Thursday 30 May 2019

The Journey Writing

This week Rm22's writing was called 'The Journey'. Here is the picture prompt


Comment below with your favourite line/s of your writing. Don't forget to say why you like it!

Alexis Pritchard visit

We were lucky enough to have the very talented and inspiring Alexis Pritchard - NZ's Commonwealth medal winning boxer in to talk to us about being courageous and facing your fears.

Please comment with something you took away from the talk today.

Tuesday 28 May 2019

Talofa Lava!

This week is Samoan Language week. Here one of the resources we are using to learn some phrases and information about our beautiful Pacific sister.


Basic Facts Hero's

Congratulations Tasfia on receiving the Basic Facts Hero award! She has completed all 4 basic facts operations in Xtramath becoming Rm22's first Basic Facts Hero. Whoop Whoop.

Well done to Rowena, Lucas, Mason and Matilda who are hot on her tail...!

 

Wednesday 22 May 2019

Moon Landing Writing Favs

Hello Room 22! I know you have been doing some awesome writing lately so now it is your time to share your favourite sentence from this weeks writing with everyone.

Comment below by copy/pasting your favourite line from this weeks Moon Landing writing.
Our focus was on 'adding lots of description' and 'showing not telling'.

Here was the picture prompt this week:


National Storytime - Guess the Book...

Read these 3 clues and guess the title of this awesome book...


Clue one: The main character wore glasses... 


Clue two: He has a white feathered friend...

Clue 3: This is the first book of 7 in the series


Friday 10 May 2019

Community Garden Term 2 2019


Thank you so much to Trudy, Heather and our parent helper Morris for organsing and supporting us on our Community Garden visit this week. 
It was great planting vegetables, building bean tents and cooking omlettes on a camping stove.
We love being able to contribute to Hendon Community Garden!

Friday 3 May 2019

Road Safety Week

This week is Road Safety Week.  We encourage students and families to be safe on their way to and from school.  Please comment on our blog with your safety message. Thank you!




VR session

Today we had a Virtual Reality session with the Peter Blake Trust teachers.

Students have written about their VR experience on their blogs - check it out! They were asked to write about the experience using these prompts:


Who - Blake Trust
Why - learning about pollution in our seas
How - Virtual Reality Headsets

Describe what happened, what you saw, how you felt, what you thiught of it. Write down 5 interesting facts you learnt.
Add pictures to support.