This year R3 are running a global project called The Snail & the Whale Project. The idea of this project is for different classes around the world to host our class snail and whale and post their adventures on our project blog.
The idea comes from the picture book called ‘The Snail & The Whale’ by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. In the story the snail longs to see the world and hitches a ride on the back of the whale.
Throughout the project we will be following the snail and whale’s journey by blogging and skyping the host classes. So far I have 15 classes around the world keen to be a host class. Exciting!
If you wish to find out more about the project or follow their journey check out our snail and whale project blog here!
The 2011 school year has finally come to an end and everyone is on summer holiday. Over the break our class blog will be closed as I am putting my feet up for a well earned break.
I have thoroughly enjoyed working with everyone in 2011 and wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! All the best Cloud 9 students for next year and don’t forget to go forth and rock the world!
Below is the picture Cloud 9 gave me as a present. Thanks team, I will treasure it!
Yesterday was the last day of school for Cloud 9 at Russell Street. We got up to all sorts of exciting things like CO2 cars, the final flags challenge, class auction and secret santa. Check it out!
Check out the last episode of Street Talk ever! The kids have worked extremely hard putting this together and I think they have done a great job! Enjoy!
Today Cloud 9 were lucky enough to work with Val from Netball Manawatu on our ball skills. Next year Russell Street School is trailing a new ball skills programme and today was a run through. Check out the photos!
It is just about the end of the year and R9 are letting their hair down a little bit. As a reward for all our hard work I have a lot of fun activities planned for the last week of the year. Here’s what’s coming up:
Tomorrow is CO2 Race Day, Tuesday is the class water fight, Wednesday is our trip to Memorial Park, Thursday is Graduation and Friday we have our Class Auction and Secret Santa.
Mixed in with that we have to finish all our Graduation responsibilities (Make a Grad video, hats and posters) and complete Street Talk Episode 20 (The last ever Street Talk!)
This is your last five days at Russell Street School Cloud 9, lets make it a week to remember!
This year the Russell Street school production ‘Coming Home’ was a big hit at the Regent theatre. If you would like a copy of it you can now order it on DVD at the office for $5.
Below is a video of Cloud 9′s dance ‘You Got Me’ to refresh your memory on what a great night it was.
Today Cloud 9 dug up the time capsule we put in the ground in the first week of school. What did we find when we pulled it up? Nothing but water! Water had leaked through and wreaked our time capsule!
I have put down time capsules with my class for 10 years and this is the first time it has been ruined! We were gutted!
I just stumbled upon this cool competition to design a Christmas Logo for the Stuff Website. We have some extremely creative students in our class and I’m sure they will come up with something fantastic!
So what are you waiting for? Just click on the picture to check out the rules and get creating!
Wow, Cloud 9 have 3 blogs in the finals of the Edublog Awards! Our Class blog ‘The Ins and Outs’ made the finals of Best Class Blog, Street Talk made it into Best Use of Visual/Audio Media and Zoe’s Blog made it into Best Student Blog!
Edublogs is a world wide Blogging platform and each year they run a competition for the best blogs from around the world. So we are pretty stoked to make it into the finals!!!
Anyway voting has opened and anyone can vote for the winners! So what are you waiting for!!! Click Here to vote for Cloud 9′s three blogs in the Edublog Awards. Also only one vote per day per category will be counted from the same location so we would appreciate if you voted from your home address.
The winners are announced on Thursday the 15th of December and receive $1,000 worth of Edublog products. Fingers crossed team, it would be a great way to end the year!
Today Cloud 9 received some postcards in the mail from our blog buddies in Canada. They made a postcard for everyone in the class and I can’t wait to show you tomorrow.
Check out this cool poster Zoe created for the start of our news show Street Talk. I wonder when Street Talk 20 will be out? I wonder what is going to be in it?
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