Week 8

week 8 update

This week room 34 has preparing for the assembly with room35 and performing it today!

We have been making a piece of playground equipment but first we had to design it first and vote for who`s was the best structure and Zara won the vote so we made a giant snakes and ladders board.

In art this week we have been learning how to draw poupou . When we do art again we`re going to print them onto cards to give to our whanau.

Have a good weekend and Merry Christmas.

by Mitchell.

   

Week 7

Week 7 update

It has been a very busy week for room34 .

Zara, Greer,Zac and Blake went to Colin maiden park for a cricket tournament. The boys came 3 or 4th place and the girls came 2nd or 3rd. The kapa haka group went to Waiamarie hospital to preform and one of them even did break dancing for them! On Thursday we had the picnic. Good job to all the year 4's who participated in the event. Have a good weekend

By Mitchell and Ben .

 

Week 6 update

Well, we have had another busy week as we start to move towards the end of the year.
In Topic we designed play structures and analysed our designs. The class voted to build Zara's giant snakes and ladders board kit and we have been busy sewing our snakes. The class are really enjoying the sewing element and some of our boys are naturals at it! Thank you to parents who sent in bamboo for our ladders.
We have also been bringing in cans for a Christmas project we will be starting next week. If you have not brought one in yet, please try to find one or two over the weekend.
In Maths this week we have been learning about area and volume and doing fun activities to investigate these concepts. We calculated the area of our hands and made a graph out of the data. We also got hold of Mr Radcliffe and worked out the area of his hand. It's pretty big! To practise more at home you could work out the volume of boxes around your house. Remember it's width x depth x height.
In Writing we have been learning to write news articles. Check out the silly headlines and articles in the below post.
Next week is the school picnic and sing along (Thursday 5.30) so we have been practising our two songs for that.
Harrison, Zara and Naomi brought in their recycling homework creations too.

Weekly Update Week 1

What a fantastic first week!
We fit so much in this week including a Diwali performance and a powhiri to greet the Surpell visitors.
In Maths we have been learning about place value.
In Writing we have been describing a moment in time and learning about assessing our writing.
In Topic we have been introduced to structures. We even looked at structures as part of our homework. Check out the structures that some people made for their homework!

By Alex

By Preston

By Bethany

By Sam

By Zara

Week 9 update

It was the Art Exhibition this week and we all really enjoyed seeing the amazing art that was done throughout the school this term.
We made some delicious food in garden to table. I really liked the pesto dip. Yum!
In Reading we have been talking about quality commenting. We would really like to make our blog more interactive so please comment on posts that you like. We will try to reply to you!
In Math we have been learning about chance and probability. This is a great topic as we get to play lots of games of chance!
In Mandarin we have been learning how to buy something in a shop. See the video below.
Don't forget to keep an eye on our writing blog (found in the information bar on the right) for fantastic new writing. We would love your feedback on our writing!
I am off to China on Sunday so Mrs Vorn will be teaching Room 34 next week.
Happy Holidays!!



By Mrs Carryer

Week 7 Update

Wow! Yet another busy week in Room 34 trying to get all of our art done for the Art Exhibition. Below is our finished canvas!
We also had garden to table again and made some delicious food. Don't forget that all of the  In PE we played lacrosse which was lots of fun.

Next week is the Year 6 Production- don't forget to buy your tickets!

Weekly update Week 5

Philosophy

In philosophy today we talked about the difference between honesty and truth. Have a talk about this at home. What do you think?

Arataki trip

We went to Arataki trail. We got a little booklet. We had a cross word puzzle and artist pallet. We went on a humongous bush walk. When we went on the bush walk we got told about different trees and the stories behind them. We used the artist pallet to stick on different nature colours.   

THIS IS PETER'S LAST WEEK IN ROOM 34. GOOD BYE PETER! WE WILL MISS YOU.

Reading

In reading this week we have been doing summarising.

Maths

In maths this week the we the hexagons have been doing simplifying fractions. The circles, squares and the triangles have been learning subtracting.

Writing

In writing we have been learning to do persuasive writing.

By Greer, Emily and Nathan

Week 4 update

Wow!
What an amazing week, particularly today's assembly! Bethany got the citizenship cup and brightened assembly with her sunny smile. And all of our hard work on mathletics paid off when we won the mathletics trophy. Well done Room 34 for all your hard work, especially Alex who got over 10,000 points!

In Maths we have been talking about multiplying and dividing using our place value knowledge on large numbers.
In Reading we have been making connections, and in writing we have been learning how to write to persuade.

Don't forget that Monday is teacher only and on Thursday we have our trip to the bush.

Mrs C.

Week one update

First week back and we did a lot!
Garden to Table and heaps of cross country training kept us very busy this week. Don't forget to check the calendar for Garden to Table times as they are a bit funny this term.
In Maths we are investigating 3D and 2D shapes.
Cross country is in Week 3. Keep up the training!
-Mrs C.-

End of Term Two

We have had a fantastic and very busy week. Many of the students planned and taught lessons this week and I was very impressed with their ideas and organisation. We had our dance performance (see the video below) and garden to table too.
Please read the below notes about next term.

I would like to thank Room 34 students for a fantastic term. I hope that everyone has a great holiday. I will be lying on a beach in Rarotonga reading book after book and hopefully doing some great diving too!

Mrs Carryer

***Mathletics issues

Last week several students had issues with some time activities on Mathletics. After investigation it turns out that some activities will only work when Chrome is used as a server.

Next term

ART
Next term we will have a big focus on art and Mrs C would like lots of bits and bobs! Can you please look around the house during the holidays for things we could use in mixed media art. This is art that uses lots of different things and techniques to create a piece of art, including things like paint and paper.

This might include old sewing things like scraps of lace or fabric (old lace curtains are great for printing with!), interesting trim, colourful wool or embroidery thread, buttons, zips or beads. Other things we could use are interesting papers, old books, maps or music sheets that can be cut up, stamps, wrapping paper or shells that could be sewn on.

You may think of other things we could use as well. Please have a look around at home and ask Nana too!

CROSS COUNTRY
Cross country is on Wednesday Week 3 so student really need to keep up their training during the holidays to be able to do their best on the day.

Week 7 Update

Week 7 was a busy week with a great Garden to Table session and lots of learning.
We have been continuing with our descriptive writing and learning all about fractions. In reading we have been looking at different types of questions.
Today Zara, Naomi and Nathan presented their science homework and we learnt a lot!

Next week

Monday we will be making Matariki lanterns. Remember to bring in a clean, peeled can to use.
Wednesday the Chinese and Asian dance groups are performing at the kindy.
Thursday will be Mufti Day and the Year 2 production.

Week 6

This week we wrote descriptions and Mr Ratcliffe came in on Thursday. We played netball. Mitchell, Izzy, Joel and Rosa did their science projects.In assembly Preston got the award for ICT.

In Mandarin we learnt about months.
 

By Eve and Greer
Photography By Teisha

P.S. There is a change in the timetable from next week. P.E. will now be on Tuesdays and Thursdays instead of Wednesdays and Thursdays. Don't forget your P.E. gear!

Week 5 update

This week is week 5.

It is Lilly's last full week of school she will be in mayorker ,France ,Germany and lots of other places 

On the 5th of June or hune in Maori 

We had garden to table we made banana 

Ice cream and salad and pumpkin scones it was good. 

By Lilly and Joel

Week 4 update

This week it was a busy week. We had our assembly and the quiz.Lucy, Alex and Sivan did their science homework.   Next Monday it is the queens birthday at London happy birthday to the queen on Tuesday the Argentinian people are coming to our school  we might be on t.v three.on Wednesday it is national Tongan week that means  we celebrate tonga we have a very very busy week.by (Teisha and agostina. )  :)

Week one update

What a busy week for the first week back!
In Maths we have been looking at transformations and made flags that contain several kinds of transformation.
In Reading we started looking at explanations as we will be writing these next week.
In Writing we made superheroes and wrote cool descriptions of them focusing on using paragraphs to organise our ideas.
We started our homework science presentations with some fantastic presentations that set the bar high. These three really new their stuff!

Izzy won the citizenship cup! What a star. We all think that she is fantastic and really shows the qualities of a great citizen! Well done Izzy! Here is the video that Naomi took of Izzy getting the award.




Writing By Mrs Carryer
Photography by Zara and Naomi

Week 11 update

We had a fun and busy last week of school for the term. We did lots of poetry ( check out our poetry movies), we had sports prize giving where we won house points for our dance moves, we did fruit paintings, some wacky drama and we had some parents in for a shared morning tea to to see some bits of our cooking shows. I hope everyone has a great Easter and a fun and relaxing break.

Mrs Carryer