Finally - Team 2 at ....work?

In our classes - thanks teachers for all the hard work setting them up so nicely. People certainly look relaxed in these photos!
Ciao everyone!

This time - aerobics photos

More Team 2 action

Next up  - Aerobics, or is it Jump Jam starring Mrs Rogers and and our favourite Wing Wham Walla Walla Bing Bang 

Oops can't upload any more  - a technical hitch! - I'll be back soon with more photos!!! and some poems!!! Two people have won prizes for emailing their poems to me (See blog archive from Snow Week)

Team 2 in action at our new school site

Some photos from our first week at the Van Asch site. The weather was so beautiful we just had to get out in it!
First up Team 2 visits their buddy classes at Shop Day - thanks Team 3!

Redcliffs-near-the-Sea-at-Van-Asch

Wow our first week is about to begin! Team 2 teachers are looking forward to having a real classroom space again and having all the team together in one block. We will be busy on Monday making the classes ready for you all.
What a huge week we have just had with the snow closure and then rushing to pack everything up and saying good-bye to our Sumner friends and colleagues. Team 2 are very keen to keep in contact with Year 5-6 classes at Sumner especially while we are within walking distance of each other. We had a lovely afternoon with the Sumner buddy classes on Friday and they have written thank you cards to us.
The Friday winter sport was a real bonus for us  - we were able to join in with their teachers and parents running netball, soccer, rugby, basketball and hockey and have a bit of friendly competition.
Special mentions:
Cantamaths: Dougal Shepherd was the only Year 6 student to take up the Year 6 Cantamath challenge for the competition at the CBS arena. Good luck Dougal with your poster  - we know how busy people are so it is extra cool that you have found the time to complete the challenge. Even though the deadline for the competition is closed now, if anyone wants to complete a Cantamath challenge it will be counted as one of your RED Challenges.
RED Challenges: These highly motivated students have already completed the required number of challenges to earn their badges. Badges are not awarded until the 4th term but in the meantime they have been awarded Caught-in-the Act certificates for their effort. Some have gone on to complete more challenges! There is no limit to how many you can do.
Congratulations to Taygen Salt, Alex Yallop, Ben McDonald, Kara Daeche, Alex Goodenbour and Lucia Rapley.
Our beautiful cliff painting will be on our new site so people who have earned Caught in the Acts in the last 6 weeks will be able to move their names up the cliff. Hooray!
Ka kite.....See you all on Tuesday!
Ms Thomas, Miss Murphy, Miss Mauchline and Mr Paxie

Snow blog

Spot the Snowman!



Hi Team 2! Hope you are all keeping warm and dry. What amazing weather. What a year! (I have said this before!) Here are some ideas for things you can be doing at home while school is closed. Some of them are snow related.
Reading: Read the newspaper  - look at weather reports, snow reports, articles and pictures from across the country. Go on-line to www.stuff.co.nz  or www.scoop.co.nz for news. Or visit www.metservice.com for weather reports.
Maths: Make a goal to learn your times tables off by heart (you can use the Times table link on Mathletics for funky tunes that help you remember. If you already know up to 10x then learn 11x, 12x, 15x, 20x, 25x, 50x, 100x! work out easy ways of doing this (eg 15x is your 10x plus your 5times). Practice multiplying and dividing large numbers by 10, 100, 1000. Can you do the same with decimals? Go to http://www.mathletics.co.nz/ (see the blog link) or http://www.nzmaths.co.nz/ for extra maths practice (follow the links to the families section).
Writing: Write a snow poem. Remember a poem uses a few words to say a lot, often has similes and metaphors and adjectives, builds a picture or creates a feeling and sounds a bit musical when it's read aloud. Your poem may take any form or you may like to use a set format eg haiku, acrostic, cinquain or even a limerick!
Email your completed poem to me sandy.thomas@redcliffs.school.nz to earn a prize from my prize box.

eg  Cinquain  

Snow flakes

dance in the square

of light from a window

as a man sits, quiet and still,

and waits.    

Bits and Bobs

Year 6 Camp 5th-7th and 7th-9th Sept Year 6 students need to get their permission slips and medical forms for camp back by this Friday 19th. 
Weekly camp meetings are being held to give children information and answer questions.
By the end of this week they will know which camp they are going on. Friendships and behaviour will be taken into account in the groups as we want everyone to have a happy camp. We will be unable to fully please everyone however. Children are encouraged to use camp as an opportunity to get to know people better and we hope new friendships are formed as a result.
Unfortunately there is a clash of dates with the Canterbury Winter Tournament which could potentially affect the Junior A netball and soccer teams and the hockey team. Some children may have to accept that they cannot play in that tournament if they qualify. 

Moving to Van Asch
We will be sorry to say goodbye to our Sumner friends but it will be good to have our own spaces and real classrooms again. We will be close enough to Sumner to keep up contact. It has been especially good to have the opportunity to play sport with Sumner. Team 2 have been amazing at Sumner. They have worked hard and played well. They have looked out for each other and maintained their enthusiasm for learning. I know this will continue. They will be excited to see their van Asch classrooms and the beautiful site