Room 21@EPS

Dear Diary,

If I could be anyone in the would I would be… Michael Jordan! I want to be him because he is an amazing basketball player and I love everything about basketball.
I like Michael Jordan because he can do great passes, wonderful dribbling, fantastic kicks woops not kicks… and MAGNIFECENT SLAM DUNKS!!!

I like Michael  Jordan because he is very popular and he is very cool.
Sorry Diary got 2 go…

FROM HS

This week at school I didn’t come to school on Monday and Tuesday because it was my birthday party and it was Easter as well. My real birthday was on Friday but I celebrated it on Monday.

The habit of mind was Responsibility which mean’s you have to think before you act.

This week has been an interesting week and we have learned a lot about Jonah Lomu at school. We are doing a voice thread about Sir Edmund Hillary.
I learned how to use a new strategy. In Maths. That’s all I learnt this week. Bye-bye.From TG

FOR WORLD ENVIRO DAY 2008 WE HAVE BEEN LEARNING ABOUT OUR ENVIRONMENT AND HOW OUR ACTIONS REALLY HAVE AN IMPACT ON IT. WE HAVE LEARNED ABOUT THE EARTH’S RESOURCES AND HOW WE CAN TRY TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT OUR ENVIRONMENT AND IT’S NATURAL RESOURCES. WE ALSO LEARNED ABOUT THE GREENHOUSE AFFECT AND THE CAUSES OF GLOBAL WARMING. IN CLASS WE DISCUSSED WAYS THAT WE CAN REALLY MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN OUR ENVIRONMENT.

ON WORLD ENVIRO DAY WE HAD A GLAD FREE DAY. WE ALL MADE SURE THAT WE BROUGHT OUR LUNCH IN CONTAINERS OR RE-USABLE BAGS TO TRY TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE TO THE AMOUNT OF WASTE PLASTIC THAT IS CREATED IN OUR PLAYGROUND.

WE ALSO CREATED POSTERS WITH MEANINGFUL MESSAGES ABOUT OUR ENVIRONMENT.

WE ALSO HAD A “JUNK 2 FUNK” DAY WHERE WE USED OUR GREEN THINKING HAT TO CREATE FUNKY OUTIFUTS FROM JUNK. WE HAD LOTS OF FUN LEARNING ABOUT WAYS THAT WE CAN REDUCE - REUSE AND RECYCLE.

WE HOPE THAT YOU ALL TRY TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE TO AS WE ONLY HAVE ONE WORLD AND IT IS UP TO US TO PROTECT IT.

FROM ROOM 21 & MISS ADAMSON.

Dear Diary,

This week I enjoyed doing my E-
Portfolio at Digikids. We had to put in a photo using PhotoBoth.

This week I didn’t enjoy nothing. I thought this week was all cool. The best bit I enjoyed was Maths. I liked Maths this week because it was so easy. It was all about clocks.

This week school was value Honesty. I achieved the school values because I didn’t lied to anyone this week.
Next week my goals is to learn my times tables.

Sorry diary have no time now…got to go!

From ML.

For the first two 2 weeks of Term 2 we have been learning about our native environment. We had to choose a bird, insect, plant, tree and animal that was native to New Zealand. We then had to carry out our independent research to gather accurate and interesting information. Once we had done that we then made detailed drawings of each and then we drew around the outline in vivid and coloured them in using pastels.

Once we had completed everything we then put them altogether to form our New Zealand Bush scene outside our classroom.

We are really proud of what we have achieved and think it looks awesome!! What do you think?

For Diary Writing today we were brainstorming what makes a good teacher? Here is some of our ideas about what we think a good teacher should be……

• Keen to pass on their knowledge to their students.
• Uses Habits of Mind like what the students use.
• A teacher that cares about us.
• An educated teacher.
• A teacher who thinks creatively and imaginatively.
• A teacher who listens to other peoples ideas.
• A teacher who wants to learn as well as teaching.
• A teacher who learns from the children.
• A teacher who is understanding and trustworthy.
• A teacher who is faithful.
• A teacher who doesn’t show up his/her students infront of the rest of the class
• A teacher who has lots of patience.

By MH, MHH, JM and the whole of Room 21

Dear Diary,

If I could be someone else I would want to be my step-mum Ann because
she is talented and a great singer.
She works at the pharmacy because she is smart
and she is also good at maths.
Ann is very pretty and  she comes from the Philippines.
I would really like to be like Ann. I love Ann just like I love my dog Gemma.
Well…… I’ve got to go now!

This week has been amazing.  Finally the school has come to their senses and started talking about the Earth’s most important thing.  Something we CAN NOT live without.

It is the ENVIRONMENT!!!    

We are learning about what lives in our environment , what animals are becoming endangered….even extinct and how we can really make a difference.

We have started Science classes.  We are going to go to different teachers and learn about different things to do with our environment.  In Miss Adamson’s class we learnt about animals that are endangered.  We learnt how to make smog and about how it is damaging our environment.  Smog is caused by pollution mixing with the earth’s weather.  

I would like to learn a little more about how I can make a difference to Mother Nature.

 From your Eco-Agent MM

 P.S.- You can make a difference too!!