Let's go All Blacks!

This is so exciting! The All Blacks are playing in the final of the Rugby World Cup 2011 on Sunday night. Marvin is SO looking forward to it. He has a few butterflies in his tummy, but he is ready to cheer the AB's on with gusto! Bring it on!

Barefoot Sevens

Our combined schools Barefoot Sevens Rugby Tournament was cancelled this year due to poor weather conditions. We were really disappointed about this, so we decided to have our own tournament. The Juniors played first this morning and the Seniors played this afternoon. 

 We were very lucky as, although there were some showers, the rain held off this time!

Do you prefer playing with bare feet?


 

Crazy Rugby Hair day

Crazy Hair Day on PhotoPeach

Quad Blogging

The Rockets are excited to be part of the Quad Blogging project.

This project involves 4 schools each with a class blog. The schools take it in turns in a 4 week cycle to be the focus of the other 3 schools. These schools visit the blog of the focus school to respond to posts, leave comments and generally learn about school life and students in different places.

Visit the Quad Blog website for more details:

The 3 other school that make up the Quad with the Rockets are:

Room 3 and Mrs Nelson from Craigburn Primary School in Australia.

Room 1 and Mrs McKenzie from Hamilton East School - NZ.

Year 3 and Miss Donacien from Wix Primary in England.

Mrs Yollis' Grade 3 class in California are experts at blogging. Watch their their presentation on how they learn from their experiences with blogging. 

What have you learnt about blogging from watching this?

Our new listening post

We are so excited! We were inspired by our friends at 2KM and 2KJ at Leopold Primary in Victoria, Australia. Their teacher, Mrs Kathleen Morris, posted some ideas on her blog about using an ipod touch in the classroom.

We were lucky enough to already have an ipod touch that we share in our Junior Syndicate, and so we decided using it for this purpose would be really cool. We just needed to buy a little headphone splitter - you can see it here in the photo. Now five children can listen to the ipod at the same time.

Thanks for this wonderful idea Mrs Morris!

On the line!

Click the on the speaker icon to hear our commentary!

We have had fun this week, working on sending an inspirational message of support to our heroes, the All Blacks. Marilena and Kayden used Garage Band to record the audio on this slideshow, and Mr Jones made them laugh by showing them how they could make their voices sound like the chipmunks! Here we are honing our passing skills with Mrs O'Dowda.

Marvin loves the Magpies!

Magpie Magic on PhotoPeach

On Friday, Marvin went to watch the Magpies. The Magpies play Rugby. The Rugby was in town at McLean Park. The Magpies are a very good Rugby team in Hawke's Bay. The Magpies are very good because they work together and think interdependently. Marvin shouted "Come on the Bay!" Marvin wanted the Magpies to win, and he shouted "Yay" when they did!

Composed and written by the Rockets who are learning to entertain their audience.

Rocket RWC Commentary

The Rockets have been putting together some tips for the All Blacks, and how they could use the Habits of Mind to succeed in the 2011 Rugby World Cup. We have had some fun with drama to role play what this would look like. This was adapted from a fabulous original script from "Habits - Centre Stage" by Sandra Brace.

Marilena and Ollie Commentary from MissRevell on Vimeo.

Emer and Kayden's Commentary from MissRevell on Vimeo.

Thanks Mrs Morris!

It was a wonderful surprise today to see that the Rockets' Blog received a mention from a fantastic Australian teacher, Mrs Kathleen Morris on her blog - Integrating Technology in the Primary Classroom. Take a look here! 

Mrs Morris has a Grade 2 Class at Leopold Primary School in Victoria. Have a look at their blog.  Her class do amazing learning that she posts regularly too, and it is really great to be able to read about this.

We are so lucky to have a wonderful authentic audience to share our classroom successes with. Thank you to all those people who stop in to read about what is happening in Room 2, Maraekakaho School. We love getting your comments, and seeing the places that you are from. It is so exciting for us all. 

Bridge Maps

We have been super thinkers and have been getting our heads around the tricky concept of analogies. To help us, we have been using a Bridge Map. An analogy is a big word, but it has a fun meaning. Analogies are all about figuring out how things go together, or are related. Today we looked at our Habits of Mind posters, and matched them with the 'Rocket' Habit. We were able to give some fantastic examples of our Habits in action, using words that we are familiar with like 'having a go' and 'thinking together.'

Wring a wring a rosie...

Wring a wring a rosie from MissRevell on Vimeo.

Party in the house! from MissRevell on Vimeo.

Meticulous Maids from MissRevell on Vimeo.

MKK Hut Day

MKK Hut Day - Online Slideshow Creator

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How cool are our huts?!

The Rockets had a incredibly exciting day creating and innovating and working interdependently. There were some superb creations including huts with toilets, t.v's and even one with the kitchen sink!

We were so amazing, we even made the pages of Hawkes Bay Today on Saturday 16th of April. Did you see us?

Marvelous Marvin

Marvin, the marvelous Habits of Mind monkey (our mascot) is in residence already. We will all be learning together, using a variety of tools such as our fabulous Thinking Maps and the Habits of Mind. It will be fun learning to be independent, reflective and successful learners using these tools.