Week 1-3, 2008!

Week 1-3

Welcome to Team B! We have a very busy few weeks getting to know each other
in our classes and our team. Team B is made up of four classes, Room 5 with
Mrs Gail Mitchell, Room 6 with Miss Louise Kennedy, Room 7 with Miss Rachel
Taylor and Room 8 with Mr Mark Barrow.

We are sure you have already visited the Team B Wikispace:

http://teambonmymind.wikispaces.com/

Where you will have seen our term's plan, reminders and homework for each
class.

We have been focusing on The Brain: The World Inside My Head. Ask your child
about the brain as we are confident they will be able to tell you atleast
one interesting thing they have learnt about the structure and function of
parts of the brain and memory devices. Ask them what a mnemonic is, you will
be impressed!

It was great to meet so many parents at the Meet the Teacher evening in Week
2 and we thank all of the parents who have offered to help out on our
swimming safety trips and at camp. We look forward to seeing you at the camp
meeting, which is yet to be announced.

Keep logging on to see what wonderful, exciting things we are doing in our
team. We aim to update this blog weekly with any pictures we have taken so
save it to your favourites now for easy access!

Have a great week
Team B teachers

Week 10

Week 10 has been a fun week for everyone in Team B. Christmas is near with carols playing in the morning, Christmas trees decorating our classrooms and just the general happiness in the air!

Team B students along with all the other Year 7 students at BBI had a fun day out at Willow Park on Tuesday. There were activities galore from petanque to bouncy castles to water slides and sponge fights. The weather held out for us and we ended the day with a well earned ice-block before our walk back to school. A big thank you to all the parents who helped us make this day possible!

Nearing the end of the week we have been practicing for our big prize giving assembly next Wednesday. This is sure to be a great occasion and a great end to what has been a wonderful year.

Keep up the enthusiasm Team B!

Week 9 in Team B- Stalls Day

Friday was a fantastic day of fun. All the Year 7 classes got together and put on a stalls day for the whole school. Team B had some cool ideas and there was a target game " Shoot the Can " run by Room 6, a cake stand run by Room 8, Lolly Land run by Room 5 and the wacky cooldrink stall with a crazy hair theme, run by Room 7.
Thank you to all parents for your contributions and donations. Thank you to all the wonderful students in Team B for your hard work making posters, decorating your stalls, packing lolly bags, baking cakes and selling on the day.
Take a look at our photo gallery of the day.

Week 7

The arts have been a major focus this week, with groups creating and
practising their music pieces, dances and dramas to promote New Zealand. All
parents and extended family members are invited to view these performances
in the hall on Friday 30 November 1:30-3pm with an afternoon tea to follow.
It would be wonderful to see you all there!

Week 6

Week 6 was an exciting and busy week for Team B. Many of our talented students were involved in the school production of "Henry". It was shown Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights and was very successful. Well done to all those students from Team B who were involved!

Here are a few photos from the show:

Around the Throne The Angry Queens












As well as being busy with the production, we all managed to move back into our sparkling, clean new classrooms. This was exciting and it is great to be back together as a team!

Week 5 in Team B

We have now completed a third week in our temporary classrooms and it is one more week to go before we move back into our old home. The painting is completed, the carpets are down and they are just finishing off the final touches. It is looking beauuuutiful!!!!!

This week, students continued with their presentations of Kete's- which have been amazing. They have also done some great collage work on New Zealand icons and Kiwiana.



We have some budding authors and the pourquois on New Zealand are a great read.
Keep a look out for these as podcasts. You will be able to download them from itunes, as a weekly series of stories, which you can listen to.
Read about how Hoi-Ho got his yellow eye. Click on this link.
The mathex students have designed the most amazing games. Click on these links and have a look at what they have been working on.
All in all, another great week in Team B.