Welcome to Term 3

Thank you and welcome...
Wow, I can't believe that the year is already half way through. I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your support through the year. The children of Team 14 are fantastic, and I am very lucky to be working with such a responsive group of learners. I would also like to welcome Hannah Thomson and her family to Team 14. They have shifted to Christchurch from Sydney over the holiday break.

Energise Me ...
Term 3 will continue with an inquiry called 'Energise Me'. We will be using this umbrella idea to think about;our basic needs, keeping healthy, having balance in your life, eating and exercise, the human body, keeping warm, respecting ourselves and others and being ready to learn. Thank you to those of you that have sent in resources to support these ideas. If you have ideas or resource people we can access please let me know.

Literacy and Numeracy...
Our literacy focus will be based around transactional texts this term. This means writing recipes, instructions and more factual forms of writing. In Numeracy we will begin to look at the ideas of multiplication and division. However at the Stage 3 - 5 level that means ensuring the children have a good understanding of grouping sets, repeated addition and skip counting. This will form the foundations that they need to understand the concepts of multiplication and division. We will continue to work on developing fast recall of addition and subtraction facts as well.

Arts and PE...
Our PE focus will move to large ball skills at the beginning of the term and then by the end of the term we will start to think about athletics as summer is around the corner. We will continue with an arts rotation on Wednesday afternoons. The children will spend two weeks exploring dance, drama and visual arts through the lens of the 'Energise Me' study. The Junior are mixed into 3 large groups and will work with pairs of teachers for two weeks on each discipline.

Around the middle of the term the children will be sharing their learning with you in our Student Led Conference Sessions.

Trips and Visits...
We have 3 trips planned for this term and will need some parent help on each of these visits. In Week 2 we head to the Ngaio Marsh Theatre to watch the senior school's Wearable Arts Extravaganza. In Week 6 we are going to the museum to work with educators and experience the human body exhibit. We will be using private cars for this visit. In Week 8 we will be going to the Town Hall to see the NZ Army Band!

We hope you all had a wonderful and restful break and were able to keep the bugs at bay. People seem to be very cautious and are keeping low if family members are showing symptoms of sickness. This is probably quite wise.

On that note - if you could spare a box of tissues please send them to school with your child as we have finished our last box.

Looking forward to a fun-filled, busy term with you all.

Kind Regards

Megan

Hi

I'm Mason' mum - Miranda. I'm really interested in ICT as I am the ICT PD Project Director for three boys' schools in Christchurch - Christchurch Boys High School, St Bede's College and Shirley Boys High School. Mason loves using computers - he is often blogging at home or watching U-Tube with his brother Carter. I think if used effectively ICT can improve boys' literacy for example blogging helps students develop digital literacy.

The Terrible Tiger

Today in reading Fin, Mason and Ben read the book "The Terrible Tiger".

We read the book together and then talked about the beginning, the middle and the end of the story.

Ben, Fin and Mason decided the beginning of the story is about finding the tiger.
The middle of the story is seeing a monkey, seeing a bird and then seeing a snake that is the terrible tiger. At the end the children run home and tell Mum they aren't scared of anything.

Then Fin, Ben and Mason took photos showing them acting out the beginning, middle and end of the story, "The Terrible Tiger".

Play house coming soon

It's not long now until we have a new fancy junior play house. Here are some photos of the build:

Junior Swimming Survey

Parent Talk Times

Parent Talk Times
All parents are invited to our Friday Parent Talk Time sessions. Most of these sessions are held in the staffroom, with coffee from 9.00 and a 9.10 start. Our next sessions cover: Blogging Basics, Dyspraxia, as well as Handwriting/Letter formation.

Please check the web site for the timetable and to RSVP to let us know you are coming: www.fendalton.school.nz/parenteducation

Who am I? - Mason

My hero has gun and he has a grenade on his trousers. There is lightning. His name is Ben He has a mask. He has a tattoo. He has a watch. On the front of his t-shirt there is a 'M'. he is rich.

Who am I? - Jack

He has a gadget bletf and a mask and a costume.. He has powers and when he uses his powers he is powerful. He tickles people with his powers.

Who am I? - Olivia

My hero has a yellow and green belt and blue mask. He has an orange cape, it flaps in the wind. He has lightning bolts.

Who am I? - Isabella

One day when I was at school, and I was eating my lunch then I ate some chips. Then suddenly this happened to me ...
I got a purple cape and a red mask and green pants, and then I could fly. I could also see what people are thinking.

Who am I - SuBeen

My costume has a tight belt and it is shiny. I had tied hair and a different costume too.
I felt strong. She has a 'S' on her.

Who am I? - Lily

My superhero has LEM on the front of the top. My hero has spirals on its cap and top and they make your eyes fuzzy. It has blue and black pants.
My superhero has curly hair, with blond and brown hair. My superhero has a cape that has spirals on the hearts.

Who am I? - Josh

When he is mad he fights.
He is strong - very, very strong.
He is green, he is angry, and very clever.
He is real big.

Who am I? - George

I was playing with my dog, something went past me, it was invisible. It took me somewhere. I transformed into a superhero.

Who am I? - Ethan H

My hero has a gadget belt. He is cool. He has a mask. He has is super muscles and he can punch a wall. He can't break his arm. He can shoot lasers out of his eyes.

Who am I? - Jackson

I drank something, and something happened to me. I wasn't myself. I have a bold 'S'. I have jet boosters. I've got fire power.

Who am I? - Emily

One day when I woke up, something funny happened. My hair turned brown. My pants turned orange and black stripes. I had a bold E with a pink top. My sleeves were yellow with spirals. I had a purple cape.

Who am I? - Ben W

I had a funny dream and I turned into a superhero. My muscles are big. I am so strong I can smash a rock.

Who am I? - Ben Y

I like Spiderman because he shoots out webs. Using webs he sticks to buildings.
He jumps off buildings.

Who am I? - Hannah

One day when I was sleeping. Then I had a nightmare and in my nightmare I was at school suddenly my face turned red and my body turned red and my hands turned red and then I woke up crying, and then I ran upstairs crying to my mum.

Room 14 Heroes in Disguise!

S.P.C.A Fundraiser

Rooms 12, 13, and 14 are raising money for the Canterbury SPCA. We learnt on our visit that it costs 1 million dollars each year to keep the SPCA going.

We would like to be heroes to the SPCA so we are having a fundraiser next Wednesday to sell Toys, Cakes and Green Tea. The money we make will be donated to the SPCA.

Keep looking at our blog to find out more details...

NZRAF Hero Visit

On Friday we were very lucky to have some New Zealand Royal Air Force heroes come to Fendalton School. They circled the field in their Helicoptor before winching one of the crew members onto the field. Room 14 got to have a look at the Helicoptor and walk through it - it was great to see real heroes in action!

Who Am I - Ethan KM

A super hero can help people.
He wears a black mask and a cape.
He saves people from baddies.

Who Am I - Ben Y

She has a orange cape.
She runs fast.
She has a red collar.
She jumps off high buildings.

Who am I - Sam

He is very fast.
He has a yellow and blue collar.
He has very big ears.
He has a blue hat.
He is white.
He has paws.

Who Am I - Rupert

He does hair cutting.
He likes swimming.
I like him because he is starting a new shop.

Who Am I - Emily

It helps people because it helps small people out.
It has a rose cape.
It has a ruby red collar.
It barks out loud like thunder.
It runs fast like a car.
It has a tail.
It has a fluffy tail.

Who am I? - Hugo

He has a fast car. He has handcuffs.
He has a uniform that is blue.
He is brave.

Who am I? - Thomas

He helps people. He shoots bat catchers.
He has a fast boat. He has a fast car.
He is clever. He is strong.
He has a black cape.

Who am I? - Bess

He is very brave.
He is strong as metal.
He got bitten by a spider when he was sleeping and then he became a super hero.
He is as nice as my mum and dad.
He has a tight costume.
He can shoot out webs like a spider.
He has a webby costume.

Who am I? - Jackson

He can fly very fast, so can Superman.
He has a bat catcher. He has a bat uniform.
He has a black cape. He has a black mask.
He has a black bat. He is clever.

Story Tellers Visit

Yesterday some story tellers from the Christchurch public library came to see us.

They read us some stories and some children got dressed up to help them retell some stories.

It was great fun!

SPCA Visit

Today we were really lucky to have Jasmine and Sasha from the Canterbury SPCA come to visit us.

They talked to us about how to look after animals and we now know that...

They need good food and fresh water.
They need shelter.
They need fun and exercise.
They need love and kindness.

We also heard about different types of heroes that live and work at the SPCA.

Please remember that we will have our class to the SPCA this Friday (March 20th) and we will be leaving from school at 1pm.

Butterfly release!

After much discussion we decided it was best to release our butterfly so that it could lay some eggs on a leaf and keep the butterfly life-cycle going.

Butterfly Magic!

At the beginning of this term we were looking at Butterflies as part of our science learning.
Olivia and Ben W brought in caterpillars and a chrysalis for us to look at.

We got to see the caterpillar munch and crunch all of the leaves on the swan plant - it was a very hungry caterpillar!

We watched closely as the chrysalis turned from green to black.

One morning we noticed the chrysalis was empty - what came out of it... a butterfly of course!

Buddy Class

Every Tuesday afternoon Room 14 visit or are visited by Village 22.

Village 22 is our buddy class for this year. We have enjoyed meeting our Y5 buddies and being able to share our learning with them. We have been reading stories to them and talking to them about our Hero learning.

Last week village 22 came for a visit to our classroom. They sang us a song and read picture books to us - it was awesome!

Quadathlon photo's

Here are some cool photo's of some Room 14 children from the Junior Quadathlon.

Junior Play House

Click here to go to the play house page on FOS Live...

Quadathlon

Well done to all the Room 14 children who participated in todays Quadathlon!

It was great to see so many children trying their very best in their event.

Thank you to all the parents who came to support us - it was a great event.

Junior Quadathlon

Remember to come along to school tomorrow, Thursday 5th March at 2pm to support your children as they participate in the junior quadathlon.

Please make sure all swimmers have their togs, all runners have their running shoes, and all cyclists have their helemts.

Its going to be a great afternoon :)

Hope to see you there!

Welcome

Hello everyone,

Room 14 are 21 delightful Y2 children at Fendalton School. Our teacher is Miss Megan Graham.

This year Room 14 will be posting all of their amazing learning adventures onto our classroom blog. We would love it if you could check out what we have been doing and even leave us a comment to read!