Time To Say Goodbye

The blog 'rtwozero' began a few years ago and has had over 30,000 page views from all over the world. All good things though come to an end, and today it is with great excitement that we head to the next stage of our blogging journey.

Introducing.....................

Three4Galore

Three4Galore is the new blog for the Year 3 and 4 learning team, so please head to the blog and tell us what you think! Soon we'll have some photos of ourselves and our work up on the new blog.

Rtwozero will now be static (no new items will be added). The blog will stay open for now while we transition to our new blog.

Thanks everyone for your contributions and support over the years

From Mrs W and all of the current and former bloggers of rtwozero

Spelling Week 7

Group 1 - space, moon, planet, sun, Earth
Group 2 - moon, planets, solar system, Earth, gravity
Group 3 - orbiting, solar system, ellipse, gravitational pull, crescent

Can the USA compete at the Commonwealth Games? Why/why not?

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How many medals did NZ get in 2010?

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Who can compete at the Commonwealth Games?

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Where are the Commonwealth Games held in 2014? Write 3 facts about the place it's held

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The Commonwealth games have begun!

Some facts:

Kids Comet

Young Commonwealth

Nga Iwi E

This week is Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori! Our whole school is learning this beautiful waiata.

Here is the link to learn it at home:

Multiplying Madness!

Welcome to Term 3 - gosh what an exciting time for Halswell School as we get even closer to the whole school being on one site again.

This is the view from our temporary classroom:

An interesting view from our window!

We have started the term in such a positive way. I can tell the children are all so happy and excited to be back, and looking forward to the new adventures we will soon have.

We have started Multiplication and Division this term. Keep practising with the flash cards I sent home.

Here are some links for the Maths groups for their Week 1 strategies:

Circles - Threes Company

Triangles - Number Strips

Diamonds - Animal Arrays

Squares - Fun with Fives

Bonds to 10, 20 and 100

We are practising our instant recall of number bonds to 10, 20 and 100. Here are some links to online maths games to help:

Bonds to 10
Kahurangi have a challenge: learn the bonds to 10 so they can answer problems like 4 + _ = 10 in under 3 seconds!

Bonds to 20

Bonds to 100

Moving on to the MLE part 1

Wow, it's been a very long time since we have blogged. We have been so incredibly busy with our learning, and also making our first move towards our brand new school. We have moved out of Room 20 - the old, dusty, slightly broken room - and into our temporary classroom. Mrs W is very excited to have aluminium windows and a heatpump!

We hope to move again, to our final destination (the Modern Learning Environment (MLE)), during Term 3.

Here are some pics of our old, bare classroom and our new one.

Lilly's fairytale

Lilly has used fantastic describing words to tell us a story. Well done Lilly for reading your story with fluency and expression!

room20 rocks

hi we are room 20 with Mr's w we are a bunch of happy learners. we have lots of cool posts for you

dissapering chalange

in topic we have a challenge.
to try not to make eny rubbish. were recycling rubbish and making  it into lunch  boxes .
we have a plan in our thinking books.
it is a very hard  challenge. rubbish is not good for the land . the ground is not used to rubbish . it takes a long time for plastic to brake up. we will pant them and maybe even use them for our own lunch boxes. we are glad to be making a lunch box.

by Emma Camron and Isobella

Our favourite books

Gabriella's favourite book. This is the first page to get you interested into this book. Mom's aways saying the friends will come and go but family is forever. Well if that's true I could be in a rough ride. I mean I love my family and all but I'm just not sure we were meant to LIVE together. Maybe  it'll be better later on when we're all in different houses and only see each other on holidays but right now things are just a little dicey. Thank you for reading

Keira's favourite book

Alex's favourite book

Ava's favourite book

Planet Kaha

This is Nikita Isobella

I'm Little...But I'm a Great Winner

Watch the video. Write your story as either the hawk or the squirrel.

Can you describe what you hear, see, touch, smell and feel?


Remember to include our sentence criteria! Brainstorm these before you start.

Recycling Codes

We are looking at the recycling codes of some of our plastic containers.

Please fill in the form below for each container you looked at.

Ngā Mihi

Our Te Reo Māori goal is correct pronunciation. We are learning to say our mihi (greetings) to others. Below is a recording to help with practise. The place names are tricky - just give them a go! :)

_____________________________________________

Ngā Mihi

Tēnā koutou

Ko _______________ tōku matua. (your father)

Ko _______________ tōku whaea. (your mother)

Ko ________________ tōku ingoa. (your name)

Ko _______________tōku hoa pai. (your best friend)

Nō ________________ ahau. (where you are from)

Kia Ora.

 

Christchurch - Ōtautahi (say “or-toe-tahi”)

Zimbabwe – Timuwawe (say “tee-moo-wah-weh”)

Auckland – Ākarana (say “Ah-ka-ra-na”)

Dunedin – Ōtepoti (say “Or-teh-poh-tee”)

Hamilton – Hamutana (say “Ha-moo-ta-na”)

Australia – Ahetereiria (say “Ah-heh-teh-ray-ree-a”)
Wellington - Whanganui - a - Tara (say "Fa-nga-noo-ee - a - ta-ra")

Art

We are doing art could falling into space .we have managed to do quite a lot.

Most of us have got up to sharpie , starting to do our colouring. 

Some of us our nearly up to doing our backround .

There are flowers, oceans, Planets ,even  birds seasons like autum,winter,summer and spring so those are the things that room 20 are  doing for there backround.

So as you now room 20 is quite an art class. 

If you can see our art is so colourful so here's a picture for guys.

The colours room 20 do are( blue/ red/green/yellow).

Some people are on their colouring  

Some people are on their background  

Some people are on their DIY 

From your week 6 bloggers Amy,Liam,Danielle and Louie

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Daily 5

There's four weeks we have been doing daily 5.For daily 5 we've been learning read to someone, read two self and work on writing.The ones we haven't done is listen to reading and work with words.I like tea ball because I like batting becaue I can bat really far.Runing  is  fun because I am fast.I'm good at work on writing because I practise every day.We play lots of different games for fitness it is really fun.Runing records are fun because you get to do stuff with the teacher.I like listening to reading because you get to listen to cool story's.Today we leanrt listen to reading.It was really fun!!! The teacher let's us chose a daily 5 every day because we've done most of them and every one thinks its so fun$.At school some girls are saleing girl guide biscuits.They are yummy!!! I like writing. As you no the school is being bulit again and I hope it will be a safe and happy school!!!

By Leah, Nikita, Aidan and Guy

Building site

What our class bloggers enjoyed the most:

Willow.G.-playing outside.

Katie.W.-daily 5

Noah.-writing.

Our school is getting rebuilt and the bloggers would like to share what is happening with the blog viewers this is what is happening:

The year 0-2 block is getting the concrete laid out for the foundations.

The year 3-4 block is going up fast, the framing is going up.

The year 5-6 block is going even faster the roof is going up.

The year 7-8 block is the fastest and the walls are going up.

Camp Spooky by Emma

First Day Jitters

Today we listened to the story, 'First Day Jitters'. We learned that everyone has 'jitters' about the first day of school, even the teacher!



We then had some Jitter Juice to get rid of all of our fears!

Haere Mai! Welcome to Room 20's class blog

Welcome to Room 20's class blog! We are a wonderful class of 28 amazing learners, ready to start an exciting year of enjoyment in learning.

We will have class bloggers who will update what we are doing in the class, adding their comments, photos and videos. We'll also use our blog for home learning activities.

Mrs W has been hard at work getting ready for the year. It'll be so much fun getting to know you all more. See you on Monday!