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The Term so far...

The students in Room 9 have made a fantastic start to the year.  They have really settled into the routines and expectations at Greenmeadows.  I am thrilled to see so many students in Room 9 wanting to participate in school wide activities.  We have cricket players, softball players, hip hop dancers and it's only Week 6!  There will be many more opportunities during the year for everyone to get involved.

Term 1 2010

Term 1 has started off very well in Visual Arts!

Year 7

As an introduction to drawing our Year 7's are exploring different art media including pencil, charcoal, Indian ink and water-colour pencil. Beginning with pencil they learn a variety of interesting mark-making techniques and effects. From there students have been drawing autumn leaves experimenting with the different mediums.

Term 1 in Food Technology

This term, the Year 7 classes are designing healthy snacks that reuse food leftovers.

The students found out that 41% of rubbish at Auckland dumps is leftover food. What a waste!  Not good for us, our families or the environment!

To be able to design a healthy snack that reuses leftovers the students had to:

Thursday 11 March 2010

Life is a Learning Experience

Room 20 had fun carrying out their first scientific experiment "Salted Carrots".

Thank you parents for your cooperation by sending your child with the ingredients and equipment required for a successful outcome.

Welcome to our new Cyber space.

Thursday 11th March

Room 4 is becoming a area buzzing with decorated walls and books full of work done. All routines are set and student are working very hard.

Today we had to farewell a well loved member of the room who is leaving for Samoa to stay for the remainder of the year. Simone, our best wishes for the rest of 2010, we'll miss you especially when we play Touch!!

 Rm 2 students have settled in to Term One with an enthusiastic approach to their learning. PAT Testing has been completed and the results will be used to assist with assessment of student learning strengths and weaknesses.

Please make the time to talk to your child about their learning at school and feel free to comment in their homework diary.

Hello all!!

I hope you are all having fun searching for language features, using different sources. 

Revision of the various language features we have learnt in class:

* Metaphors (comparing two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as')

* Similies (comparing two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'

* A variety of Adjectives (describing a noun)

* Alliteration (Words beginning with the same letter)

* Homophones (words that sound the same that have different meanings)

Welcome to Week 6, the first week of Autumn. Many students are noticing the change in temperature. Your child has settled into learning well. They have become familiar with GIS expectations. This week their goals are being formed for the rest of the term.  These learning goals are based on their learning needs. This is an exciting way to plan as it gives them an enormous sense of achievement when they reach them.

In the next 2 weeks, each student is expected to identify one threat that mangroves and estuaries are faced with today. They need to research this environmental issue and find possible solutions as to how we can prevent this from occurring in order to sustain our mangroves and estuaries. Students are to follow the scientific investigation ie:

* Formulate a rich question for the chosen environmental threat

A blog is a place on our website where we can suggest topics for discussion, and where you, our parent community, can have your say....