Dawn Pollard

Middle School Teacher - Room 25

dawnp@greenhithe.school.nz

Recent Blogs

25 Nov 2011 - 2:40pm

Room 25 have been enjoying practising writing instructions by writing Revolting Recipes. If you want to read more come to our room as they are all revolting and they are all displayed on our classroom wall.

Mashed Zombie by Tamsyn

Tip: Don’t wash your hands before this.

Book Character Day

18 Nov 2011 - 7:19pm

A couple of photos from our Book Character Day. All the children looked wonderful.

Book Review Winners from Room 21 and Room 25

28 Oct 2011 - 12:06pm

In the last week of Term 3 Room 21 and Room 25 decided to enter the Book Council Website Book Review Competition.

Most of the children in both classes entered the competition and our school won the award for the most reviews entered. The prize is a bundle of books for the school library and a free author’s visit to our school in 2012.

Room 25 - Acrostic Poems about the Rugby World Cup

4 Oct 2011 - 3:29pm

We have all enjoyed watching the RWC and learning about the tournament and the countries of the teams that have travelled to NZ to take part in it. Last week we wrote Acrostic poems based on some aspect of the RWC. Below is a selection of those. We hope you enjoy reading them.

TEAMS

Room 25 - More Persuasive Writing

16 Sep 2011 - 4:10pm

The children in Room 25 have been learning to write persuasive text. They are able to form and state an opinion about a topic, support it with reasons and link their conclusion to their introduction.

I believe that we should be allowed to play on our scooters at play time.