Limestone trip

Staveley Lime Kiln Trip

Scene from Holes 1

Lime Stone

What are we doing?

What does the blue and red paper tell us?

What is your conclusion about putting limestone on pasture?

Alford Forest tunes

Welcome Back Term4

Ki Ora,
Welcome back for the last term of the year. Once again we have loads to get through. To start we have athletics, School photos, education review office, Harrold with life education followed by positive puberty .
Unfortunately this means our planned tramp will need to be postponed. I still hope to get out and about later in the term possible week 7 or 8.
Maths interchange will start this week where our focus will be fractions and revision. Homework can be dragon maths chapter 3.
Reading will include a novel study and non fiction based on our environment. Our topic will be a different type of environment as we look at the Waitomo caves, their cultural value and value as adventure tourism. Homework is to find out about this amazing area and list any questions you may have.

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Class ski trip IMG 0592

Ski trip 4/9/2014 IMG 0590

Great Day at Mt Hutt

Ants Speech practise

We were pretending to be Stanley from the book Holes, trying to persuade the gang of D group to revolt.



Comment on the things Ants did well in this practise speech.

Castle by JJ Country by TT

JJ Castle
Country by Tim

Chess tournament

Chess report by George.

Australia by Jonsey

Powerpoint presentation by Jonsey.

All About Malta

Presentation

Scotland

Homework

Check this Guyana project
https://methvenprimary-my.sharepoint.com/personal/scuttle_methven_school_nz/_layouts/15/WopiFrame.aspx?sourcedoc={52CC2B66-7538-43C0-BF5F-2C5

Homework Term3

Another busy term ahead with our first class ski trip on Thursday 21 August. We would like all students to take part in one of the two planned trips. Please, if money is an issue let me know I will do my best to get all students up the hill.

This week Students have been given the task of researching a country from the commonwealth games to present information on. The post below of Scotland is an example.

Extra work can be done on the European Castle of choice. Check out Sam's work on ...
Neschwanstein Castle

Maths, Writing and Reading Interchange will start this week. Most maths groups will look at Algebra (Plan is on the links) and reading will start on Matariki activities. (see reading page)

Scotland

Always #LikeAGirl

Min & Shy

Cat & Jess

Sophie

Week 7

Some great volcanoes being displayed in Alfordforest this week and some good understandings also demonstrated.
Homework sheets called paper power ready for stage 6 & 7 Stage 5 can take text books home.
Book reviews can also be worked on at home though time will be given in class. Criteria is below

Volcanoe by Sam, Riya, Tim and Shy

plate tectonics

S and J maths

5x21 mathes

Math ant cat

STANDERD WRITTERN FORM TIMES TABLES

cw ch maths single didget

cw ch maths single didget

cw,ch maths

short div hard

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the news you all should be watching

Tarawera SM, RE, TB,

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Tarawera by Bill, Frank & CC

10 minute video

Well done girls, the only group to present in the small time allowed.
Start thinking of how we could improve our presentations and post in comments.

Term 2 Plan

Well done to all the cross-country participants. What a great day.
This term we are working closer with Lyndhurst. Mrs Hooker will be teaching Writing and Mr Cooke Will do Reading. There will be an interchange at 9.15 each day. All reading activities will be on the blog and students can take home related reading material. Please ensure reading material is returned each day.

Maths has started on Multiplication and Division Strategies. There are practise sheets available from the class for all the strategies. Dragon Maths books both have chapters on Multiplication and Division that can be worked through. Students should recognise any strategies being worked on in class.

PE will use Hockey to teach team work and using space in games as we have more sessions with NZ Hockey in class.

Topic will be follow on work from our look at wetlands and the environment with a focus on Students leading their learning. We will be providing assistance for students to research and present findings on topics related to our environment.

New LEARNZ trip

Geo Hazards

Climate change for kids

Climate change for kids

Global warming

http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/videos/earth/globalwarming.html

The Story of Groundwater

By Lear Otaki

Week 10

Week 10 already still heaps to do. We need to get information reports typed on a word doc then cut and past to a google doc and share with me. If you don't have a google account sign in as Ron Winterslow.

Maths is still addition and subtraction with most students working on the standard written form.
Dragon Maths 3 Activity 17 Adding large numbers.
Dragon Maths 4 Activity 14 and 15 Pen and Paper Adding/Subtracting
Photo copies are available from class for both books.

What about some of the features on the Parradise duck? Can you remember any? please comment with what you know.

Week 9

What a great camp Check out the photos here and post a comment on your favourite photo. tell us why you like it.
Camp Photos

Dont forget to grab your information reports for extra homework and we should have homework maths sheets tomorrow.

Remember to edit or fix your tramp documents you need to sign in as Ron Winterslow on the google NZ home page. (mpswinterslow7) (W..........)

Have Confidence in Yourself

Week 8

Another week gone. It was great to listen to the ex detective from Australia who has arrested lots of people for inappropriate use of the internet. Can you remember how to stay safe on the internet? What should you do if somebody contacts you on the internet and tells you they are a 10year old boy from America?

Year six camp starts Tuesday and back after 4pm on Thursday. It is important year six students know we won't be back until the busses have gone.

This week we start our information reports and don't forget to edit your writing on line. (Writing page)

 

Week 7

Wow what a busy week, The audio conference went well on Tuesday and the field trip has enough information to keep us going for weeks.
Monday we have a Net safety course at the college and Year six camp is next week!!

I saw these interesting fish at the show on Saturday. Please comment with any information you have on them.

Class writing

I hope the link below gets you on to our class writing. try adding some describing.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1a2SN6-757m2oy-bLM7xfLcLXOSy7MQN0zHm3XtlfWe4/edit?usp=sharing

Audio conference 11/3

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Last minute homework

We need an article to send to Snowfed on our tramp. Try a draft copy at home and remember quality not quantity. Here is a starter you may want to use.

• Last Thursday Lyndhurst and Alford forest went on a tramp down Pudding hill stream. My favourite part was...

Hints

• Remember to use eyes, ears and feelings. To help paint a picture in your readers mind use actions and details.
• Try describing another area of the tramp.

Learns with mt Hutt

Week 5

Fantastic tramp last week and well worth the wait. All students showed good teamwork and demonstrated what they learnt about crossing rivers. This week we start our virtual field trip to the Ashburton Lakes area and I am sure our tramp experience will have great examples of what Andrew and his team get up to.
We have an on-line audio conference on Tuesday at 9:00 Any body can listen in to some of us, asking questions to the experts. Go to the LEARNZ link our user is Methven9 pass word ........

Click on the picture to see more of Ricky Otaki's fantastic photos and leave a comment telling us what learning the pictures show.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ag5hurs30cqpkk9/PbnS4pjO6A

Thank you cards Mr Otaki

Thank you cards Mr McLean

Thank you cards Mr Kearvell

Monday 3 March

Trip is postponed. River high, wind chill high and two of our drivers are fighting a fire in Ashburton.

Trip update

Well the weather doesn't look flash for Monday however it won't be enough to stop us going. We may restrict the tramp to a forest walk and return to school earlier depending on river flow and wind chill.

Students will need to dress for rain.

• Old sand shoes (running shoes) and woolen socks
• Shorts
• Thermal or polyprop base layer (tight fitting)
• Sweatshirt or fleece mid layer
• Waterproof jacket outer layer
• Hat
• Bring a change of socks and footwear for afterwards

Week 4

Now that swimming has been postponed to Wednesday our trip has been moved to Monday 3 March.
Thankfully our drivers and parent help are able to help on Monday so, This Time!!

Don't forget students will need thermal base layer, shorts, top and water proof jacket with suitable shoes that will get wet. They will also need small drink bottle and packed lunch.

Reading groups are under way and most material can be found on the LEARNZ website by using student log in. Look for easy background pages on the left.

Maths groups have also started on Addition and subtraction. Once I get the students at right levels I will send home practise sheets. Same basic facts test again this week.

Week 3

Well done to all those competitors in the triathlon on Friday. That cycle leg was hard work!

This week we have swimming sports on Wednesday and goal setting interviews Tuesday,Wednesday and Thursday.

This week we will start some addition and subtraction strategies and continue describing settings in writing. We will start the reading activities on the LEARNZ field trip in preparation. All students should have selected appropriate reading books from the library this week and may take home. Please make sure they come back to school each day as they will have independent reading time in class.

Homework this week is Basic Facts maths sheets and to comment with as much information on what you learnt about the picture below.

Trip clothing

Here is clothing list created by Chris, Tim, Bailey, James

Equip Yourself. Clothing for trip

Notices due back

Well done on a great start to the year. We have done a statistical investigation that will help set some goals for our learning. We have a senior survey to return with more ideas for goals as well. Don't forget to return triathlon entry slips and consent form to go on the class trip. Please comment below on if you are going on the trip or doing the triathlon.
Trip Notice

Welcome

Welcome to our Alford Forest 2014 Blog.
This blog will be used to post notices on what is happening in the class. We may include homework tasks and details of the class programme. What goes on here will be up to the students and parents. It is our intention that it is interactive.

Your first challenge is to post a comment and suggest what you would like to see on the blog, for example; homework, calendar, class timetable, teacher planning, student work, photos of students, useful websites.

Good luck, just click on the comment link below and don't forget you may need to post as anonymous from the drop down menu.

You can also try this survey Class survey