2010-A Year in BD Class

Hi there everyone...all parents, caregivers, extended family, friends. 

It is hard to believe that today is the last day of the year. It still remember all your children at the start of the year. They have grown so much and I am so proud of them all. Your children are such a wonderful bunch of kids. I have enjoyed every minute of my time with them. 

I would like to take this opportunity to say a huge thank you for all your support this year. It makes my job so much easier when I have such wonderful supportive parents. 

Have a wonderful Christmas and prosperous New Year.

All the best and God bless.

Mr D

Here is our year in 3 minutes and 49 seconds.

And here's one for all you grown ups too.

I bet you're glad you weren't playing a game here!

Our final "Who's Here?"

16/12/10 Goodbye from Roberta and Ella

16/12/10 Goodbye from Robert and Eddie

15/12/10 What's Going On in BD Class?

Today was a day of mixed emotions. We had a nice cruisy day with Mrs Stewart. We were doing all sorts of fun Christmas games. We also had swimming which was lots of fun. Ally and Sandra have been AWESOME! It was exciting as well because we got to meet our new teachers for next year. It was a bit funny for Mr D because he won't have a class to start the year because he will be helping Mr Kelly before he leaves, and then we WILL BE Mr Kelly (or Mr D really) until we get a new principal. It was also a sad day because we said farewell to Mrs Francis at a poroporoaki this afternoon. Tomorrow will be our last day together so we want to make it a great one!

Happy Christmas everyone

Merry Christmas !
From Bluey and Keenan

14/12/10 What's Going On in BD Class?

It was nice to see Mr D again today. He was busy with a planning meeting yesterday. This morning we got all of our art stuff sorted out. Before we took everything off the walls, Tasha suggested we take some photos so that we remember what it all looked like. So here we go:

We had some cool choosing time after morning te instead of outdoor games. It was fun chilling with our friends in other classrooms. We had a yummy iceblock too. Yum! After lunch we handed out all of our work then we had a special Poroporoaki practise. It is a full-on swimming day tomorrow as well.

14/12/10 Good Morning with Robert & Eddie

Oh Come All Ye Faithful

09/12/10 Good Morning with Roberta & Ella

Silent Night

07/12/10 What's Going On in BD Class?

Robert and Eddie were funny this morning because they were pretending to be rappers again. They were a little bit hard to understand. This week were are doing lots of Letterland work. Today we looked at some vowels that make an "i" sound.

We talked about a special rule. Words that end in a "y" making an "i" sound change when you add "s" or "d". Mister I and Mr E appear. So: spy becomes spied or spies. Tricky eh?

We did some more work on our trolls. We did some descriptive writing about our trolls. We tried to use more interesting words and tried using similes. See if you can find a simile in this description.

07/12/10 Good Morning with Robert & Eddie

06/12/10 What's Going On in BD Class?

This morning we went for a walk around the school to see all the cool things that have been happening with the gardens. They are looking great! The playground has been prepared for painting as well.

Mr D shared some writing about getting a christmas tree. It was quite funny becaue he made a mess of the car.

06/12/10 Good Morning with Robert & Eddie

03/12/10 What's Going On in BD Class?

It has been a pretty crazy week in BD Class. But it has been lots of fun too. We started swimming this week and everyone has improved so much already. Mrs Stewart has been in for us for a couple of days. We did some Santa letters and some more work on fractions too. On Friday we checked out the new "forest" outside BL Class' room. The kids from resolution syndicate have been making our gardens better.

On Friday we also had a special fundraising day for the Pike River miners' families. There were pictures of all the miners on the flagpole and a special coin trail in the shape of a candle.

To finish off the afternoon we had some fun doing some stuff on KidPix.What a cool week!

Today I met my little sister Amelie. She was very cute. I chose a teddy bear for her. I love my little sister. I will see my sister again tomorrow.

03/12/10 Good Morning with Robert & Eddie

29/11/10 What's Going on in BD Class?

We kicked the day off with story writing today. Mr D shared about his slightly unfortunate weekend.

After writing we looked at our long "e" sounds using "ea" and "ee". We found out there are lots of homophones that use these sounds:

meat & meet

steal & steel

bean & been

Now that is pretty tricky.

We started to look at fractions today. We watched the Number Crew. That gave us a good idea about what fractions will be about.

Then we checked out some games that can help us to learn about fractions. Check these out by clicking on the pictures.

29/11/10 Good Morning with Robert & Eddie

25/11/10 Remembering Pike River

Today we had chat about what happened at the Pike River mine. It was sad to hear about the people who died. We made candles to remember the miners and so we could remember their families as well.

Our love and thoughts to those families who have lost loved ones.

25/11/10 Good Morning with Robert and Eddie

24/11/10 What's Going On in BD Class?

We had a great day with Mrs Stewart today. We started off the morning with working on our group narratives. Leo's mum came and helped us too. For maths, we did some more work about area. We had to make a quilt for baby bear. We had to work our how many pieces would make his quilt. This is what we found out.

After linch, Leo's Grammy came in and did some drama with us. We were learning to use our faces to show different feelings. See if you can guess what feelings are being shown in these pictures.

23/11/10 What's Going On in BD Class?

This morning we started off with printing. We have all got a bit slack with forming our letters properly so Mr D got us to make sure that we were trying our best. Mr D was much happier with all of us because we were remembering to start in the right place.

For writing, Mr D got us into groups and we had a go at planning a  new narrative. We had to think about our Introduction, Problem, Solution and Resolution. Once we planned our introduction we wrote it in our writing books. Tomorrow we will be finishing them off.

This afternoon we went for a wander around the school to look at some different environments. We took photos of them then looked at them when we went back to class.

We did a Thinking Hats Analysis on the Adventure Quad. 

Then we had a go at doing another one in our groups. What a cool day!

23/11/10 Good Morning with Robert and Eddie

22/11/10 What's Going On in BD Class?

Everyone has been working hard today in BD Class. This morning we got a fright when Robert and Eddie shared the news with us. We thought that Eddie got jammed as well. Luckily he was only tricking.

For writing we did our weekend recounts. We were making sure we used our yellow, red and white thinking hats to help us write our stories.

In reading, we looked at all the Letterland characters that make the long "a" sound. We looked for those sounds in our reading groups when we read to Mr D.

For maths we were learning to make and read bigger numbers. First we looked at what happened when we got ten ones. Then we looked at making numbers with groups of tens. You can have a go on this website: Making numbers.

22/11/10 Good Morning with Robert and Eddie

19/11/10 What's Going On in BD Class?

Today has been a very productive finishing off day. We had a surprise fire drill at 9:30 this morning. We were very responsible and got outside to line up quickly on the field. Everyone has finished their Comic Life instructions now. Yay!

We did a new poem called the Junglies. We had to imagine what a junglie might look like and use our idea to illustrate our poems. We also finished publishing our Guy Fawkes stories with our fireworks art. After such a busy day we all deserve a break. Have a great weekend everyone.