Meteors, Comets and Astroids

Kaitati, Faith, Diziah and Mounga have researched meteors, comets and astroids for Inquiry this term. They have used go animate to share what they learned.  They have used google draw to make posters about each of the three space objects. Here is their finished work.

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.
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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. 

5 Times Tables, by Diziah

This week Room 4 have been learning their five times tables.  Here is a slideshow showing Diziah's work.

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.

Introducing Kensington and Diziah

Last week we were getting to know each other.  The children got into pairs and interveiwed each other, they then introduced their partner back to the class.  Everyone tried to share something interesting about their buddy.  Here are Kensington and Diziah introducing each other.

Kensington And Diziah 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.