Ruma Toru Otewa

Term 1 Focus 2012

2012-02-14T09:38:00.002+13:00

This term for our focus is Challenge and Super heroes.

CHALLENGE
On our camp to Waiwera the theme is challenge, we have also done challenge quotes like ‘Nothing Great Was Ever Achieved Without Enthusiasm’ By Emerson or ‘Life Is A Challenge-Meet It. Life Is A Dream-Realize It’ By Sai Baba. On camp we know we are making rafts, canoeing and maybe even having a pool movie at the Waiwera Hot Pools.

SUPERHEROES
So far we have done multiple silent card shuffles about Superman, Spiderman and Batman. We have also made some of our own Superheroes and put them in stories for our writing samples. Later on in the term we are going to be looking at what a real superhero is and creating our own superhero movies with background sounds and pop-ups.

Charles

Making Mothers Day Cards

2012-02-13T23:41:00.000+13:00

Last week, Room 3 made beautiful Mothers Day Cards. We all got four bits of paper and followed Miss Wesley's instructions until we came up with seven flowers glued together in a 3D pop up. We then glued them into a card so that when you opened the card they popped out at you. Most of us used too much glue to put our flowers together, luckily this was just a test run. When we were confident enough to start our real copy, we chose which colour paper we wanted and got to work. In the end they turned out great. All the mum's loved them and wanted to know how we made them. Check out our blog to see a powerpoint of how to make them.

By Anna and Kayla

Our rugby day

2011-09-29T14:04:00.011+13:00

Kizoa slideshow: rugby world cup - Slideshow

On Friday 9th September,the day of the rugby world cup 2011 opening, we had a BIG school rugby day. The first thing we did was made huge corrugated iron rugby balls which read ALL BLACKS it is visible on both sides, school and road. We painted the letters white and the background black. Everyone wore black and white, some people even painted their face. Then we played a variety of rugby tabloids, they were ripper rugby, netball with a rugby ball and rugby relays. We also fundraised money by having a sausage sizzle for lunch at the cost of $2 each. With the money we raised we put aside for our school council to put to good use on the school. It was a great day for everyone. We also song the national anthem, done the Haka and raised the New Zealand flag. A couple of days later when the paint had dried, we hung the balls up on our school fence.

Our New Stillts

2011-05-20T11:39:00.004+12:00

Mr Booth made us some new stilts because our old ones were worn out and they could not hold us. The ones we have now are better stilts because they are stronger. Thank you Mr Booth from Flint, Caitlin and Bradlee.

Mangapuhoe Stream Visit

2011-04-24T19:48:00.001+12:00

Our river study culminated in a visit down to the Mangapuhoe stream that runs alongside the road that disects our school. We were trying to catch critters to assess the water quality in the stream. We learnt how to do this when we went to the National Trout Centre on our class trip. While we were there we searched for critters in the Tongariro River. This video also shows how we were able to use green screen techniques for a bit of fun.

Watermelon Art - Scaling Up

2011-03-27T13:56:00.007+13:00

Camp, 2011, Taupo

2011-03-24T19:43:00.000+13:00

Our focus for camp this year was a continuation of our 'Rivers and Us' study. We visited the Huka Prawn farm and learnt how they harness waste hot water to heat their ponds. Action world gave the kids a chance to push themselves outside their comfort zones, though some have very large comfort zones it would seem. AC baths was a hit with the hill slide and a BBQ dinner. We visited the Tongariro National Trout Centre where Ranger Anna had the children totally wrapped up in learning about water care, trout, and using critters to assess the state of our rivers. On our last day Simon was our very knowledgable (and entertaining) skipper on board the Ernest Kemp, taking us out to the rock carvings on Lake Taupo. A huge thanks to the parents that came on camp. Your help was very much appreciated and we can't do these activities without your assistance. Thanks for the great photos Rob, though animotos don't do them justice.

I'd advise starting this then pausing it to allow it to load.

Making a catchment in the sand. By Anna.

2011-03-18T14:39:00.000+13:00

Today Miss Wesley said we would be doing an experiment. She was going to show us what a catchment area was. First we all got a container each because we didn't have a hose. We walked down to the sandpit and made hills and mountains in the sand. (Just so it looked all bumpy.) We laid a plastic sheet over the sand. We sprinkled some sand on the edges of the plastic so it keeps it flat down. Then we raced up to the tap and filled our containers with water. When we were all back in the sandpit we tipped the water slowly onto the sheet. You could see all the water was running down the hills to the lowest point. Some of the water formed lakes. The water flows off the plastic sheet into the sand and forms a river. If we had of kept putting water on it would have flowed to the sea (eventually).

Making Catchment Areas. By Kayla

2011-03-18T14:37:00.000+13:00

Miss Wesley told us we were going outside to do an experiment. Everyone had to get a small container of water then listen to Miss
Wesley . . .

We put some plastic on a hilly bit just out of the sandpit and put a cup down at the bottom of the hill. We put a bit of turf (grass) at the top of the hill. Miss Wesley poured water on the grass. The water flowed down into the cup, when it was full Miss Wesley picked it up. The glass had a few stray pieces of grass in it along with the water.

Miss Wesley turned the turf over so that it was dirt side up. When we poured water on to the dirt it stayed where it was but we could see that some dirt was running off down in to the cup. Miss Wesley picked up the glass; it had some dirt floating around. After a while the dirt sunk to the bottom of the glass and some grass made its way to the top.

We went back to the sandpit; Miss Wesley put sand at the highest point then sprinkled water on it. The sand washed down with the water. Miss Wesley picked up the glass. It had HEAPS of sand in it. While we went back to class, the sand was slowly making its way down to the bottom of the glass. The water seems to get lighter the higher up it is.

Our experiment told us that because grass has roots it all held in well. The sand didn’t have anything to cling on to so it slid down the hill. What happened to the sand is called ‘erosion.’ Out of the three glasses the grass side up one was the cleanest.

Who knew school could be so much fun? !!!

Catchments and Erosion by Lucy

2011-03-18T14:34:00.000+13:00

2011 And A Bit Of Maths

2011-01-06T09:53:00.002+13:00

2011 is a prime number year, the first one since 2003.

2011 is also the sum of 11 CONSECUTIVE prime numbers: 2011=157+163+167+173+179+181+191+193+197+199+211

2011 is also the sum of 3 CONSECUTIVE primes 2011 = 661+673+677

Two prime numbers are “consecutive” if they follow one upon the other, in the collection of prime numbers. So, for example, 3 and 5 are consecutive prime numbers, as are 7 and 11.

2011 is ALSO the sum of a 2 prime numbers (11 and 3) of consecutive prime numbers.

The next year after 2010 that is a prime number and a sum of consecutive prime numbers is 2027 = 29+31+37+41+43+47+53+59+61+67+71+73+

79+83+89+97+101+103+107+109+113+127+131+137+139

but that year is not a sum of a prime number of consecutive prime numbers.

However, 2027 does have the curious and interesting property that it is prime and the sum of its digits 2+0+2+7=11 is also a prime number. It is the first year after 2003 that has this property.

The next year that is a prime number and a sum of a prime number of consecutive prime numbers is 2081 =401+409+419+421+431.

Happy New Year

Summer Holidays

2011-01-06T08:06:00.000+13:00

Hi to all my students. I hope you are having a great break from school and enjoying our very hot summer. Some exciting things are happening in your classroom while you are away. We have had a permanent data projector installed in class, which is great and will make learning more fun in class. Also I am in the middle of planning the best ever class camp for term 1, so be very excited. I have had a great Christmas in Wellington and New Year in Taupo (checking out camp activities while I was there). Also I got my adrenalin fix by doing the Flying Fox at gravity canyon again...hmmm what next? I will put some photos up soon.

Year 8's doing Weird Al's E-Bay song

2010-12-19T17:05:00.000+13:00

Chris's Stellar Performance.

2010-12-16T23:52:00.000+13:00

Chris is one of our 7 year 8 students leaving for college. This is his performance of Mambo #5 at our end of year production, "Stars in Your Eyes". My apologies for the poor video recording at the start.

12 Pains of Christmas.

2010-12-16T23:51:00.001+13:00

My year 5, 6, and 7 students did a brilliant and very funny version of the twelve pains of Christmas for our end of year production. This take off of the well known Christmas song looks at the things that stress us most at Christmas time. You may need to leave this to load as it's quite a large file. Also best viewed on full screen.

School Outing

2010-12-16T23:51:00.000+13:00

Our end of the year school trip this year was to the Te Awamutu Events Centre for a swim and lunch. Rooms 1 and 3 also used the hydroslide. I'm not sure who was the fastest to get on there for a turn, parents or kids.

Year 8's Big Day Out

2010-12-16T23:50:00.000+13:00

We have a tradition at Otewa School where the Year 8 students who will be leaving for college at the end of this year have a day out with their teacher. This year we went bowling and played laser tag. Grayson's dad came with us. Turns out he is a superb bowler but he hasn't quite got Jamie's skills. The rest of us just use luck and hope that our fingers come out of the bowling ball as it heads for the lane. We will miss these 7 fine students next year.

Weekly Challenge

2010-10-17T20:55:00.001+13:00

My apologies to my class. I got this clue completely muddled with another picture for the term. Thank you Kayla for making me come back and re check my work.

Here is the correct clue.

Gladiatori combattevano qui

Wednesday Afternoon Options

2010-10-13T21:44:00.002+13:00

This term we are doing options on Wednesday afternoons for the first 4 weeks of the term. Here are the Otewa Students that chose to do cooking with Miss Wesley. This week we made lolly cake. Simple to make a favourite of kiwi kids. For an interesting read about LOLLY CAKE check out Isaac Freeman's blog.

Max's Overseas Trip

2010-10-13T19:19:00.001+13:00

As mentioned a couple of weeks ago, one of our Room 3 students is off on an adventure to England, Paris and Spain. Max left on Monday (11th). First stop, Aussie. We have created a blog for Max to post onto and you can visit it here. I have posted Max's first email onto it but we should see him posting straight there from here on.

Weekly Challenge.

2010-10-11T12:16:00.003+13:00

A different twist this term since we are planning our virtual world trip...Can you guess what this is and where it is located? Clues below...

They speak English where she resides now but French where

she originated from.

Message for Room 3 Students.

2010-10-01T08:19:00.002+13:00

Click here for a message from Miss Wesley.

I went to Christchurch last weekend. Here's a little bit of what I saw.

I have been busy planning our work for term 4 and have sorted the countries for our virtual world trip. I have included every country that has visited our wiki and broken some down such as America and Alaska, even though Alaska IS America. I have learnt a lot about world geography while I have been doing it. If you get a chance, you may want to stick you head in the door of the travel agents and ask if you can have some travel brochures for your country. You can see where you are going by clicking here. Anna, yours is in two parts since you were really keen to do Canada.

Posting Photos On Blogs

2010-09-28T12:32:00.001+13:00

We, as staff, have had many conversations around the topic of student photos on the internet. As part of a new ICT cluster, teaching children to use Web Technology has been a focus for us this year. With that came the teaching of web etiquette and all that that encompassed.

Being able to share photos of students’ learning, succeeding, playing etc was an excellent way of keeping whanau and friends up to date with what was happening at school and allowing them to share these experiences.

Of course for us, the ultimate decision was with parents. We shared our reasons for posting photos with parents and explained the guidelines that we would adhere too. It then came down to them. Most families are at ease with the use of photos on our blogs and wikis. A few are not. We respect that and use avatars for those students. Personally I respect a student’s own wishes as well, with a few in my class who prefer not to have their photos posted.

We only use photos that have no identifying elements and are named with first names only. One of our student blogging rules concerns the posting of photographs as well. We have discussed at some length the reasons for selective photo posting. I feel this is an opportunity for my emerging adolescent students to understand the power of the internet before they have their own blogs, facebook profiles etc.

Why Visit Our Blog?

2010-09-28T11:04:00.025+13:00

Schools in New Zealand are on holiday at the moment. We are back on October 11th. So there may not be too much happening here until then. However, on the last day of term we brainstormed in class the reasons why our class blog is worth visiting as part of the blogging challenge. We think that by visiting our class blog you can

Learn about new things
Learn about us as a individuals, a class, a school, a community, a country
Keep up to date with what we are learning
Share our successes

Watch us grow
Have fun
Be challenged by Maths problems
Enjoy our creativity, arts and homework.
Compete in Miss Wesley's weekly challenge
Play games
See how we are getting more competent with Web 2 tools
Use our blog to meet other classes from our blogroll
Smile

Over the next few weeks, one of our class members will be visiting the UK, France and Spain. We are hoping to get emails from Max if he is able and we will post these on the blog with photos that he sends so everyone can see what adventures he is having.

Blogging Challenges

2010-09-28T10:38:00.000+13:00

Our class is taking part in a class blogging challenge which happens twice a year and is organised by Miss W and Sue Wyatt. If you follow our blog you will see us participating in challenges that we have to do. As you know blogging is new for us in Room 3, so we are hoping that taking part in the challenge will help us to become better bloggers, and to 'meet' new friends all around NZ and the world. Watch this space!!

Mathletics

2010-09-22T20:44:00.000+12:00

Ten room three students attended the Combined Otorohanga Primary Schools Mathletics Competition today. Although we didn't gain any of the top three places, it was a great learning experience for the students. Well done Max, Samuel, Kahnn, Holly, Kayla, Anna, Sharnay, Christopher, Jamie and Devinn.

World Gratitude Day by Devinn

2010-09-21T10:36:00.001+12:00

Today is World Gratitude Day.We talked about what we have complained about during the week and realised that in actual fact our grumbles are misguided. We talked about how grateful we are for what we have in our lives. Some children dont have shelter, clean water, parents to care for them and no education. So when I wake up every morning I should think about how lucky I am to have all of those things in my life. We created this voicethread to show some of the things we are grateful for.

Mad Cow Drums by Flint

2010-09-20T21:01:00.000+12:00

Five other Otewa Students and I have been working with Glen from Mad Cow Drums since term one of this year. We used coloured bands on our arms and leg to learn how to follow drumming patterns. We learnt beats first, then some fills. We look forward to Glen coming every Monday to work with us. Today we showed the rest of the school how far we have come. I would like to keep learning the drums because it’s fun.

To contact Glen at Mad Cow Drums click the cow icon below.

Four Fours Challenge

2010-09-19T18:00:00.001+12:00

This was our warm up for maths at the start of the term. We put it up on the wall in the corridor. Samuel, Holly and Kendall have made a voice thread about the challenge. Come and have a look and see if you can help fill in the gaps.
You can see this voicethread full screen at.. the voicethread website.

Last Weekly Challenge for the Term

2010-09-19T15:47:00.002+12:00

Last challenge for the term...nice and easy.

Great response from the class with the majority getting it right. Thanks to Mr Webb for getting in first but not right this time. Bonus points to Andrew who not only guessed it was a lego man but that it was a LEGO SPACEMAN!!!!!!! That boy knows his lego, that's for sure.

Art

2010-09-17T18:22:00.001+12:00

This term we have looked at the symbolism in Australian Aboriginal Art. These traditional designs were made of lines, dots, swirls and circles that had different meanings to different groups. These designs told stories or stood for natural features or forces and the spirits that created the world.

We hope you like our finished pieces of work.

Making Ki with Libby

2010-09-16T14:50:00.003+12:00

What's Happening in Room 3 This Week.

2010-09-14T23:04:00.003+12:00

Tyler R working on his E-Pals email

We have only a week and a half left of term 3. Where has the term gone?

We are completing our fourth emails to our Epals in Melbourne and all that will be left to do will be to complete our presentations which will be posted on our wiki. These will be completed next term.

Bradlee

We are working on finishing term 3's art work and we can't wait to share some of it with our readers.
Ten of our students will be heading to Mathletics to compete against Combined Otorohanga Primary Schools next week so the whole class is focussing on problem solving in maths.
These last two weeks we are learning about Question and Answer Relationships in reading.
And in between the rainy bits we are getting out to do some PE..roll on summer.

Spider Traps

2010-09-14T18:59:00.000+12:00

Last week the students in room 3 used Tony Ryan's Construction Key to build a red back spider trap using only a pair of scissors, a sheet of newspaper, sellotape, 10 rubber bands and either 3 straws or 3 ice block sticks. These are their creations.

Warning - This movie contains graphic violence.

Kane

2010-09-14T15:21:00.004+12:00

Kane is one of our year 5 students..that's his handsome face in the centre of the photo with the green mouthguard.

Weekly Challenge

2010-09-10T20:03:00.003+12:00

Here's the crunch...what is this week's picture?

Don't forget to leave your name!!!

There you have it, thanks to all the people who commented, including our MLU friends from Aussie and parents.

Crystal and Anna from Room 3 got it right..it's a crunchy carrot.

It Just Gets Better

2010-09-10T13:47:00.005+12:00

A huge congratulations to Anna, Samuel, Christopher and Grayson who represented our school the Waikato Intermediates Cross Country after competing at the Small Schools then the Combined Otorohanga Primary Schools (COPS)x-country. Look at these fantastic results. Although only a year 6, Samuel ran in the year 7 competition at Waikato as they do not run the year 6's, so a fantastic effort Samuel. Look out next year's competitors!!

	SMALL SCHOOLS	COPS	WAIKATO
ANNA	1st	2nd	3rd/95
SAMUEL	1st	1st	29th/97
GRAYSON	1st	4th	40th/100
CHRISTOPHER	3rd	6th	65th/100

We Are Learning The Art Of Good Commenting

2010-09-09T13:44:00.002+12:00

Max says...

Springtime in the King Country

2010-09-08T15:13:00.002+12:00

This is Caitlin, Tayla, Lucy and Crystal's response to Melville Intermediate Room 8's blossom video by Isla.

Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori 2010

2010-09-07T13:26:00.002+12:00

Our school entered a colouring competition run by Te Wananga o Aotearoa to celebrate Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori. Anna from room 3 got second place in the year 7 and 8 section. Davina and Tiaki from Te Wananga o Aotearoa paid a surprise visit to Anna at our assembly on Friday the 3rd to present her with her wonderful prize. They also very generously gave Otewa School the opportunity to choose some books from their extensive book selection. Kaitoa Anna.

Kia ora Te Wananga.

Anna's winning entry

Weekly Challenge

2010-09-05T23:04:00.007+12:00

Macro shot...can you guess what it is?....We welcome, in fact we encourage, comments from any visitors to our blog. Answer revealed on Friday.

This week I will give you a clue. 'It will really satisfy you to get the answer'

All comments will be revealed on Friday....

OKAY, I admit, that was the hardest one yet...You really needed to use the word clue as well.

SNICKERS "really satisfies you".

Well done Max who guessed correctly and Adam who thought it was a moro bar.

We would like to say WELCOME to all the students from the Middle Learning Unit at Belaire Primary School in Geelong, Victoria, Australia.

Thanks heaps for visiting our blog and having a crack at the challenge.

Blue Friday

2010-09-04T12:03:00.005+12:00

Otewa School celebrated Blue Friday to raise awareness for Prostate Cancer. We all dressed in blue and gave a gold coin donation. We have only 60 students at our school but we raised $125. A big thank you to parents, whanau and caregivers for the behind the scenes support. Otewa rocks.

Lucy's Birthday

2010-09-02T14:14:00.002+12:00

We have the most amazing families in our community and I think the best cake baker in the district. Lucy's mum and dad arrived with a beautiful chocolate cake to share with the class. Aren't we lucky? Happy birthday Lucy.

Weekly Challenge

2010-08-29T22:06:00.002+12:00

Hmm, what could it be?

No one guessed correctly this week...

Tony Ryan's Thinkers Keys

2010-08-29T13:17:00.006+12:00

Each week this term Room 3 have used a Thinkers Key to look at Australian products or icons. So far they have invented a machine to ice lamingtons (which we are only willing to claim are Australasian), found new uses for a Kylie Minogue record, found strategies to weigh Uluru (some great ideas though often Uluru was not left intact ;-s ) and creatively combined an old Holden and an iceblock. Last week they used the disadvantages key to look at the Hill's hoist clothesline..Perhaps Lance Hill was Australia's equivalent to Merv Hicks from Eltham. Chocolate fish to the first non NZ'er to tell us what Merv is famous for. Here is Room 3's latest work. Click here to see full size at the voicethread website. We'd love to have some comments.

Algebra

2010-08-28T15:22:00.000+12:00

This week one of our maths groups has been working on finding rules for patterns. They understand that the letter in an algebraic equation is the 'variable' and can be replaced with anything...They are getting very quick at working out some very complicated formulas for patterns they have created themselves. Watch this space...they will be here to write or talk about it on Monday. Unfortunately we lost the internet on Friday so I am posting from home.

Weekly Challenge

2010-08-20T19:42:00.001+12:00

Well done to Crystal and Adam who correctly named the object.

Week 3 Homework

2010-08-16T20:49:00.001+12:00

Last week the class used Tony Ryan's Alternative Uses Key to come up with 10 different uses for a Kylie Minogue record...here is a selection of their ideas.

Alternative Uses key- free slideshow

Weekly Challenge Wk 4

2010-08-14T11:39:00.000+12:00

I said these would get harder...

Collaboration

2010-08-12T07:16:00.003+12:00

We work in groups often in room 3...this helps those more able students to cement their learning and scaffold others who may need more assistance. Lucy, Jack and Tyler are working to solve a maths problem....where do you put the + signs between 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 and 1 to = 99.....? They solved it two ways...can you?

Weekly Challenge

2010-08-07T16:18:00.003+12:00

Well done Anna, Max, Sharnay, and Kayla.

Cross Country Training

2010-08-04T21:18:00.002+12:00

We have been lucky enough to have Libby from Project Energise working with us at Otewa to help build our fitness for the upcoming Small Schools Cross Country against Maihiihi. We challenge them every year to try and get the boot off us..we are determined to keep it again this year. Two weeks of training left and we wish the rain would go away.

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Tuesday in room 3 By Anna.

2010-08-03T15:13:00.002+12:00

Today our maths group was down with Miss Wesley and we were learning about algebra. We were working out of a figure-it-out book. We are looking at triangular numbers and how to find out the formula that would give us the answer no matter how big the base of the triangle is. Sometimes it's easier to use 'x' or another letter in the equation to represent a number. This number is called a variable.

Trying out Animoto

2010-08-01T00:17:00.002+12:00

Week 2's Homework

2010-07-31T20:50:00.002+12:00

Each week we take one of Tony Ryan's Thinking Keys and apply it to a topic or learning area for the term. As we are corresponding with Vermont Primary school this term our keys are surrounding the topic of Australia. This week, using the Invention Key, the class designed machines that iced lamingtons. Here is a selection. Ironically, the gentleman whom lamingtons were named after actually wasn't fond of them, calling them, '..those bloody poofy woolly biscuits.'

Weekly Challenge

2010-07-27T22:53:00.003+12:00

The three students who gave the correct answer, Max, Anna and Chris get the extra points this week. There were some great answers.

Fractions

2010-07-24T13:04:00.004+12:00

Last term we did a fractions unit for maths. At the end, the class used photostory to document some of their learning. To do this they also had to use the easispeak microphones. This week we have been tidying these up for publication. We still are not sure how to stop the voice tracks from fading off at the ends.

We just have it on our toast.

2010-07-22T14:19:00.003+12:00

Isn't it amazing what you find when you search the term 'Vegemite'.

For our Melbourne buddies

2010-07-21T23:18:00.002+12:00

I thought this theme for the blog might be a treat for our ePals from Vermont Primary in Melbourne. You can also take a tour of their wiki here.

Problem Solving

2010-07-21T13:31:00.002+12:00

Today when we were looking in Voicethread we found a maths problem solving voicethread. We paired up and tried to solve the problem. It wasn't easy, but Sharnay and Holly cracked it. Here is the voicethread that they made in response. The original problem can be seen here and the girls' response is here

Your Challenge...

2010-07-21T00:20:00.001+12:00

...should you accept it...

The first 5 people to comment on the blog get a chocolate fish.This can be anybody (students, parents, caregivers, whanau).
The first 5 people to register with voicethread and comment on our Light and Colour Voicethread will also get a chocolate fish. This does not include students who will be doing this in class.

Voicethread

2010-07-20T18:29:00.008+12:00

This is a voicethread I created using the kids' posters about light and colour that we made last term. Besides sharing their work, it allowed me to have a play with voicethread. This work has also been published on the voicethread site and has a worldwide audience. Please visit our parents' page on the class wiki to find out how you can comment on voicethread publications and share your child's work.

Term 3 is underway.

2010-07-19T18:50:00.005+12:00

What a great term we have planned in room 3. We are really excited about collaborating with room 4km, a year 5/6 class from Vermont Primary School in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. We will be looking at the differences and similarities between our communities and ourselves. Vermont Primary is a urban primary school with a roll of around 400 hundred students so quite a contrast to Otewa School. I have been working with Room 4's teacher, Mrs McConachy to pair up our students so they can communicate via email through the ePals site (http://www.epals.com/). These emails are password protected and are monitored by Mrs McConachy and myself. I have asked my class to bring in anything they have at home related to Australia for our Aussie display, but rest assured Mrs Connolly, we will draw the line at standing you in the corner of the class for the term.