This week, the literacy students in Room 16 have started to learn all about Taniwha. Today, we discussed what we already knew before we watched a movie about taniwha. Then, we had a discussion about the things we learnt about taniwha and created a brainstorm on the whiteboard.
Here is a picture of our brainstorm hanging in our classroom.
This past week, the students in Room 16 have been learning all about the importance of Anzac Day. We also read the story “Anzac Biscuits” by Phil Cummings and completed a writing task based on the illustrations of the story. We ended our week with a maths lesson on measurement by making Anzac biscuits with a group of our classmates. Before heading home for the day, we each got to try two of our amazing biscuits! They were so yummy! Check out our recipe below and let us know if you try making them yourself at home.
This term, our theme is Transformers as we learn to transform ourselves into a character when we are presenting a dramatisation. As part of our whole school Immersion Assembly, the teachers on team 3 reinacted their own version of a scene from the musical Matilda. We had a lot of fun putting this together. We hope you enjoy!
This week, we have been learning all about Statistical graphing and we created a class pictograph showing all of our birthdays. Can you see how many birthday we have in July? There are three more that are on the back of the page! What a celebration we will have that month! Isn’t it interesting that we have no birthdays in January or December in Room 16?
Remember: A Pictograph is a graph made out of pictures to show the data from a survey.
This year, the students of Room 16 have enjoyed singing, dancing and making each other laugh. So, for our 2023 Manaiakalani Film Festival Movie, we decided to recreate the Aotearoa Raggae All Stars video of their song “Sensitive to a Smile.” We hope you enjoy seeing our smiling faces! We also love reading our blog comments, so please leave us one!
Welcome to Term 2! This term, our school there is Changes Matter and our team focus question is:
What do we notice when matter changes? We will be doing lots of different experiments and talking about what we notice when matter changes between liquid, gas and solid form. Check out our Team 3 “Reaction Video” to some pretty cool experiments we found.
Welcome to 2023! This year at Pt England School, Room 16 is a Year 4 classroom and we are so excited to Learn, Create, and Share using our brand new Chromebooks this year with our teachers Mrs Moala and Mrs Carruthers. Please continue to watch our blog, and leave us a comment. We’d love to hear from you!
This year, our Manaiakalani Film Festival movie is called “Cool Kids” and it is our acapella version of the song. Everything you hear when watching was created and recorded by students in our class while we were studying music as part of our Art term earlier this year. We hope you have as much fun watching as we had making music with our bodies. Please leave us a comment, we’d love to hear from you!
During term 2, we were learning about Computational Thinking and in our literacy class we were learning about pirates. We discovered that pirates had to do a lot of computational thinking (without computers!) in order to create and follow their treasure maps. Check out this collaborative Google Slides animation we made as a literacy class reciting the poem “Pirates” by Pauline Cartwright.
We are so excited because we finally got our Chromebooks! Check out this video showing Mr Burt and our Year 4 Chromebook Rollout!