Word Rockets Week 4

We have new word writing rocket champions. There were six children that recorded personal bests. SO congratulations to Ali, Leon, Luca, Victor, and Summer W. Our new king is Will and the prince is Liam, our Queen is Sone and we have Princess Esther.  Well done to you all.

Will and Sone also completed their last sight word fish on Friday, this is awesome news.

Lost teeth

Esther lost her tooth in class today. Well she didn't actually lose it, but it did fall out! So we decided to count how many teeth have fallen out in Room 4. Some children had no new teeth, others had four or five! When we added up all the lost teeth the tooth fairy has made 22 visits to children in Room 4.

Word Rockets Week 3

King of the Rockets last week was Liam, and the trusty Prince, Will. We have a Queen. Queen Sone has the beautiful Princess Elizabeth at her side. Both Victor and Elizabeth had personal best. Well done to all those who gave it their best effort.

Kapa Haka

Each Tuesday we are lucky to have Paula come and tech Kapa Haka. We meet in the our new library space and learn waiata for 30 minutes.  The seniors stay on to practise their action songs for special occassions.

King and Queen of the Rockets

Word Rockets are a test of how many words we can write from memory and quickly. We are given 10 minutes to write as many words as we can while Mrs Hickford prompts some words we can write word families,  change the final sound, change the vowel to make new words., or write spelling words and other words we know. Things that help us write more words are: knowing the letter sounds, being able to quickly change first, middle and last sounds, being able to form our letters quickly and correctly. Words are counted only once and if a letter is reversed the word counts only if the reversal is does not make a different letter. So p/q and d/b are common confusions and words wont count if they are written the wrong way. others like 'c' and 's' the words will count.
Week 2 Queen is Esther, her consort is King Will. Courtiers for this week are Prince Theo and Princess Sone,  well done.  Next week I look forward to write all the personal bests into our blog as well. These are children who write more words than they a have written before.

Learning about patterns

In Maths we are learning about patterns. Today we discussed how many items were in a pattern. If the pattern goes triangle, circle, triangle, circle there are two items in the pattern, a triangle and a circle. We looked for patterns in the days of the week, and months of the year. Patterns are everywhere. Tell me about your child finding a pattern.

Remember when we start looking Maths is everywhere! Can you find the hidden maths in books?

My Mum

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B2csCTtirxyPcGZRRjF1eW1EN2M

Room 4 wrote some great stories about their mothers. Follow the link to read them. We also made fantastic Mother's Day cards to give Mum on her special day.

Room 4 show off their great Mother's Day art

Hedgehog Fun

On Friday we made hedgehogs with Room 5. Room 4 received a $25 Fruit and Vege Department voucher from New World. We decided to share our luck with Room 5.  We Made one fruit prickle and one vege prickle. Look for our stories later this week. Thank you to the kind person who put our name on the back of their docket and put it in the bin.

Rhys form Room 5 adds to our vege hedgehog , Will looks on.