Christmas Quakes

Hi all- I hope you are all safe and well.  What a rocky time just before Christmas.  Don't let it ruin your family times together and have a toast for Christchurch resilience!!  Stay safe.  Iona

Smiles for Christmas

We raised $50 for the World Vision gifts.  View these links to see the cards and the presents we bought and sent.


Seeds
Goat

Christchurch's Future

Have a look at our entries to the photographic competition here.  For those that gave permission there was an individual entry, but we also tried to do a combined one.  Not bad for a quick effort!  The kids took most of the pictures themselves and told their models where to go.  Don't the vision goggles look great!

Christmas Messages to Room 17

Hi everyone!  Thank you for your support this year and being part of such an amazing year.  It has had its trials and stresses, but you have all made it such a great year for us in Room 17.  I wish you all a wonderful and safe Christmas and holiday time.

Please leave a Christmas greeting for the class and parents and other bloggers at Redcliffs.  Please click on comments below and select name/url to enter just your name.  The comment will not show immediately as I moderate the comments first.

Love Miss R.

Shorts anyone?

Missing: a pair of black school shorts from Beach Ed day.  They have Riley's name on them (blue label) and are a size 7.  They have pockets on the outside- cargo style.  We have a pair of plain shorts size 5 in exchange!
Please could you do a check on all uniform items before putting them away for the holidays.  Thank you!

Photographic Competition

The Red 17 Climbers are making entries to enter a photographic competition.  This is very late in the game I understand, but what we are trying to do is give our vision of what we want Christchurch to look like in the future after rebuilding.  Click on the link above to find out more.  It is a great way to stay focused as the term closes, but there only a few days left to complete it.  We started today!  

Today we pretended to put on our future vision goggles to see into the future in our imaginations.  We thought about our schools, parks, buildings, homes and the city centre and what we thought we wanted them to be.  The children are going to make some vision goggles at home and their photo will include a picture of them in their goggles and a picture of their drawing of what they want in the future.  

Please go to the site and click on entry, and view the 'Terms and conditions'.  If you would like your child's entry to be entered by me before Monday at 5pm (!) please email me straight away.  If you would like your child to enter from home with their own photo, please let me know too so we don't enter twice.  You are more than welcome to get creative and head out with the camera on your own!  There are great prizes to be had for individuals and schools.

End of Term Fun

End of Term Fun!

We are decorating a Christmas tree in class for the last week and a half.  Children need to bring along an ornament to put on our tree.  They will take it home on the last day of school.

World Vision Smiles gifts for Christmas

World Vision have a campaign to help give to others in poorer countries than NZ.  I talked to the kids about this and we decided it would be nice to give a couple of dollars towards buying a gift from the World Vision pamphlet.  They said it would be helpful and kind to do this.  This would only be $1 or $2 or what you decide as a family to give.  What I’ll do is see how much we get, then round up the money myself and order it online.  Check out the link below for more details.   Please talk with your child about this and if you are happy to participate please send the money in an envelope and we’ll order it online together in class.   https://www.worldvision.org.nz/Smiles/

Secret Santa

Children chose a secret santa name today.  This is so they can buy a small gift $5 or less for their secret santa, wrap it, and put it under our Christmas tree.  On the last Thursday of term we will hand them out and guess our secret santa.  The kids were excited about this one.  The name of the secret santa is in their notebook on this notice!

Please see me if you have any questions.

Team 4 Beach Outing Tuesday

The weather is looking a bit dicey for Tuesday so we are staying at school for it.  We'll do some fun things here and have the bbq too.  If you have offered to help out it would be lovely if you could still join us to help with cooking the bbq.  Mrs Boustead is sending a note home today, so check your child's bag for details.

Christmas Fun Night

Wednesday 07 December

At Van Asch. 5pm to 7pm

Meet on the courts outside the Staffroom.(where assemblies
have been held).

Bring your picnic dinner and picnic mats / stools to school
for the big end of year event. Our favourite band PUREE
are performing for the evening. The students will also be
performing their Christmas songs as well. .......AND a special
visitor (SANTA) will be making his appearance.

Come on down , and remember that its a great night .

Beach Education Tuesday

Just a reminder to not come to van Asch, but to meet at Redcliffs School at 8.50 am.  If you are doing parent help, please come by 8.40am for quick briefing.

Children need:

• school uniform
• school sun hat
• school bag
• togs and towel and plastic bag
• sunscreen on and with them
• morning tea and lunch
• water bottle
• polar fleece
• do not bring book bag

Children will be dropped back at Redcliffs School not van Asch, so please pick them up from there.

Amazing mathematicians

Some more super Mathletics stars......Hannah J, Hannah B, Annabelle, Charlie H., Charlie B. You rock!  Keep up the good work.

Mathletics

Awesome guys!  I have house points waiting for these lovely mathematicians who have logged on this week to Mathletics.  Jaxon, Charlie H., Mitchell, Riley, Charlie B. and Bella.

If you haven't logged on yet, there's still time!  Remember your username and password is in your notebook.

Mathletics Challenge!

I have given the class a challenge to see if they can do ten minutes of Mathletics each day at home, for a week!  Starting today and finishing next Wednesday.

By the seashore

Wanted!

We are going to make photo frames.  I'm looking for lovely people to collect a few shells and little bits of driftwood to glue to our frames.  If you're a beach walker or like to meander along the beach with your kids, could you pick up a few shells for us?

Thanks!

RedcliffsOnline

The children have logged on to RedcliffsOnline and have uploaded a profile picture and changed their passwords.  Please get them to sign in at home to keep them practising the skill of typing in their username.  I've updated the Reading page with some things we have been doing this week, and there are some online links to activities to help learn about contractions.  Check out the Heath & PE page and comment on our media gallery too.  Just get your child to sign in to see it.

Ultranet

Redcliffs is implementing a Learning Management (LMS) to manage our online content and tools.  It'll be introduced to most classes next year and the teachers will learn how to use it too.  Later on next year, possibly in term 2, parents will be able to login and see what their children are doing.

A few class have been having a trial run of using their class space already. We've logged on for the first time today! The kids were amazing.  You could ask your child to sign in here, and ask them to enter their username and password.  It would be great to see if they can do it from home.  I will transfer things from the blog to RedcliffsOnline bit by bit.  At the moment the children know how to get to our class landing page from their dashboard, and also navigate through some of the reading and maths games.

Please be aware it is still very much under construction and our header is still to be uploaded (the pretty bit at the top).  The things for parents have not be uploaded yet, so please still refer to the newsletter and normal website.

Redcliffs School Lunchtime Sausage Sizzle

• This Wednesday,  16 November.
• PTA fund-raiser  - $2 per sausage
• Gluten-free sausage available
• Same place as last time, near room 8.       

Essential Spelling Lists

According to the National Standards and Literacy Progressions that accompany the New Zealand Curriculum, by the end of their first year of school, students should be able to spell most of the high frequency words in lists 1 and 2.  And by the end of their second year at school should be able to spell most of the words in list 1 and 2, and some of list 3 and 4.

I've included the lists here, as you might want to work on them at home and even over the holidays.

List 1

a, and, I in, it, my the, to, was, we. (10 words)

List 2

at, but, for, got, had, he, is, me, of, on, she, so, that, then, there, they, up, went, when, you.  (20 words)

List 3

about, after, all, are, as, back, be, because, came, day, down, get, go, going, have, her, his, home, into, just, like, mum, not, one, our, out, said, some, were, with.  (30 words)

List 4

again, an, around, big, by, can, some, could, dad, did, do, first, food, from, good, has, him, house, if, little, next, night, no, now, off, old, only, or, other, over, people, put, ran, saw, school, see, started, their, them, this, time, took, two, us, very, well, what, will, would, your. (50 words)

Thank you!

Thank you for all the calendar and card orders.  We have sent them away and hope to have them back within a few weeks.  I hope that you enjoy looking at them in 2012!

Calendar Art Update

Please read!

We have created another version of our calendar art!  Below are the two versions.  You might like to order one or the other.  Version one is the children on the beach.  Version two is the seagull on the post.  Both are inspired by our artist Timo Rannali.  Our latest attempt, with the seagull on the post, still needs some grass drawn on it.  We'll complete this tomorrow.
Please make this clear on your form by writing your child's name and V1 or V2 next to their name.  If you're not sure, just pop in Wednesday or Thursday to check.  If you'd like to order both versions, please see me for another order form.
Thanks!

Aaron V1

Aaron V2

Annabelle V1

Annabelle V2

Bella V1

Bella V2

Charlie B. V1

Charlie B. V2

Charlie H. V1

Charlie H. V2

Eddy V1

Eddy V2

Hannah B. V1

Hannah B. V2

Hannah J. V1 (not quite finished yet, sorry)

Hannah J. V2

James V2

James V1

Jaxon V1

Jaxon V2

Riley V1

Riley V2

Mitchell V1

Mitchell V1

Marcelle V2

Marcelle V1

Roman V1

Roman V2

Siena V1

Siena V2

Timo Rannali Inspired Calendar Art

The children have worked hard on their beach scenes inspired by the art work of Timo Rannali.  These pictures are done with water colours, and have a curved horizon and very stylised figures.  I was very proud of the way the children worked with the paint, having a go at mixing the primary colours to make the colours they wanted.
Team 4's contribution to the "Fair" this year is the proceeds from our calendars and/or cards made with these pictures.  You will receive an order form on Tuesday for these (sorry they were suppose to go out at the end of last week, but I was away sick).  Unfortunately it is a quick turn around, being Show Day on Friday. So the orders for these are due on Thursday.
Please come and have a look at works in person if you like.

Aqua Gym Day One

Hi everyone.  What a super class Room 17 is.  They were amazing today with such a different timetable.  First we had class photos, then Aqua Gym lessons, morning tea, reading and then straight out to a shorter lunch time and then finishing athletics.  Phew!  If your children are a little tired tonight it will be with good reason!
Check out these awesome swimmers!  The children were AMAZING getting changed and were well behaved (like always!) on the bus.  Thanks to the lovely parents who helped with changing after swimming.
We played 'Sleeping Bears' on the way back in the bus.  Really useful for long trips if you want a tip!!

Athletics Day Postponed

We will have our Athletics Day on Friday, weather permitting.

#1- A treasure hunt (minus the treasure!)

Today Room 17 went on a QR code treasure hunt, armed with my mobile phone and an iPodTouch.

The first clue was on the board.  Once the children scanned it, they read the clue which told them where to go next.  Here's a picture of us finding one of the clues outside of Mrs Boustead's office.

Week 2

Scan this QR Code for the events of the week...(or look to the right!!)

Which way should I go?

The Red17Climbers are the best at giving directions!  I was so surprised at how well they did this activity.

In our strand maths (not adding and subtracting) we have been learning to listen to and give directions.  Today we went out to an outside maze and directed out partners around only by using our voice.  We learnt North, South, East and West from the compass and New Zealand map.  We also learnt to include the number of steps our buddy needed to move.