Claudine at St Clares Book Reveiw by Emma

Claudine at St Clares is a book written by Enid Blyton who is one of my favourite authors. It is a book mainly about Claudine and the twins, Pat and Isabel who are in the forth form. Claudine comes to St Clares, which is a boarding school, from France which makes her very good at sewing.

Her aunt, Mam'zelle, is the french teacher at St Clares, thinks that Claudine will be very lonely and shy at St Clares but Claudine is quite the opposite. She is very daring, she once locked Matron in the games closet, with the lacrosse sticks and all that. She hates and detests water but she let herself fall in to soak and punish a mother who offended Mam'zelle and looked down at St Clares.

Claudine doesn't care what she does really so she often gets in trouble. She loves doing sewing and getting out of games and usually the punishments are something to do with laundry and not getting to swim or play tennis.

When Claudine locks Matron in the cupboard she gets out of games for a week! Pat and Isabel also have to help the other 3 new girls settle down.
Claudine at St Clares is quite an exciting book and I give it 10/10

Meeting Minutes Term 3 Week 2

Present: Libby, Emma, Madi, Reed, Anthony, Sam
Apologies: Room 14 on cycle safe
Absent: George

Agenda:

1. Book Reviews - putting your book reviews online and inserting an image into it. Recording your book review using FirstClass podcasting (check the Web Publishing folder in your class.
2. Tech Wizard applications - start next week, which means we all need to organise the schedule for training.
   

Actions:

• All - please complete your book reviews, insert an image and podcast it in your class podcast account.

Secret Seven on the Case of the Missing Necklace By Enid Blyton - Book Review by Connor

This is a very cool book that keeps you on the edge of your seat. The main characters in this story are six children and a dog. They are all friends who love an adventure.

The story is set in and around a huge mansion owned by an old lady. This is where the pearl necklace goes missing. The secret seven visit the old mansion and find out that the necklace was missing.

They decide to try and find the necklace. They find some unusual prints in the grass beside a 5 metre high wall. When they follow the prints it leads them to wall and beyond into a big forest. They carry on trying to find the necklace and end up in a circus. They discover the owner of the unusual prints and eventually solve the mystery of the missing necklace.

You will enjoy this because it is a book that you just can't stop reading once you have started it.

By Connor Gooch

The Encyclopedia of immaturity, how to never grow up. By Logan Freeman

The Encyclopedia of immaturity is a fantastic book witch is full of jokes and fun activity's that will defiantly make you laugh.
In this book it teaches you how to read adults minds, also in this book there is a gizmo that can test if your friends are really dead or alive .
one of the coolest thing is tells you how to take your head off YUCK but cool.
Lots More really cool and fun things in this book.
this is one of my all time favorite books.

Groosham Grange Book review by Reed

Groosham Grange by Anthony Howowitz

Groosham Grange is a really good book its about a boy called David, David gets expelled from his old school then he gets send to Groosham Grange. At Groosham Grange you only get one day off a year . the French teacher disappears every full moon. And new pupils have to sign there names in blood! This book is for kids 10 years old. I rate Groosham Grange 9.5/10

Janie Olive book review by Libby

Janie Olive is a book about a girl who is bad cook who tricks her mum into thinking shes a good cook. When her mum tried Janies chicken tikialsa she thought it was brilliant but janie really bought a ready meal!!! Her mum loved Janie's fake cooking so much that she applied her in
a live cooking show with Harry Dee a pro cook!! OH NO

Book Review

Harry Potter and the deathly hallows By J.K Rowling

This last book in the Harry Potter series is in my opinion the most exciting and adventurous book in the series. The plot is that Harry has to find all seven horcruxes in order to defeat Lord Voldemort. This book is a must for everyone.

By Madi.

Kensukes Kingdom Book Review by Holly

Kensuke's Kingdom is a great book . I extremely enjoyed the part where Michael ( The boy who ends up on the island) first saw Kensuke and thought it was quite funny as he thought Kensuke was a orangutan. I enjoyed all of Kensuke's Kingdom. The first part of the story is about how Michael has a great life living with his parents when suddenly his parents work has to get shut down and his father decided that they would live on a boat called the Peggy Sue and would travel around the world!As they travel around the world, Michael falls over board with his dog Stella and they get dragged into a island. Someone keeps putting food on top of their cave and they don't know who. They find out that it was a man called Kensuke. Michael and Kensuke tell each other about their life and how they ended up on the island.Michael eventually gets found by his family and carries on going around the world! If you want to find out more get Kensukes kingdom out from the library today! Age guide 8+

By Holly Cochrane, Rm 14

Night Rise

Night Rise is Anthony Horowitz's latest power of five book. Two telepathic twins Scott and Jamie are only performers at a circus up until they start having weird but vivid dreams and most of all finding out they're "one of the five" and embark on a super dangerous quest to stop the evil old ones and meet up with the rest of the five. Anthony keeps this book exciting with humor horror and violence. I recommend this book to the age of 10+. I rate this book 9/10.

By Anthony G

Meeting Minutes Term 3 Week 1

Present: George, Libby, Madi, Jack, Connor, Reed, Julius, Laura, Emma, Sam, Anthony
Apologies: Logan

Agenda:

1. Roster - sorted well thanks Holly. Can you please make sure that different people are rostered onto school assemblies? It is okay to put 3 tech wizards on duty.
2. Tech Wizards Photos - please upload your photos using iPhoto by going to File > Export > Picasa > username of google@fendalton.school.nz and the password Rob gave you. Make sure you upload it to the Tech Wizard Photos album. This is homework, please make sure you follow up on this so we can make you famous.
   
3. Term Overview - this term has got three big school wide events which I'd like to encourage you to be involved in - book week, arts week and FOS Olympics.
   
4. Book Week - Tech Wizards will all be contributing book reviews to the library blog and organising to gather book reviews from every classroom to place onto the library blog. Who would like to be the Tech Wizards responsible for this?

Actions:

• All - Please negotiate with your teachers to do the book review as a homework task for reading. This is in preparation for book week. Once you have contributed one review in text form (with your picture also) think about multimedia ways to do this.
• Laura/Sam/Emma - are responsible for the roster for the Tech Wizard training. Applications will start next week. We will have a certain number of tech wizard positions available as per the tech wizard spreadsheet.

The many adventures of Tom Sawyer

The many adventures of Tom Sawyer is a popular book first published in 1879. I enjoy this book because it was made about 100 years ago and the character says things like "this bible must have at least cost 6 cents!" It gets interesting when the author introduced a character which was a slave boy. It is a bit hard to understand because of the language they used. Other then that it is a great story.

Verdict: 4.99999999/5

This book review is by Julius.

QuickTip > FirstClass > Web Publishing

Here is a good online tutorial showing you how to use the web publishing option in FirstClass.

Click here to go to this tutorial...

This is an excellent way to record your learning because it is quick and easy. Items recorded go directly onto the web if you link the podcast up to your class web site.

Google Docs Blog

Here is the link to the google docs blog, heaps of great tips here!