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Hi Room 2,

Please visit this website that has your list of spelling words for this week!  There are many fun games you can play on this site with this weeks words.

www.spellingcity.com/amandamis.school.nz/

Thanks,

Miss Steensen

Today Mrs Kerr and Miss Steensen are off at a course working with a very knowledgeable lady called Allanah King.  Allanah teaches at Appleby School in Nelson and has lots of great ideas about online learning ideas.

Check out Allanah's class blog here

The students have all made great starts to their statistics projects. Everyone has constructed a plan as to how they intend to progress through their investigation.

I have decided to give students an extra weekend to complete their work. The new due date will be Monday 22nd March (Week 8)

By Wednesday the 17th (Week 7) I hope to see DRAFT work from all students presented to me in class. This should include collected data and graphed results.

The general plan to completing the investigation is as follows:

Welcome to Room 11

We have started off the year in a very positive way in Room 11.  We've had lots of fun getting to know each other and finding out each others strengths.  We've also had the opportunity to be creative by designing our personal shields and making pasta frames to display our photos in.

For the First Term of the Year all the Year 7 students are working in the Music Room for one and a half hours every 6 days as part of their school work.

The sessions are very busy. Each one consists of

Music History

We have just begun week 6 and a lot is happening. The year 8's have begun the Graphics unit and it is great to see how keen most students are , with  some  producing work of a very high standard.

The Options are well on their way with some carving projects almost ready for staining, the students have produced some very interesting designs which will  look exceptional when completed.

The Chemistry unit being taught to the year 8 students continues to challenge us as we experiment with litmus paper, universal testing paper and cabbage juice indicator. We have learnt about the many properties of acids and bases.

Our Year 7 programme has now moved on from the emphasis of measurement although that element is always an issue re accurate measuring and confidence in measuring independently.  Our new  unit is titled  "Breakfasts " and incorporates a series of lessons on the need for a healthy breakfast before they leave home and ways basic breakfast foods can be cooked with a difference.

I.e. a bowl of porridge cereal  could be instead Oatmeal hotcakes served not with butter but with honey.

This term is flying by and most of the Year 7's are off to a great start with their keynotes.  I have learnt a lot about individual students and they have learnt a lot about themselves, each other and the school in the process.  Many thanks to those parents that have sat down with their students and helped them with their homework tasks.  This has enabled the students to be armed with the information they need when they come to class and therefore the time can be spent with them to teach them the very important skills.