Fun Day and Skipping Day

Hi everyone
Did you enjoy the Fun day in week 2 and Skipping Day in Week 3? Take a look of some of these photos and tell us your views.

Did we get a try or not?

What a team!

Girls' Skipping power!

Awesome skipping.

Diwali

Hi everyone
Look at these lovely images from the class on celebrating Diwali - the Festival of Lights or  Indian New Year. Please make a comment.

Diwali patterns by Marick

Aisea's Rangoli pattern

Rangoli pattern by Vini

Feven's Rangoli pattern

Daniel's Rangoli pattern

Diwali poster by Nathaniel

Diwali poster by Rachel

Diwali poster by Annie

Celebrating Diwali by Sefita

Celebrating diwali's lights by Donny

Diwali poster by Sione

by Desmond

Double bubble map by Sefita

Double Bubble Map by Rachel

By Sela

Franzene

Term 4 Homework

Room 4  Homework      Term 4  of 2014 Our topics this term is on Celebrations. Our homework routine consists of: Reading to an adult every day. Learning spelling words. Learning any times tables and basic facts for that week. As well as that, choose from the following independent learning projects and do one every week:
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Write a “Who am I” clues about one example of celebration.
Make up a board game on multiplication and division facts.
Write an acrostic poem on celebrations.
Write a recount of a special celebration you had.
Design a sign or symbol for a celebration.
Compare and contrast two different celebrations.
Be a data detective, find out something from your family and friends (e.g. The Favourite celebration) and present the results in a graph. Remember to write a conclusion.
Draw a Y chart on “Celebrations” – what can you see, feel, or hear?
Interview someone in your family about their favourite celebration. Present the questions and answers to class.
Make a homonym and antonym chart for any word such as ‘get’, ‘good’, ‘go’’, ‘ nice’, ‘happy’, bad, beautiful, sad.
Create a word search on celebrations for your friend to solve.
Retell a story you’ve read and write about the author’s views.
Design a Christmas stamp or card for a friend.
Draw all the different celebrations that you know. For example, Matariki, Diwali, Polyfest, Christmas, New Year…
Compare and Contrast various 3 Dimensional (3D) shapes. For example, how many sides, faces and edges for each shape.
Find a book or website about a celebration and write a list of interesting facts.
Write an instruction to show how to do or make something.
Draw a shape that can make a tessellation  ( repeated shapes that have no gaps)

Term 4 Programme

Dear Parents and Caregivers,                                  

        Welcome back to term four and it is great to see the children are refreshed and ready to start a new term.  Our topic will be on Celebrations. It would be appreciated if you could continue using your home language to share your knowledge about the celebrations that are important to your family to engage in your child’s learning.

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        Week 4 – Monday

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Programme for  Term 4

• Mathematics
  focus will be on addition, subtraction, fractions and geometry (transformation).

• English will focus on instructions and recount writing.

•  Reading will be on gaining meaning from texts by making inferences and evaluation.

• Topic – will inquire into the importance of celebrations to various groups.

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• Our P.E. and Health programme will be on athletics and skipping robes.

• Maori focus will be on requesting for food.

•Visual Art- is on making and printing stencils. Students will practise singing in parts and unison for the assembly item.

Oral Language-

will be on social interactions especially for expressing opinions, agreement and disagreement.