Stargazer Fish, By Azure

Last week we each choose a sea creature and wrote a description of it.  We were focusing on choosing powerful language to create a picture in the reader's head.   Azuredream has carefully chosen the words he has used in his description to create a very creepy picture of a stargazer fish.

Size Me Up

Last week we used size me up on the ipad to work out our future height.  Then we wrote our own word problems.  Here is Azure's word problem, please use the comments to write down the answer and how you worked it out. 

Complex sentences

For writing some of the students in room 4 have been learning to use conjuctions to write complex sentences.  Here are some of the sentences we came up with.

The white unicorn looked at the moon as he slid down the mountain and snapped his horn.
Azuredream

The white unicorn looked at the moon because his friend was trapped on it. 

The white unicorn looked at the moon while dancing on the mountain edge. 

The white unicorn looked at the moon as it slowly drifted down while the sun was rising. 

Words of War

We are learning about World War One and the Anzac's this term.  Today we read a book called Harry and the Anzac poppy.  There were a few new words in the book so we decided to work together in groups to complete a slideshow of the new vocabulary we had learned.  Take a look at our completed slide show, we will add to it as we learn more new words throughout the term.

Superhero Day

On Friday we had a superhero mufti day to raise money for the year 7/8 camp.  We had a lot of superheroes protecting our school and it was a great day.  Take a look at the pictures to see what we got up to.

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.

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.