Monday 8 April 2013

Monday 8th April

Kia Ora all

Today we kicked off with our first ' reading log regular checkup'. Each morning after roll we go back to our desks. We put our reading logs on our desk, open to the correct page. Mr Forman comes around with his 'smiley' stamp and stamps it if we have completed it. We then have about 8 minutes 'free choice' until he says ' see you on the mat in 30 seconds'.

If we haven't completed the reading log we have to do it then, which eats into our 'free time'. Mr Forman is convinced that this will 'support' us to ensure we complete our reading logs everyday.

Writing

Today we had a surprise. Mr Forman showed us a large envelope that had arrived from England. Inside it was a CD and lots of letters from Kingswood Junior School in England. We watched the short video clips - they want to be our PENFRIENDS.

Awesome !! - so we went back and wrote down some of the things about ourselves that we would like to write to them about.

Tomorrow we will read the letters from the students, and then inspired, go back and work on our own introduction letter.

We were thinking that we might even make a short video about our school to share with them.

Buddy Reading

Today we met with our buddy reading class  - Room 19.

It was 'meet and greet' day so we spent our time introducing ourselves. We will choose buddies soon. Check out the photos below.















1 comment:

  1. Wow, what an awesome day! Just looked at the Kingswood Junior School website, they look like a pretty cool school. Have you seen their Gangnam style video?

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