Monday, October 10, 2011

Kids' General Knowledge Quiz

I know some of you will be interested in the Kids' General Knowledge Quiz these holidays.
Have a go and let me know how you go.

Kids' General Knowledge Quiz

Have a great holiday.
Miss Hanson

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Diamante Poem

RUGBY
SERIOUS,DIRTY
KICKING,PASSING,RUNNING
SONNY BILL.W,MA'A NONU,CARTER,MCAW
SCRUMMING,THROWING,STEPPING
BLACK,WHITE
ALL BLACKS

By Zubair

Diamante Poem

Rugby

Rugby
Muddy, Fierce
Running, Throwing, Catching
Rugby is a game with lots of rules
Kicking, Passing, Tackling
Hard, Tricky
Sport

By Olivia

Diamante Poem

Plants
Green, Pretty
Swaying, Growing, Living
All Plants are Clean and Green
Pulling, Planting, Crunching
Brown, Colourful
Leaves

By Lily

Thursday, August 25, 2011

Environmental Issues Ideas

We created a wordle using all our ideas about Environmental Issues. The words that are big are the words that appeared most often. They are the key words.
Click on the image to enlarge it.


Sunday, August 21, 2011

Swimming!

We have swimming lessons this term. Our next swimming lesson is tomorrow, Tuesday 23rd August.
Please bring your swimming gear.
Thanks
Miss Hanson

Monday, August 8, 2011

Speeches!

Here is a list of speech topics to give you a few ideas...

Silence
Horrific homework
My brother
Poverty
Intermediates
Why you should not have pets
World record breakers
Lollies
Coming to New Zealand
Goldilocks is a bad influence on young people
Haka
Feelings
Teasing
My Room
Talents
Manners
Body Language
Siblings
Why not to be a wife of Henry VIII
One World
If you are going to judge the cover you’d better read the book
Is Bigger Better
Bullies
Living with Girls
The Dictionary

These ideas came from this website
http://www.no-fear-public-speaking.com/funspeechtopics.html
Hopefully this list of topics will help you and give you some ideas for your speech.

Good luck!

Thursday, August 4, 2011

Determination

What are you determined to do this term?
Click - Post a Sticky to write on the wall and tell us what you are going to show determination in this term.

Monday, July 18, 2011

Daily Trivia Quiz

Hi Room 22!

The 'Stuff' website is doing a daily trivia quiz for kids. If you would like to give it a go, click on the link below and click 'Kids' Trivia Quiz'. There will be a new quiz put up each day. See if you can beat your last score. I would love to know how you go, so you can comment on this post with your name and your score to let me know.

Good luck, have fun and happy holidays!

Miss Hanson

Daily Trivia Quiz for Kids

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Comic Life

We have been thinking about characters' point of view in stories. We created some comics using comic life to show characters' thoughts and feelings.

Click on the image to enlarge the comic.



Saturday, May 21, 2011

Buddy Class

Room 22 enjoyed meeting up and reading with our buddy class last week. Our buddy class is room 8, a year 2 class at PCS.


Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Protecting our Kai Moana

Room 22 created fishing advertisements. We wrote scripts, assigned jobs, made props, recorded and edited our movies. It was our first time doing green screening and we learnt a lot about what works well and what we will do differently next time. Here is an example of one. Enjoy!

Monday, March 7, 2011

Protecting Our Kai Moana

We have been talking about fishing and protecting our kai moana.
Here are some photos of room 22 working collaboratively during inquiry.

Sunday, February 20, 2011

Crayon and Dye Art

Room 22 spent the day in the art room on Monday 21 Feb. We created pieces of art using crayon and dye. We drew fish and other creatures in the ocean and we thought carefully about composition and using contrasting colours.