Welcome to a new year.

Linwood North teachers have been busy for the last week getting reading for school. The new hall has a wall! There is a flash new car park for the staff. In school there are a whole bunch of new teachers and classroom learning assistants (who we used to call teacher aides).
I hope everyone is ready for school on Monday! I look forward to meeting new students and saying hello to our returning students.

We are making objects from the real world

In mine craft 

Working co-operatively

Xmas creativity in class

Working Co-operatively.

ESOL groups are going Minecrafting!

Students are going to have to work co-operatively, to achieve the objectives that the students together will set.

Watch and see what we decide to do.

Goals for our Minecraft adventure could be.

Work together. Decide who gathers resources and who builds, work together to design how the house will look. Plan the house before we build it.

Build a house with a room for each person each. Each bedroom should have a bed and a chest to store things. The house should be on a flat piece of land next to some water. It should have windows and a kitchen. There should be a garden and a fenced paddock for the animals.

Below is a link to an article about how Minecraft can be used in the classroom.
https://www.edutopia.org/blog/minecraft-in-classroom-andrew-miller

Build your wild self.

http://www.buildyourwildself.com

Go here to find out all about animals in a fun way.

Next Week Orana Park!

Have you been? What will we see?
http://www.oranawildlifepark.co.nz/plan-your-visit/how-to-get-to-orana/

Can you name the animals?