Rosebank School Room 4 Blog: August 2014

Friday, 29 August 2014

Friday, 22 August 2014

This week one of our reading groups were reading this lovely story. They loved it so much we decided to do a play of it. Well done to our actor and actresses who learned their lines and did a great job of acting out the play.

Our actors were Oliver, Maisy, Fe'ao, Tangi, Dania, Deevah and Melissa.

Wednesday, 20 August 2014

Fundamental Motor Skills

We have been taking part in a PE rotation with the other Whau classes. Here are some photos of us.

Timote subtracts

Deevah subtracts

Nathan subtracts

Dania subtracts

Thursday, 14 August 2014

Maths Week

We have been doing some maths art as part of maths week. Look at our beautiful tangrams. We used different colours and look, everyone's art looked a bit different! They will be displayed in our classroom if you would like to come and have a closer look.

From New Zealand to Malaysia and back again

Last year Maisy and her family left New Zealand for Malaysia, they were away for 7 months. They came back this term and Maisy has come to Room 4. Today they shared shared some of their adventures with us, we heard about how the ADAPTED from life in Auckland to life in Malaysia.

We didn't have family Over there so we made new family.

We didn't go to school there, we had a nanny and she taught us everyday. There were only three of us.

They have geckos like in Tonga - Nathan

Lots of festivals with Chinese dragons and a week of loud fireworks

It was hot and they had lots of storms and lightening

Because it was hot there were lots of fires and they don't really have a fire department like in New Zealand

The city was old and new together

There wasn't much to do so they went to lego land.

The oceans aren't as nice they went to the South China Sea

Here are some questions that we asked after they shared their photos and stories.

What was hard about moving to Malyasia?

The long plane ride and there wasn't much food I liked. I missed my friends and family

How did you talk to people that didn't speak English?

We kind of followed their language, we used sign language and smiled lots

Was the food the same or different?

Some of it was the same, Maisy's favourite was a pizza place that they went to. Oh and the cake shop.

Is it the same time in Malaysia?

No it's 9:30 here and it's 5:30 there. It's 4 hours different.

Was anything the same as in New Zealand?

They had McDonalds but that was about all.

What will you miss about Malaysia?

The science museum and the heat it is so warm and we could swim everyday

What did you miss the most about nz?

School and her pets?

Did you go to school?

No we were homeschooled and had a nanny

Sometimes it was so hot you couldn't go outside, we could only go to the mall.

We are happy to be back in New Zealand it is very nice here.

We are very happy to have you and your family back in New Zealand Maisy, thanks for sharing all about your time in Malaysia.

Monday, 11 August 2014

Maths Week: Day One

Today is the first day of maths week. Today we looked at a clown made out of different shapes, we had to count the shapes and then write how many we could find. Once we had finished we used the shapes to make our own clowns. We also figured out that if we couldn't find a rectangle shape we could put two squares next to each other.