Fun with Mrs Shinn!

Room 4 loves to visit other teachers and classrooms as part of our Junior Developmental Play programme. Yesterday, we were very lucky to visit Mrs Shinn in Room 1. Our focus Key Competency was Thinking - we had to ask each other lots of questions! Some examples of the types of questions we asked are:

• What are you making? 
• How did you do that? 
• Could you show me how to do that? 
• Could you help me to do that too please?

As well as 'Thinking' these activities also helped us build upon our skills of Participating and Contributing. It is really important for us to join in and help each other - we are getting very good at this!

Thanks Mrs Shinn for helping us with our learning!

Thumpa and Twitch

Instead of baby sitting, I have been 'rabbit sitting'!!
Thumpa and Twitch are Engelique's and Lucas' pets.
Thumpa is grey and Twitch is creamy.  They are very cute and becoming very tame. At night time they love to run, jump and leap while they are playing. They are very good friends and sometimes even lick and wash each other!
Make sure Room 4 you are still being friends with everyone... but you don't need to wash and lick each other like Thumpa and Twitch!
Love from Mrs Law

Sleepy afternoon nap time

Updating You About Our Learning!

We have been super busy over the last few weeks, learning lots of different things. Some of these are:

• Different writing styles
• Mathematical symmetry
• Music and Dance

Have a look at our wonderful butterflies. We see symmetry in nature every day. These butterflies have reflectional symmetry - both sides of the butterfly have the same use of shape and colour, but one side is a reflection of the other so it faces the opposite way! We have been using our positive mindsets, that even if we have made a 'mistake' on our butterflies, then it's actually a brilliant learning opportunity not a 'mistake' at all! Awesome work by Ashwin, Luisapeta and Cole!

       

Using our bodies to create symmetry, we worked with buddies imaging that one of us was the mirror. This was a lot of fun! Can you do this with one of your buddies?

 
 

 
 

Today, we had a lovely surprise when Mrs Simpson and baby Violet came to visit! Mrs Simpson listened to one of our reading groups - we think Violet was very interested in what the students were talking about. Room 4 are looking forward to having Mrs Simpson in the class next Thursday when Miss McGrath is away at camp with Year 5 and Year 6. Be sure to check out the blogs for Waitemata, Manukau and Hauraki sometime soon!

This afternoon was very musical! Rooms Three and Four came together to create musical representations of animals moving. We'll post some videos soon! Meanwhile, have a think...if you were going to create a piece of music about a tiger, what would it sound like and why? 

We love hearing your comments on our blog...please post some soon!

Welcome back to R4!

Hi everyone,

I'm sorry R4 have not been on their blog for a while. We are missing Mrs Law, but it has been interesting seeing the photos that she has put up on her blog! Wow - what a break, we hope you feel better soon Mrs Law.

Miss McGrath and Mrs Paterson are going to be putting up some of our learning VERY soon! However, until then....don't forget to come along to our assembly on Friday. We'll be sharing our learning from 2.15pm onwards, in the school hall. See you there!

HELLO ROOM 4 - Term 3 Week 3

Some of you asked me if I could share the last X-ray I had taken.
Here it is and also a photo of my plastered and bandaged arm.
My arm gets very heavy if I walk for a long time.
Next week I go and visit the bone doctor. Yay..... 
I have my fingers crossed the plaster and bandages might be taken off.

     

                                                      Can you see the two bones starting to mend?