J Tunes Sing

At Assembly the J-Tunes performed. They are our junior choir.  Lots of children in our class are part of the J-Tunes. They had lots of fun performing. We enjoyed listening to their songs.

Bailey and Abyan's Farewell

Last term we farewelled Bailey and Abyan.
Bailey is going to Napier and Abyan is off to Saudi.
We had a special farewell party. We had a disco where we danced to the music. Then we had jelly, chips and fizzy.

We will miss Bailey and Abyan.

Harvesting Carrots

We went out into our garden on Wednesday with Lyric's Mum Tania to harvest the carrots we have been growing.
Tania used the big shovel to loosen the soil around the carrots and we got to pull them up out of the ground. Some of them were huge! Then we washed them to get all the dirt off.
Mrs Craib then challenged us to eat them - this wasn't much of a challenge for some of us because we love raw carrots -YUM!!!

Doubles and Halves

We have been finding the doubles of numbers and how we can make half of a number.




We used unifix blocks to make a number in one colour and then double it by using a different colour.

When then halved the number by breaking the blocks apart to have an equal amount in each hand.

Celebrations

In Room 4 we have lots of celebrations.
We celebrate when
- we get 10 stars and go into the treasure box.
- we get all our gold bars in Mathletics.
- we know all our alphabet names and sounds.
  - we know all our basic sight words.


When we celebrate we have lamingtons with cream - YUM!!!

Library time

Every Friday we go to our school library. Mrs Holland is in the library to help return and issue the books. We are learning about fiction and non-fiction books. We get to read books in the library and choose 2 books we want to take home to share.

Samoan Patterns

We have been learning how to draw Samoan patterns. We practise on the paper, following the directions in the book.
We use brown, black, yellow and orange crayons to colour our designs in.

We can't wait until we have learned enough patterns to make a whole panel.

Daffodil Day

Today we went out into the playground after play to add our money to the coin trail. When we put our money onto the daffodil that was on the ground we got to get our own daffodil to wear. Then Miss Sydow gave us a piece of chalk and we drew a daffodil on the concrete. We had lots of fun drawing our own flowers.

Court Theatre perform at our school.

On Wednesday the Court theatre came to our school to perform the 'Antarctica Adventure' show. Some penguins were leaving because there was no fish. The only reason was the fish eat the krill and the penguins eat the fish and the whale eats the penguin. There was a pirate - Captain Toothless. He had a sword and when the penguin bit him on the back he threw it up in the air and the penguin caught it. The pirate was trying to make the lady walk the plank.  The man gave the lady a snail thing that glows so he could find her easily. When the penguin came out of his home his mum and dad went out find food. The baby penguin was crying and some people found him and looked after him. They gave him some sardines so the baby penguin kept following them.
We enjoyed the show.

ERO visit our School

We had two special visitors in our school.

On Monday we had a Mihi Whakatau to meet them. Ms Heath greeted them in Maori and we sang some waiata for them.

They came to visit us in our classroom. We shared our work and talked to them about our learning.