Choosing

Each week I have a hard time choosing what to put on our class blog! We are so busy learning and the weeks seem to whizz by in a wonderful hum of activity. I hope those of you who visit our blog enjoy the snippets I choose to post.

This week in Maths we have been learning about 2D shapes. The children have spent each day investigating a different 2D shape. Here are some of the activities we did to investigate triangles:





In art we recycled some newspaper to make our own paper using a paper making kit. We made green paper and added some glitter to it for a sparkly effect. The best part was the stamping to drain the water!




As a class we decided to share the writing of a class story. Our story is called "The Room 10 Mystery". We had such fun sharing ideas and sequencing the events. To celebrate our story we read it to the Kowhai syndicate in assembly on Friday. The shark bit went down extremely well!!

Term 4 Week 3

This week we welcomed Cooper and James to Room 10. It is great having you join in all our learning fun.
We have had a very busy week.
* Constable John has been visiting us to help us learn about Keeping Ourselves Safe. We are learning what we should do when we feel confused or uncomfortable in a situation.
* In maths we went outside to walk along a chalk number line Lesley drew on the concrete. Then we skipped along the number line. We decided that skipping was a faster way to move along the numberline and that is why we learn skip counting! Scarlett proved to be our champion skip counter, managing to skip count all the way up to 112 in 2s!
* We have been learning some of the moves for Jump Jam and on Friday after Jump Jam we practised playing our air guitars to help the school break a Nelson record of the most number of air guitarists playing in one place at one time. We will be joining the rest of the school on the front field on Wednesday at lunchtime to rock away to "Smoke on the Water".



* Many of us have a new skill in sewing running stitches. We thought it would be hard to begin with and some of us got into quite a muddle, but with perserverence and a good attitude we found that we could all do a running stitch. In fact we really enjoyed our sewing sessions. Take a look at our display in the classroom next time you are in.

* In the mornings we are learning the songs for our end of year production. The Kowhai syndicate will be performing 3 mini musicals as the production. Room 10 is teaming up with Room 12a and we will be performing Tadpole Rag. It is a musical about the life-cycle of the frog. Keep your eyes open for a letter coming home soon about costumes for your children. The dates of the production are 8 & 9 December at the School of Music.

Wonky Donkey

We were all so excited to see Craig Smith (aka the Wonky Donkey man) at school this week as part of the Nelson Arts Festival. He came to sing and read to us. We joined in singing the songs and thought he was pretty clever multitasking playing the guitar and harmonica at the same time. It was really challenging to make the water drop sound like the Wonky Donkey man in the drip song. Here he is reading his new book, Willbee the Bumblebee:

Patterns

It's lovely seeing everyone back at school this week. A special welcome to Arlee who has joined Room 10, too. This term is going to be very busy and I am sure we will learn lots.
To start the term we have been learning about patterns in maths. We have been looking at patterns to work out what comes next. It's been fun creating our own patterns, as well as patterns for our friends to work out. We have discovered that sometimes we need to look at colour to work them out, or shape, or orientation, or picture. These are some of our hole punch patterns (we used the pictures we punched out to repeat our patterns):

Tennis

We are having tennis lessons for the first 4 weeks of this term. Here we are learning some skills to improve our game!

Celebrations and Goodbyes

The last week of Term 3 saw us celebrating our learning of solids, liquids and gasses. We erupted our volcano on Thursday and it was a spectacular sight. There was a lot of "ooh-ing" and "aah-ing" and lots of the concepts learnt were talked about and observed. Unfortunately we had a malfunction with the videoing, but it did not stope the children enjoying the event.

On the last day of term we consolidated our learning of fractions by making fairy bread and dividing it equally between 2 and 4 people, so that they each had half or quarter of a slice. This was washed down with the lemonade we made the previous week. The yeast had caused such a lot of gas that it made an enormous "Chshshsh" sound and it looked like we were doing the volcano experiment all over again!!

Sadly we also said our "Goodbyes" to Andie who leaves us to move overseas with her family. We will miss you Andie, and wish you all the very best. I am sure we will meet up again sometime. Here is the class enjoying the Juicies Andie brought for them:

Folk Dancing Demonstration

Today was "The Big Day" as the children in Room 10 put it! After dressing up in their bandannas (the boys) and swirly skirts (the girls) the children lined up with their friends from Room 12A in the hall. There were lots of parents, grandparents and whanau who came to watch. Everyone had such a lovely time skipping and dancing. Thank you to the audience, who accepted the childrens' invitation to dance the Birdie Dance at the end. You all contributed to a very happy and memorable occasion.

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