Week3 Term3

What a busy week! We have had some members of Room 4 gaining fantastic results in the Australasian Science test and others playing rugby against another local school, several went to a chess competition (have a look on our Senior school blog in our profile) and the members of the Senior dance group performed their amazing item at School Assembly on Friday. Also we heard all 32 speeches during the week. WOW- Miss McCallister and I were most impressed with the high standard of the speeches. Well done everyone! We will hear the semi-finalists this week and then choose our class representatives who will be saying their speeches at the Senior school competition. The kites are coming on and really looking brilliant. Unfortunately one of the kites had a mind of its own on Friday- while it was outside drying it suddenly flew up over the school roof never to be seen again!!!!
This week on Thursday we have the first of our three-way conference sessions. I am looking forward to the children sharing their learning with their parents. We are counting down to the Olympics now and have started various related activities.
REMEMBER TO BRING YOUR WHANAU GEAR FOR GYMNASTICS ON MONDAY.
Wasn't the Disco fun on Friday night!!! Have a great week everyone :)
HOMELEARNING:
*Click on "Olympics Activities" in Favourite Sites. Scroll down to "Grab The Glory-100 meter sprint"-click-read instructions-START (you may need to get someone to install Adobe Shockwave Player for it to work. Don't worry if you can't just go to the next activity). Play the game and see if you can beat me-I scored 9815 points.
*Click on the Olympic rings at the bottom of the page, it will open on "Social Studies Fun; The Olympics"- Read the introduction then do the Summer Olympics Wordsearch. Print it (if you can) and glue in your Homelearning book.
*Click on the Olympic rings again, scroll down and click on the sun symbol by "Are you an Olympic Expert?" and answer these questions in your book:
1. Name the city and the year of the first Olympic games.
2. How many times has the Olympics been held in Paris?
3. Name the cities and the years the Olympics has been held in Australia.
4. Where in Korea was the Olympics held?
5. In what years were the Olympics held in the USA?
6. When and where will the next Olympics be held?
7. How many Summer sports will there be at the 2008 Olympics?
*Go back to our main blog page and now click on the Beijing countdown clock at the top right.
Scroll down to the "Photo Gallery" and click on the 'More' sign under the photo. Scroll down and find the photo of the NZ delegation and click on it. Read "New Zealand Delegation dances it up in Olympic Village" and find the answer to this question- Q.-What is it that the NZ team rub as they leave their apartments to bring them good luck during the Olympics?