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.

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?

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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.

I hope you are making the most of the last week of the holidays. I am already back at school getting the classroom up and ready. It’s looking better every day. I hope you like it, I think you will.

Just a reminder if you are covering your exercise books, remember to put a label on the outside so that your name is clearly shown and there is a place for the subject. There is no need to cover them if you don’t want, it is entirely up to you – and your Mum I guess!

Also don’t forget, if you have exercise books from last year that haven’t been used much, use those before you buy more. If you want, that is!

It would help if you can clearly label your clearfile as well. There is a new system of organisation for exercise books and clear files.

Remember to check out where your sunhat and PE uniform is. Those need to be clearly labelled as well.

I have finished reading War Horse today and now I wish I was at school to say, “Who wants to read this next?” I know I just want you all to read it because I am sure you would love it.  It has been sitting on my table at home for a couple of months and I never got around to reading it.  I thought I would interest people like Connor to read it.  After reading it I now know many of you would love this story.  I will have to wait to wave the book around and say “You just have to read this!”  How I wish I had read it earlier in the term.

There are a couple of copies in the Kapiti Library although I notice they are both reserved, although it says one is available. Go and put pressure on Carol. Or leave me a comment and I will drop my copy off to you before you see the movie.

I also discovered today that a movie has been made by Steven Spielberg and it is due for release on January 12th in New Zealand.  I will definitely want to see it, and some of you will too.  But I wish you could read the book first.  I am wondering how true the movie has stayed to the book.   I always like to read the book before I see a movie.  Well usually!  Here is a movie trailer clip.  It captures a little of the book, but doesn’t do the wonderful relationship of horse to horse or horse to person justice.

War Horse is the one I have started already, it is by Michael Morpurgo.  It was first published in 1982.  It is told from the horses point of view and is about a powerful friendship between an owner and his horse Joey.  It takes place during World War 1.

The second one is Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz. I know this series has been popular with some of my students in the past so I want to find out what they like about it.  It was published in 2000 so it has been around awhile.

Son of Neptune is next on my list.  I read the first one earlier in the month and couldn’t resist buying this one while I was in the book shop.  This belongs to the Heroes of Olympus second series.  It was published in 2011.

This is a rather unusual book that I found out about from some teachers online.  It is a rather large hardback and is a little different from most books.  It contains two stories 50 years apart. One is told in words, the other pictures.  They eventually link. That is all I know until I read it. Published in 2011.

I would also like but don’t yet have sitting beside me a few other books.  One is a graphic novel that I have heard good things about.  Anya’s Ghost by Vera Brosgol.

Our Only May Amelia by Jennifer Holm  is the other book I would like to read when I get it.  It was written a number of years ago, but the author has written a follow up just recently.  So I will need to read this one first!

So…. how about you?   What are your reading plans for the holiday break? I would love to know.  

I do know that Daniel hopes to be reading one of my choices after Christmas has hopefully delivered the book!