It's amazing what babies can do!

Toku Reo Episode 2

Test your knowledge click on the link below:


http://www.tokureo.maori.nz/index.cfm/1,249,0,43,html?p=3&backnodeid=195

LETS CELEBRATE MAORI LANGUAGE WEEK

Do you think that you have a good Reo knowledge?

Take the test!

Follow the link below and test you Reo knowledge.

http://www.tokureo.maori.nz/index.cfm/1,195,0,43,html?qp=2&p=1

To Watch the Webisode that goes with this test, click below

http://media.tewhanake.maori.nz/podcasts/video/Ep01podcast.mp4

Time to learn the dance moves!!!

Random quote for the day!!

"THE YOU YOU SEE, IS THE YOU YOU'LL BE!!"

- What do you see?

Something for you to all PONDER over.

Homework for week 3

Hey guys,

What a wonderful start to the week with the sun shining.

The word of the week is "Valour". This word is used a lot in the awarding of military medals and for excetional people.

Great to see people remembering to bring their spelling notebooks and homework books to school each day. Its helping us to remember that our homework needs to be done.

Spelling must be tested, ticked and signed by a parent each night and sighted by me the next day. (well done if you are doing that!!)

Reading logs are not being signed by parents so please remember to do this so I can verify that you are doing your reading.

Stuck for story ideas?

This website will help you with weird ans wacky ideas for a story.


http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/storystarters/storystarter1.htm

Thanks again to Mr Baker from fab4@work for the link.

The wonders of I.C.T

This Video shows the wonders of what we can achieve in I.C.T at school. The Nintendo Wii idea is cool!

Thanks to Mr. S Baker for posting this Youtube vid on his class blog fab4@Work (mrbsblog.com)

Google does it again

Do you want to get up close and personal with the moon?

Well, with the 40th anniversary of the Lunar Moon landing (for those that still believe in it, like Miss Hems)

Google have introduced a neat Google Earth Map.

Click on (www.google.com/moon/) it lets users take 3D flyovers of the moon and, like similar features for planet Earth, these are enhanced with additional content.

Save the words.

Hey kids, think the word of the week homework is too easy?

Well check out www.savethewords.com

This site will expose you to words you never though existed. It will show you words that were feared extinct.
It will teach you words that will 'out-vocab' your parents.

This site offers the challenge of 'adopt-a-word'. This means that you will be given a word and you have the challenge of using throughout your day and at school or in your writing. Perhaps you would like to sign up to the 'word of the day' newsletter.

Worth a look

What is Mr. Reade reading...

Devil May Care - A James Bond Novel.

Synopsis:

Bond is back. With a vengeance.
M has summoned agent 007 to London. It's the swinging Sixties and a flood of narcotics is pouring into Britain. Sinister industrialist Dr Julius Gorner is identified as the source and James Bond is dispatched to investigate.
The trail takes Bond to Paris and then Persia - where the beautiful and enigmatic twins Scarlett and Poppy lead him to Gorner's secret desert headquarters. Here, Bond uncovers Gorner's cold-blooded plans for world domination.

Only by playing Gorner's twisted game can Bond stop him . . .

Welcome from the Back to baSIX team

A big welcome to Jason, who is new to our class. He has come to us from another great school, Awakeri. We look forward to getting to know him better as the year goes on.

We would also like to welcome back James who has flown back from Taiwan. Its great to have him back.

Homework for Week 1

Hi kids, your word of the week is 'PONDER'.

It is really vital that the homework books go home each night and I am finding books left in class. Please remember your HW books kids.

Each week I expect to see:

* Word of the week

* Home-reading (dated and signed) - This is not happening much at the moment, so please help parents.

* Spelling words - these will go out on tuesday.

***Parents, please remember to allow at least some time this week to practise the childrens spelling words with them. Use spellingcity.com to support your childs learning.***

Back to School

Well, it is term 3 already.

We can expect all sorts of things to be taking place this term.

* Cross Country
* Dance Day
* and much more.

Remember kids that an early night, regular exercise and healthy eating will help you to learn more at school.

Movie of the week- Ice Age 3 : Dawn of the Dinosaur

Monkey Kick Off

Farewell to one of the crew!!

We would like to wish one of our very own, a fond farewell.

Michael and his family will be leaving us to live in Australia and he won't be returning to us in term 3.

We have loved having Michael in our class and he will be greatly missed by us all.

We hope he will keep in touch and drop us a line on the Back To baSIX blog.