WALT identify the author and the illustrator in the text.

WALT identify the author and the illustrator in the text.

Room 4 has been using all of our reading skills this year, ready for Year 2. Every week we have a new 'test'
about different parts of the book. We have been searching for full stops, exclamation marks, question marks
and commas. This week we are focusing on finding the author and the illustrator. We all had a turn to come up
and point to where the authors name is. Miss Donnell tried to trick some of us and changed the pages!

'I know the author is the writer of the story and they do the words.'

WALT identify NZ notes and coins

WALT identify NZ notes and coins.

We had Captain Cash from ASB come to visit Room 4.
We learnt lots about saving money, spending money and
sharing money.

Miss Donnell decided to test us and see if we remembered how to sort out the coins and notes from biggest to smallest.

Look at my sorting success!

Our Writing Successes

    

WALT reflect on our 2018 writing.

We looked in our writing books at the first piece of writing
we did this year and the most recent piece of writing.
We talked about what had changed in our writing,
what we have learnt so far and are excited
to learn next year in Year 2.

Something I have learnt in writing this year is how to write lots and lots.

Something I am proud of in writing this year is using full stops and capital letters.

WALT create a wearable piece of artwork

WALT create a wearable piece of artwork.

Our art focus over Term 2 and 3 has been creating a piece of
art we can wear. Miss Donnell introduced us to a song in The Little Mermaidcalled 'Under the Sea' which was the focus of our art work.

We created our artwork by sketching sea animals in our books and tracing them onto laminated sheets. We coloured them in and created patterns using vivids. Miss Donnell glued them on to tutus and t-shirts for us to wear.

Check out my awesome art piece!

WALT sound out words using our yellow word card.

WALT sound out words using our yellow word card.

'My stories have more interesting words in them now. I can write lots of stories about what I do on the weekend.'

WALT identify different phenomena in our solar system.

WALT identify different phenomena in our solar
system.

Room 4 have been learning about the solar
system. This term we have been focusing on
the planets. We have been learning about a
different planet each week and videoing some
facts. Here is a fact I have chosen about my
planet.

WALT retell the story in order.

WALT retell the story in order.

'I can put the story in order by myself.'

WALT tell time to the hour and half hour using analogue clocks.

WALT tell time to the hour and half hour using
analogue clocks.

Room 4 have been learning about measurement
this term and our focus has been on time. We
have been learning about lots of forms of time,
from days of the week to ages of people. We
have made our own clocks that can tell different
times of the day that are important to us.

Travelwise Walking School Bus

On the last day of Term 2, Erica was presented with a certificate for completing 100 walks with the Walking School Bus.

Well done Erica!

WALT explore and share ideas about music from a range of sound environments

WALT explore and share ideas about
music from a range of sound
environments.

Room 4 were lucky enough to have Mrs D come 

into the classroom to teach a music lesson 

about sound. First we made different sounds 

using our bodies, like clapping our hands and 

stamping our feet. 

Then we played a follow the leader game where

everyone had to make a different sound and we

all had to copy them. It was so much fun! 

'I made lots of cool sounds with Mrs D. Music is fun!'

WALT sound out 3 letter words.

WALT sound out 3 letter words.

'The pictures help me to make the words.'

WALT identify different types of punctuation.

WALT identify different types of punctuation.

'I found a question mark and a full stop.'

WALT identify 2D and 3D shapes

WALT identify 2D and 3D shapes

This term Room 4 have been learning about
shapes. We have been learning about how to
sort shapes and what different shapes look like.

Miss Donnell took us outside to test our knowledge
on what shapes we know. She gave us some
chalk to try and draw the shapes we knew. Then
she said shapes out loud like rectangle, triangle,
a shape with 3 sides and we had to try and draw
them!

WALT read back our writing

WALT read back our writing.

This term we have been learning about how to write
awesome stories. We started by drawing pictures and
talking about our ideas. Then we started writing our ideas
down in a sentence. We have even started using full stops!
When we come and see Miss Donnell we check that our
work makes sense by reading it to her.

'I can write 2 sentences. Tomorrow I want to write 3!' -Erica

Travelwise Walking School Bus

At our whole school assembly Erica was presented with a certificate for completing 100 walks with the Walking School Bus.

Well done Erica!

WALT order numbers to 20.

WALT order numbers to 20.


The Seahorses have been working on ordering numbers to 20. We made sure we knew all of our numbers to 20 first and then we talked about what 'ordering' means. We used a game called 'Race to 20' which helped us to order our numbers quicker!



'I am working with Michael. I put all the numbers in the right place. It was easy to find them!'

WALT sketch self-portraits

 Room 4 have been learning about drawing self-portraits.

We started by sketching a picture of our face and neck.

Then we used pastels to colour ourselves in.

The last part was the border! We used corrugated cardboard to design

a cool pattern around our portraits.

Check out my awesome work!

'I like my purple t-shirt and my hair ties'

WALT make a prediction about the story.

WALT make a prediction about the story.

The giraffes group have been learning about making predictions in a story. We have been making some of our own predictions throughout our books. We know that a prediction is like a 'guess' about what we think is going to happen.

'The shark is going to eat the octopus's legs because sharks like octopus's.'