TIM TAM SLAM

Stay tuned for examples of the procedural writing that explains how to complete a tim tam slam

MEGA MATHS ACHIEVEMENT

For the month of May all of the Balmacewen Intermediate classes have been focusing on improving their multiplication knowledge. At the beginning of May Room 1 had a class average of 66%. Our final test was on Friday and our average is up to a whopping 90%. Well done Room 1 this is an awesome effort! Lets see if we can maintain this superb knowledge of our multiplication facts and now extend it to all or our basic facts.

TERM TWO

WOW... If you have been waiting for an update, here it is. We have had a busy term so far.
Next week I will put some of our pics from Orokonui up for you to have look at.

Room one students are developing some great reading strategies and they are putting their summarising skills into practice through their science fair research.

Science fair: How are you all going?
By now you should have completed stage A; Accumulated information around your topic. S; sorted this, highlighted and taken notes, and made an hypothesis. P; planned out how the rest of your project will progress over the coming weeks.

Now we are up to the I of 'ASPIRE.' You need to implement your plan, carry out your investigation/project, and complete testing etc over the next 3 weeks. Don't forget to take notes and collect photographs as evidence as you go.

Keep training hard and playing fair and competitively in your winter sports room one!

Mrs Q

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DISCOVERY - TERM 2

Welcome back team one! As you know our big focus for this term is science fair. We will be doing a number of science fair experiments over this term and investigating states of matter. What do you know about states of matter?

End of term One

It is hard to beleive all of our lovely room one students have already completed their first term at Balmacewen Intermediate school. It has been a very busy term, especially since it was less than 9 weeks long and included Otago Anniversary day and Good Friday. We also managed to squeeze school camp in there as well as swimming lessons, swimming sports, a cemetery visit and an Otago Early Settlers museum visit. Good job team.

Next term will be longer, especially as we are moving into winter, but we will still be pretty busy. Our big topic is DISCOVERY and each student will be working on their own individual science fair project. You will see some examples of science fair projects just below this post and there will be further notices coming home on the first week of school next term, but have a think about some ideas over the holidays.

I hope everyone has a lovely holiday break and Easter and I look forward to seeing you all again for term two

From Mrs Q