Thanks for a great year room 10...

...and well done to those rewarded at our end of year assembly. I'll look forward to following your achievements and successes next year. Enjoy your summer holidays!

Mrs F :)

2 weeks to go...

...and an action-packed two weeks they are too! Lots of reminders for the next few days folks so here they are:

Tuesday - please remember to bring a plate of morning tea food and a picnic rug or tarpaulin if you have one you are able to bring

Friday - whole school swim at Moana Pool until 11:30

Monday week 8 - year 7 sharing assembly, our christmas video needs to be ready by then!

Wednesday - year seven teamwork morning

Thursday - Poroporoaki to farewell year eight students

Friday - Final assembly starts at 10:30am, reports and Secret Santa presents are given out, last day of term

Keep up your fantastic efforts and attitudes for the last two weeks!

Mrs F :)

Week 6 Term 4

Hi everyone,

I'm really looking forward to teaching you again for the last three weeks of term. Your Amazing Race efforts have been great so far, and the leading team has changed each week so it will be interesting to see who wins the top prize in week eight!

We have HEAPS to do over the next few weeks - our kindy visit is next Tuesday morning, we have a class magazine to produce and we need to plan and prepare a class item for our year seven sharing assembly too! I'm also looking forward to seeing your chameleon art work finished this week - photos on the blog soon :)

Have a great week,
Mrs F :)

Week 3 Term 4

Hi everyone,

This week it's EGYPT for the Amazing Race! I'm looking forward to seeing some impressive presentation ideas this week, like Nicola's fabulous effort with South Africa last week.

Your speech should be written by now and you should be doing some practice for Tuesday - think about whether you want to volunteer yourself to get it over and done with first or if you want to wait for your name to be drawn out of the hat :) Remember it needs to be on cue cards not big pieces of paper.

I'm looking forward to seeing what our visitors from the Royal NZ Ballet have in store for us tomorrow too.

Have a great week,
Mrs F :)

Rock climbing at Long Beach

What a fabulous day out! I was so proud of everyone for having a go at rock climbing, and for the fantastic behaviour and efforts from everyone throughout the day. We couldn't have done it without the help of our fabulous parents Anita, Alison, Mark and Jacqui too. What was your favourite part of the day? Let us know by leaving a comment with your name. Here are some photos from the day too:

Week 3 term 4

Hi everyone,

I missed you on Thursday and Friday, but heard GREAT rumours about how well you worked and how great your Japan work for The Amazing Race looked! This week it's SOUTH AFRICA so stay tuned for what this week's roadblock will involve...Your points will be updated by the end of tomorrow.

Mr Beaman is teaching for the next three weeks. Rockclimbing is (hopefully) on on Tuesday...listen to More FM and/or check the blog after 7:30am to see if it's cancelled due to the weather out there. Remember lots of food and drink, warm and cool clothes, sunblock etc. I still need more parents too please...

Have a great week,
Mrs F :)

Amazing Race - Japan

Well done to Aaliyah and Ben for winning today's chopstick race! They were the quickest boy and girl to successfully transfer 20 jelly beans from one bowl to another - nice work!

Week 2 term 4

Hi everyone,

It was great to see everyone back and looking refreshed last week! I also enjoyed seeing your Amazing Race efforts on Friday. Our winning pair are only leading by 1 point so lots of you are still in a good spot to take out the competition :)

This week's country is JAPAN, and you also have spelling words, so make sure you do a little each night - ask me if you need help dividing the tasks up over the week.

So far we have 1 parent available for our Long Beach trip so it would be great to get some more offers this week please. Fingers crossed for nice weather on the 8th too...

Have a great week,
Mrs F :)

Welcome to Term 4!

I hope everyone has had a relaxing 2 weeks. Don't forget school starts on TUESDAY not Monday due to Labour Weekend. I'm looking forward to hearing all about what you've been up to.

There's lots coming up this term which is only 8 weeks long, then you'll be getting ready to be year 8's! Check out the photos on the right for some clues about what we'll be up to.

Make sure you have everything you need to get started on Tuesday (tidy uniform, stationery etc) and are reaady to work hard for the last 8 weeks. There will be lots of awards and badges given out before the end of the year, and at our end of year prize giving, so make sure you keep yourself in the running!

See you on Tuesday,
Mrs F :)

Rat dissection

Today we watched a demonstration of a rat dissection to finish off our studies of the human body. The anatomy of a rat is similar to that of a human. We got to look closely at the ribcage, heart, lungs, kidneys and intestines.

Week 10 term 3

Wow, another last week of term! It's an action-packed one too!
- rat dissection and recycyled art on Monday
- OGHS junior production on Tuesday
- athletics day on Wednesday
- we also need to get out ASPIRE planning sorted for our kindy get-together

I hope you have been enjoying tracking your RWC team's progress - does your team look like making the quarter finals? What do you think of NZ's hopes now that Dan Carter is out?

No spelling and language this week, but keep your RWC work up-to-date and try to remember some resources for our 'recycled' artwork. You will also be drafting your persuasive writing - child beauty pageants, buying NZ made products, recycyling, or pre schoolers watching cartoons.

Have a great week!

Ukulele Jam 2011

A number of year seven students, including Nic, TJ, Damian, Rachel and Millie from Room 10, joined in the Intermediate Schools' ukulele jam which was held at school last week. The 11 songs we sang and played ranged from Sweet Child O' Mine to Something in the Water, Count on Me to Poi E, and we had a great morning.

We had to commit ourselves to weekly rehearsals during terms 2 and 3, and will be rewarded with badges at assembly. There was also a photo in Wednesday's ODT. Top effort!!

Week 8 & 9

Hi everyone,

I hope you are enjoying tracking the progress of your RWC teams - some good results for some of you over the weekend!

A reminder that our College student, Mr Beaman, is teaching for the next two weeks, so he will give you your homework for the next two weeks (as well as your usual spelling and language of course).

Have a great week,
Mrs F

Week 7 - Go the AB's!

I hope you all got to see or hear how your RWC team played over the weekend! A good start for the All Blacks too. Your homework this week (as well as spelling and language) is to start keeping track of how your team goes. I will tell you more about this on Monday.

It was great to see you all supporting our local SPCA and foodbanks on Friday's mufti day - top effort. We're kicking in to our ASPIRE project this week so make sure you bring along your great ideas ready to share. Don't forget that the school writing competition closes this Friday too - it would be great to see lots of entries from room 10.

Have a great week!

Week 6 - halfway through the term!

Lots of 'congratulations' this week!

Well done to Lauren and Aaliyah who won prizes at the Otago Science Fair, as well as Josie (Highly Commended) and Sam (Participation). Well done also to most of the class who received a badge and/or certificate at assembly last Friday - a very successful week for many of you!

RWC country research for homework this week, as well as your usual spelling and language activities. If you haven't already paid for our show tomorrow, you need to hand this in tomorrow morning too please ($13).

Have a great week!

Week 5

Well done to those of you who ran in the CROSS COUNTRY on Friday! I was very proud when I saw you all crossing the finish line. It will be interesting to find out this week which house won!

Your NOVEL should be read by now; we're getting into our novel study activities this week, as well as starting our PUBERTY unit...

HOMEWORK: novel study activity, spelling and language activities

Have a great week!

Week 4

Well done to those of you who helped out at our fabulous open night on Thursday!

Another busy week this week. Mr Beaman is teaching on Monday and Tuesday, and I'm looking forward to catching up with you about your RWC team too.

Cross country on Friday this week after last week's postponement due to the weather; remember PE gear, trackies, big lunch and a drink.

Unfortunately we can't re-book our Anatomy Museum visit, but something else will replace it later on this term...

This is the last week for finishing your novel so keep reading every night if you haven't finished already!

Have a great week :)

Week 3 Term 3

Brrrrr! What a cold start to the week! I hope you are keeping warm where you are.

To keep you busy if you are stuck at home tomorrow, you can check out the following websites to practice the German vocab and topic work we looked at last week:

www.linguascope.com
(the user name is otagogirls and the password is languages11)
and
www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/body/index.shtml

It was great to see so many people score 20/20 in their spelling last week - let's see even more of you manage that this week...

Week 2, Term 3

What a positive start to the term room ten - well done for a great first week back. We have learned the names of the main bones in our skeleton and where they are. We've also learned the functions of the skeleton. We started learning the marimba on Tuesday with Mrs Mepham, and German with Chris from Otago Girls High School. We have also welcomed a College of Education student, Mr Beaman, who will be working with us for the rest of the year. Definitely a busy start to the term!

Reminders for this week:
- keep reading your novel each night, and bring it to school for silent reading if you wish
- return your permission slip for our visit to the Anatomy Museum in week 3
- Parents meeting about our puberty unit 5:30 Monday
- return your permission slips for open night if you have received one

Have a great week!

Welcome to Term 3

I hope everyone in room ten is enjoying their holidays! I am looking forward to seeing you on Monday and hearing about what you have been up to. You can see a sneak peak of what we'll be doing this term in the photos on the right.

In the meantime, make sure you have all the stationery and bits and pieces you'll need for school, enjoy your last few days off, and I'll see you on Monday.

Mrs F :)