Funky Eyes

As part of the STAR (for identified gifted and talented students in our area) programme in our school, Danielle's Thursday group were raising money for Tui to use a s part of her volunteer work in Fiji. Tui is a local optometrist who gives lots back to her own and other communities. She spoke at a special assembly about the work she does in Fiji. She is part of a team of optometrists who provides support and help to people who have eye problems. They will perform surgeries for cataracts, treat for diabetic eyes ailments and supply spectacles, free of charge. Here are some photos of our 'Funky Eyes' day where $750 was raised between Hawea Flat and Wanaka Primary School. Thanks everyone!

Wonderland

Our pantomime was a huge success! Everyone enjoyed it from start to finish! Parents and other community members were 'blown away by the talent and skill of the children. The dancing, singing, visual artwork and drama skills were a credit to teachers and children. Photos will appear here once I have collected them from my trusty photographers.

Scholastic Book Fair Bash

Annie added up our profits from the Book Fair Bash and we sold over $4000 worth of books. This made our school $1560 worth on commission. We were given $600 worth of Connector readuing books for having the book fair so now we will be able to buy even more. ($1560 worth) We love reading and books at Wanaka Primary School!

New Junior Playground

We have a new playground for our Junior classrooms to play on. It was opened at our Gala Day on Saturday. One of our parents designed it. It is a pirate ship and it is very popular. Next week the Middle children will get their new playground. We will have photos of it next week.

More Gala Day Photos

BubbleShare: Share photos - Craft Ideas

Wanaka Primary School Gala Day

On Saturday we had our school Gala Day. Look at some of the fun we had.

T-Ball

This afternoon we headed out for a game of T Ball. It was a great change from dance and drama. T-Ball was new to our Year 3 students but they loved it. Our Year 4 children were great role models. Over the next few weeks we will be playing a lot more T-Ball so we can practise out throwing and catching skills.

WALT... fill in the missing numbers on a hundreds board
... order numbers to 100

Halloween Poll Results

Rocks and Minerals

One of our key questions was...
What is the difference between a rock and mineral?
Here are our WALTs
Use a T-Chart to organise our ideas about the difference between rocks and minerals
Write our own definitions for rocks and minerals
View a variety of videos about the difference between rocks and minerals
Read some books about the differences between rocks and minerals
Discuss the differences and share our ideas/thinking
Summarise our thinking using bullet points

Here is a presentation about 'Blogs, Wikis And Web 2.0 tools in Education' written by Suzie Vesper. Some interesting information about Web 2.0 tools in education.
Blogs, Wikis And Web 2.0 tools in Education

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: k12 ict)

Pt England Re: Pantomime

We will put lots of photos on the blog as we get closer to our performance. We are busy practising our songs, learning lines, making up and practising our card dance and making costumes. What a VERY busy term!

Scholastic Book Fair

We have a Book Fair Bash on this week. On Friday we set up the books. We are having a book fair because we want to ...

• stimulate interest in reading
• raise funds for books (we can earn up to 35% Book Commission)
  
• take advantage of Scholastics generous offer of $600 worth of Connectors (reading books) for those schools who signed up for a Book Fair Bash during Term 3 or 4
  

People can come and view the Book Fair on the following days...
Monday 17th November 2.00pm - 8.00 pm in the school library
Wednesday 19th November 2.00pm - 8.00 pm in the school library
Gala Day 22nd November from 11.00 am to 3.00 pm in Room 11

Posters to market our Gala Day

Middle School Pantomime

Preparation is underway for our performance in 2 weeks time. All parts will be decided on tomorrow. We are looking for these roles

• The Queen of Hearts
• The Mad Hatter
• The Dormouse
• 5 of Diamonds
• 7 of Diamonds
• March Hare

I found this site called Storynory. Listen to audios and/or read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Click on the frog.

NZ Speech Board Oral Assessments

Today the children presented their oral assessments. What an amazing day. 22 children sat the assessment with 12 attaining a distinction and 10 highly commended. What brillant results. We are all so proud on Room Ten's achievements today. It shows the high levels of achievement in English and the Drama strand of The Arts within the NZ Curriculum. Here are some photos from today's performances.

Pt England Re Poll

Hi Pt England! We thought it would be very close so we were surprised National won by so much! I think Helen Clark was too! It will be interesting to see what National do for schools. Hopefully they value education, children and teachers. Thanks for your comments

Geometry - Position (Co-ordinate Games)

Today we played some co-ordinate maths games Annie had printed off from a great site calledSparkleBox. It has lots of free resources for teachers.

Poll Results

National won the election. Go to Wikipedia to view the results
Our poll did not match the final outcome of the NZ election results. 18 people voted with Labour getting 10 votes and National getting 8 votes. Why do you think our poll may have been different to the result? Post your comments giving some reasons.

Vote on our election Poll

2 days left to vote on our poll . At present Helen Clarke (52%) is slightly ahead of John Key (48%). Watch this space to see the results displayed in a graph. I wonder how close it will really be?

Blog Podcasts

Listen to some of our podcasts about our blog.
Courtney

Jake

Joseph

Blog Comments

Annie has been completeing some action research for ICT about the use of Blogs in the classroom. Earlier in the week we wrote some comments about what we think of educational blogging in the classroom. Here are some of our comments.

Max
I really like the blog because it has really fun things on it. I really like looking to see how many people have been on our blog.

Nic
I like the blog because its fun to learn from. There are facts, videos, games and we get to see where people are from who come onto our blog
Michael
I like the blog because there are games which are creative. There are challenges as well. You can also vote on some things on the right side of the blog.

Baiden
I reckon the blog is interesting because we can learn new things.

Dara
If you want to show your work you can put it on the blog. It is really nice having people leave a comment about our work on the blog.

St Claire
I think the blog is a good place to learn and day dream. It makes me think, imagine and have fun!

Grasshopper Tennis

Today w had our first session of Grasshopper Tennis. The Grasshoppers programme is the Tennis NZ national initiative to introduce tennis to 5-10 year olds in schools throughout the country. The Grasshoppers programme is a games based programme that focuses on fundamental skills and provides a seamless integration in to the PE curriculum and directly links with children joining a national programme for tennis clubs. Click to learn more about this programme.

Wonita's friend Paige came to school today. She is from Sydney and is on holiday here. She had wind, snow, hail, sun and rain all in one day! We had a bad storm hit Wanaka this morning and the weather turned very cold. She was even dressed in the Wanaka Primary uniform. Courtney and Wonita borrowed our class camera so they could take photos of her.

Vote on our poll about who will be NZ Prime Minister

Who do you think will be the Prime Minister of NZ after the election?
You have 4 days to record your vote.
Today I checked and it was ... 50% John Keys and 50% Helen Clark. We would love to have your vote as we will look at how accurate our poll was. Statistics at its best. Real life maths!

Pt England School

To answer your question about our costumes... we were vampires, witches, ghosts, a viking, fairies, super heroes, mummies, 'Quasimodo the Hunchback of Notre Dame a pumpkin and even the 'The Incredible Hulk'! A lot of children went Trick and Treating after school. We would love it if you voted on our poll in the sidebar. Our question is 'Do you think Halloween should be celebrated in NZ?' You have 2 choices Yes or No. Think about it in class and get back to us.

Halloween

On Firday we had a dress up day, organised by some senior students. They wanted to raise money for the middle and senior school pnatomimes. There are always a lot of extra costs involved with organising a pantomime, let alone two. Thank you so much to the leadership shown by these students.

There were some very scary looking characters around!!!

Click on the pumpkins for activities.

What is halloween? (from Wikipedia 2 Novemeber 2008)

'Halloween is a holiday celebrated on October 31. Halloween activities include trick-or-treating, ghost tours, bonfires, costume parties, visiting haunted attractions, carving jack-o'-lanterns, reading scary stories, and watching horror movies. Irish and Scottish immigrants carried versions of the tradition to North America in the nineteenth century. Other western countries embraced the holiday in the late twentieth century. Halloween is celebrated in several countries of the Western world, most commonly in the United States, Canada, Ireland, Puerto Rico, Japan, Australia, the United Kingdom, and at times in parts of New Zealand.'

What do you think about halloween? Leave us a comment! Or vote on our poll in the side bar.

Rocks

Click here to drag the rock called 'Rocky' to the correct place on the rock cycle

Safe Surfing

Watch this movie to learn more about surfing the internet safely

Geometry - Position & Direction

WALT's...
Level 2

• give and follow directions using, left , right, up, down, North, South, East and West
• draw and follow a path on a grid to show a route followed
• label and follow legends on a map
• describe the difference between movement and direction
• order a set of movement and direction instructions
• create a set of instructions

Level 3

• draw and interpret simple scale maps
• use maps or plans to propose actions
• understand the use of a compass to specify and find directions

Compass Bearings





Help the ladybird pick all the flowers






Drag the picture onto the table




Bash the Mole in 4 quadrants




Find Hurkle. He's an invisible creature!





Bike Hunt Game




Find the hidden craft





Play this co-ordinate game





Help Billy the Bug find the grub. Guide him to the co-ordinates of the hidden bug




Billy Bug and his all new quest for that bug!