Tuesday 26 March 2013

Tuesday 26th March

Kia Ora everyone.

Today was sausage sizzle and juicy madness. It seems the whole school, including Room 5 had ordered a sausage and the very popular juicy. Everyone seemed happy with the outcome and there were many happy and satisfied faces.

Today for writing we looked at the words we used yesterday for our vowel and consonant activity. Today we wanted to find out how many syllables were in each word. To help us do this we used our own names and 'clapped' out the syllables. We learned that each syllable has a vowel, or vowel sound.

We are steadily building up our repertoire of spelling activities that we will be able to do independently,  confidently and successfully when we are not on the mat with Mr F.

This afternoon we read another installment of our class chapter book, " The Sandpit War". It is about a group of girls who were best friends, but then after a particularly mean and selfish girl ( called Eartha) starts to boss around the girls and spread rumors and lies, the girls turn on each other. We will find out what happens when we read it next, but today we brainstormed all the words to describe how the girls felt before, and then after, Eartha began to cause trouble.

We are then going to see how this relates to us and our experiences at school, with the aim of developing strategies to deal with these situations.

We took pictures of the whiteboard display but we are having problems downloading them from the ipod to the laptop.  Never fear, once this technical glitch is sorted we will get the pics up.


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