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Let's reflect on our online learning! To help me prepare for new learning opportunities I would like you to help me by giving me your thoughts on our online learning together! Could you please fill out this survey today! I would like to survey your parents too - and will post a link here for you to encourage them to fill out! media type="custom" key="10622364" I am so excited about the start of term 4 on Monday. We are going to have an awesome term of learning. I have sooooo many new ideas for us to try...... Bubblr Bookr [] [] 31 August 2010 Tonight I found a wonderful site with Blooming Peacock on it. Here are the images. I think there are enough links here to last us at least the rest of the term. Please let me know which ones you try! Bloomin' Digital Peacock- Kelly Tenkely Below are the tools listed in my Bloomin’ Digital Peacock BBC Skillwise- [] Spelling City- [|http://spellingcity.com] Starfall- [|http://starfall.com] Discovery Streaming- [|http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com] Lexipedia- [|http://lexipedia.com] YouTube- [|http://youtube.com] Gamegoo- [] PBS Kids- [|http://pbskids.org] Into the Book- [|http://reading.ecb.org] Skype- [|http://skype.com] Treasures- [] Book Adventure- [|http://bookadventure.org] Twitter- [|http://twitter.com] Kerpoof- [|http://kerpoof.com] PhotoBooth- Software Scholastic- [] Fotobabble- [|http://fotobabble.com] Google Earth- [] Read Write Think- [|http://readwritethink.org] Cool Iris- [|http://cooliris.com] Wordle- [|http://wordle.net] Creaza- [|http://creaza.com] Mindomo- [|http://mindomo.com] Shelfari- [|http://shelfari.com] Wikipedia- [|http://wikipedia.com] Think.com- [|http://think.com] Nota- [|http://notaland.com] Pic-Lits- [|http://piclits.com] Kerpoof- [|http://kerpoof.com] ZimmerTwins- [|http://zimmertwins.com] Wiki Spaces- http://wikispaces.com DomoNation- [|http://domonation.com] Glogster- [|http://edu.glogster.com] Creaza- [|http://creaza.com] Voicethread- [|http://voicethread.com] Kidblog- [|http://kidblog.org] Wetpaint- [|http://www.wetpaint.com] edublogs- [|http://edublogs.org] Stage’d- [|http://stagedproject.com]/ Garageband- Software Check out the exciting new similes page in the writing section. I wonder if this will help us with our writing? Why? Why not? Thanks for the great day we had today. I marked your fables after school and was so impressed with your writing. I'm pleased that most of you believe in capital letters and full stops !! See you tomorrow afternoon. Mrs Dykes Wallwisher fun ways to use this tool. Check this out - fun fun fun song for our musical item!!!!! http://stmarysroom42010.wikispaces.com/Snow+white+group
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6 August 2010 I thought yesterday was an amazing day - now I don't know how to rate today???? It was supremo!!!!! We started the day learning the most amazing Q words and facts. I had never ever heard of a quokka and the quizzes and all the Q work was stunning. The coin trail was amazing. I was so proud of the generosity of everyone. We made a total of $270.00 towards our shelter box fund. Then we got into our fairytale groups and wrote up amazing questions for our webquest!!!! I wonder what will appear on the wiki this weekend? Then after lunch we walked to the ploughing. What an amazing site. The Clydesdales felt almost close enough to touch. And the day concluded with a fun sharing with our very special Room 1 buddies. Thanks Room 4 for a truly magical day. Don't forget to check out the blog for new photos.

5 August 2010 What an amazing day today. I taught a workshop using [] at the first ever Taieri ICT day. If you get a chance please check out the wiki http://taieri-ict-day-2010.wikispaces.com/Workshop+12 to see the wonderful work created.

I am really looking forward to being back in class tomorrow. What a fun day we have - sharing Q homework, Coin trail, walking to the ploughing, and meeting up with our Room 1 buddies! And maybe a bit of fairytale funky Friday fun....



3 August 2010 It is only 5 sleeps till maths week 2010 begins. You can click on the picture to go to the site now to register for next week and to start playing the games now. Please let me know what you think of this site and tell the class all about it. Share you favourite games and challenge yourself. Most importantly - HAVE FUN!!!!

27 July 2010 Today is our first turn at the computer suite for the term. Today we moved Caitlin, Jessica, Gracin and Paige's computer folders from Room 3 to Room 4. We are buddying up now to explore the wiki and the blog!

20 July 2010 I am very happy that you had a great day with Mrs G today. I had a very busy day with the computers. Most of the connections were successful today!!!! :) Tomorrow morning we are going to the school library, then having our spelling tests. After lunch we are walking to the Mosgiel Library with our very special Room 2 buddies. Remind me to take my camera and we will get photos for the blog. Ciara, Caitlin, Gracin, Jessica and Paige, welcome to the wiki. You will see I have created each of you your own page on the wiki. We will work on that over the next few weeks.

19 July 2010 What a fabulous day today. I was so excited to see you all again. It is great to have new class members and it was very good for us all to really think through our routines. Tomorrow you have Mrs Gilliland for the day while I try to reconnect most of the school's computers to the new server. We will get photos and notes on the blog tomorrow too.

17 July 2010 Not long now until we are back at school for term 3. I hope you have all had a great holiday. I am very excited about our new term topic - Fairytales, Myths and Legends. We have so many great books in class! The first week is all about Eric Carle and I challenge you to read all of his books!!!!! We are going to create Collage art on Funky Friday!!!!!

Hi to you all. Have a fabulous first day of the holidays tomorrow. I am flying to Wellington at 6.50am so no sleepins for me for a while. I hope you had a chance to see the dinosaur presentaions uploaded on the blog. Remember the holidays are a great time for you to really work on mastering new skills. Maybe you can aim to learn one of the times tables or master telling the time!!!!!!! Remember you can e-mail me or sent me a message through wikispaces. Have a great week! Mrs K

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Check out our blog - we have now had over 900 visitors from around the world. Lets see if we can get everyone to add something to the blog by the end of term. We are not sharing O homework this week because we will all be presenting our dinosaur projects! Shared lunch is on at 12 o'clock on Friday. Don't forget to invite your family!

IMPORTANT NOTICE: Today I have e-mailed you all a survey to complete. Once you have all completed the survey I will get the results and hopefully we will all learn from it. Thank you for taking the time to take part. Please let everyone know that I would like all the results by Friday 2nd of July. Thanks

Today we had our first play with [|Glogster.] It was very exciting. I can't wait to see what my class create tonight.

What do you know about Matariki. Add to our page of learning today and check out some of the activities.

What a pleasure and a privilege to be part of Michaela and James' very special journey today!

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Congratulations to the five Room 4 boys who made the Fifa world cup team... we are so proud of you!!!! media type="custom" key="6353861" Please check out the new time page on the maths page and let us know what you think about this new fun learning.

You're so right Mrs D, I am really missing you all. I can't wait to be back in class tomorrow. Mrs K

I love teaching Room 4 - you children are so much fun ! I bet Mrs K is really missing you this week. Have you remembered to get your parents to help you tell the time ? I can't wait to see your finished dinosaur pictures. Mrs D

What a magical day today. I was in awe of how you all collaborated and co-operated and created. I am thoroughly enjoying this journey and can't wait to see more of our great movies. Don't forget to check out our [|blog] for updates on our learning. I have added a counter to our blog page to see how many visitors we have and I notice we had 10 visitors today. How cool is that?? I also checked out our map of visitors and see we have one visitor from Russia, 8 from America and 99 from throughout New Zealand. Starting tomorrow, you are all going to have a turn at adding to the blog. Tomorrow it is Josh's turn to add his photo and write about his prize.

What an exciting week we have planned. We are going to start our dinosaur books, our posters, and paper mache some more of our movie backdrop. Have any of you started your storylines and storyboards yet??? Oh, I almost forgot to mention the highlight of the week - tomorrow we start walking around South Africa to collect the All Whites on the way to the Start of the World Cup - are you ready to make your steps count????

It was awesome to see so many of you at Mass this morning for the celebration of Pentecost the birthday of the Church. This week we will start researching Saints and begin our Saint posters.

I have added a new page quoteoftheday where you will find interesting quotes to read and discuss. Let me know what you think of them using the discussion tab.

Room 4 that was an AWESOME assembly. I am so incredibly proud of you all. I have just watched the video of it and I can tell that you all had a lot of fun. What a clever class you are. Have a great weekend. I am looking forward to showing you the video on Monday.

Term 2 Welcome back to school. It is great to see you all again and very exciting to get into our new dinosaurs topic. It is great to have dinosaurs, books and posters arriving in to the class - soon we really will be walking with the dinosaurs. Please add to our learning pages and don't forget to put your name with your comments.

It is hard to believe that the end of Term 1 is here. What a fantastic term!! Highlights of the last week were the Rippa Rugby tournament, the shared lunch and the Easter Liturgy. Have and awesome Easter and holiday.

Today we talked with Constable Somerfield about Internet Safety. Can we please talk about this tonight and read through the brochure. We could download hector for our computer by click here on [|hector] Lots of video footage to check out in the [|blog]

Hi Room 4. I wish I had been with you on your dinosaur trip this morning - it sounded fantastic. But I was so impressed with the letters you wrote this afternoon. Well done all of you. See you on Thursday. Don't forget to be ready for Current Events ! Mrs Dykes

Yet another AMAZING day at St Mary's. Thanks so much to our drivers for today's trip to the museum. We sure did have a great time at the Dinosaur Eggs and Babies exhibition. Check out the photos and some video on the blog!

What an AMAZING Friday! The day started with RE, then Rippa Rugby with Warren then away we went on the Great Escape. I am so incredibly proud of you all. I know that the memories of today will be with me forever. If you get a chance this weekend, please add some of your story to the Great Escape Page. Have a fantastic long weekend.

See if you can find the fun fraction game to practice for Mrs Dykes fraction lessons!!

Check out the fun new maths times tables game on the maths page - a lot of fun and a great way to practise. See if you can get them all correct and decrease your time. Let me know how it goes.

*NEWSFLASH** 28 February 2010 I am very proud to announce the arrival of butterflies to Room 4. Check out the photos on the swanplant page and the video footage on the [|blog]

26 February 2010 What a sensational day! I am so very proud of you all. I was exceptionally impressed with your ME Collages and even more impressed with your A homework. It was amazing to have 22 teachers in Room 4 all sharing your learning today. I have added a ME Collage page with all your wonderful work. Well done to you all. I hope you are all now thinking about and working on your B homework. Remember your goal is to make each week and each presentation a step up!!!!!! ENJOY!! Please remember to add comments to the wall wisher wall on the goal page too.

23-03-10 What a wonderful class you are! I am loving getting to know you better with the sharing of the ME Collages!! I am delighted we all have our goal sheets finished now. We will put them in our desks tomorrow so they drop down and we can look at them everytime we open our desk! Tomorrow we are adding new maths goals and activities to our maths notebooks. We also have a new challenge that we have signed up to - similar to the greatest feat last year when we got pedometers. We are getting them again this year with the focus on the FIFA world cup. I have a form for you all to take home to get signed tomorrow.

This is going to be a huge week on the wiki. We are going to create our own swimming page and add a photo and comment. We are also going to comment on the Goal Wall wisher when we have finished our goals. I am really looking forward to working with you to help you achieve your goals. We will be working on our maths goals this week and maybe even adding some videos to our new class blog:

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We will use both a wiki and a blog this year - FUN FUN FUN!

The highlight of this week will be sharing our ME Collages. I can't wait to learn more about you all. After you have shared your Collage you can take a photo of it and upload it to the wiki.

I've also added a link to a fun maths challenge for you!!! []

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What an amazing celebration today. Click on the link to view the whanau picnic and games

Welcome to Room 4, 2010. What a wonderful opening Mass today. If you click on the words highlighted and underlined you will see a slideshow of our wonderful celebration.

I hope you all treasure your bookmarks and enjoy living our Vision and Values.