http://roomseven.edublogs.org Our Stories and Experiences in 2008 Thu, 27 Nov 2008 20:30:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yay! Another potato photo to see! This time Samuel has sent us a photo of his potato. What do you think? http://roomseven.edublogs.org/2008/11/28/samuel-joins-in/ This poem was written by Rose about her cat, Monty. http://roomseven.edublogs.org/2008/11/20/poetry/ Well, as promised, James has emailed us a photo of his potato plant. He says that it is about 8.5 cm tall. How tall is yours? http://roomseven.edublogs.org/2008/11/19/another-spud-plant/ Well now Jacob's gotten into the act and has sent me a picture of his potato growing. What do you think, is it better looking than mine? :) James has also sent a message saying that his potato plant is 8.5 cms high at the moment. He's going to try and ... http://roomseven.edublogs.org/2008/11/18/the-potato-wars-heat-up/ Well, it looks like Gem thinks she's found something interesting! Yes, it's Miss Crosby's Spud in a Bucket, finally showing some green! I was beginning to think that I'd killed it from the start. Hopefully, it'll like its new home by the back door in the warm spring sunlight. It's definitely ... http://roomseven.edublogs.org/2008/11/17/digging-deep/ Room 7 children have been very busy over the last few weeks working on their travel brochures for different parts of the solar system. These are what they've come up with: The Sun by Miss Crosby (an example) Mercury by Emma, Maya, and Felix Venus by Annika, Lisa, and Tom K The Moon by Georgia and Madeline (still ... http://roomseven.edublogs.org/2008/11/17/space-travel/ We had our Junior Athletics at school today - a wonderful warm Canterbury day, though unfortunately a couple of us forgot our sunblock and ended up a little pink! Here are some more photos of the children. [gallery]   http://roomseven.edublogs.org/2008/11/12/junior-athletics/ The term is rapidly progressing and I'm amazed by some of the things that are happening in Room Seven at the moment. One of my favourite topics is Visual Art, and I'm pleased this term that we're really getting a chance to explore. Our topic is Exploring Line and we've ... http://roomseven.edublogs.org/2008/08/12/welcome-to-week-4/ Well, last week before I became horribly ill (not a pleasant sight at all, I can assure you!) we began looking at the Ancient Olympics. Here are a few websites with good information on the original Games: http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/consortium/ancientolympics.html Some great factual information from a not-for-profit group specialising in Classical information online http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Olympics/ Clearly presented information ... http://roomseven.edublogs.org/2008/07/26/the-olympic-games/ Hi Everyone! Well, we've almost started the new term, and I am certainly looking forward to a term of exciting learning! In your homework this week, I have suggested looking at some websites for games to do with fractions. Here are some more suggestions... http://www.primarygames.com/fractions/start.htm http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/games/fractions/fractions.html http://www.teacherlink.org/content/math/interactive/flash/kidsandcookies/kidcookie.php http://www.teachingfractions.co.uk/ If you know of any other great fractions ... http://roomseven.edublogs.org/2008/07/20/the-start-of-a-new-term/