It's TIME for another blog entry

One o'clock it's quiet in the house.
Tell me a rhyme about a mouse.

We've been reading the rhyme Hickory Dickory Dock to practise reading with fluency and rhythm.  We've also been working on reading the time on an analogue clock.

When the big hand is on the 12, we know it's something o'clock.   

When the big hand is on the 6, we know it's half past something.

We also started tuning our brains into Life On the Edge and asked ourselves 

the Question - What interesting things can we see in books about the rocky shore? 

We found a few things we knew just a little bit about and quite a lot of creatures we'd never seen before.   We saw crabs, starfish, sea anemones, interesting shells, seaweed and cockles.  Plus a few totally unexpected creatures like shore skinks, triplefins and even lugworms!  This coming Tuesday we're going to the Marine Studies Centre aquarium at Portobello and hope to see and even touch some of them.  Yipeee!

This week's Star of the Week has been demonstrating the Key Competency of Participating and Contributing.   

Salesi makes a positive difference to the team in Room 4 with his fabulous smile and awesome attitude.

This coming week we'll be flat out.  Monday 20th we have a session on scooter safety with Constable Heather Rei,  Tuesday we go to the aquarium, and Wednesday afternoon we have a PE session with Ginny from Sport Otago.  On Thursday morning Mrs Mitchell-Bain will teach both R3 and R4 while Mrs O'D & Mrs B go to a special workshop all about our new writing and spelling programme called Sounds Alive.  

Then it's Friday again so quickly with our second session of Passion Projects.  We chose from photography, gardening, play production, computers, Japanese, science, woodwork, trolley making, art and treasure box creation.  Hopefully we'll have some photos to show you soon.

Whew - what a week!  See you again soon.

Room 4 

 

Busy, busy Week Two ...

Room 4 has had such an awesome week.  We've been visiting learning some fabulous new maths games, reading a big book about a boy that had to 'Keep Trying' to get the hang of new things, visiting Harold the Giraffe, painting portraits and getting the hang of the course for our school cross country race.

Luke adds to the train to Heart Central in Harold's mobile classroom.

Harold whispering to Richard.

On Friday morning some of us played charades and tried to guess what actions we were showing.  The were all things that we had to Keep Trying to get good at.  Some of them, like learning to tie our shoelaces we are still trying.  We'll Keep Trying until we can do them.

Isaac's action was writing his name.  It was a bit tricky to get the answer just right but he gave us a really helpful clue.

This week's Star of the Week is someone that has been trying a lot of new things. He's getting better and better at taking responsibility for himself and his learning.  A big round of applause for ...

... Koby. 

 Tino pai Koby.  Keep it up my friend!  

Ka kite ano

from the Fantastic Room Four.

Welcome to Room 4's 2012 Blog

Wow - I can't believe Week 1 is really over already!   

We have 23 fabulous students in Room 4 and I am looking forward to working and learning with them.  We will try to use this blog page a lot so please have a regular check to see what we've been learning.

Here is an slightly enlarged version of the photo on the school homepage.  What ARE the children holding?  Click on the photo to enlarge the image a bit more ...

All those little blue lines that look like a slightly crazy spiderweb are made up of one long piece of blue wool.  If we hold the wool firmly but carefully it is easy for everyone to be part of the group.  If we pull on the wool, we might get more for ourselves but we make it hard for others.  In Room 4 we are all connected, just like we are with the wool, because our words and actions affect others.  We are going to try really hard to choose words and actions that help and support others. 

Room 4 - you have already shown me that you can be awesome at this.  Lets keep it up.

The Star of the Week in Room 4 for Week 1 is a lad who is already showing himself to be a bit of a superstar with the Key Competency of RELATING TO OTHERS.  

Caleb is great at choosing words and actions that help others.  Go Caleb!!

We LOVE to read comments from readers.  So please do us a huge favour and leave a comment whenever you can.  

Hope to see you again soon.

Mrs B & all the crew in Room 4

Sorry for the delay

Hi everyone
Sorry for the delay. But Ms Little left us to have her wee baby. Then we got Ms Allison who had a goal for this term to actually blog because she has never done this before! We have had many learning adventures, like a Marae Visit, a puppet week, learning about our safety plus many new art activities. Next time we might even be able to post some photos!

Blowing Bubbles

Yesterday afternoon Room 4 blew a whole lot of beautiful bubbles!

We were thinking hard about what we already know about bubbles. We then thought even harder about what questions we had about bubbles. Then we had to decide the best way to answer our questions - would we ask a scientist or could we do an experiment to find out?

Why do bubbles not fall down quickly?

Who invented the bubble?

How do you make bubble mixture? Do you add water?

Can you pump up a bubble without popping it?

Why are bubbles colourful?

What was the longest time a bubble has not popped?

Rippa Rugby Racals

A group of Year 3 and 4 students took part in a tournament last week - they did really well, coming third and they had a ball. Big thanks to Ms D for organising this!

Click on the link below to see Channel 9 TV footage!!

Rippa rugby footage

Swap gender day!

Today at school we had a dress up day. You got to wear the opposite clothes that you normally wear. SO if you are a boy, you could dress up as a girl and if you are a girl, you could dress up as a boy.
Lots of us in Room 4 dressed up. We think we look really funny!

It is to raise money for the Year 6 camp!