Ms H on January 7th, 2010

Room 231 -  Just a friendly reminder about what you needed to complete during the Winter 3-week Break.

Publish your final Personal Narrative (it’s been in draft for a while - use your feedback from your peers to edit your work before pressing “PUBLISH”)
Publish your Essay (on your Blog)
Complete the Math Investigations packet (some of [...]

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Ms H on January 7th, 2010

We are going to combine our non-fiction reading strategies with our Sustainability unit to learn about some current events around the world.
Using Google Maps, we will collaborate as a class to create a map with news that we find.
On the left side of the blog, under “Pages”, you can see a link to our map [...]

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Ms H on December 11th, 2009

Wow - imagine our surprise this morning when we discovered that our class blog has been nominated in the Edublogs Best Class Blog for 2009!!

We are honoured to be included amongst some really awesome Class Blogs.
Blogs nominated in alphabetical order!

Alice Project
All Saints Languages Blog
Billings Middle School Tech Class Blog
Borman Blogging
Class 4OQ’s Blog
Creative Voice
East Dragon [...]

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Ms H on December 9th, 2009

We have new visitors to our blog Room 231.
Mr U sent me an email from a Teacher in California.  She tried to leave us this comment on our blog (but unfortunately our server thinks she’s a spambot! - Oh no!).  Here’s the comment she tried to leave us:-
Hi Ms. H and students, My name is [...]

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Ms H on November 25th, 2009

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Ms H on September 5th, 2009

Another week has passed and it was chocka-full of exciting learning!
We’ve spent the week investigating Variables (like last week) in Science except this time we’ve been investigating whether the variable of capacity affects the number of passengers a boat can hold.  Our prediction was that yes, capacity does affect the number of passengers and we [...]

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Ms H on August 19th, 2009

As we begin to blog in Room 231, there’s a lot of things that we’re going to be learning more about.  Keeping ourselves safe online is a pretty important topic so here’s a fun way for us to start!
Thanks to Mr Crosby and his class of awesome bloggers - we’re going to do the 7 [...]

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Ms H on August 17th, 2009

It’s hard to believe that we have already completed 7 days back at school already!

Everyone has settled in very well and our classroom has a lovely warm, welcoming feel to it.  We’ve just shifted all the furniture around again, with our mat area increasing in size so that we can focus on our Reading/Writing mini-lessons [...]

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