We finished the term with some amazing published writing about silvereye birds, decorated our window with our wonderful painted whales and had fun cutting and folding to make an easter basket.

Happy holidays from Room 4!  See you soon!

Little nest

Ruby brought a little bird's nest to school to share with us.  Thanks Ruby!

It was very small and Ruby told us it belonged to a bird called a Silver-eye.

We looked at some photos of a Silver-eye bird and noticed it is a very small bird and has a silvery white colouring around it's eyes.  

We looked at the nest closely and wondered what the bird had used to make the nest.  

Here are some of our ideas:

twigs

leaves

sticks

grass

Room 4 tamariki LOVE reading!

We LOVE reading in Room 4 and today was another great reading session as we all rotated through our reading learning activities.  

In the photos below you will see us working on our phonics letter 'b' activity, reading in the library corner with a buddy, using the phonics apps on the ipads, reading our new reading books at the teacher table and doing the alphabet puzzles on the mat.  We all rotate and have time at each activity during our reading session.

We were all focussed learners and you can see we demonstrate great manawanuitanga  and a love of learning!

Room 4 learners LOVE reading!

Term 1 Week 8

 Term 1 Week 8

Here is a snapshot of what learning looked like in Room 4 this week.

Fitness

We have been working on throwing and catching the bean bags. 

We enjoyed throwing our bean bag to our buddy.

Maths

We were playing a fun game where we had to hide a number and our buddy had to figure out what number was missing.

Finding numbers

Tens Frames

We have been learning about tens frames. Here we are putting stones on them to represent a number.

Counting to 20 forwards and backwards

We are learning to order numbers to 20

Pete the cat

We love playing 'Pete the cat'

Whales

We had a visitor who came to talk to us about the Project Jonah. She talked to us about whales and dolphins. We learnt some really interesting facts. 

Wheels Day

Rimu Assembly

It was so lovely to have an assembly with the rest of the Rimu team.

Well Done to our certificate winners

Play-based learning with Room 5

This Friday we were able to join together with Room 5 and play. We had lots of fun and can't wait until next Friday to do it again.

We have worked very hard this week!