Room 4's Assembly

In week one Room 4 was in charge of assembly for S.P.S.

Lots of us had different scripts that we had to read in front of the whole school, it was really scary!!!!

We shared lots of things that we have been learning about in Room 4. We got to show S.PS. our Inquiry video about 'Staying safe on the internet'.


Because we are learning about dance this term 'Step up, Step out,'...'Why dance?' We decided to kick off the term with our very own dance 'Despicable me flash mob dance'. Room 17 helped us during this dance as we only had a week to learn it!!!!


Here is a video of us doing the dance, we hope you enjoy it!!!


assembly dance from Esther Casey on Vimeo.

Constable Tainas visit to SPS

On Monday Constable Taina came to visit the Kowhai cluster.

Taina talked to us about being good citizens.

 

Ben says 'Constable Taina told us to name all of our property'.

Blake says 'Constable Taina said we should all have a role model' - Somebody to look up to like your teacher.


 

Nadia says 'Taina told us to respect others'.

Mason says 'Taina told us that good citizens tell the truth'.

We really enjoyed having Constable Taina at our school and helping us to learn about being a good citizen.

Get Set, GO!!!!

Bonjour!

This week we have had some fun learning about balance!

Katie from the Get Set, Go programme taught us all about balance and what we have to do to balance our bodies.

 

 

Here are some pictures of Room 4 children balancing.

 

 

After learning to balance using our hands and arms to support us we played follow the leader!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We then played an exciting game with frogs and flies. The frogs had to jump over and onto the Lilly pads and the flies had to fly around. The frogs also had to catch the flies!!!

 

 

 

Finally we got to play one last game, the Pirate game! Some of us got to use swords to chop off our classmates legs! Then the person with the chopped off leg had to balance on one leg!

 

 

 

We really enjoyed our session with Katie and cannot wait to see her again next Thursday!

 

 



 

Term 2 Week 1

Kia Ora everybody!

Wow it has been an exciting time getting back into school routines and being back in the classroom.

This term in Inquiry we are learning about Citizenship!

Room 4 traced around our classmate Ben and then created a new classroom member Sully!
Here is a picture of us creating our new class citizen Sully.

We talked about citizenship and what a citizen is and came up with these fabulous ideas!

We have also been watching a movie called 'Despicable Me' and are looking at all of the characters in the movie.

Some of the characters were good cititzens and some of the characters were bad citizens. Mr Gru changed from being a bad citizen to being a good citizen.


Watch this space to find out more about what is happening in Room 4!

Swimming

Last week Room 9 got to start their first lot of swimming lessons.


A lot of us have been learning about water confidence and are really starting to get used to splashing around in the water.


First we had to enter the pool safely

Judah entering the pool with the help of Miss Savidan

Room 9 entering the pool down the ladder and straight into the Monkey Crawl

Then we did a monkey crawl around the edge of the pool.

Judah and Georgia doing the Monkey Crawl

Estelle having lots of fun doing the Monkey Crawl

Ahmed being a cheeky monkey :)

What happened to Korey saying he was scared of the water??? He is having a blast!!

Ka is really enjoying being a monkey!

Then we blew some bubbles!!!

Georgia and Dakota, so confident in the water blowing bubbles!

Lucia is also showing she is not afraid to get wet!

We had some wonderful senior helpers making sure we were safe in the water.

Well done Taine you did so well to get into the water!


All and all we had a lovely week swimming and gaining more confidence in the pool. We cannot wait to get back into the pool in week 7!

Stay tuned for more swimming pictures to come!

Art with Whaea Dagmar

Term 3, Week 3.......

This week and last week Room 9 has been lucky enough to work with Room 1 and Whaea Dagmar on some EXCITING self portraits!

As we are learning about 'change' this term we have started to create self portraits that are inspired by the late 'Pablo Picasso'. Picasso is famous for cubism and using a range of shapes and objects in his illustrations.

First Whaea Dagmar read us a story about emotions.

Then Room 9 started off their portraits by drawing their face, then adding detail e.g. eyes, mouth, nose etc.

Drawing self portraits!

We then started to look at Picasso's work and talked about what shapes he uses in his portraits.

Whaea Dagmar telling Room 9 and Room 1 about Picasso

We then got to use 5 different shapes to draw parts of our face.

Tukia, Zion, Judah, Ray, Georgia and Estelle drawing on their shapes

Lucia creating her masterpiece

Ahmed concentrating very hard

Netane deciding what to put on his shapes

Ray working hard on his self portrait

Look at Room 9's fantastic artists!

Estelle making lines and patterns on her portrait

We stuck the shapes onto our page and then drew lines and patterns in our oval shape.

Finally Whaea Dagmar blew up our pictures and we used a range of pastels to colour in our masterpieces.

Georgia using lots of bright colours to colour in her lines and shapes

Sunia is having lots of fun with his creation!

Thank you Whaea Dagmar for helping us with our amazing pieces of artwork, we really enjoyed having you in our class and hope to see you soon!