Saving the best for last!!!

Although I have enjoyed every day that 2010 had to offer, I have to say that I saved my best 2010 day for last.

At 6.01am this morning Fiona and I became the proud parents of a beautiful 9.5lb baby boy

His name is Terriah Kalel Reade.

Merry Christmas Everyone!!

On behalf of the Reade family, I'd like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas.

Room 4 collage

Baby update

Well, it is Saturday 18th Dec and still no baby. I will keep you posted!!

2010

Almost the end of the year

Well it is almost the end of another fantastic year. Thanks to all the children of the Un4gettable class...room 4, for all their hard work this year.

Things to be aware of for week 10.

Tueday is our Prize Giving at 10am (don't be late as seats can be hard to find).

The boards with the new classes will be available after prize giving, so make sure you check them out to see where you'll be next year.

It is also Miss Hems birthday on Tuesday. (make sure you give her a big hug, she loves those)

Wednsday ia half day. So please make arrangements to collect your children.

Farewell Harold

Last week the class got to visit Harold the giraffe. They got

to learn all about the blood and the circulatory system.

A bis thanks to Shirley for all her hard work.

Well done to Rosie who was our official class conductor for the Harold lessons.

For more info on Harold the Giraffe Click here

God bless the families of the lost

Today Apanui School paid tribute to the 29 Pike River Miners. Along with the rest of our nation (New Zealand) We gave 2 minutes silence.

On behalf of the children and myself in Room 4 at Apanui School, Whakatane. I would like to extend our thoughts and prayers to the families of those that were lost in the mine.

May God bless those families and bring strength and comfort in this time of grief and sadness.

Caught 'CLOWNING' around at school

Cory brought in his new toy...a clown bike. After making it look easy, Mr Reade thought he would have a go.

"It's not as easy as it looks".

I think he looked a little 'over-sized' on it. What do you think?

More pics

Smiles before the tears!

I hope Gary can keep his lunch down!

Three extremely cool people!

Check out Melissa!

The biggest kid of them all!!

Mr Reade and the School Leaders Day reward Day

Here is a selection of great shots from the Leaders Day Reward to Rainbows End.

Our thoughts are with the families of the lost!

Clear out time

Hi everyone, I am back on board after my Granfathers tangi and looking forward to the coming weeks before holidays.



It has become apparent that children have far too much belongings in their pencil cases and are having space issues in their tote trays.



I have asked the children to take home all of the excess stationary items to make room in their desks. This means that I will only allow one pencil case. (some children have 3 or more).

The Bucket game

Blog Games

Mr Reades Update

Hi everyone,

I'm very sorry for not getting the homework sheet out this week. The children should be doing reading and spelling regardless. So don't let them convince you that they have no homework.


Today my Grandad died. Thanks to all the kids for their support of me during this tough time.

Whats a good name?

Fiona and I are beginning to think about baby names!!

Drop us a post and tell us what names you think are cool.

Remember that we don't know if its a boy or a girl.

The more ideas we get, the more chance there is that we might use your idea for a name.

Deal or No Deal

Great new sites to check out.

A cool website for making words. Also for checking our ability to spell confidently.

Check it out.

STARFALL - MAKE-A-WORD

Do you like to read stories? Check out this site!! It has great audio stories that you can sit back and listen to.

http://storynory.com/

Blog Games

The Annoying Orange

Zero Waste

This week, the team at Room 4 are looking at Zero Waste. The class will be conducting three 45 min sessions this week and will be focussing on 'REDUCING'.

This is a great thing to be looking at. The children will be full of tips, info and methods for dealing with the increase of waste that we impose upon our planet.

The ability to make a difference begins at home

Mr Reade x3

This weekend Mr Reade went to Waitara in Taranaki to see his Grandad. Due to illness, his grandad won't be with us for too much longer but is a very cool guy and much loved.

In the photo (from the left) Mr Reade (my Dad), Mr Reade (my Grandad), Mr Reade (me)

The Wild Wind

Inquiry in action!!

Christian shows us how the helicopter can be propelled into the air using batteries and electric currents. The look on the faces here says it all. Absolute wonder!!

Birthday Updates

pimp myspace

We have had a number of birthdays recently in Room 4.
Its a great thing to celebrate a birthday.

Big shout outs to

Sept 2010
Chance (9 years)

October 2010
Tyler (9 years)
Tunoa (8 years)
Blake (8 years)
Georgia (9 years)
Japheth (9 years)

November
Rayvehn (9 years)

Boy these people are growing fast... I hope you all had fantastic days!!

A real bunch of 'BRIGHT SPARKS"

Today was a real 'electric' day. We saw a lot of higher order thinking. Light bulbs were turning on all over the place....literally.

Today the team and I explored the world of Science and Technology. In particular, we experimented with light bulbs, wires and batteries. Many of the groups found this to be challenging yet exciting.

Thankfully, no harm came to anyone but most children were...shocked....at how easy and fun the science experiment was.

From my (the teacher) perspective, it was awesome to see everyone 'switched on'...to learning.

Have a great week everyone.

Check out the cool pics above of todays learning.

Who said learning was boring?

Yesterday was a lovely day and GROUP 5 for guided reading took their lesson outside.

Their task was to read a journal story and then reinact it using a digital camera.

As you can see in the picture, they obviously had some fun.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS

Thankyou

A really big thankyou to all of you who helped to make the school production a grand success. Without you it couldn't have happened.

Back to work

After a very busy and somewhat disruptive term, the team at Un4gettable have knuckled back down into serious school work. Today the children are discovering the art of Scaffitto. This involves colouring a page in bright, vibrant colours then painting over top in black paint. Once dry, they use a sharp end of something like a paint brush or pencil and scratch designs and shapes out of the paint. The end result is an array of fabulous colours. Here is a picture of the children at the beginning stages.

Clean up Whakatane

Yesterday was a special day for the town of Whakatane as the students of Apanui School took to the streets and river walkways. They were on a mission to clean up our town.

This is an awesome opportunity for children to build a greater sense of pride in their school and the town they live in.

This year saw children learning the difference between general rubbish and recycling. Some children had blue bags for recycling and black bags for general rubbish.

Introducing...PiZap.com

Check out the site for yourself

http://www.pizap.com/



Room 4 trying out the http://www.pizap.com/ site at computers today.

Wacky Web Tales

Do you like writing stories?

Do you like to laugh?

Then Wacky Web Tales is the site for you!!!



(Click on the link above to go to the site)

Tell the site what nouns and adjectives and adverbs you want and the site does the rest.

If you thought you liked SMARTKIDDIES, then you will love STUDYLADDER

Studyladder is a literacy based site that helps to teach reading and writing skills.

Studyladder is brought out by the same people that brought you smartkiddies and you can even access it through your Smartkiddies account (username and pass)

Check it out, I think you will love it.

Guess who????

HERE IS ANOTHER SHOT OF THE MYSTERY PERSON


.
.
.
.
.
.
.
The answer is.......

TUNOA
.

It ain't OGRE till its OGRE

WHO COULD THIS BE?

The mystery person is.......
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.

Tyler!!!

Whats next? A movie deal?

Well done to Chloe who achieved her Green belt in Karate recently. We're very proud of you and look forward to tracking your progress as you keep attaining new belt colours.

Watch out Bruce Lee, here comes a Karate Cupcake!!

Production Update!!!

Well, today was a great practise for production singing. Room 4 is really stepping it up and looking forward to week 10.

A big thanks to Mrs T for all her hard work on the songs as they are sounding great and are coming along nicely.

Closure for a mourning family

The thoughts of Room 4 are with the family of 4 year old Lucas Ward who was found today after nine days missing.

Lucas' body was discovered by a member of the public in the Waimata river (400m upstream from his grandmothers house).

Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family of Lucas.