Star Circle

On Friday afternoons we have Star Circle.  There are two really important things about Star Circle.  One is that we show our 5 good listening skills all the time.  The other is that we never comment or laugh at anything that our classmates say.  This helps us feel safe to share our feelings and opinions.

This week we shared how we feel when someone compliments us or says something cool about us.  We shared feelings like awesome, happy, confident, happy as and nice inside.

Check out these photos.  You can see that we are doing a superb job of showing the good listening skill of looking at the speaker.

Lindsay is passing our class mascot, Biff, to Koby.  The speaker is the person holding Biff and everyone else listens!

Dylan is sharing how that he feels awesome when someone tells him something cool about him.

Unfortunately, this week's Star of the Week wasn't here on Friday so he didn't find out that he is the next Star.  But it doesn't change the fact that this fellow is fantastic at the key competency of Relating to Others.  He speaks to friends and teachers politely and respectfully.  He shows great sportsmanship when playing games and encourages his mates.

 

 

Keep up the great attitude Isaac!

See you again soon.

Book Characters and wonderings

Friday was one of the busiest Fridays ever. 

It was Book Character dress up day, we had a mini expo to explore some aspects of staying healthy and we began wondering about what makes certain types of food and drink an everyday thing or a treat.

Health Expo

Room 4 joined Room 6 for some of the morning to wander around our expo.  We explored stations with information about sleep, relaxation, how much water our bodies need, how to take care of our teeth, fitness and a health website.  Room 4 explorers went around the expo with a buddy from Room 6.  We'll be doing some wondering about what we saw and heard.

Steven & Tigue are reading some information about water in different foods.  Thomas went round the expo with Krystal.

Dakota enjoyed the expo with Natasha from Room 6.  Caitlin is showing how much of her is water.  (It really is Caitlin because she lay in the box to have her outline drawn!)

Thomas & Krystal are finding out that if you don't have enough water your skin goes all dry & yukky.  Ask him what happens when you put more water back in your body. (re-hydrate)

Abby from Room 6 & Caitlin are thinking about some of the things you do that might stop you sleeping and some things you can do to help you sleep.

Josh, Annahsay & some girls from Room 6 are trying out some relaxing stretches.

Kerrianne & her buddy are looking at how water changes the amount of nutrients (food) your body gets from the food and drink you consume.

Book Character day

On Friday morning there were also a lot of strange looking characters about.  There was Spiderman, Harry Potter, Mr Twit, Zoe the fairy princess, Cinderella, Peter Pan, Russel the Sheep, Mickey Mouse,  Captain Hook and many, many more.  Not all in Room 4 but there are quite a selection of characters in Room 4.  Check us out standing up in Room 1.

You can't quite see everyone in the photos but we will be writing about the day soon so you'll be able to read all about it and see some pictures in your head!




Finally, this week's Star of the Week is a young man that has been actively demonstrating the key competency of Thinking.  He has been organising his thoughts to share them with others and thinking hard about the books he reads so that he can retell the story and understand what is happening and why.

Awesome thinking Steven!! 

Autumn in the air

Our lucky year threes joined the other year 3-6 children for the Kids for Kids concert at the Regent Theatre last Wednesday night.  Here are some photos of the rehearsal and a recount of the concert.

Bradford school went to the Regent Theatre.  We went to sing with Suzanne Prentice.  We went on Wednesday.  I was hot and tired.

by Kerrianne

While they were at the rehearsal,  the year ones and twos had a huge amount of Autumn fun.  I think the photos and stories from our authors say it all. 

I threw the leaves up with Room 4 last week.  The leaves were different shapes.

by Salesi

 I am throwing leaves.  Room 4 threw up leaves.  It was fun.  The leaves were dry.
by Isaiah

The leaves are tumbling.  I am throwing the leaves with Room 4. 

by Isaac

The leaves are falling down.  The leaves are awesome.  I threw the leaves up high.

by Tom

This week's Star of the Week has such a positive attitude to his learning.

Thomas is super enthusiastic and loves to learn new things.

A "Magic" Week

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Week two was such a great week.  Magic even!  Elgregoe the magician performed for the school on Tuesday.  He performed a lot of funny tricks and taught us about bullying and how important it is that we don't bully.  He also showed us some strategies for dealing with it if it does happen. 

Here are some photos and cool stories from Room 4's fabulous authors.

Cameron's Funny Song
Yesterday I went to a magician.  It was funny because Cameron had big lips with a microphone.  And I laughed so hard.  I just couldn’t stop laughing.
by Briah  

Funny Microphone
Yesterday the magician did some magic.  I loved it and it was cool.  I laughed at the microphone.  The microphone had a lip on it.
by Steven

Elgregoe the Macigian

Yesterday Bradford watched a magician.  A puppet was holding a string all by itself.  The puppet stayed still like a statue.  The magician put his hand in the puppet and made him talk. 

He had a picture of trees and a bird.  And the bird flew out of the picture.  It was all magic. 

by Caitlin

Elgregoe the Magician and Ollie the Ostrich 

Elgregoe said, “hold on to the rope” and then he did hold on to the rope.  He got a surprise.  And then he was happy.
by Lindsay 

Poor Callum
Yesterday we watched a cool magician.  He burnt Callum's shoe.  It was cool.  It was fantastic.  I laughed at the tricks.
by Kahnye

Star of the Week
The new Star of the Week is taking responsibility for his own learning.  He listens carefully to instructions and uses his initiative to solve problems.

Congratulations to:

Isaiah

 Ka kite ano

ps - Room 4 are rather proud of earning the Best Class trophy at assembly last week.  We'll be working really hard on showing those same "5 great listening skills" all through the week.

Welcome back to Room 4

Welcome back to all the readers of the Fantastic Room 4 blog.  We had fabulous holidays and we've settled in again really well. 

We've got a Wonderful Writers Window in Room 4 now.  Already, we've begun to work on our new writing goals and, oh my goodness, we've written some amazing stories this week.  Really good examples of our writing, where we've met our goals, might appear in the window for everyone to read and celebrate.  Really super writing might just be displayed in the foyer so keep a look out there.

Here's a story to whet your appetite.

How Funny – by Nika 

On Sunday I went to the park and my hat blew off.  The wind blew it in the tree.  I laughed.  It was just an old hat.

Healthy Me - Healthy Us

We've started finding out about things we might be able to change to make sure we stay healthy.  We started thinking about fruit and vegetables with some fun riddles.

Here's a couple - see if you can work them out.

1.

I have a hard green skin that you can't eat.

I have lots of water inside.

I have many black or white seeds inside.

Most of my inside is pink.

2.

I am green.

I am yummy in a stir-fry.

I grow above the ground.

I look like a little tree.

Check out the serious thinking going on in these photos as we work out the mystery fruit and vegetables!

 

On Friday morning we had a really good look through our lunchboxes.  We had some categories of different foods that might be in the lunchboxes and made tally charts of how many of each food item was in Room 4's lunch.

This week we will be graphing the totals and making some observations of our findings so we can work out what our next steps will be.

The first Star of the Week for term 2 is putting a lot of effort into the key competency of "Using language, symbols and text".  We're all very proud of ...

Sora.  He has been working really hard with his reading, writing, spelling and maths.  Go Sora!!

Come back and see what we find out about our lunchboxes and read some more great writing.  

Just in case you didn't work it out - here are the answers to the riddles.

1 - Watermelon

2 - Broccoli

Bye

A bit of sad news ...

We were all very sad to find out that Spongebob died last week.  Spongebob is one of the goldfish just in case you were a bit worried.  Bubbles looks a little lonely but we'll make a point of saying hello regularly.

Those of us on the green traffic light on the last Monday of term were able to participate in the school wide BVD excitement.  That's a Bradford Values Day.  This term we had a water fight on Tuesday afternoon.  It was a BEAUTIFUL sunny afternoon and we had a hugely fun half hour.

Finally, the last Star of the Week for term 1.  This week's star is really good with the key competency of Participating and Contributing.  She is particularly good at helping and supporting her peers, especially the younger ones, and has the knack of helping without taking over.

Annashay only came to back to Bradford part way through this term.  She & her family are heading to Australia and we're really pleased Annashay is spending a few months with us in Room 4.  Well done Annashay!

Have a great holiday everybody.  See you again soon.

A short week.

Wow - we can't believe it's nearly the end of term one already!

We've been working very, very hard on our posters about a creature from the rocky shore.  We know lots about crabs, chitons and sea stars.  We've also learned about how to make a title eye catching by using bigger writing and how to lay out the information on our poster to make it look great.

There might just be some photos during the week and feel free to pop in to the classroom to see the originals if you didn't make it to our learning expo on Friday.

Here's our newest Star of the Week.

He's responsible and reliable.  He's a guy with a great positive attitude.  He's a fabulous role model.  He's ....

...  Luke

Have a great week Luke. 

Have a great week everybody else too. 

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