Miss T's Classroom.

We have moved passed the half way mark for the year, it is speeding by. We welcome Joseph to the class, he has settled in well, it’s like he has always been here.

 
This term is a busy one, we have already started gymnastics on a Tuesday down at the gym club and we have started our social studies top “Sir Edmund Hillary”.
We have the winter sports tournament coming up in week 5 and camp at El Rancho in Week 8. I will be away for week 9 and Mrs Ellis will be here for the whole week.
We start our visits to the local district library next Thursday, we couldn’t begin this week because of the rain starting just at the time we were about to leave!

Try doing this puzzle.  It is a clue also to our next topic of work for Term 3.  A social studies unit.  Let us know your best time in the comments. My first try was a bit over the average!!   I need to improve that!  Click on the arrow in the picture and begin!
Miss T

I’m getting a small room added to my house so that when I retire in a few years I can sit in the sun and read, read, read!  It is very exciting to come home every day and see the new steps each day.  Of course I won’t wait until I retire to use it!  There are holidays and weekends.  Now if we could just get a bit of sun.  I was in MB6 this morning and joined them for prayer.  They were all praying that the sun would show it’s face.
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time_0001  Watch the video of time from our 1st learning session.

We are learning to read an analogue clock, those in the class who have mastered this are helping others to learn to do this.  The slide show shows that we are not all on the same page yet!  Or is that on the same hand?  Students were given a time to show on their clock, and on the count of 1,2,3, show,  they turned the clocks around to show, and check if it matched the teacher’s clock. 
 
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This board shows the strategies a group used when they were working with Mrs M.  They can be seen working, thinking, sharing as they completed the work.  Notice they are mental strategies. The students didn’t even need pencil and paper!
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So what is 74 – 28 = ? What is the answer and can you explain how you solved it. Make sure you choose the strategy that is best, that is the one that will lead you to the answer quickly.

One day a week this term I am not in my classroom.  Apart from being a teacher, I have other responsibilities, so I have release time, to enable me to manage these other tasks.  So take today for instance…

Before school I spent some time writing parent-teacher conference forms, getting ready for next week!  In the section from 9am to 11am I worked on our School Spelling programme as we are reviewing it and updating it.  I took some brief time to discuss items with Mr E and some time to wave off the Mastermind teams who left to take part in the local NZ Post  Book Awards Mastermind competition.

After morning break I met with Mrs A as for the rest of the year I am her support teacher as she gets settled into her teaching career. 

I met with Esmay and Kate from MB3 as they are preparing for the Speech Competition section of the Book Awards week, this speech competition will be held on Thursday in our school library, and Kate and Esmay are brave enough to represent our school.  These girls are fantastic to give it a go.  There has only been time for a week of preparation and I was thinking of suggesting to them that because of time limit we could drop them out. But no, these girls are made of stronger stuff than I, and with a spirit of nothing ventured, nothing gained, they are putting their best effort into it. I also checked in about transport for the creative writing that three students are going to, tomorrow.

In the afternoon I met with Mr E. again as we explored setting up more blogs for classrooms and organised payment for them and giving them full status so that they can have all the photos they want and include students being able to write posts.  It took us some time to negotiate the process, but eventually we were successful, and I was ready to go with some after school tutoring.  It won’t be long before MB2 and MB6 are fully up and running with their blogs.  Keep an eye on our blogroll for their progress.  Leave them some comments, I am sure they will appreciate it!

Did I achieve everything on my list today?  No, but there’s always next week!