Room 10 RBS

… that’s how long we will have in our new classroom! Next year it will be renumbered and become Room 9 and it will have a class of Year 5 students (maybe some of us) and not Year 3 & 4. But at least we get to enjoy the new classroom (ex-library) for a few days – 7-1/2 to be exact!

On Friday we worked with our Buddy Class teacher to make some colour prints. Then on Monday we worked with Ms Fothergill to re-work our original prints and then reprint black on white. They look quite stunning.

B&W Ink Prints on PhotoPeach

Ms Fothergill likes to geocache as a hobby and owns a special cache called a stargate. This means she gets lots of parcels sent to her from overseas. Today she brought one into school and we got to look at all the travel bugs. These are coins or small toys that travel around the world visiting caches.

Here we are with the travel bugs.

Yesterday we had a visit from Greg the Park Ranger. We learned lots of interesting facts including:

* Sometimes forest fires are good
* Flamingos can be white or pink or red
* Flamingos eat pink shrimp which turns them pink
* This is a handy rhyme to remember: “Red and yellow, deadly fellow; red and black, friend of Jack”
* The highest point of the Everglades is only 3ft high! – It’s also very flat.
* People used to eat flamingos so there aren’t many left
* The Everglades is a National Park (1.5 million acres)
* The animals aren’t in cages or behind fences
* It’s the only place in the world where crocodiles and alligators share the same habitat
* Atlantic dolphins visit the Everglades during winter
* We think it should be called ‘Animal Land’ because of all the animals there
* If you walk through the Everglades at night with red cellophane over your torch you see lots of crocodile eyes watching you
* No one has ever been eaten by crocodiles there
* Greg regularly sees around 100 alligators on his walk to work in the mornings
* They have snakes there
* There are over 100 different types of birds
* Baby crocs make a hmm type of noise to call their mother
* Baby crocs are sometimes carried around in their mother’s mouth
* The Blue Heron is as tall as Eli and has a wing span of 6ft
* Greg has never seen a panther (even though they are there in the Everglades)
* Instead of “Ducks crossing” signs like we see in New Zealand, he sees “Panthers crossing” signs

Link to some sites about the Everglades that we have looked at.

We had a special visitor today – Greg, a Park Ranger at Florida Everglades National Park in the USA. Greg is Eli’s uncle.

We’re all wearing our Junior Park Ranger badges in this photo.

Thanks Greg for taking time out of your holiday to talk to us. It was awesome. We all learned something new (even Ms Fothergill).

This week for maths we are finishing off our 2D/3D unit by making lots of 3D shapes. Here are some pictures of us starting work on turning our nets into beautiful creative 3D shapes.

Geometric shapes on PhotoPeach

Hi all – here is your homework grid. I’ve created something special for homework since we talked earlier today! I’ve set up a homework only blog. You can go there – check out the specific item to comment on (SPELLING) and add your words as a comment. Here is the link to the blog: http://room10rbshomework.blogspot.com/. I think we’re going to be using blogging more in the classroom so this is good practise for you. You can also bring your words in and add them at school.

While Ms F was at the Learning@School conference she learned about 5 frame digital story telling. Ms F and Mrs M took some photos to tell a story. When Room 10 looked at the photos they came up with all the things they thought could be happening in each photo.

troll with a magic wand

robot

troll going to a friend’s house

troll in the library

troll walking away from/going to draw on the chalkboard

abandoned/lost/forgotten/alone

troll standing/playing

pot plant

stick

silver ferm

the troll’s friend’s house

a jungle

a treehouse

a playground for the troll

a place to have a tree party

a troll rollercoaster

climbing to rescue someone

climbing to go sky diving

walking on stilts

climbing a beanstalk/frame/to the top/up a tree

sliding down a stalk

escaping from a dog attack

building a tree house

lost and climbing to see where she is

trapped in a cage

on a secret mission

going to play monopoly in the tree house

sliding down a waterfall

sleeping

lost in a dark forest

climbing up backwards

going bungy jumping

on a slide

in a booby trap

sunbathing

climbing down into a pool

going down to go for a walk

stretching

falling down

it’s the quick way to get down

watering the plant

being sucked into a time warp

escaping from a water blaster

winning a race

she’s a magical creature who can change into other things (because of the blur)

she’s being zapped by an alien

she’s falling and dying

she’s having a shower

being sucked up a vacuum cleaner

being sucked up with a straw

water is being poured over her

Coming up this week:

• Thursday afternoon – Team B Parents Concert
• PTA Christmas Picnic on Friday

Coming up next week:

• Team B Waikanae Pools Trip
• School TQ Finals
• Parent Helpers morning tea

Don’t forget school closes @ 12:30 pm on Wednesday 17th December