The Holidays

I hope everybody has had a relaxing holiday. It has been great to see some nice weather as well. What has been the highlight of your holidays?
I have really enjoyed having some sleep ins and reading lots of books, but the highlight was being able to go to the semi final between the All Blacks and the Wallabies on Sunday night at Eden Park.

Let's hope the All Blacks have another great win this Sunday night!

Aardhyn's Mr Blob animation

Thank you to our pent-a-blogging friends for your very constructive comments and feedback this week. We are all enjoying your suggestions and are looking forward to putting this feedback into our work!

Aardhyn would love some feedback on his Mr Blob animation. You can find it by clicking on his name label. This was his first attempt at an animation and Aardhyn would love to know what you think.

Thanks

Pent-a-Blogging

This week we have started an exciting learning challenge called Pent-a-Blogging, with 4 other classes from Otago and Southland. Each week one class is the focus class. The other classes in the group read the focus class's blog or wiki and give them feedback about their work. The next week the focus class changes. Check out the other blogs and wikis on our pent-a-blog page.
As new 'bloggers' this is a really great chance for Room 2 to get some feedback about our blog and we're sure that the other classes will have some great ideas on how we can improve our blog.

Miss Johnston's research assistants - please remember to keep checking in and giving feedback on the writing blog, the link is on the right.

End of Week 3 - A Very Short Week!

Thank you to all of the parents (and children!) who have been commenting on our blog, in particular the children's writing about the Relax and Read chair. We all get very excited to see there are new comments!

Thank you also to those who have returned both the child and parent consent forms for my research. It would be great to have a few more, so if you haven't already, please consider whether you might be able to do so. Let me know if you need a replacement form!

I have added some typing practise websites to our wiki that children might like to have a go at at home.

The Arrival of the Relax and Read Chair

Today a new chair arrived in our class. It's almost like magic. Whenever you are in the relax and read chair, you just want to relax and read!

Room 2 wrote stories about the history of the relax and read chair. Here they go...