Four Times Tables

Today Room 4 worked together to make a times table video.  Taiala and Matthew used explain everything to show the times tables.  We then turned it into a song.  Matthew played the ukulele, Siale and Falakiko played beats on the paper bin and the rest of the class sang.  After that we used imovie to put it all together.  Hopefully it will help you learn your times tables.

Wally's Lastest Adventures

Wally has been very busy over the past few months, going to Rainbow's End, Birthday parties and just spending time with the families of Room 4 children.  Here is a video showing what he has been getting up to.

Matthew's Weekend with Wally

Two weekends ago Matthew took Wally home for the weekend.  Wally had a great time and he also learnt some new skills.  Take a look at the video to see what he learnt.

Read to Someone

As part of the daily five program we have been learning how to read to a buddy.  Our buddy listens to us read and summarises what they heard.  We then ask each other questions to check our understanding before swapping roles.  Here are some photos of our first buddy reading session.

Waitangi Day

This week we have been learning about Waitangi Day and the Treaty.  We all had alot of questions about why we have Waitangi Day so we got into groups and did some research using books and Google.  We then used ipads and made a movie to share what we had learnt.  Here are our first two movies.

Waitangi Day Group 2 from Kirsty Macfarlane on Vimeo.

Waitangi Day from Kirsty Macfarlane on Vimeo.

Rights and Responsibilities

We had a great time getting to know each other last week and discussing our rights and responsibilities as members of the Room 4 community.  We ready to start learning and we know it is going to be great year.  Here are the rights and responsibilities we came up with as a class:

In Room 4 everyone has the right to:

• Be treated with respect.
• Have different opinions and beliefs.
• To learn and to teach.
• To feel safe and welcome.
• Use the classroom equipment.  

In Room 4 everyone has a responsibility to:

• Treat other people with respect and kindness.
• Come to class prepared to learn everyday.
• Follow instructions.
• Let others work without disturbing them.
• Do their best work..
• Be a capable and independent learner.
• Look after and share our classroom equipment.
• Make sensible choices!  

We have also been completing some team building activities. We know that as a part of team we need to support and encourage one another to ensure that we are all successful. Take a look the photos below to see what we got up to.