Fun Day

Today we had a great fun day. There were lots of fun things to do.

Learning Survey

We have been thinking about the things that we liked doing during the year.  We liked learning the following things:

doing fun things
making new friends
kapa haka
silent reading
behavour
times tables

maths

art

different writing

spelling

reading
handwriting

We thought about what we would like to change:
be a better learner
show more respect
change behaviour
be a better person
do more writing
work harder
set a better goal
do more reading
harder spelling
use more reading strategies
goal sheets
read new books
more science
do things  properly
practise maths
listen

Next year we are going to:
read harder
learn more
be a better learner
be a better person
be  nice
listen
reflect on what I know and change my behaviour
do more maths
brain storms
work harder
use what I know
more maths
good writing and handwriting
read chapter books
behave

The children reflected well on their learning.

2011

Next year in 2011 we will have a new class in Room 6. We visited Room 6 on Friday 10 December. We are feeling excited about what we are going to be learning.

Fair

We are making signs for the school fair. We have to make  them bright and make sure the spelling is correct.  Our stall is the Sandpit Treasure Hunt.

Winning Letter in "The Press"

It is so exciting, we "won" the winning letter in "The  Press". We are sad though that we "won" through the sadness of others. Our teacher put it in a week ago.  She looked every day and then thought "Oh, well, they are not going to print it." Then on Friday, there it was.  She is so proud of us all.  She wanted to text all her friends at 5am in the morning, when she read it but had to wait until they were out of bed.

It was so nice to have it printed the day after the very sad day when the service was held for the miners.  We all had two minutes silence to remember them.  This is the page it was on and you can see the cartoon on one of our other Pike River Coal Mine blogs. 

Kapahaka

We were part of the kaphaka performance today.  Some of the kindergartens came and watched. Lots of Mums and Dads friends did.

It was cool. Tinika and Ed

Pike River Coal MIne

Every day we have a look at the newspaper.  We always look at the cartoon.  To understand it we have to use our prior knowledge and think about what the author wants us to think or understand. We think of the connections we can make with it so that it means something to us.  Sometimes it is quite hard to know especailly if we have not been watching the news, because the cartoon is always about something that has happened, in the news.

We have been reading about the Pike River Coal Mine and the terrrible disaster.  We had been watching, listening and hoping.  Today there was a cartoon, which we all understood.  It needed only one word in it.  We understand from the cartoon that like us the author is thinking about the coals miners and their families and how much they want their loved ones bodies back with them.  We looked closely at the machine and at the arum lily, which is the kind of flower people often give and have at funerals.  We are very sad, we are sad for all the families and friends.

We talked about how people feel empathy with others and how we are all connected to these people because they could be our brothers, our dads, our uncles or our friends, how many of us have visited Greymouth and many of us know people there.  We talked about how we are all New Zealanders together and what this means to us in times like this. We all made a connection with this terrible disaster. We are storing these memories in our brains, it is now part of our history too,  and we will remember in the years to come about this sad time.

Alliteration

We have been learning about alliteration.  We know that when the words start with the same sound it is alliteration.

Graphs

We have been learning how to display data. We made some graphs.

We have been thinking of what we look like when we and others express themselves.  Here are some ideas.

Aborginal Art

Here is some real Aborginal Art from Australia.  We painted some ourselves. These are done by Aborgines living in Australia and each one tells its own story.

Christmas Display

In Sydney each year they have a display in the David Jones shop of Christmas scenes.  Here is one of them.

Sculpture

Our teacher went to Sydney and saw how people can express themselves through sculpture. There was a huge exhibition at Bondi Beach of sculpture in the sand. 400,000 people had seen it. There were all different kinds, made out of wood, metal, platinum, rock, stones, rope and glass.  Here are some pictures.

Expressing Ourselves.

We have been learning about how to express ourselves and we have been doing some art work to show how we can do this.

Chocie and Challenge

We made coconut ice at choice and challenge on Friday.  Here is the receipe.

500 g icing sugar
100g butter
50ml milk, about 1/4 a cup
11/2 cups coconut

1 tsp vanilla
pink food colouring


Sift icing sugar into a large microwave boel, add butter cut into chunks, add the milk.
Microwave on high about 2 1/2 minutes. 
Add essence, colouring and cononut.
Mix well, you can add more coconut if you do not think it is thick enough.
Mark into squares. 
Leave to set.

Our Poems

We have been expressing ourselves by writing poems. We have displayed them on our wall.

Poetry

We have been expressing ourselves through writing poetry.  We intended to learn about the structure of poems, starting each sentence with an upper case letter, publishing our work neatly and expressing our own special thoughts and ideas.  We have done this.

Newsletter 5 November

Newsletter


5 November


Thank you once again to those that help and helped, and a thank you to Michelle who I missed of the first list, with going to the Gym and the Symphony. Both were really good, positive and informative outings. We were proud of the way that the children behaved and listened.


Launch of Skoolstars
This will be held on Wednesday 10 November that is next week. Come along and see us all Expressing Ourselves. I will let you know the time, it is either 6pm or 7pm or both. The DVD’s can be purchased for $20.00. Something to put away for the 21st birthday celebrations.


Next week.
Friday is Show Day, so no school.


On Thursday I have a release day to continue putting things together for our blue folders. Mr L W will be in for me.


Assessments.
I have spoken with all the Year 4 children and given them their Asttle results. This is just one form of assessment and we take into consideration all their learning. Many of the children find these “tests” challenging as we do not spend all our time doing “tests”, so it is a new way of assessment for them. All the children have made progress. These assessments will be in the blue folders. I am also completing Running Records and send the results home with the children.


Book Orders
Please have them to me by Wednesday.


Chocolate Bars
Could you please send any to school tomorrow, Friday for the Chocolate Wheel for the fair?


If you can help at the fair, please let me know.


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Inquiry Express Yourself

We have been working on ways and thinking about how we express ourselves.  We added to our Hyerles Thinking Map.  The black writing are some of our ideas at the beginning and our red writing is at the end of the inquiry.

Symphony Orchestra

When we heard the Orchestra, we listened to this music. I liked at the end when there were the streamers.  I liked the Typewriter music and the last music about the bear.

Expressing Ourselves.

Yesterday we went to see the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, at the Town Hall, it was all about Time. We listened to music that had "time" in it.

Gym

The was really cool because we got do some things in the pit.

By Olivia

Gym

I thought the gym was really cool.  I liked going on the trampoline and jumping in the sponge pit.

By Keely

Expressing Ourselves

More strange people, how and why are they expressing themselves????

Express Yourself

Who is this person and what are they doing?????

Inquiry Express Yourself

We have been thinking about how people express themselves. In Circle Time we thought of good ways and bad ways to do this.

Choice and Challenge

Today we made Oaty pancakes in Choice and Challenge.  We made lots of pancakes. Halley helped us make them.

Here is the receipe:

1/4 cup of milk
3/4 cup rolled oats
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon of salt
2 - 3 tablespoons of sugar
1/2 cup of flour
2 teaspoons of baking powder
25g of melted butter.

Pour the milk over the rolled oats.  Add the rest of the ingredients.  Cook , both sides, in a fry pan with a little butter, until they are golden.  We had Maple Syrup with ours.

Amber Rose

Amber Roses brother, Bradley is starting school on Monday.  He got a certificate from his kindergarten.  Bradley is really lucky to have Amber Rose as a big sister and she is going to help him settle into school.

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Skool stars

We have been expressing ourselves through music and dance as part of our Inquiry Learning of Expressing Ourselves.  We have been doing skool stars and we will be able to see ourselves on a DVD at our Learning Celebration.

Expressing Ourselves

We have been Expressing Ourselves through our art work. We made pictures of some feelings and thoughts that we sometimes have.

Wha Whanau

On every second Friday we have a Community Time or  Wha Whanau.  We meet in vertical groupings, that is with children from different classes in the same group.  We learn more about the Freeville Flyer Characteristics and have lots of fun practising them. We are practising Co-operating with others so that we can all work together for the same things and have a fun time doing it.

Our Poems

We have been learning how to write poems.

We will know we have done this when we have done the following:

Followed the structure
Started each sentence on a new line
Used puncuation correctly
Expressed thoughts and ideas that are special to me

Here are some of our poems.

Courtney
It means great and pretty
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It is like a beautiful flower
We went roller blading
My gran
My gran showed me how to knit
2 weeks ago when I stayed the night
Courtney
I will never give up

Sophie
It means honest speedy and bright
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It is like a river
It is going to Hamner
It is the memory of my pet puppy
When we bought her
Sophie
It means I believe in doing my best and never giving up

Milly
It means delightful playful and glad
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It is like luscious ripe grapes
It is going to Australia
It is a memory off my step brother
Mum and Dad taught me to walk
9 years ago
Milly
It means all my lovely family

Dathan
It means joyful, brave honest
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It is a river with crocodiles sand snakes
It is going camping
Its a memory of my Nana
Who taught me to be honest
When she was alive
Dathan
It means to never quit

Express Yourself

As part of our Inquiry, on Express Yourself,  we have been learning how to express how we feel.  We had to close our eyes and then think of something that made us feel angry, feel happy and feel disappointed.  You can tell from our faces how we were feeling.