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Welcome to Term 3

What a fun and fabulous term it is going to be - Topics for this term Landscape Learning - Biodiversity/Biosecurity in New Zealand and Endangered Species and later this term we will complete a unit on Bridges Health and PE - Training for Cross Country, Power Walking and Tag Games. Swimming also starts week 3 Mathematics - Number, Algebra and Measurement ICT - Photostory or Toondoo Written Language - Information Reports, Myths and Legends Oral Language - Speech competitions - Year Five Semifinals - Week 3 - Year Five and Six Final - Week 5 Swimming at Lloyd Elsmore media type="custom" key="20548590" Week 4 Congratulations to Isobel, Sophie and Renee from Room 6b on their wonderful speech presentations made last Friday. It is wonderful that all 3 girls have made it through to the Y5 and 6 speech competition on Tuesday. What a fantastic accomplishment. Good luck for Tuesday. Remember swimming again on Wednesday. It was a lot of fun last week and the students seemed to really enjoy the small group lessons. Remember we are still training for cross country so bring along your shoes everyday. Week 2 This week we are beginning to train for our cross country, held later this term. Please remember to bring some running shoes (Monday – Thursday) as you are not allowed to run in bare feet and school shoes are not really ideal for running long distances. Conferences this week mean that school finishes early on Tuesday, make sure you have checked with mum and dad about the arrangements you have made for this. I look forward to hearing you share your goals and progress with your parents. Speech presentations also start this week.

This week we have been looking at the importance of goals and goal setting. With parent conferences coming up I thought I would sure this wonderful clip about the importance of goals with the children. It is a wonderful reminder that we can do anything we put our minds too!

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Today Stu Duval came to Wakaaranga Primary School. He narrated to us a story called 'Rat Island'. We all hung off his every word and now many of us want to purchase the book for our own. Mrs Martin would love to get a copy of the book too! Here is a photo bucket of Stu's presentation.

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Week 7 - media type="custom" key="13394144" align="left"A highlight of Week Seven was definitely our trip down to the Mangroves. The children got to see how the Wakaaranga Creek used to look before the mangroves overtook the area. It was a wonderful opportunity to also see the life that exists in the mangroves and understand the important role they play in the food chain. Could this be the reason for our wonderful fish stocks in the Hauraki Gulf? In class over the next few weeks the students will get the chance to develop their own questions of inquiry and research their questions further. I hope you are all working hard to collect sponsors for the spellathon. I know that already some children are on to their second sheet of sponsors! A terrific effort, well done.

Week 6 - Term One During week 6 the students have been spending a lot of time working with Mrs. Murray in the art room. They have been learning how to effectively use crayon and dye and I am eager to see the work they have produced. Spellathon kicks off next week and your child has a list of words that they will need to learn over the next two weeks. These words will be the words that they are tested on for the big Spellathon test. Children are required to collect sponsors during the next two weeks and remember there will be prizes for those students who raise the most money and sponsors. The picnic was also a huge success as always on Friday.



Week 5 - Term One We have had another exciting week in Room 6b. This week we have had Norwegian teachers visiting Wakaaranga Primary and they have enjoyed being in our classrooms. They have been particularly interested in observing cooperative learning and the ‘Kagan’ structures that are helping the students to become more engaged with their learning. Schooling in Norway is very different and they were amazed with the way our students are using E Learning to optimize their learning experiences. We said goodbye to our 4 Korean students who were with us for 5 weeks. Simon, another boy from Korea has joined our class this week and he will be with us until the end of the term. He has settled well into his new class and the students of Room 6b have shown wonderful friendship skills by inviting him openly into the classroom. We had our first session PE with Shannon this week and the students loved spending time concentrating on their small ball handling skills. =Mrs Martin would like your input to what tools you would like to use as part of your e-learning program. Have you seen any great learning sites or sites like Toondo or Glogster to present your findings? How about typing me an answer below and let me know what you think? media type="custom" key="12317460" width="127" height="127"=

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