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8th October 2007

Term 4 already! It only seems like yesterday that we were starting term 3, with big plans and lofty aims. The RWC contract work was a lot of fun and we saw lots of creativity. Those students who choose to make the most of their opportunities produced some great work. A highlight for me during the term was doing our assembly. It was a real class effort with ideas and contributions from all the children.

This term we continue to push time management and self motivation. We are focussing on the Amazon, which in itself is a huge topic. The children will be writing reports, doing studies, rewriting legends, working cooperatively with a small group, looking at environmental issues and many other tasks set around the Amazon.

Athletics is on the agenda for the term, with practice sessions on Friday afternoons. Weather permitting we will have a school athletics day and select the team for the interschools competition.

Home learning is going to be an optional task this term. We are trying the same format as the middle school, which is a grid with 9 tasks to be completed (one task per week). For those people who complete their home learning tasks, we will have a sharing time on Friday’s to check out their efforts. Also at the end of the term they will receive a certificate of achievement. Of course reading and spelling is expected to be completed each night.

We will continue to share work done during the term on our wiki space and we will be choosing a team to keep our space up to date.

Jason and the Hawks Feel free to email, just click on the link below: jasetubs@yahoo.com

31 July 2007

Term 3 has started and already time seems to be flying past. We concluded term 2 on a high with a successful production and our speech finals.

Three of the students will be attending the Te Awamutu Cluster Speech Competition in August.

Last term the children were performers and actors and opportunities arose for children to extend themselves. I was very proud of the behaviour and dedication of the children.

This term sees the Hawks focussing on the Rugby World Cup. The class decided this would be a cool topic to do this term. A small group of children have helped design contract work for this term (RWC Contract Tasks).

Our big question is “Who will win the World Cup?”

We also have some smaller questions to work on:

· Who is taking part in the RWC? · How does the RWC work? (rules, draw, pools etc…) · Where is the RWC taking place? · Could we run a mini Rippa Rugby World Cup at school?

Also this term we are · swimming · having a sports exchange with T.A.Primary · competing in the Project Energise Rippa Rugby Tournament · Crosscountry training for school crosscountry and interschool competitions. · producing an ad for the Fair Go Ad competition. · learning new Jump Jam dances

While still maintaining our maths and literacy programs. Another busy term ahead of us.

So make sure your children get plenty of rest, eat healthily and exercise regularly, so they are energised for school.

Jason

13th May 2007 Welcome to the Hawks Class Web page. One of my aims this term is to get a current web page up and running for our class. I eventually want to post examples of children's work and share our learning experiences on this site. For now I want to use this space to provide information about what we are doing in our class.

We are now into Week 4 of Term Two and time is racing by. So far this term we have: · completed Curriculum Vitaes · taken part in the Zeebong visit · started learning the 16 Habits of Mind that successful people exhibit · Mrs Ericksen has completed auditions for this terms production · started learning the skills needed for Rippa Rugby · had members of our class attend the Young Leaders Day in Rotorua · started speeches, which is the main Home Learning for this term · While also taking part in reading and maths programmes

I just want to say that the children are working extremely hard in class while still enjoying themselves. I have started a page sharing some of our camp pictures and experiences (just follow the link) Thanks for visiting our site and please feel free to make comment.

Jason Tubman