School Choir in Assembly

The choir sang for us during assembly. They are practicing new songs and this is one of the first times they have sung before such a big audience. Mr Wood thought they sounded awesome and many members of Team 17 are in the choir.

The choir came to view the video in Team 17's classroom. They used the viewing to help them improve their performance, as sometime when you see yourself do something on video, you can see things that you can improve on.

Visiting the Marae

Team 17, along with the middle syndicate visited a marae on Monday. It was a wet, grey day but we had fun and got some good photos

Buddy Reading

Every Friday Team 17 goes to the juniors Room 7 to do Buddy Reading. Both classes love sharing reading time and Team 17 are learning to use the reading strategies they have learnt to help their junior buddies improve their reading.

This Friday we also found out some of our buddies interests. This is so that we can write and create books especially for them. Team 17 will be learning about how books are written, illustrated and made, so that their books are interesting, but also help their buddies become better readers.

Blog Promise

I promise to keep class passwords private.
I promise to share my best work.
I promise to respect other's work and not alter it in unkind ways.
I promise to support other class members by commenting on their blogs in a positive and helpful way.
I promise to make my blog fun and interesting to read.
I promise to use my blog to share learning, any other blog posts will be sensible and interesting.
I promise to proof and edit my work and use good grammar.

T-shirt design

This week for home work Team 17 had to design a long sleeve T-shirt or a short sleeve T-shirt. I had decided to make a long sleeve T-shirt out of a white long sleeve vest, and a old brown t-shirt and white laces. When it was done I brought it to school and my teacher (Mr.Wood) said it was fantastic.

Damon.

Measuring temperature

Shweta C and PN created a graph using Chartle.com to show their measurements of the temperatures outside the classroom this week.

WALT:we were learning to measure temperature.
First we got the temperature for outside then we put it into to a graph, we decided to do a bar graph.
The highest temperature was 24 degrees celsius,
The lowest temperature was 14 degrees celsius and
The most popular temperature was 20 degrees celsius.

Team 17 Reflection of Week 1, Term 2

Team 17 have jumped into the new term with enthusiasm and are already showing how engaged self-directed learners can be. The following reflections were made in small groups on some different topcis, and the photos were taken to reflect the subjects. Well done team 17, I am proud of you. Mr Wood.

Maths: Measuring Temperature
It was exciting when we had maths and we were finding out what the temperature was in other countries.
Team 17 has figured out how to calculate degrees Fahrenheit to degrees Celsius.





Science: Insulation and temperature
Water boils when it reaches 100C and it freezes below 0C.
For science this week, everyone in class went to the staff room with Mr Wood to get an ice-cube for the challenge. We tried to make it last long.



Our new classroom layout
The classroom looks cool and next week we will get our laptops but we don't get to play games.
Our new classroom has been layed-out for us to use laptops.




Reading Buddies
Today we got new reading buddies from room 7 and we will help them read every Friday.
My year 2 buddy is very eager to read like year six children do.