Class Goes Bananas!!!!

Class Goes Bananas!! from Gary Pinker on Vimeo.

Mr Gray came up with a bit of a surprise today. As part of a promotion for healthy eating the class was invited by "Fresh Choice" to promote the eating of bananas. The supermarket deals with fair-trade "All Good" bananas. The class got to eat frozen whipped banana sundae's. Mmmmmmm very yummy indeed-and we got free balloons. Thanks Fresh Choice!!

Stop Animation Fun-World Cup Football

Stop Annimation-World Cup Football from Gary Pinker on Vimeo.

As part of our "Myths and Legends" unit the class is learning to use stop animation software. The above is a wee practice run. Cool eh.Well done Jared, Josh, Cairo and Zoe. The class has been put in groups with an IPad each. Each group has chosen a myth or legend. The trick now is to make mini lego movies bringing the legends to life! Watch this space!!

Padlet- The Travis Wetland

Created with Padlet

During this term the class has been studying the plants and animals to be found in the Travis Wetland. Padlet is a cloud based app which allows people to share information in real time. The class was asked to come up with some "funky" facts about some of the creatures. This is what they produced.

Blue Skies-2014- Video Clips

Camp 2014 from Gary Pinker on Vimeo.

Check out some of things we did on camp in glorious moving pictures!!

Blue Sky Camp-2014

Wow what a great week!! So many challenges met and things learnt about ourselves and each other. A very special thanks to parent helps-Lou, Sophia and Glenn and also to those parents who came out to Kaiapoi to see what we were up to. Please click right or left button to make photos larger.

Room 15 Productions!! Beach Education

Beach Education 2014 Rooms 15, 14 and 13 from Gary Pinker on Vimeo.

A selection of action from our beach education day all in glorious technicolour!!

Beach Education- 2014

What a great day we had!! Here's a selection of photos mostly of the class creating sand sculptures. Also check out Room 15 Productions above!!! Click in the middle of a pic if you want to enlarge it or copy it.

A Brand New Year with a Great Class!!

10th February 2014

Dear Parents and Caregivers,

I trust you all had a restful break over the recent holidays. My family and I made the most of the great and so great weather and have recently been spending more time down at the beach. In fact we have run into a number of Parkview people down there which has been great. This is just a note to let you know how things are progressing in class and some organisational reminders.

General

The class has settled very well into the various routines of class life and there is a happy and

 contented feel to the place.

Camp

Camp this year will at Blue Skies in Kaiapoi. The dates are 12-14 of March. Because we use our own transport to get there the cost will be $90, sounds expensive I know but many school camps these days cost well over $100.  If you wish to “drip-feed” some of this amount off that’s fine.  If you wish to come on camp please make yourself known to me.

Homework

Please check and sign your child’s homework notebook sometime during the week(we will start using them next week).  This book also has reminders and general class information in it, so it is important that you sight it.  Chores and activities after school also count as homework e.g. swimming or music lessons or even helping with the evening’s meal.  These you can list on the “homework and reminders” page.

Your child will have a list of spelling words and a family of number facts to learn by Friday.  These lists are issued on Monday and re-tested on Friday. Your child will also be expected to read for 20 minutes each evening and watch at least 3 news broadcasts during the week.

In addition to this the children will have various activities to complete which involves the web-site - www.studyladder.co.nz. There will also be information and class happenings on the class blog at http://room15parkview.blogspot.co.nz/ (this of course can also be found at the school website). It is not my intention for homework to be an onerous activity for families but something that extends learning which is already happening in the classroom. More information will be given on this at the three-way conferences later this month. Don’t hesitate to seek me out if you have any concerns or queries. My e-mail is gary.pinker@parkview.school.nz

Best Regards

Gary Pinker

Classroom Teacher                     

Room 15