A Visiter

Today we had a visitor to Room 1. He is visiting because there is a Book Fair in the library.

Welcome Jeromino!

Welcome Back

Wow! Where did Week 1 go?

       

      Well....we all visited many places over the holidays and were very excited to be able to share our moments on Monday. 

      Then Mrs Sullivan introduced us to a poem written by P.Blanchfield. This poem took us on a journey through time. It was amazing to realise that the Grey River starts in the mountains and flows to the sea. Also the Grey River has a 'bar' where the ocean and river meet. We really enjoyed the journey so much that we wrote our own poems from the 'Now'

Then on Friday we shared some of our poems at assembly. Everyone really enjoyed making scones and butter for our shared lunch, as well as the old fashioned games. (Thank you Marsden Valley school teachers).

This week the Scholastic Book Fair is at Grey Main. Please support this by visiting and looking at all the wonderful books on display (The same people that Room 1 won all their books from).

Please remember to be working on your Flotation Device for Main Star
* Design and make a simple flotation device using recycled materials.  Have this ready to bring to the swimming pool to try on Friday 31 October.

Main Star Term 4

Main Star Activities for Term 4

Some of these can be started over the school holidays.

Key Competencies: Capabilities for living and lifelong Learning

The Main Star Award – Syndicate 2_- Term 4  2014

All students must complete 6 Key Com Activities:

Gold Award = 10 activities completed;   Silver Award = 8 activities completed;   

Bronze Award = 6 activities completed

THINKING

* Make a rain gauge and keep a record of the rainfall for 10 days (Example available)    Rain Gage Idea

* Choose a poem you like, learn it and present it to the class (See timetable)   Poem Roster

MANAGING SELF

* Make a small Christmas gift for someone in your extended family for no more than $5.00

* Make a cashbook and keep a track of your spending for 2 weeks. Have you spent some, saved some and shared some. (Template available)    Cashbook Template

RELATING TO OTHERS

* Compare how you celebrate Xmas to how your grandparents celebrated Xmas when they were children. Write one positive and one negative for your celebration and the same for your grandparents celebration

* Invite someone or their family to come to your place for a simple picnic or afternoon of outside games.

PARTICIPATING AND CONTRIBUTING

* Make an A4 size Water safety poster e.g. swimming, boating, diving, spa pool

* Plant something edible in your garden and look after it until it is ready to harvest.

USING LANGUAGE, SYMBOLS AND TEXT

* Find out why we have Westland Anniversary (Monday 1st December) and add this to your Blog

* Design and make a simple flotation device using recycled materials.  Have this ready to bring to the swimming pool to try on Friday 31 October.

Thank you for all the support that you give your children to complete these activities. 

We don't always see the results instantly but over time these values and skills become natural to the children. It is also rewarding to hear feedback from the recipients of the kind deeds and through comments that you  leave in the children's books. Thank You.

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Almost finished art work...

Just a sneak peek of how our garden art is going...

Friday interchange

Part of Syndicate 2 have been doing a sewing interchange on a Friday. Today many of us got out bookmarks finished and began our pictures. 

Check out our hard work...

Art Insperation

Wow! What wonderful images from the school garden...


We are looking for inspiration to create a simple native artwork for the Grey Main Art Soiree'.

We are using the garden to support our ideas.

We are working on blending shades for pastels to create a 3D image. 

Thank You Scholastic

This week Room 1 wrote thank you notes onto our kidblog. Our writing was about the amazing books that we won from Scholastic for doing a book club competition. Mrs Thomas is very proud of everyone and hopes that parents can comment on our writing.
 I was so happy when I got it. The Book was very interesting. When I read it a chick was sick. It was really silly. I am a fan of  chick sick and it is a very good book. Thank you for the book. It was very good thank you. Jazmine

I felt sad because I didn’t get a formula book. My book is interesting. I was amazed when I got my book HERO OF THE Hill. It had a train on the cover. I wonder why? I will have to read it. The train makes it up the hill through the storm and every one gets home safely. I loved reading this book in the end. Charlie

Rumbelows  Dance. Rumbelows was going to his nana and grandad’s. Lots of  people wanted to go to the market but they couldn’t get there.So Rumbelows said dance dance dance. I enjoyed reading this book. Rudy

Digger`s  Diggers are me and dads favourite thing. We like diggers because we are starting a new house. Matthew

My book is called The Giants loo roll. It made me smile and I usually frown. I felt happy. It is cool and funny. I felt happy and it is awesome. Jasmine

Vile is a book about mischief. An  red monster how was trying to get to the good school and he got shot back to the bad. School he trid to be good in science class but he failed and got kicked out. Callum

Thank you scholastic for all the awesome books for the whole class. I loved my book about the Three Bear (Sort of). It was about Goldilocks and the three Bears. Nicky

When Scholastic gave me the book about boats I felt lucky because there are big small and long boats to look at. Scholastic are awesome. Rowan

Planes  skinny  planes. Mrs Thomas chose the planes   book for  me  because i like  planes.  I  felt good. I  like planes. Kash

Owls  Winter Rescue.   When   I  got  my   book    I  felt   excited   because    it   was    my   favorite    book . It   was   easy   for    me  to  read. I  read all of  it   and there are   no   tricky world in my  book. Madisyn

I was excited because I like tractors .There were  lots of different tractors.  Books are so amazing. Tyson

This book is called Friends.The book had a fish a mum and a boy. It is about making friends and friends are cheerful. Mrs Thomas thought  I can learn about  friends. I  love  it  so much and the end  was   so  funny. Bethany

Aaaarrgghh Spider. A spider wants to be a pet. I feel lucky because  not many schools on the  West Coast won the competition. I like the sparkly webs. Angelina

On book character  day I was a bunny off   Alice and Wonderland. Scholastic  came,  I  got  a  story   book   about a duck.  The duck always ate pizza.  The book was funny and it made me laugh. I liked  reading it. Thank  you  for  the book. Rylan

I wanted a puppy book  but… I got a zebra book because I lived in South Africa .It is a good book. I LOVE THE BOOK. It was awesome  because the front cover was bright. It is funny. Thank you  from Staci.

BidiBidi was about a sheep that did not want to walk all over the mountain side.  So she sat down and all the other sheep walked off with out her.  It was  very, very  exciting.  We were lucky because we got lots of new books. Kaleb

A Bigger Digger. A big bright yellow book and a dog. A  boy found dinosaur bones on their  mums  farm. They found two dinosaurs in their yard and they needed a bigger digger. Billie-Jean

Tumble Ted. In  the story  I saw  a   mushroom and a log.The  teddy   bears  were  going  to have   a picnic. There  was  papa  and  mama  and baby  bear. They  were eating chips  and a banana. I think   they  were  having a great day. Aimee

The tiger who was Angry. The tiger is very  fast but the Elephant was very slow. I think I got my book because I like tigers. I like it because I have more books to read. Kaine

Puppy School I love the front cover  it is  awesome  and there  are  lots  of  colours in the  book. It  is  beautiful  because it is  really colourful. I  think  it is really  creative with the photos in it. It  looks cuddly and pink.I love my book. Katelin

I  have  got   a   new    book.    Finally  I   have    got   a   new     book    from     Schollastic.    I  read  it.  It is   about   a   tractor    and     a      dog.    Thank   you   for      giving  us our   books.    You   are  awesome. Harris

I like the book because I  love squirrels. I was proud because I won a book. My book was about a squirrel that got lost in the forest. Leah

On Friday Scholastic  came into room 1 in to give us all a book to keep for ever at home. My book was called the Best dressed bear. It was about a boy called Tim that had a bear called Toby. Tauri

Kiwi Play With Me. When I got  my  book I was excited. I wanted  to read the book. I read a little bit straight away. Zaheer

Last week it was book week. scholastic  sent us a box of books. one book I got was the silly goat gruff. Mrs Thomas chose the books for the class to read. Book week is a good idea because we get to dress up as our favourite character on a Friday. I think it makes kids want to read more. Kyra

Book Week at GMS

Wow...what an awesome week of chapter book proportions!
We have had a really cool Teddy Bears picnic in the hall with teachers reading us stories, Wacky Wednesday where things were just a little bit wacky, Mr Wood sharing his favorite stories and then Book Character Day on Friday.

The costumes in Room 1 were fantastic and we had a great time sharing our characters.

Room 1 in their costumes

Being watched over by Captain Hook...

All our books that we received from Schollastic. These are ours to have at home.

Book Week video

A surprise for Book Week

On Monday of Book Week at parcel arrived at Grey Main School for Room 1. We'll Mrs Thomas was a little miffed... What was Scholastic doing sending us a box?

Then Mrs Thomas remembered that in Term 1 we had completed a scavenger hunt and sent in our entries. WELL...we won some very cool book stuff. Three is a book for each of us and a voucher to buy some more for our classroom. Thank you Scholastic. we are so excited.

Crime Spree in Room 1

On Thursday morning Room 1 discovered someone had been in their classroom. 
We spent the day being CSI's and looking at evidence for clues. As a class we have a large list of suspects. 
At the end of the day we felt less angry at this persons behavior but are still wondering WHY?

The Crime Scene

Mrs Thomas' hammer

Easter egg, Madisyn's pen, rocks and a mystery hat...

'Rabbit' Writing

On Friday Nicky's mum brought some bunnies into the classroom...

Their claws were sharp.      Angelina

Rabbits are cute and cuddly.      Matthew

Rex is a Rex and Raisin is a lop.      Nicky

Raisin is called Raisin because his poos looks like raisins. They were fluffy, silky, fast, jumpy and soft.     Tauri

I loved holing them.      Rylan

They were little. They like broccoli, that's their favorite food.     Katelin

Here is some information. They run fast like a car. They like to stare at people. They are cute.       Billie-Jean

This is Raisin.

This is Rex.

Awesome visitors

Today we had two surprise visitors to Room 1. We had a great time patting them both and discussing how soft their fur is.

                                                                                   We thought this was a cool treat.

Linking to our work

Welcome to all the parents that are visiting tonight.

I am still ironing out some of the glitches with links. Please try them all out and if the don't work at your end make a comment. 
I will give all the children a copy of their passwords for studyladder and kidblog tomorrow.

Happy surfing,
Mrs Thomas

Moana Camp

Wow!! What an amazing camp with a fantastic group of children and brilliant parents.
This camp was fun filled and full on. We all had such a great time trying new and interesting activities.
A huge thank you to everyone who helped make this a great experience.

Raft making and floating...

Trying out kayaking...

Night time walks...

 Even finding out where milk came from.

Meet John Deere

Meet John Deere from Room 1.

He is very excited to be taking on the challenge to scare  away the birds from the GM Farm.

His head has 2 caps because he's sun smart, a shiny face and sparkly eyes because he is excited.

His hands are ready for scaring with raustly fingers. Don't forget to listen for the bells...

Look at us...

We are great Room 1 learners!!

Welcome Back

Welcome to the start of another year.

This year your teacher is Mrs Thomas

Hello, I have been teaching at Grey Main for 5 years in Syndicate 3. I have 2 teenage children, that both attended Grey Main. I really enjoy art and reading a variety of books and authors. In my spare time I enjoy making hand crafts and eating small amounts of chocolate. I am very excited about 2014.

This year I will try to keep the class, parents and families informed about what we are up to through this blog. Please feel free to make quality comments that I can share with the class.