What are the 12 things

Today we were learning to find information in this song,

record it using kidspiration and present it in a way that

we understand.

Our creations are coming

Snoopy's Christmas! This will help you learn the words!

Challenging Themselves

We had a little practice

Check out these two experts

EduBlog Awards

It’s that time of the year again, The 2009 Edublog Awards The Edublog Awards is a competition to celebrate educational blogs from around the world.

So.... Drum roll please We at Normandale would like to nominate.......

Fab4@Work

No Work, Just Learning and Fun!

for best class blog! I think ‘Fab 4@work' is a great class blog and they deserve some recognition for all their great work!! We love checking it out and seeing what our buddies are doing.

Nominations close on the 8th December and the winner is announced of the 18th December. Good luck everyone!

Look who is visiting our blog from different countries

Today in Room 1 we looked at our blog and were impressed with the visits it had received from different countries.

We are able to identify the countries by the flags on the right hand side of our blog

We discussed people we know who live in different countries. Some of us said that they could get these people to visit our blog and possibly leave a comment.

If you are able to help this process please pass on the address of our blog to someone in another country that you know and ask them to visit our blog.

I wonder how many different countries we could have by the end of the year.

E Papa Waiari

Here is a little movie to help us learn the actions to this song. What challenges could we put in it?

Hello British Cairo School

Hello British Cairo School,

We are not doing science but we are doing topic. For topic we're learning about celebrations.
For English we're doing letter writing and imaginative writing.
Do you have games in your classroom? We have games to play when it is wet outside.
Do you go on class trips? This year we went on a zoo trip and playground trip.
Do you have computers? We have two computers in our class.
How many people do you have in your class? We have seventeen boys and eight girls.
What time do you start school? We start at 9.00am
What time do you finish school? We finish at 3.00pm

From Katelyn

Hello British Cairo School

Hello British Cairo School,

I have been asked to answer your questions. We are not doing science right now. For English we are writing letters. I have some questions for you.
Do you go on school trips? Here at our school we have gone to the zoo and to playgrounds.
Do you use computers? Here we have two computers in our classroom and 15 in our computer room.
Do you have a pool at your school? We have an outside pool about 15 metres long.
Do you have a adventure playground? we are getting a new one in a couple of weeks. It is very exciting.
What subjects do you do? We do maths, topic, PE, ICT, writing and reading.

From Cayden

Hippie Day

On friday it was hippie day and our 40th Jubilee. After we had news we had a parade of everyone wearing their hippie clothes. Some people were nervous and so was I. Then we had sports all morning, we played with the parachute,we had sack races, point builder, crazzy catch and gutter ball. We had so much fun running in our Hippie clothes. After lunch we went to the hall for a short assembly and then planted a tree as part of our celebrations. Afterwards we went out for some cake and then it was home time.
by Dylan

We are going a bit more global!!

Hey Room 1 check out Fab 4's blog!

See anything new???

Clue: starts with N, top right corner!!!

What do you think this is about??

Oliver's Story

We have nine chickens at home including two bantams. A bantam is a very small type of rooster or hen that are very good at being parents. We have one bantam that is called Millie. She is black with puffy up feathers. We also have a white one. She is a bit bigger than Millie. She is broody that means she wants to sit on the eggs all the time because she thinks they're going to hatch. So we have bought some eggs that are going to hatch chicks and I'm really excited because they should hatch tomorrow.

What an exciting day

You will all be pleased to know that all the testing is now finished, and I am so proud of you all. You have come a long way since the beginning of the year.

I have seen you do some exciting things today with Mrs Campbell. Some of them I have seen on the blog and I look forward to hearing all about the others tomorrow.

Mitchell's Animating Spelling word

Hi Kendall here. Today our challenge was on pivot stickman.We had to write our spelling words and we had to make them move.This one up here is Mitchell's.

Mamma Mia

I'ts Kayleigh here. In the weekend I went to the Mamma Mia show with two of my Aunties my Nana and my Mum. I was pushing my Nana because she was in a wheelchair. We got our seats and then the show begun.It started with Sophie sitting on the deck with her Mum's secret diary.

Then Sophie's two best friends came to see her. The three children had so much fun. After that Donna (Sophie's Mum)came into the house. Then two of Sophie's Aunties came in. Donna started to sing. After that, Donna showed Tanya and Rosie around the backyard. Sophie's three Dads came in and started talking about Donna sending them invitations to Sophie's wedding. Next Sophie came in. She saw her three dads talking to one another. Sam noticed Sophie. Then he said "it was nice of Donna to send us an invitation'. Then Sophie said "I sent the invitation". Next Sophie said 'I will show you where you are going to stay."Don't tell my mum Sophie said. After that the people that where doing the show had a break. Not long after that Sophie and Sky had the wedding but they didn't get married because Sophie didn't want to but Donna and Sam got married. Then they bowed. After that all the song were sung and everyone stood up and started dancing. I danced with my Auntie Jackie . Then we went home.

A message from Mrs C

Hi Room 1!
Looking forward to working with you on Tuesday!! I have been very impressed with the enthusiastic learners that are sharing their ideas.

Send me a comment to tell me some of the things you think it would be great to do on Tuesday!!

Below are two images that might help you work out one of the things we will be doing. Let me know if you think you have guessed it. Remember you can read other peoples' comments to help your thinking.

Mitchell Speaks 3rd

Get a Voki now!

Cayden Speaks 2nd

Salima's Celebration Poem

C. Cool things to do.
E. Eat cakes and sweets.
L. Learn about new things.
E. End working.
B. Be creative..
R. Ring my family.
A. Amaze your family and friends with surprises.
T. Terrify people on Halloween.
E. Easter eggs to find.

Alex is first to speak

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What new information can you get from our blog?

Send a comment to tell us what we can now find out from looking at our own blog!

Who said that?

Who would like to add their thoughts to our blog with a real voice? Have you seen my Voki on the right hand side? Lets have a go next week. What do you think the class would like to hear??

Get a Voki now!

We are Hip Hoppers

Today we had a go at a few HIP HOP tracks in Jump Jam!! Way to go guys, I was impressed with some of the rhythm that I saw. Want to do it again??? Leave a comment !

New bloggers required

This term we are going to get one member of the class to post a blog each week. The first person to respond to this with a comment can be the first person to post the blog.

Basic Facts Ladder

Hope you have shown your parents the basic facts ladder. It is a great way for you and your parents to see how you are coming along with your basic facts. Remember to learn the sections of the ladder which are not coloured in and you can be tested whenever you think you are ready.

Post a comment so we can share what we are all up to!!

Mrs Prichard is blogging

I have spent the holidays with Mrs Campbell learning how to put things on our blog.

How good is your co ordination and anticipation

Play this game and work out what those big words in the title meant!!

Up for a challenge??

Try out the game below and post a comment that lets us know what your score is and what strategies you use. Every comment Mrs C finds will go in the draw to win points!!! Get playing! Click on the image

A Skill of the 21st Century

I found a site that will give us some skills that really come in handy these days. I found it on the fab 4 blog! Have a go and leave a comment to tell us what you think. Just click on the image

Using our delicious site for homework

Today we had great fun exploring some of the new sites on the delicious!  We learnt how to use tags to help us find good ones that will help with different things in our homework.    We are off to discover more interesting things!  We were clever superkids using the reverse thinking key today to show off what we found out!!

We are all Super Kids

Yes we know what it takes to be a super learner in Room 1!
On Friday we had a super day designing a super kid that has all the tools they need to be a super learner. Slowly our super kid is collecting more tools ! Come and see what tools we have created already.

Super Bugs!

Today we were creators of super bugs! We could decide on their strength, defence, agility, speed and attack. Lots of reading took place to make wise decisions about what each bug would be made up of!

My challenge to your Room one is to create the ultimate super bug! How high can you get as a total score. Add all of the scores together. Either bring in your super bug or email an image of it and don't forget the stats card! Just click on the image above or find it in delicious under minibeasts. Happy creating!!!

I will see you on Friday for some more super creating!! Do you think you know what that is about???????? Mrs C

This is a first!

Today some of us managed to post comments on our blog! We loved seeing the photos that Mrs Mitchell took of us. It is now much easier to comment as Mrs Campbell has changed the settings and we can comment from home if our parents are happy with that! Remember our Cyber Rules Room 1!

What is happening here?

Put a comment to help explain what is happening in these photos.

Swimming Sports

What a great time!

Hope you are enjoying Maths Week.

On Tuesday we visited the maths week site and home with each child was a short notice giving the link and also the user name and password so you can explore this site at home.
How are the daily dollar challenges going?
How much money have you earned?
I wonder who can be the first to post a comment and tell me how much you have?

Hey it is Maths Week!

Click on the picture and take a look at this site made especially for maths week. Kids make sure you do this with an adult if you want to join the site to play the games and earn points. Send us a message if you find something cool!

We have a new friend

Can anyone spot our new friend??? Leave a comment if you can see it. Isn't it cute!

HEY! WELCOME ABOARD

Thanks to those parents who have checked out our blog and added some encouraging comments. It is great to show the children this at school. Hope you enjoy seeing just some of the things we are doing!!
Mrs C

Using Digital Cameras

We have been learning how to use digital cameras. It was great fun creating some fun photo opportunities. The skills we gain are very soon going to be put to good use to capture some exciting happenings! Watch this space

Starting the morning with Jump Jam

We put on our yellow hats this morning to think about all the good things about doing Jump Jam first thing in the morning.

We brainstormed together and came up with.......

It is fun

It wakes us up

Gets rid of morning grumpy feelings

Gets us into routine

Makes our heart pump

Gets our brain ready for the day.

Today we learnt a few things that will help us use our "delicious" site. There is a link to this on the bottom of the bar on the right hand side. We found where the 'all tags' button is that will help us find sites that we have used at school. We also know how to search for a site using the search button at the top.

Here are a few pics of us using " space jumps" to help us focus on an addition strategy. Our challenge was to use this strategy in numbers at our level.

The Beginning of Room1's Blog

Well take a deep breath and dive in! Lets get blogging.
This blog is to provide a window into the happenings of Room 1.

Mrs Campbell and Mrs Prichard are going to post blogs as regularly as possible about the things that are going on.

Watch this space and please send us comments