Shared holiday blog post

Mary:

In the holidays I went to Adelaide. We saw Honor and Georgiana. We went to Carrickalinga Beach. We had a scavenger hunt. I had a great holiday.

Cass:

In the holidays I went to Akaroa and I went on a cruise on the harbour we went right into the head of the habour. It was very bumpy. I had a great holiday.

By Cass and Mary

sunday

I made a bookshelf with mam.
it was hard.

HOLIDAYS

IM REALLY IXCITED THE HOLIDAYS ARE ALMOST HERE!!! BY KEENAN

Term 3 Week 9

Team 13, your challenge is to write one comment each about what we did this week at school.

Rugby

After the learning conference I got my jersey signed by the Canterbury Rugby team and my photo with the Ranfurly Shield.

On Saturday I went to the rugby with Dad and Corban at AMI Stadium. Canterbury won. We saw Larry the Lamb. I got my arm signed by Andy Ellis.

The holidays are nearly here!!!!!

yay it's nearly the holidays! I'm going to miss school. I will miss my friends too....and Miss Kincaid.
Jackson

Calendar Art

The calendar art is now on the blog for your viewing pleasure! If you would like to order either calendars or packs of 10 cards, they cost $12 each. Please return your money with the order form you received last Thursday 10th Sept before the end of the term.

Big Sister coming around

Claire is my big sister. On Friday night she came for tea. We were having fish and chips. She has a puppy called Roxy. Adam has a dog called Czar. Roxy is a Labrodour cross with a German Shepard. Roxy never eats her own food. She mostly eats Czar's food. The first day I met Roxy, which was on a Saturday about three weeks ago, the day after that I lost my first upper tooth. Have a good weekend!

Mary

Term 3 Week 8

This week we . . .

* Tom was the star child this week - Ryan

* We went to see the NZ Army Band - Leo. We knew every song and we sang along and clapped - Tom & Cass. There were heaps of songs and the focus was on Music From Around The World - Ryan & Mary. We got to go (yell out as loud as we could) bang in one of the songs - Kyle. At the end of the concert on the bus on the way back to school Yusuke's nose started bleeding - Trent.

* The handwriting and poems this week was oy and oi - Annabelle

* We had our Student Led Conferences on Wednesday and Thursday and we had to do our Mihi's first and my mum was looking for my book in my totetray. I got lost and went to the wrong library - Tom

* We went to room 22 with Mrs R for our Poetry on Friday - Eliza.

* We had our school photos taken on Monday - Dan

* The seats are nearly finished under the Big tree - Ryan.

* Next week we don't have to do any homework because we (the whole school) are doing the Free Rice thing - Daniel. When you go on the computer you have to go on everyday after school and play the games in order to gain grains of rice. We need to get 10 grains of rice each, every day. Then we need to fill in our booklet and room 22 will collate all the grains of rice we get as a class - Team 13.

Week8 Term3

In the weekend I went to a dairy farm.it was fun because I got to pat calves I also got to see all the cows get milked. Annabelle

Student Led Conferences

Hi

The Student Led Conferences are this week. Please make sure that you know what time your child is presenting their conference.

All families are invited to provide us with feedback about the Student Led Conferences and Learning Reports. Please go to:

www.fendalton.school.nz/communityconsultation.php

...and complete the short survey. This survey closes at the end of this term. Thank you in advance for helping us make the system even better.

Student Led Conferences

Hi

The student led conferences are this week, Wednesday and Thursday.

Term 3 Week 7

What happened this week?

* Dan was the star child - Moiz

* We had cricket coaching. It was fun because we got to do cricket instead of maths and we played a junior version of cricket and I got 8 runs and my team got 57 which made us the winners - Tom. We got some bags of goodies at the end of it. - Ryan. Tom and I got 47 catches in a row without dropping it when we were throwing the ball to each other. - Trent.

* We did ew and ue for handwriting and poetry. - Anna-Lucy

* It was Jee-Sung's birthday on Wednesday. - Annabelle.

* We did our calendar art. We started with printing using rainbow sheets but have ended up using pictures we drew of our family. This is because the rainbow sheets didn't come out as good as we had hoped. If you have the rainbow sheet facing up then the paper you are drawing on comes up a bit better - Mary.

* Mr Sibson came in when we were doing our rainbow art and he joined in during handwriting time and did hangman with us. - Kyle

* A man called Graham came in to help Miss Kurano with her lesson. - Eliza. He knows Eliza's mum and dad and he knows Ryan's dad too. - Ryan

* We had a few teachers teaching us at different times this week, we had Mrs Norton, Mrs R and Mr Jordan. - Anna-Lucy

* We did a PMI for our science topic about keeping ourselves warm - Ryan. We also did an assessment on our experiments. - Daniel.

* Tuesday was the first day of September and the first day of Spring - Leo

* Miss Kincaid assessed out Mihi's this week in front of the class - Annabelle.

Coming events

Hi there

* We have Cricket coaching today 9.45 - 10.30am

* We need 2 parents to help out with supervision next Tuesday morning 9.30 - 12 on our NZ Army Trip. If you are able to help please email me or come in and see me. First in first served as they say.

* School Photos next Monday. Remember to look your best and wear your correct uniform, correctly. All girls need to wear a tie, have your hair neatly tied back and wear a correct hair tie, boys tuck in your shirts and make sure you have the right shoes.

* Student Led Conference are next Wednesday and Thursday. Please check the wee notice that went home last week for your times.

Have a good week!

Term 3 Week 6

What have Team 13 been doing for the past 2 weeks?

* Today we went to assembly and Teams 22 and 14 did a slide show for us and told us about the free rice website that we will be able to do. We get no homework the week we do this. - Rose

* We went to the museum and we had lunch in the gardens and played on the playground - Reilly. We went into a big umbrella tree and played in it and me and Tom went the highest in there - Trent. We leanrt about our bodies at the museum - Leo.
We learnt:

The large intestine was quite small and the small intestine was really long - Alex.
Our heart is not the shape of a love heart. - Rosa
We learnt how to play hopscotch - Ryan
I didn't know that you had a liver in your body and it does more than 500 things for your body - Reilly
The food and food and water goes through your system really slowly and takes on average about 30 hours for your food to go right through your whole body system. - Tom
I learnt that when you drink too much fizzy it makes you burp - Cass
I could see how a skeleton opened a door and I saw a skeleton of a man with a special torch - Jackson.
I learnt that when your food goes down into your tummy it get all mushed up like a smoothie - Eliza
We went into a tunnel and we had to blow a truck to move it - Ryan


* We started doing out calendar art - Mary.

* Today is my birthday and I told the class what I got this morning. I got a brain box game and a book called Christian the Lion. - Annabelle.

* For handwriting this week we did 'oa' and last week we did 'igh'. - Kyle. We did these vowel sounds for poetry as well.

* I was the star child for the first time - yay me!!! - Jackson.

* We are making a brand new library and we can check out the pictures of this on the school website. - Jee-Sung.

* We published our recipe's for making milkshakes. Our parents will see these in our learning reports when they come for the conferences in week 8. - Tom, Ryan and Mary.

* Miss Stackhouse came to visit and she left at lunchtime. She taught us for the morning - we didn't expect her to come and it was really good to see her again. - Tom

* We welcomed Miss Kurano into our class. She will be with us until the end of this term. - Daniel

* We learnt how to tell the time in maths and we can now read calendars. - Jackson.

Welcome acrostic

We can help you

Everyone answer the quetions

Lovely children

Come on in

Out and about

Make them fit in

Everyone show them the routines

By Mary

Term 3 Week 4

What did we learn this week?

* We learnt a new jump jam song called Chihuahua - Cass. It's is cool at the end when you put your hand on somebody's shoulder and make a train singing chihuahua - Tom. I like it at the very end when we shake our finger like you're telling someone off and say "stop playing with that radio or yours, I'm trying to get some sleep" - Kyle.

* Rosa was our star child - Ryan. She was a good star child because she helped Daniel a lot when he first started in our class - Anna-Lucy.

* Junior was a new person who started in our class on Wednesday - Keenan. Junior came from Auckland, we are helping Junior fit into the class by telling him the routines and showing him what to do, his name is Fanguna but we call him Junior and he is from Tonga and is learning English. - Team 13

* We did the long vowel sound "ee, ie" for poetry and handwriting this week - Jackson. Mrs Gordon came in to helps us with the poem on Friday while Miss Kincaid took the choir and some of her class, room 22, came and helped us too - Kyle. Mrs Gordon knew quite a few of us because she has taught a lot of our siblings - Anna-Lucy.

* We made friendship pictures using only paper and we weren't allowed to draw anything - Jee-Sung. Room 9 got to do their own picture as well as helping their buddies - Ryan.

* Cass got her cast off and now she just has a bandage on it. She needs to keep this on for 1 week - Mary.

* On Friday we got to see a lamb because room 20 are looking after it for their inquiry - Annabelle.

* We fare-welled Mr Proctor. We are very sad to see him go - Tom. He's going to be a Deputy Principal at Linwood Primary - Ryan.

* Rosa is going to bring in a suprise animal for us to meet for her star news - Jackson.

It was really nice that Junior started in our class today.

Hello Room 13

Hi everyone,

Just checking in to see how you all are!
At the momment I am at Cotswold School and the class I am in are lovely :) I hear there are three more students in your class, I hope you are looking after them and being great fendalton friends. I have been working at FOSCAR as Trent, Eliza and Rose know, I get to see them when they re there and help them wth their homework!
I am hoping to come in and visit, and maybe do some fun things with you to help Miss Kincaid while she is super busy.
Looking forward to seeing all your smiley faces :)
Miss you lots,

Miss Stackhouse

P.S. I must of had you in mind because i kept calling my class at Cotswold Room 13!!!

Ideas for reading at home

Here is a presentation from our recent Parent Talk Time "Reading at home with early readers", led by Jennifer Doak and Sandra Howat:

For further information as well as downloads, please check: www.fendalton.school.nz/parenteducation

Slime Recipe

From Making Slime

Term 3 Week 3

This week we:

* Did 'ay' and 'ai' for handwriting and poetry. - Anna-Lucy

* Daniel was our star child for this week. We learnt that his favourite food is chicken nuggets, he has an older brother in room 16, he has a 17 year old cat called Milly, he has a bigger sister who is still in England finishing her exams and he comes from Birmingham in England. - Keenan and Team 13

* We learnt how to write the recipe for making milkshakes and we might be able to make them next week - Ryan

* We are about to head off to the village to front the junior assembly. Tom, Mary and Eliza are all speaking at this assembly. Trent, Anna-Lucy, Daniel, Cass and Annabelle are doing their mihi's. We are going to sing some Maori songs. We will celebrate people's birthdays and we are going to sing We're all in this together. - Mary and Team 13.

* We went to visit our buddy class and they helped us do our poetry sheets and they helped us choose our books from the library. Daniel, Tom and Ryan

* We went to see the wearable arts that the senior children put on for us on Tuesday. They designed and made their own costumes - there was a busy bee, a swine flu, they sang the 'Octopus' Garden' using fluorescent lights and colours which was really effective, Mr Norton dressed up as a lady, There were some visitors to NZ and one of them slipped in a cow patty and one sat on the wrong seat and the taxi driver had to shue him away and they got all confused with the language and exaggerated their accents. Team 13

Have a great weekend and week 4!

From Team 13

Term 3 Week 2

What did Team 13 get up to this week?

* Cass was the star child. - Cass

* We made some slime - Annabelle

* We learnt u_e words - Tom

* We played a game to tell the time, girls against boys and the girls won twice - Eliza

* We made up games. This was fun. We made up the rules and I made the rule go back 5 spaces and you have to do that. - Keenan

* We are learning to write procedures and instructions - Rose

* We are learning our mihi because it's Maori week this week and we are doing our mihi's on the night our parents come to se what we have been learning and doing at school (Student Led Conferences) - Daniel, Kyle and Ryan. Some of us did our mihi's in front of our buddy class room 9 - Rose.

* We looked at different procedures and one was a recipe for making slime. - Mary. We decided to follow this recipe to see if we can make slime. - Jee-Sung. Miss Kincaid got us the ingredients to make the slime - Trent.

* Mrs R came in and took us for reading and P.E. - Mary. We played a basketball game - Reilly. We also played simon says which was fun - Annabelle. We played simon says in Maori this made the game quite hard. - Ryan.

* The Patrick Stars and the Planktons had to do a contract on a journal story called 'The fox and the goat'. It was about a fox who tricked a goat and made him fall down a well. - Tom

* Miss Kincaid taught us some Maori songs - Rosa. We are leading junior assembly next week and we are going to sing these songs. - Eliza.

* The Student Led COnferences are no longer in week 5 they are now going to be in week 8. - Miss Kincaid

* We are about to go to the village to hear Miles teach us about mihi's and why we do them. - Miss Kincaid

* Today we got new books for our bible studies lessons from Rose. - Anna-Lucy

* Some children from Room 17 came and shared their mihi's with us. - Rose

Term 3 Week 1

What did we do in our first week back for term 3?

* We looked the the long and short 'o' vowel sounds. Anna-Lucy

* Eliza was our star child for the week and she brought in her Labradoodle called Daisy. She was cute and energetic and fluffy. She tried to bite (gently) and lick everyone's face. Ryan and class

* It was Anna-Lucy's birthday on Wednesday. Annabelle

* Mr Sibson was away sick - Trent

* We did our poetry in our buddy class's room - Alex

* We got a new student in our class and his name is Daniel. We do already have a Daniel in our class so to stop getting confused we will call the original Daniel, Dan and the new Daniel is still Daniel. - Reilly

* All week we did poems for reading time and we took them home to read everyday. Rose

* Cass came back to school with a cast on her arm. - Mary

* We read a diary of a worm and of a wombat. We want to be a wombat - Eliza. The wombat mostly slept - Trent

* We learnt a new jump jam song to share with the rest of the middle and junior school next week - Kyle

* We did a test on what we know about telling time in days, months years, clocks and reading calendars. - Keenan

* We saw this amazing invention that used balls to make music - Trent

* We are reading another goosebumps story about warewolves. - Ryan

* We are learning to be friendly kids in friendly classrooms, this is our topic - Miss Kincaid

Ice skating and X - ray

On Sunday I went ice skating. I fell over backwards and got a sore left wrist. I had to have an X-ray. The doctor said that I broke my wrist (I have a greenstick fracture)! So I had to get a cast. I chose pink. I got to keep my X- ray (which I think is cool).

One of the problems with having a cast is that I can't go skiing. My little sister is going to learn to ski. I am going to have a snowball fight with Mummy. Later in the ski season my little sister might be able to teach me how to ski!

Cass.

Holidays

Hello Reilly and Mary

I hope you are enjoying your holiday so far. I love your acrostic poem Mary, sounds like you are going to have a good holiday. Wouldn't it be nice to have a bit of sun shine.

Miss Kincaid

Fiji acrostic

Hot sun
Overseas we go
Lucky spot
Island fun
Dive in the sea
Action adventure
Yahoo!

By Mary

Yay its the holidays now

Term 2 Week 10

Here we are at the end of term 2 already. Man how this term went fast. What have we done this term?

* Rose was the star child and i_e was the handwriting focus for the last week. - Ryan

* Today it was the sausage sizzle and I had 3 sausages - Trent

* We learnt a new song called called We're all in this together - Alex

* On Wednesday we saw ElGregoe the magician - Kyle

* We officially opened the playhouse and we got to play in it on Wednesday - Annabelle

* For the opening of the playhouse I did a speech. I was excited and shivering with nerves all at the same time - Mary

* I went to boys breakfast with my father and my brother and it was really funny and the boys won when they were throwing the basketballs into the hoop and my dad tried to throw it in and he missed - Tom

* ElGregoe's parrot came too - Reilly

Miss Kincaid wishes us all a very happy and safe holiday! Can't wait to see you again next term. Don't forget to contribute to this blog over the holidays Team 13.

The play house is here soon

It's not long now until we have a new fancy junior play house. Here are some photos of the build:

Term 2 Week 9

What have we learnt this week?

* We've been learning the a_e sounds - Anna-Lucy. Make, Rate, Change, Drake, fake, flake etc

* The junior playhouse was being built on Friday this week and the opening will be next Monday. - Annabelle

* We have been looking at the primary and secondary colours with our buddy class and then how to manipulate the colours of the rainbow to make white. - Alex and Miss Kincaid

* We've been doing a poem called the magic e that changes words. - Eliza

* Keenan was our star child this week.

* Miss Kincaid went with the choir again and we got to go to different classes for the morning. - Team 13

* We did our poetry with our buddy class in room 9 today (friday)

* The toilets were broken and they stunk out our classroom for a wee while so we went outside and did jump jam - Miss Kincaid

* At can do time Annabelle, Mary and Cass all decorated and made some magnets. - Mary

Planet Mars - a story by Cass

When we landed on Planet Mars we saw shiny golden stars. Then we saw brave blue aliens and sparkly golden moons. Then we saw shallow blue holes in the deep blue sea.

Then very tiredly we entered the spaceship and zoomed back to Planet Earth and went back to have a long, long sleep. After a long sleep we went zoming back to Planet Mars. Then we came back to Yuske's house and had a nice cup of tea and some biscuits.

Term 2 Week 8

This week we . . .

• have been writing about going on a journey and what we saw.  We had to name 5 nouns (things we saw) and each noun had to have 2 adjectives (describe the things we saw) - Tom
• celebrated Tom's birthday - thank you Tom for the chocolates! - Mary
• cut up some magazines to show what foods we can eat the least, some and most of. - Ryan
• looked at the 'str' blend and words like stranger, strangle, stretch, string, straight, stray, street, straven etc - Annay-Lucy and team 13
• learnt a new jump jam song.  It is called Switch and it is really fast and really fun! 
• learnt how to mix primary colours to get secondary colours with our buddy class - Eliza

Term 2 Week 7

This week Team 13 . . .

Learnt about the blend 'thr' with words like thrill, through, thrush, three, thread, and throb - Anna-Lucy and class

Learnt how to write a diary - Ryan & Reilly

Went to different classes on Tuesday morning because Miss Kincaid went with the choir to Burnside High School - Dan. This was scary says Jackson. It was exciting because some epople got to do some things they haven't done for a long time like PMP - Eliza.

We changed the classroom around and I like it because my tote-tray is on a different side. Sometimes I get confused and forget that I have moved my seat and my tote-tray - Mary.

On Monday only the teachers had to go to school and the kids got the day off - Kyle.

Cass' mum learning to blog.

I think that the class blog looks fantastic! Well done.

Christine Herrington

Junior Swimming Survey

Term 2 Week 6

What did Team 13 get up to in this short week?

We learnt some 'squ' words like squid, squiggle, squash, squirt, squidward, squirrel, squish, squint, squeak, squat, squawk, squeeze, squeal etc - Team 13

We celebrated the Queens birthday on Monday even though it wasn't her actual birthday. - Eliza

We have been learning repeating and sequential patterns for maths. We used the people in our class to make the patterns. - Mary and Ryan

We learnt how to do a Venn Diagram with our buddy class. We compared the true story of the 3 little pigs and the traditional story of the 3 little pigs. - Dan & Tom

Parent Talk Times

Parent Talk Times
All parents are invited to our Friday Parent Talk Time sessions. Most of these sessions are held in the staffroom, with coffee from 9.00 and a 9.10 start. Our next sessions cover: Blogging Basics, Dyspraxia, as well as Handwriting/Letter formation.

Please check the web site for the timetable and to RSVP to let us know you are coming: www.fendalton.school.nz/parenteducation

Term 2 Week 5

What did we get up to this week?

The Patrick Star's and the Plankton's have been learning about ants and grasshoppers and doing a reading contract on this fable. - Tom

We have been learning how to skip count in 2's using the odd numbers for a change. - Keenan

We have been learning 'spl' words like split, splotch, splendid, splash, splutter, splinter, splish, splosh, splatter, splice etc. - Rose (and class)

We were visited by 2 little mice this morning thanks to Alex. The mice are called Mickey and Minnie. They tickled when they were on our hands, they went to the toilet on some people's hands. They vibrated on our hands. Their feet and their claws were very sharp.

We went to the hall and watched a play. It was called 'Rev it up!' They told us a story about a girl who didn't think she was special but turns out she was. - Leo, Rosa and Dan.

On Wednesday we had Mrs Talaska, she was a fun happy teacher. - Trent

Our parents came in after school on Tuesday and Thursday to talk to our teacher. - Eliza

We had Fendalton Friends on Tuesday, that was very fun. - Kyle We played games and got to know each other - Alex.

We went to our buddy class and drew pictures with them. - Jee-Sung

Term 2 Week 4

What have we been doing this week?

We have learnt how to write a fairytale - Tom

We have read fairytales - Trent

The Plankton's and Patrick Star's have done their fairytale contract - Cass

We have learnt the difference between a repeated pattern and a sequential pattern - Rose

We have been learning about heroes - Jackson

We have learnt new hero songs - Team 13

We have been making our own fairytales that might be a bit different to other ones - Eliza

We have put a fairytale story into the correct sequence - Kyle

Earlier this term we learnt a new jump jam song - Cass


Wow team! We have learnt a lot this week. I wonder what we'll learn next week.

Learning Reports

Friday 22nd May


Dear Parent and Caregivers,

We are pleased to be sending home our new Learning Reports for you to look at and discuss with your children over the next few days. You will notice that the contents page states that there will be a Year 1 Letter/Sound sheet and a FOS Diagnostic Spelling sheet. Please note that these sheets will only be in your child's learning report if applicable.

There are sections of these reports that require you or the children to make comments. You may get your child to write or scribe for them. Ask them to think about what they learned, enjoyed or found particularly memorable about the learning. We encourage you to comment about your child's learning, what you are proud of and any ideas for next steps. Please remember to bring your child's learning report to your meeting.

We look forward to meeting with you, and your child, next week to discuss these in greater detail.

Kind Regards

The Junior Team

Goodbye Hannah!

Dear Hannah

Team 13 would like to wish you a very safe and happy trip to Greece. We wish you and your family all the very best of luck in your new life in Greece and hope you will still keep in touch. We will miss you!

Love from Team 13

Where am I?

Hi Cass, you are a Dalmatian.

Where am I?

People sleep in me, I have a  bed in me.

Sometimes I can have T.V's in me.

There can be toys in me and I begin with a B.

I sleep in me at night  and I have a bedside table.

Where am I by Dan McManus  

what am I?

Annabelle you are a bird.

What am I?

I am a type of dog, I have black and white spots and I sometimes have owners.  I love walking and playing.

What am I?

By Cass Hetherington

What am I?

Sophie you are a sheep.

What am I?

I  have  a beak, I live in a tree and I have feathers.  I start with a "b".

By Annabelle Baken

What am I?

I have wool, people can wear my wool, I play in a field and I say "Baa!"

What am I?  By Sophie Smith in Room 12

Junior Play House

Click here to go to the play house page on FOS Live...

KIA ORA TEAM 13!

Hello team, wow its great to see you have your website up and running! Can't wait to see some of your learning activities appear on your site! Good luck for the Quadathlon - remember to be grea thinkers, dreammakers, team players, communicators - and don't forget to SPARKLE!

Miss J and Team 12

Junior Quadathlon

Hi there

Remember to come along on Thursday 5th March at 2pm to cheer on your little ones as they participate in the Junior Quadathlon.

Please make sure all swimmers have their togs, all runners have their running shoes and all cyclists have their helmets.

See you there!

Have a good day!

Hi team

Have a good day with Mrs R. Enjoy your weekend and I'll see you on Monday.

Miss Kincaid

Kiaora Cat

Welcome to Room 13 2009

Hi there

Welcome to the new and improved Room 13 blog 2009.

Watch this space for photos of what our class is up to.

Hi from dkennedy

I guess there is no jump jam today due to weather.

weather

Hi there great day for ducks

Wet Rainy Day!

Hi there

Lovely to be at school on such a wet and rainy day! It is days like these that you will all wish you have 12 children with two teachers. Please do not interupt our day as Deb and I are always busy!

Flooding