The 'Eggciting Eggsperiment'

Following an invite from Mrs Soltau-Heller's class in Canada, 

we are taking part in 

an 'eggciting eggsperiment'.

Classes anywhere have been invited to take part!

Check out this wiki to find out what to do.

Day 1 (27 March)

We covered our egg with white vinegar.

It wasn't long before we noticed bubbles beginning to form 

on the egg.

On Day 2 we will drain the vinegar and make observations about the egg before putting it back into more vinegar.

Then we will leave it alone for a week.

What will happen?

Check out our predictions here!

What do you think will happen?

Leave us a comment with your predictions.

Keep checking back to see what happens over the next week.

Quad-blogging 2012 - Welcome!

B4 enjoys being quad-blogging buddies with three other classes:

Mrs Yollis' class, Mr Salsich's class, and 4KM and 4KJ 

 

This week it is our turn to be the featured class.

Welcome blog buddies!
We are a class of 20 Year 2 and 3 students, 
aged 6 and 7 years old.
Our teachers are Mrs Mckenzie 
and Mrs Wistrand, who comes in for part of each day.

Read our recent posts, use our tag cloud to explore topics that interest you or click on these links for some of 
our favourite posts!

*Sorting, Grouping and Comparing*

*Meet our mascot Quicksilver and his friends*

*Check out our Arts page*
*Iconic Kiwi Foods*
*Pets' Day*


You can make a connection by commenting on those posts or leave a comment on this post to introduce yourself.
Are you sporty? Musical? A bookworm? Love to cook? Artistic? A dancer? Into drama?

Remember to say where you are from!

'The Cup' Comes to School

Last year we were proud when the New Zealand All Blacks won the Rugby World Cup.  

Read our post about the competition here.

Yesterday, the Rugby World Cup Roadshow came to our school.

A few people in the school won the chance to hold the cup by answering questions. 

They had to wear gloves because only members of the winning teams can actually touch the cup!

We all got to have a class photo taken with the cup.

We think we are all champions!

What does it mean to be a champion?

Have you ever been a champion?

Elements of Dance

Our theme for Dance this term is 'Adventures'. 

Through that theme we are exploring the dance element of 'Relationships'.

We were excited to notice that the performers in 

the Duffy Books in Homes performance 

used a variety of Relationships, Body Awareness and Space elements in their show.

Try the quiz on our slideshow and see how many 

you can identify!

Did you manage to correctly identify some dance elements 
in the quiz?

What type of dance do you enjoy?

Does your school have 'Duffy Books in Homes'?

Quad-blogging 2012 - Let's Meet Mr Salsich's class

B4 enjoy being quad-blogging buddies with three other classes:

Mrs Yollis' class, Mr Salsich's class, and 4KM & 4KJ 

 

This week we're going to visit Mr Salsich's class. 

Mr Salsich and his 3rd Grade students live in Connecticut, USA.

Head on over and read the posts they've chosen 

for you to enjoy.

Leave a comment to introduce yourself.

Remember to say where you are from!

Happy Birthday Mr Avery

Mr Avery is a special sixth grade teacher in Massachusetts, USA.

He maintains Mr Avery's Classroom Blog which is a model blog for classes around the world. Mr Avery is very talented at making videos with his students to help them understand maths concepts.

Mr Avery has been blogging with his class since late 2010 and we sometimes leave comments on each others blogs.

Saturday March 17th is a special milestone for Mr Avery. It is his...

Mr Avery's blogging buddies wanted to surprise him by getting together to create a special birthday post!

Here is a Prezi that B4 and Mrs Yollis' class, Mr Salsich's class, 4KM & 4KJ and Mrs Watson's class collaborated on.

Please leave a comment to wish Mr Avery a happy birthday!

What do you know about the number 30?


Here is the link to our video on YouTube

Achieving Goals - Ormie the Pig

We've just had our first round of 3-way conferences, 
with students, parents and teachers each having input 
into short and long-term goals 
for the children.
It seems a good time to post this video of Ormie the Pig, as he works to achieve his goal.
Ormie shows persistence and determination.



How many ways did Ormie try to achieve his goal?
What is a goal that you are working towards?


Thanks to Miss Revell and  Marvins MIndful Monkeys
and Allanah King and Moturoa
for sharing Ormie's link with us.

Quad-blogging 2012 - Let's Meet 4KM and 4KJ

B4 enjoy sharing and learning with other classes around the world. 

This year, they are QUAD buddies again with three other classes:

*Mrs. Yollis’ Classroom Blog U.S.A.*
*Mr. Salsich Class Blog U.S.A*
*4KM and 4KJ  in Australia *

*Open the Door to B4  in New Zealand*

B4 became friends with these classes in 2010 and 2011 and are enjoying getting to know their blogging buddies 

even better in 2012.

These classes found out about Quad blogging 

from Mr. Mitchell. 

This week we're going to visit 4KM and 4KJ. 
The 52 4th graders work in two joined classrooms 
and their teachers 
Mrs Morris and Miss Jordan team-teach.
Head on over and read the posts they've chosen 
for you to enjoy.


Leave a comment to introduce yourself.
Remember to say where you are from!

Adding Details

We are working on making our writing more interesting 

by adding details. 

Details give the reader more information and help them to make pictures in their mind.

Do you have any feedback for these writers?

Quad-blogging 2012 - Let's Meet Mrs Yollis' Class

B4 enjoy sharing and learning with other classes around the world. 

This year, they are QUAD buddies again with three other classes:

*Mrs. Yollis’ Classroom Blog U.S.A.*
*Mr. Salsich Class Blog U.S.A*
*4KM and 4KJ  in Australia *

*Open the Door to B4  in New Zealand*

B4 became friends with these classes in 2010 and 2011 and are enjoying getting to know their blogging buddies 

even better in 2012.

These classes found out about Quad blogging 
from Mr. Mitchell. 

Here is a video we made with our quad-buddies last year to explain quad-blogging.

This week, let’s meet Mrs Yollis’ 25 third graders from California! 

Mrs Yollis’ class has prepared a special post to introduce themselves to you.

Click here to visit their post.

You will find some great suggestions for posts to read!

  Instead of leaving a comment on this post, why not head over to Mrs Yollis’ blog and leave a comment for them!

They would love to hear from you.

Remember to mention where you’re from!

Children Teaching Parents

We had a great turn-out of family members for our 

blogging afternoon. 

We borrowed computers from three other classes so there were plenty to go around.

The children were keen to show their parents 

how to make Vokis but by the time 

we had those done we didn't leave much time to learn about writing comments!

We had a wonderful afternoon with the children being the leaders and the parents being the learners.

Family members - we hope you will introduce yourselves and say hello!