Doubles to add

 

My Reflection:

I am learning to use doubles to add. I can add doubles and then add on one more.

Equal sharing

 

My Reflection:

I was learning how to share equally. I can share out and count how many groups I made.

using speech marks

 

My Reflection:

I was learning  how to write direct speech using speech marks. It was a fun activity and i now know how to use speech marks correctly.

Using repeated addition for multiplication

My reflection

I was learning how to do multiplication by using repeated addition. I enjoyed doing this activity because I  now know how to solve multiplication sums.

How to Make My Special Sandwich

LI: WALT write instructions using imperative verbs

How to make a sandwich

Nutella 

2 slices of bread 

Chocolate chips 

Butter

Knife

1. Get the white bread out of the packet
2. Add butter on to the face of the bread
3. Add nutella on to top of the butter
4. Add chocolate chips to the bread
5. Cut the crust off the bread

Welcome to 2020

I am in Year 3.

My teacher is Mrs Marais.

This will be an  awesome year.

WALT look after our environment.

Room 4 has been thinking about how we can help the environment and animal habitats, especially aquatic animals. We have learned that even if it is far away from the ocean, rubbish can still find its way there. We went out one afternoon and collected as much rubbish as we could find from around our school. We know that if everyone does a little bit to help the environment, we can make a big difference.

WALT create repeating and sequential patterns.

Room 4 have been learning about patterns during maths time. We have found out that there are two different types of patterns, repeating, where the patterns continues the same way, and sequential, where it gets bigger. After learning about these patterns and looking at some examples, we were able to explore patterns through different materials and made our own! It was a lot of fun!

WALT work with a buddy.

Room 4 has been lucky to have been able to work with our Year 4 buddy class, Room 16. They have been working on their inquiry topic, Volcanoes and wanted to share what they had learnt with us. We had fun making a paper volcano and learning some fun facts along the way!

WALT Explore and act on issues and questions that link our science learning to our daily living.

As a part of our inquiry topic, Under the Sea, Room 4 has been looking at the effects of human activity on aquatic animal habitats. We followed the story of 'Freddy the Fish' who was cut out of sponge and soaked up all of the different pollutants that we added to his home as the story went on. It was interesting for us to see all of the different ways that our actions affected Freddy's habitat. Even though we had fun adding all of the different 'pollutants', it made us feel sad to see how dirty Freddy's water had become.

This led us to think of how we could fix what we had done and decided to try to clean Freddy's water and home. We looked at making a water filter out of sand, gravel and coffee filters. We could definitely see a difference between the polluted and filtered water, but it was nowhere near as crystal clear as it had been before. It showed us that pollution is hard to reverse once it is done.

WALT discuss sea creatures.

Room 4 have been learning about sea creatures for our inquiry topic. We know that penguins have a special oil that keeps their feathers waterproof and dry. We did an experiment to see whether we could make our penguin pictures waterproof in a similar way. We used wax crayons to cover all of the penguin and then sprayed on water. It was exciting to see it roll straight off the penguin instead of soaking into the paper!

WALT discuss how blubber helps to keep Antarctic sea mammals warm.

LI: For students to extend their experiences and personal explanations of the natural world through exploration, play, asking questions, and discussing simple models.

WALT discuss how blubber helps to keep Antarctic sea mammals warm.

Room 4 recently had an 'Antarctica snow day' where we explored, discussed and took part in activities related to the southern most continent and its sea creatures. We set up a science experiment to find out how blubber keeps marine mammals warm in the cold waters of Antarctica.

First, we put our hands into some icy cold water to see what it would feel like.

Next, we used the 'blubber bag', or a double layered bag with vegetable shortening in between, like a glove when we put our hands in the water.

We found that it was much less cold to put our hands in with the 'blubber bag' and we hardly even felt the water at all!

WALT float on our back.

Room 4 have been swimming three times each week and it has been lovely in the sunny weather! I have become very comfortable in the water and have learned new skills. An important skill that I have learned is how to float on my back. I can do this with a boogie board. It is a great skill to have because it is fun to do and can help to keep me safe if I ever accidentally fall into water.

My next step is to be able to float on my back without a floatation device to help me.

Chinese New Year.

Room 4 celebrated Chinese New Year by making drums. First, we learned about the legend of the monster Nian who came out to terrorise villages at New Year. The people of China learned how to scare the monster away with loud noises and the colour red, like our noisy red drums!

Welcome to Year 2.

Welcome to Year 2!

We are very excited to be in Room 4 this year.

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.'