Room14HES

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.

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

Today is a special day for Room 14 and all their lovely visitors. Our clustrmap tells us that since June this year we have had 1,015 different visitors look at our blog.  We know that some of them come back to look at our blog again and again. To celebrate we had hundreds and thousands biscuits.   Look how happy and proud of ourselves we are.   We really love blogging.  We think it is fantastic because we get to share our learning with lots of people around the world. Thank you for looking at our blog.

Here is a tagxedo of the best things about today Thursday 25 August for Room 14.

Today we had practices at reading a story using skype. We rang Room 5 after morning tea. Anna read the story and Georgia was the camera kid. It was a bit tricky at first but she got the hang of it. Room 5 was a great audience. After lunch Room 5 rang us. They wanted to read us a story. They read us two stories. One was The Moon and the other story was about cleaning your teeth. The readers read very clearly.     We hope we can share our reading with Room 5 again soon.

Did you know next week is Australian Book Week? Room 14 is going to skype a class in Australia and read them a story.  Today we used Google Earth to see where they are. We even used street view and that was pretty cool because we could zoom right in. We would like some help to choose a story to read to them.  Do you know a story that might tell the class something about New Zealand?

We were looking at   2KM and 2KJ's blog and they had written some great stories using Storybird. We enjoyed reading the stories 2KM and 2KJ had created. They made us laugh and they had great characters. So today Anna thought she would make one. We all helped give ideas and choose the characters. Finally Anna finished it! Being a Hamilton East School Kid. by Room14HES on Storybird

Here is our brainstorm from oral language.  These are some of the things we are going to try and do this week so we all have a fantastic week.