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New Blogs to Follow

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Recently Anna has found some other great blogs from New Zealand for Room 14 to follow. Here is some information about them. You can click on the name of each blog and it will take you to their blog. View Blogs in a larger map   This blog is from Room 6 at Point England School in Auckland. The students share their fantastic stories with us. They have a photo or an illustration and then you can see the student reading their writing to you. Mrs She is so lucky to have such amazing writers and readers in her class.   Room 7 is from Vardon School in Hamilton. They share their learning in lots of different ways. It looks like Room 7 and Mrs Natusch have a lot of fun learning together. Room 1 is from Grants Braes School in Dunedin. We really enjoyed hearing Room One's e-books.  There was quite a lot of laughter from our class because the students have such great expression.

Japanese Students

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We have 12 students from Ritsumeikan Keisho Junior High School   from Sapporo, Japan visiting our school.   We have learnt how to say hello in Japanese - Konnichiwa.  It's autumn in Japan at the moment. Did you know it snows in Sapporo in winter? The students travel to school by bus or train and it takes over an hour to get there. There are over 500 students at their school.    This afternoon we went on a school tour and played a game about our school environment. We played an alphabet game where you try and find things around the school that start with the different letters of the alphabet. It was really important that we talked to each other. We got to know the Japanese students better.     We hope that the students have a great time visiting our school and New Zealand.

Welcome back to Term 4

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Here we are in the Kitchen Garden on our first day back. We are wearing sunhats because it is summer and we are being sun safe.   We checked on our class garden to see how everything is growing. Our lettuces have grown and the slugs are leaving them alone. Our pea seeds have also started growing. We planted a zucchini plant called Black Coral, that we got from Anna's Mum and Dad.  We really enjoyed making new friends around the world last term. We are looking forward to working with our buddies again this term and hopefully we will make some new connections too.

Making Connections

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At the moment it is school holidays in New Zealand.  I am lucky to be at a conference called Ulearn .  Today I was a presentation led by two teachers called Claire Buist and Anne Kenneally. I had a look at a blog that Anne helps with -  Room 7 at St Mary's School. AND guess what....they had a blog post about us! Room 14!!! Isn't that cool! Click on the screen shot of their blog post so you can take a look at what Room 7 has been up to.

End of Term Celebration

On Friday 7 October (our last day of term 3) our whole school had a celebration. Each class dressed in the colours of one of the rugby teams they have been supporting during the Rugby World Cup. Here is a vimeo showing our whole school supporting the RWC. Can you work our what countries we have been supporting? Here is a vimeo showing Room 14 cheering for......Georgia. Room 14 has really enjoyed learning about all the different teams in the Rugby World Cup. We are really proud of how New Zealand has hosted the RWC too. Good Luck to the All Blacks for the final on Sunday.

Term 3 Learning

We have had a great term together and have learnt so much.  Here is a vimeo sharing what we liked about this term.

Rugby World Cup

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We have really enjoyed the Rugby World Cup.      We have supported lots of different teams throughout the competition. We had a day where we dressed in the colours of the different teams to show our support.   Can you guess what teams we are supporting? We were lucky that some people in our class are from different countries with teams in the Rugby World Cup. Lita got her Fijian flag signed by some of the Fijian players.   On the last day of school every class chose a team to dress up as. Room 14 is supporting Georgia . We are wearing red and white and have painted our faces. Here is some of our writing about the Rugby World Cup. I am supporting the France rugby team. I like their top that they wear. They are good at passing the ball to each other. I am helping and supporting the French team by wearing the colours that are on their country flag. I also painted my face blue. I think that the Rugby World Cup is exciting. When New Zealand played France I was cheering for both teams. Th

Skype Calls

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Here is some of our writing about our fantastic Skype Day. Today we skyped lots of schools around the world. My favourite skype call was the Mystery Skype call. We had to ask yes or no questions to find out what school they are and where they live. Room 14 found out where they lived first. They lived in Chicago. Finally they said New Zealand and we said yes. Then they guessed Hamilton. By Eva We skyped lots of schools and found out more about them. My favourite call was Te Poi because I miss Whaea Linda and also because they are an Enviro School now. They made a movie that looked really really cool. Every Friday they do whole school Enviro jobs so they can be a really big Enviro school. I hope they succeed someday. By Tarn My favourite part of Skype Day was skyping Miss Becker’s class. It was nearly morning tea time for Miss Becker’s class. They are 6 and 7 year old. Some of them read chapter books too. They also wear uniforms. They are in Queensland, Australia. They have over 500 ch

Skype Day

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This morning we got to school super early. Why would we come to school so early?  So we could Skype our friends in other classrooms across the world. First up at 7:15am was Miss Pope's Superstars in North Carolina, USA . We had a technical difficulty and had to change classrooms before we could talk properly. (Thanks Room 16 for letting us use your room). Miss Pope's Superstars were just about as excited as we were.     We read them a story about Taniwha and we also counted to 10 in Maori.       They counted in 10 in Spanish. They also told us about their day. After our Skype call they were going home and we were just starting our day. Then we skyped a mystery school . We didn't know where in the world they were and we had to ask them yes and no questions to find out where they were.          They had great Geography knowledge but they thought we were in Australia. We guessed using their accent too and we thought they were in the USA.  Where were they? In Chicago. (Actually