Middle Syndicate Blog

Thursday 15 September

Dear Parents/Caregivers,

We are excited to finally have our blog up and running.  We hope to use it as a way to share what is happening at school, with those at home.

The blog can be accessed via our school website. Simply click on the Middle Syndicate Discovery tab, on the left had menu to view. If you and your child wish to comment, scroll to the end of each post and click on the comments tab. Below the comment box you can click name, and then type in your name, so we know who the comment is from. All comments have to be moderated before they appear on screen, which may take a day or so.

As a word of warning, there is a range of inappropriate content which can be accessed when navigating around the blogging website, which is beyond our control. Therefore, like all internet use, we suggest that you supervise your children while on our blog. This is also the time to let your child’s classroom teacher know if you oppose to your child’s picture being on the school website. We ask for this to be put in writing please, so it can be kept on file. Also, we ask that parents be mindful of the blogs they follow, as this information is made public to the children.

During ICT lessons the children will be getting a better understanding of how to use this technology. We are also reminding the children to use their proof reading and editing skills when posting on the blog.

Thanks again for your on-going support, we are all looking forward to sharing this exciting opportunity together.

Kind regards,

The Middle Syndicate Team

My name is Kent and with my friend Mia we are working together to make this blog entry. This is what Katie did at discovery time today. Katie was putting liquid on the flax bushes to try to kill all the scale insects that are harming the flax bushes. The liquid was in a squirty bottle so she could squirt it right on  the scale insects. The liquid was made out of dishwashing liquid and water.

M8’s Literacy lesson – Friday 9 September

First we read a book about Super Squid. Super Squid is about people in a submarine called Sub DD. First they went to the sunlight zone, then the twilight zone and finally to the midnight zone where they saw the Super Squid. The Squid caught the submarine with it’s tentacles but the crew fired lights so it would release them.

Then we went on Google and searched to look at the sunlight zone, the twilight zone and the midnight zone. We then had a look at a video that took us to look deep down in the midnight zone. We saw heaps of fishes and then at the end we saw a huge octopus.

We have included the website below, so you can do some more research!

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/crittercam/deepsea/

We then went on the Te Papa website to look at the Colossal Squid and found lots of information and another cool game. Check out this website too!

http://squid.tepapa.govt.nz/the-deep/interactive

Thursday 8 September

At Discovery time today me (Mair) and Phillip were the Syndicate reporter and photographer. Our job was to take photos and record our Syndicate doing activities.

When we went in to m10 we saw Tyler making a stadium with Cody and Jack.R . Then we went outside and we saw Abby and Tiger making a hut. Then we saw Lucy, Amy and Abby using team work to help each other by handing each other pegs and talking about what they wanted to achieve.

Then we went back into M10 and saw Trent and Emily playing with the lego. They were thinking of stuff they could put in their house.

Phillip – My highlight of being the photographer was observing people cooperating and getting to watch them discover and watch them on the camera.

Mair – My highlight of being the reporter was getting to go around and see people playing and write what they were doing.

By Phillip and Mair

Discovery!!!

When: Violet, Ms Beven, Jack.R, Kya, and Aden,

Were working in the garden they:

·       Pulled out the old carrot roots

·       Mixed the soil well

·       Thought to add some compost

·       Then mix it again

·       And then finally put some seeds in

1.    Aden: says “let’s grow some cabbage”.

2.  Ms Beven: said “we need worms because they are good nutrition for the roots”.

3.  Violet: says “we need to make the soil soft”.

4.  Kya: she’s called the Carrot Sniffer because she found nearly all the old carrots.

5.  Jack.R: says” that he loves gardening even though he’s a boy”.

By: Elishka and Neha !!!!!