Week 7 Term 4 Weekly update

Next week will be our assembly.  Please come and enjoy this with us.

Mrs C has asked that we get all our library books back.  Mrs G has organised a prize IF we get ALL our books returned!

We are also having fun getting ready for Christmas (Mrs G's favourite time of year).  We have already been working on making an awesome fire-place which we now have set  up in our class library for Santa.  Hopefully we can get a Christmas tree set up next week to go with it.

Some of room 4/7 have asked to do some new book reviews which they are enjoying.  We have also been practising for the end of year concert.  We have also been writing our Taimai Corkers which are stories we have made from retelling stories like the little red hen.  We are very proud of them.  We have also had a great time with Gina practising different sorts of throwing.

By Tylah, Jessica, Max & Mikara.

Project energize

A few pics of our kids practicing some athletics skills with Gina last week.  Sorry my post is no where near as exciting as the kids!!!

Kids can cook

Here is a video that a group of children have been working on for Kids can Cook

Hope you enjoy

Week 5 Term 4

This week Room 7 has been to water safety and learnt lot’s of things to keep us safe in the water.  We even got to use life jackets in the pool.  Dana and Chloe took lots of photos and movie clips and Braeden, Jayden and Tylah made these into a movie trailer which is now on our blog.  Please check it out!!!

On Wednesday we had KIDS CAN COOK with “master chef” and some of us went home and made the super yummy crepe again.  We want to remind everyone we need to get our overdue Library books back!!  With Gina we have been doing some scissor kicks to practice our high jumping.  We have also been learning how to jump for distance as well.  We had an awesome pet day last  Friday, and lot’s of us won prizes at the Waimate show.

This week we have been finishing off our Kandinsky digital art and working on a Google presentation about Kandinsky to tell others all about what we have been learning and doing in class.

By Amelia, Te-Aorangi & Lani

A few books reviews

Yesterday we got to play around with "Green screening".  We had already be starting to record our book reviews to insert into our Google presentations but this was a cool opportunity to transport our reviewers right into the middle of their books!!!  A big thank you to Mrs Stevenson for training up a room 2 student so they could help us.  Check them out below!

Week 4 Term 4

This week we are soooooo excited about our schools pet day.  We are all looking forward to making our vaseline saucers tomorrow morning.  Mrs Gardiner says we will all need to bring flowers that we can pull the petals off and use for this.  We have all enjoyed looking at Kandinsky and decorating some tins with these designs.  We have also created some Kandinsky inspired fruit prints, and lots of us are creating digital versions as well.

We have also had a reading groups recording little puppet shows that tell us about the history of puppets.  The rest of the class enjoyed playing with the puppets too.  Other people have been working hard on finishing their book reviews that include a google presentation and video of them talking about the book.

Mrs Gardiner has also been working hard at putting our stories onto our individual pages so check these out!!!

Week 3 Term 4

This week we have continuing to look at measurement in maths.  We have even been drawing pirate ships outside on the concrete to practice using the skills we have been practicing.  This week we have also been looking at a famous abstract artist “Kandinsky” and have been re-creating our own pieces of work based on this.  We are also looking forward to creating some recycled can art.  Some of us still need to bring in cans for this.  

This week we have all been working on our school devices.  This is helping us to practice skills we have been working on with Mrs Gardiner and many of us have got certificates up in our room.  We have also been looking at our class website which Mrs G has set up for us with useful links and which tells us what our tasks are in Maths and Reading.  In writing we have been re-looking at including gems in our stories.

By Freedom, Lani, TeAorangi & Mrs G