Welcome back to Term 3.

Kia ora Room 10,

I hope you have had a relaxing holiday with family and friends. I am looking forward to seeing you all back at school tomorrow for a busy Term3. I can't wait to hear all about the fantastic learning and practise you have being doing on your basic fact challenge. Don't forget your pack of cards and your swimming togs - we have swimming the first day back. See you tomorrow.

Miss Dolamore. :)

Welcome back from a very chilly weekend!

I hope you all kept safe and warm this weekend. It is lovely to see the sun out today and so many happy faces at school. I am just posting an important reminder to parents and caregivers, regarding attendance.

PLEASE make sure your child is at school every day, unless they are really unwell, or if there is a genuine family emergency.

If this is the case you must ring us on 379 3137 or text 027 3793137. 

I really appreciate your supprort with this as it is so important the children aren't missing out on valuable learning time at school.

Please come and see me if you have any questions, concerns or need support with this.

Many thanks,

Emma Dolamore.

Free Educational Websites with Fantastic Games

It has been great to see lots of children and whanau from Room 10 using our blog to keep up to date and follow some of the exciting learning happening.

Many of the children in Room 10 have been having a go at some basic fact games online. I thought I would post some more fantastic free online learning sites.

I hope you have fun exploring these at home...(Click on the words below to go to the page you want).

ABCYA - has lots of fun games to practise skills in many areas of learning

Learn more about animals that live in cold places at National Geographic Kids

We have been learning about playing games positively - Follow along with The Rainbow Fish story - how did he solve the problem positively? Storylineonline.net

Read Penguin Penguin and other stories at Starfall.com

Being Ready to Learn in Room 10!

I have asked the children to photograph different parts of our morning, the classroom and learning in Room 10.

The children have chosen what they wanted to take a photo of and have then written a blurb about their photo or learning in our morning block (literacy).

"I love playing on the adventure playground too"
Tayla.

I hope you enjoy reading and seeing their photos as much as I have.



"I like the playground because I have fun playing on the fort".
Connor.



 

"I loved it when we got to share our boxes about us".
"When I got to school I was nervous as well as happy".
"I shared a picture of my brothers truck drawing".
"I like trucks"  Geordan.



"I took a picture of our teacher Miss Dolamore because she is kind and helps us with our learning"
Telesha and Suma.



"When we were eating fruit I took a picture of the children.
They all smiled at the camera". "Then I gave Miss Dolamore
the camera and she said "thank you". "I love the way she said
thank you to me" Mary Angel.



"I love to read books because the Authors have great writing
and pictures from all around the world." "That's why I love to read".
Caleb.

"Reading time is cool because we read lots and learn new things"
Matai,





"Reading time is awesome. The kids have their heads down
and are reading, it's awesome". Brayden

"I like doing creative writing and writing about  Iron Man and zombies"

Nico

"I LOVE seeing the wonderful children in Room 10 Ready to Learn
and putting their best effort into their work"
Miss Dolamore.

Room 10 Rocks!

Hi Room 10 - a quick message from Miss Dolamore...

I have loved reading your comments on our blog this weekend.
So thank you to everyone for your lovely comments.

I hope Room 10 has had a fantastic day, I have been at home, sick with the flu.
I will see you again very soon this week, when I am feeling a bit better.

Keep up the excellent learning.

Miss Dolamore.

Room 10 Maths Whizz!

Room 10 have been busy practising their basic facts to help them solve problems like a whizz

We are learning our basic facts to 20

Here are some great links to useful games and activities that will help your child to practise: (click on one of the 3 links below)

• Basic facts activity     
• Fruit explosion basic facts game    
• Free printable worksheets

Any practise helps

Please keep up the fantastic work you are doing at home and encourage and help your child to learn their basic facts.

Room 10 and Room 3's Awesome Antarctic Adventure!

This morning Room 3 and Room 10 got to go to The Antarctic Centre.

We drove there by bus and it was a long drive all the way out by the Airport!

First we went into a special classroom and learnt about Antarctica. We got to use the interactive whiteboard!

"We got to see the size of an Emperor Penguin and it's egg" Caleb.

"I got to dress an explorer in all of their layers of clothes - there's SO many!" Dayton.

"We all loved how the classroom was set up with cool blue lights and pictures of penguins" Room 10.

Next we were so excited and a bit nervous - we were off on the Hagglund Ride!!!

"I felt excited going on the bumpy ride" Braydon.

"I felt nervous going over the big bumps" Nico.

"It was noisy, I was in the middle and I saw the huge mud puddle, but we were OK because the vehicle can float in the water" Matai.

After that we had our morning tea and then it was time to see the penguins. The penguins that are there have been rescued from places around New Zealand where they were injured by humans and other animals. They can no longer live in the wild - so they have a special home at the Antarctic Centre. Each penguin eats 10-15 Sprats (small fish) per day.

 

Can you spot the two penguins?



"The penguins were very cute and good at swimming" Hailey.

"The penguins were smaller than I thought they would be" Telesha.

"We learnt about how to tell a girl and a boy penguin. It is really tricky to find out so they send one of the penguins feathers away for DNA testing" Suma.

Then we went to have a look around at the different displays and learning areas.

 "My favourite thing was the sun dial" Telesha.

"I liked watching the movie and pretending I was at Antarctica, I also loved dressing up in the snow gear" Brayden.

"I like sitting on the snow sledge and pretending to drive it!" Connor.

Lastly we went to the Snow Room. We experienced temperatures of -18degress - it was freezing. But that is the temperature in the summer in Antarctica - so it would be extremely icy in winter.

 

"I felt like I was going to freeze" Tayla.

"My hands were turning blue in the snow storm, I was freezing" Krystal.

"My fingers and toes were numb, but I had fun on the ice slide!" Caleb

"I loved being in the dark, cold storm" Connor.

"The storm blew snow into my eyes" Nico

Room 10 loved their trip to the Antarctic Centre! We had so much fun and learnt lots about a very cold place. After all the excitement and fun we are now back at school safely!