Over The Rainbow

New Blog called Love2Learn

2011-02-18T14:36:00.002+13:00

Happy New Year Everyone. I have a new little class now. Here is the link to our new blog!
http://room03eps2011.blogspot.com/
Please do visit and leave us some comments

Best Wishes

2010-12-15T19:57:00.000+13:00

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2011. Wow an end of another academic year. Thanks to everyone that was a part of our class blog and to all the visitors and those that left us comments. This amazing class of pupils will be in Year 2 next year. They have worked so hard and have achieved a very high standard. I wish you all the best my little guys. Kindly visit my new class blog. I will put the link in Feb 2011 when I get the first of my new pupils.

Hippo Retell by CW, MC and CT

2010-12-06T08:19:00.000+13:00

At MOTAT

2010-11-28T09:17:00.000+13:00

Room 3 @ MOTAT on PhotoPeach

Plop by the Green Group

2010-11-17T09:10:00.000+13:00

The TERRIBLE Tiger by Joy Cowley

2010-11-08T16:14:00.000+13:00

The terrible Tiger on PhotoPeach

Pukeko retell by VS, FK, TM, EW, JC, AS

2010-11-04T14:45:00.015+13:00

BM at the Zoo

2010-10-22T10:11:00.002+13:00

SK and CT at the zoo

2010-10-22T10:10:00.002+13:00

BH at the Zoo

2010-10-22T10:04:00.001+13:00

Hello HL

2010-10-21T15:06:00.000+13:00

Dear H,
Hope you are having a good time in S.Africa with your grandma.We miss you. Come back soon. Have a great holiday! We made some more pine cone bird feeders for the birds. They simply love those.

Bird Feeder

2010-10-19T06:06:00.001+13:00

Making bird feeders on PhotoPeach

The children worked in 2 groups with a leader and made a pine cone bird feeder. The birds just loved it!

Room 3 Fantails

2010-10-05T15:53:00.002+13:00

Room 3 Fantails on PhotoPeach

EW'S Retell

2010-09-28T20:39:00.000+13:00

SH's Retell

2010-09-22T07:39:00.000+12:00

Working together!

2010-09-18T13:57:00.001+12:00

This retell is based on the book Fire! Fire! The children created their pics in Kid-Pix and each told me what happened in a sequence. I typed it out for them. They recorded their voices for their slides and then TM was in-charge of his group putting in the transitions and changing the time. He worked well as a leader and gave everyone a turn for their slide. In the end he saved and exported it to i-Pod format. Great job Blue group for working collaboratively!

HY's first Independent GarageBand Retell

2010-09-13T16:38:00.000+12:00

Max Goes Fishing retell by Blue Group

2010-09-08T15:44:00.001+12:00

Some of Our Trip Recount

2010-09-05T09:05:00.000+12:00

The writing skills in our class has greatly improved. Children are writing longer recounts independently and using adjectives too make their stories interesting. Here are a few, some of them are ESOL kids and 6 out of 7 started school this year. Well done my amazing little writers!

Yesterday Room 3 and Mrs. A went to Botanic Garden. We saw little ducks and big ducks. After looking at the birds we ate lunch. Then we went to a classroom. In the classroom we did some activities with teacher. The teacher said, “We are doing a bird shape”. So Room 3 said, “Yay!” We did bird foot print on clay and looked at the feathers. The teacher told us to ask questions so I put my hand up and asked how birds can lay egg. She said something. We went back to school. EK

On Wednesday Room 3, 5 and 1 went on the bus. Room 3 had some lunch and we walked and saw some ducks and a goose. We looked at the feathers. You put the glass and it is big. We caught the bus and we went home. We felt excited. BTh

Half of the school went on a trip. It took a while. We went to the Botanic Garden. We saw a water fall. We went to the children’s garden. We got some photos on the Kereru. We fed the Kereru from the beak. We saw a water wheel there. We went to a classroom. I talked about the Moa. We came back on the buses. It was exciting. It reminded me of a time when I went to the gardens for a wedding. JC

Yesterday me and Room 3, room 5 and room 1 went on the bus because we were going to Botanic Garden. We had lunch. For lunch I had yummy bread, crackers with cheese and apples. The apple was chopped up. After that we went for a walk. There was lots of flowers and birds. Mrs. A took pictures of us. We went to the kids park and played in the egg. I walked around the steps. When we got to school we had a sleep in the classroom. Then we went home. EW

Yesterday at school Room 3, Room 1 and Room 5 went on a trip to the Botanic Garden. At the sunny Botanic Garden we saw colourful flowers. We went with some parents. The children and parents went by bus. When we got there we had morning tea. After we had morning tea we sat on the Kereru and the egg. We saw ducks and white geese in the water. After we did all those things we had lunch and then we went. We went to a big classroom with a teacher. The teacher’s name was Trish. We learned about wings. The biggest wing was seagull’s wing. After that we went to school by bus. It was cool. BM

On Wednesday Room 3 and Room 5 went on a trip to Botanic Gardens and we went to the kids’ garden. We played in the egg. Then we sat on the pigeon. We came back to school and we went to sleep. It was home time. Then everybody went home and some children went to Kids’ Korner. AS

On Wednesday I went on a trip. My mum already knew about my trip and my mum went with me on the bus. She was excited because she likes to go on the bus. We took a picture of a Pukeko. I saw a bird and I saw a big tunnel and my mum took a picture. Then we had lunch. Again my mum took a picture of me. HY

Thanks Mr. A

2010-09-01T14:51:00.000+12:00

NT's trip recount

2010-09-01T08:15:00.002+12:00

HL's recount

2010-09-01T08:13:00.002+12:00

Botanic Gardens trip

2010-08-29T11:22:00.003+12:00

Bird Calendar Art

2010-08-26T16:37:00.001+12:00

Can you guess what bird we have drawn?? Here are some clues: It is NZ's native bird and loves to eat berries. It swallows the fruit whole and drops down the seed. This helps new trees to grow.

Windy Day by Jill Eggleton

2010-08-23T21:56:00.002+12:00

Erica's retell

2010-08-21T09:53:00.000+12:00

Retell By BTu

2010-08-19T12:03:00.001+12:00

The Safe Place

2010-08-17T19:53:00.001+12:00

Our shared book for the week was A Safe Place. Here are some of our Kid-Pix pictures and retell of the story.

Thanks Little Darlings

2010-08-14T08:14:00.007+12:00

Glogster Posters

2010-08-14T07:04:00.002+12:00

Last week Ms.J came to our class and showed us how to make posters in Glogster. She worked with 3 children after demonstrating the use to the whole class. The 3 children supported the others to create their own. Here are some glogs. Click on the playhead to listen to our recording.

PMP at EPS

2010-08-12T07:48:00.002+12:00

Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.

Helping in our Class

2010-08-06T04:20:00.000+12:00

We read the book Helping and have shared with you how we help our teacher.

EK's Retell

2010-08-04T16:40:00.002+12:00

The King's Cake

2010-07-29T16:56:00.002+12:00

King's cake

Year 1 Podcast

Pictures in order: HY, EW, HL,VS, SH, EK

AS 's Retell

2010-07-27T15:00:00.001+12:00

AS's Retell

Year 1 Podcast

Our ICT experts

2010-07-22T08:25:00.001+12:00

Last night our teachers and teachers from 5 other school had a big expo. Two children from our class showed a group of 15 teachers how to use GarageBand to create a Podcast. The teachers thought they were 'just awesome'. Thank you EW and BM for inspiring our teachers to use this to support their kids' learning.

Parrot Seed Retell by BM

2010-07-15T13:41:00.004+12:00

FK's Retell

2010-07-12T11:18:00.003+12:00

FK read the book Caterpillar, Caterpillar and has made a podcast to show the beginning, middle and end using Kid-pix and GarageBand.

FK's Retell

Year 1 Podcast

Noises in Room 3

2010-07-11T06:12:00.003+12:00

We read the Book 'Farm Animals which is a story about a farmer who is unable to sleep because his animals are too loud. He tells them to be quiet so he can get some sleep. In this podcast we share with you some noises our teacher has to listen to in Room 3. She doesn't think we are too noisy though. Kindly click on Noise Podcast to view this.

Matariki

2010-07-09T18:37:00.006+12:00

CW

CT

Sorry, have been experiencing some problems uploading podcasts. Meanwhile here are some pictures. Mrs. A saw this idea at Summerland School that she visited a few week ago. We adapted the idea to create pictures to celebrate the Maori New Year.

BM's Retell

2010-07-05T20:29:00.008+12:00

BM's Retell

Year 1 Podcast

Baby Bear

2010-06-28T13:33:00.004+12:00

JK's Retell

VA's Podcast

Response to Dan the Flying Man

2010-06-21T20:52:00.003+12:00

Where would we fly if we could?

If I had wings...

VA's Podcast

Merry-Go-Round Retell by EW

2010-06-21T18:52:00.004+12:00

Merry-Go-Round

VA's Podcast

BTu's Retell

2010-06-15T13:56:00.000+12:00

Baby Bear Retell

VA's Podcast

BM's Parrot Seed Retell

2010-06-13T07:17:00.000+12:00

Parrot Seed

VA's Podcast

Don't You laugh at Me

2010-06-06T18:04:00.002+12:00

The newspaper clip about the SPCA

2010-05-31T12:32:00.003+12:00

Room 3 is doing a collection.

You could directly drop the things at the SPCA office. Here is the address. 50 Westney Road, Mangere or phone for a pick up on 256-7300.

Thank you

HELP! WE NEED OLD TOWELS AND BEDDING

2010-05-31T11:17:00.013+12:00

Teddy Gram Note GeneratorWe read in the newspaper about the SPCA needing help. Here are some of our pictures and a request to support them.

EW's 1st Kid-pix Podcast

2010-05-28T21:37:00.000+12:00

EW read the book and made a plan for her slideshow. It had a title slide, a beginning, middle and end slide. Her story was then recorded with teacher support. She put in the slides, transitions and time to make a slideshow independently. This was then exported to ipod format. Would you read this book after watching her podcast?

Hedgehog is Hungry

VA's Podcast

TM's 1st Podcast in Kid-pix

2010-05-28T21:03:00.004+12:00

TM read a book and made a plan for his slideshow. It had a title slide, a beginning, middle and end slide. His story was then recorded with teacher support. He put in the slides, transitions and time to make a slideshow independently. This was then exported to ipod format. Would you read this book after watching his podcast?

Rabbit and Frog Retell

VA's Podcast

Our Garden Plan

2010-05-25T16:11:00.000+12:00

Garden

VA's Podcast

Love the 14 comments

2010-05-20T09:10:00.002+12:00

Thank you to all those people that have left us comments in the past week. We are delighted to know that people are looking at our work and telling us what we have done well and what we can do better. We did agree with you when you said we were shouting. We will try to do our best voices for our next recording.

Greedy Cat's Diet

2010-05-17T21:32:00.000+12:00

Greedy Cat's Diet

veronica afreddy's Podcast

Greedy Cat 1

2010-05-08T20:51:00.003+12:00

Greedy Cat's Door

veronica afreddy's Podcast

Mum U R Special!

2010-05-08T18:21:00.003+12:00

To all our lovely mums, thanks for everything you do. Your little one thinks you are special, and in this video they tell you why. HAPPY MOTHERS' DAY!

Our Enviro Trip

2010-05-01T17:31:00.003+12:00

Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.

At the park we saw a fish in the pond. VS

At the park I sat on the grass. My mum came to the park. EK

At the park we saw ducks in the pond. AS

At the park I liked rolling down the hill. EW

At the park we saw a pukeko. TM

At the park I did roll down the hill. It was fun. HY

At the park I saw some ducks. FK

On Friday I went on a trip. It was fun. We saw a pukeko in the water. JK

On Friday we went to the park. I liked the pond. We threw some rocks. BTu

On Friday everybody went to the park. I saw some pukeko sculpture. BM

I love Animals

2010-04-28T22:11:00.004+12:00

"Wait!" Said the Mouse

2010-04-22T20:30:00.003+12:00

We tried really hard to make nice pictures in Kid-pix. We read the story. Please be patient with the movie as we had some problems while converting the movie.

Smile

2010-04-12T22:27:00.001+12:00

Have finally been able to put the full slideshow. This one works very slowly but it is worth listening to. The children chose their spaces and decided what action they wanted to pose in for the photograph. We then did the recording.

Our Alphabet Hike

2010-04-05T11:54:00.005+12:00

As part of our environment inquiry, we went looking for things that start with a letter sound. This tied in well with our Reading too as lots of us are still learning the letters and their sounds. We had fun taking pictures of each other.

Easter stories

2010-04-02T09:27:00.001+13:00

Easter is a time for eggs and Easter parties.
MB
Easter is a time for Easter eggs to pop out.
We see lots of chocolate buttons.
My family likes Easter. It is fun.
BM
Easter is a time for eating Easter eggs.
It is yummy.
JK
Easter is a time for chocolate eggs
and going to church to thank God.
AS
Easter time is a time for Easter egg hunt.
VS
Easter is a time for chocolate eggs.
EK
Easter is a time for surprise. I like Easter eggs.
EW
Easter is a time for celebrating when Jesus died.
That is the most special thing.
JC
Easter is a time for chocolate eggs
and going to church.
BTu
Easter is a time for eggs.
HY
Easter is a time for chocolate
eggs and Easter hunt.
TM
Easter is a time for Easter eggs.
BTh
Easter is a time for lollies
in the basket and bunnies.
FK

Easter Wishes

2010-04-01T13:52:00.000+13:00

Here's wishing all A very HAPPY EASTER! Have a lovely holiday.

2010-03-30T08:06:00.000+13:00

Listen to a story about a dog named Skipper. Hope you like our pictures in Kid-pix.

Episode 1

veronica afreddy's Podcast

MB's Handwriting/EW's and AS's story

2010-03-29T19:48:00.005+13:00

Our Sunflowers

2010-03-26T15:10:00.003+13:00

Here are our sunflower pictures and story in Kid-pix.

Best Effort Handwriting

2010-03-25T17:41:00.001+13:00

JK's work

A Rainbow!

2010-03-23T16:51:00.002+13:00

This morning we spotted 2 rainbow's in the sky. BM took a picture of it. "Well done", said Mrs. A. "It is colourful", said EW.
"Yes! and it has a pot of gold at the end of it", said BTu.

The second one was really light so is not seen in the photo.

Best Effort work on Tuesday!

2010-03-23T16:46:00.003+13:00

EW's story
Focus : Listening to sounds and writing them down.

JC and EK's handwriting

Best Work this week!

2010-03-22T13:31:00.005+13:00

Monday: BM

Monday: BTh

Ronald Mac Donald

2010-03-18T15:23:00.008+13:00

Ronald Mac Donald visited our school to teach us about being safe. He said,"Look both ways when you cross, don't go on the road alone." He told us a story. We learned that seat belts keep us safe so we should make it click. "Buckle up", said Ronald Mac Donald.
He is really funny and made us laugh.

What do you know about sunflowers?

2010-03-13T12:28:00.006+13:00

We used a flip video to capture these thoughts!

Comments by EW, BT, JK and TM

Comments by BM, FK, JC and SH

Comments by MB

Comments by HY

Comments by AS and BTh

Comments by EK

Comments by VS

Lunch Boxes

2010-03-11T18:29:00.000+13:00

We read the book Lunch Boxes in Week 3 this term. We have made a video of our lunch boxes. We tried to speak clearly.

What is a friend?

2010-03-10T05:39:00.002+13:00

EW: A friend makes me happy. They are like sparkles because they shine. They are fun.
MB: Friends are huggy people. They are like flowers. They are cute and smell good.
SH: Friends are exciting! They are like trees, very nice. I like trees.
BTu: I like playing with my friends. Friends are like shadows. They want to be with you all the time.
JC: Friends play rough games with me. They are like reflections because they like to be with you.
BM: Friends are like fish because they are cute and they make you happy. They make you smile.
JK: Friends are like mirrors. They look at you and do the same.
BTh: I like friends. They make me happy.
FK: I like playing games on the computer with my friend. Friends are like ice cream, they are yummy and I like them.
VS: I like doing activities with my friends. Friends are special.
HY: I like playing with my friends. Friends are like the rainbow in the sun. They make you happy.
TM: Friends are good to have. They are like clowns. They do funny things and make you laugh.

Well here are our thoughts. Please tell us what is a friend for you...

Welcome

2010-03-09T20:25:00.003+13:00

Welcome to our class blog. This is our place to share our learning and all the cool things we do in our class. Do have a look at our work and leave us a comment if you really liked something or if there is something we could have done differently.

We are a class of 14 pupils, which we hope will increase at the beginning of next term. Thanks for visiting.