifetime Achievement category. Sue has organised all the Edublog Student Blogging Challenges.  Let’s support her too.

Every year we spend a morning fund raising so that we have some money to send to overseas children who are in need, or sometimes New Zealand. Today was that day. The weather was fine and we had a lot of fun as usual. Well done Year 7, you did a fantastic job with your games. Year 8 you were fabulous on the stalls. Up there with the best. Thank you all.
We made over $1920 and still have some bits and pieces of coins to add in! Well done.

Olivewood School in California has one of the class  blogs we are quadblogging with, you can link to it by clicking on the picture and seeing what they are up to. They use ipod touches a lot, so I am hoping we may pick up a few tips from them.

This term we have speeches to prepare and present.

Year 5 & 6 have two choices:    It was the Bigget Surprise……. or

A person I Would Love to Meet   ( living or dead).

Year 7 & 8 have two choices:     A Person I Would Love to Meet   ( living or dead).

An Invention I Enjoy and Appreciate.

Speeches need to be two to three minutes long for Year 5 & 6.  For Year 7 & 8 three to four minutes.

It should have a strong lead, have some well researched information, have details that engage your audience and have an ending that leaves your listeners with something to think about.

The speech needs to be ready to present to the class in Week 5  Tuesday 22nd of November. This is the last possible date. Speech night for parents is Wednesday 30th November at 7pm.

You will need to work on this in class during writing time and also at home.  Along with Reading every night this is your homework for this term.

Last week in September, and we are off to camp up country.  So our class blogs and student blogs will be quiet.

We will be back next week to catch up.