News

09/02/11

Well, Week 2 has kicked off with a grin. We have had a fabulous week of art, book reviews and outdoor ed. not to mention the first game of our Court Cricket syndicate competition - watch out Rooms 18 and 19 we have already got the team spirit, so the competition is on!
 * Welcome to 2012**

__What Room 23 have been up to this week..__.

__ART__ - Creating Pastel Puppet Dragons to coincide with the local Chinese Lantern festival this Saturday and 'The Year of the Dragon'. Read the Maori legend of Paikea, he rode the whale to Aotearoa - Room 23 designed Maori paintings based on the story. Analysed composition and photographic techniques for digital photography. (See below for some awesome photos from our session.) Beginning to learn to pencil sketching.

__Bob's books__ - A professional book reviewer came in and spent an hour in the library with some awesome book ideas for all interests. (No excuses that there is nothing to read now!)

__Outdoor Education__ - A group of Year 7/8's went to Mount Richardson today, a few sore legs and a couple of wasps stings but a brilliant time had by all.

__Court Cricket__ - Team training and strategic planning, all in preparation for our first game against Room 22 today. The first half began rather slow with Room 22 leading by about 10 points (however Mr Hayes hit the ball over the fence which left Room 23 rather flabbergasted and feeling a little defeated - there was some discrepancy over rules for hitting over the fence!). A solemness was the air... then Finn hit a goody and, with lots of encouraging words and cheers, we were all back to good spirits and physiqued up for a come-back. And come-back we did! We persevered right to the end and the game finished on a 13-13 Draw. Nice one Room 23, you were awesome out there! What a great end to the week.

The Year 7's are really looking forward to their first day at technology tomorrow, some quick adjustment to the early sign-ins at school prior to 8.30am may yet be required.

We have plenty of parent help for camp - it may end up having to be a hat draw - thank you to all of those wonderful parents who have offered your time. I will confirm with you as soon as we collect in the whole syndicate's permission forms and we know our numbers.

Next week we begin a more structured class routine, and we will also begin working on goal setting for our student led conferences in Week 4. I do hope you received a letter home outlining these dates. If notices are not brought home I keep spare ones on our class noticeboard. Shortly, I will look into having digital copies on our classroom Wiki, you may find them on the Syndicate Wiki:

Enjoy browsing at our photos of events this week.

Ka kete ano Anita McGowan


 * [[image:IMG_2404.JPG width="240" height="180"]] || [[image:IMG_2400.JPG width="240" height="180"]] ||
 * [[image:IMG_4991.JPG width="240" height="180"]] || [[image:IMG_2132.JPG width="240" height="180"]] ||