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.