Toast Fractions

We have been learning about fractions. We have been learning that if you have a whole and you cut it in half you have two equal parts and if you cut a whole into quarters you end up with four equal parts. On the last day of term we used toast to show this. 

Look at us cutting our toast into halves and quarters. We can now show our parents that we can do this at home. 

Beebots come to help us with our mathematics

Mrs Robyns has been bringing the Beebots and Constructabots to all the Whau classes to help children learn about position and direction.  The children have been learning how to make the robots do quarter and half turns, move forwards and backwards.  It is important to learn which way is 'right' and 'left' - after all we need to look left and right when we cross the road.

Home sounds poems

With our inquiry into communication we have been talking about how sounds can be a way of communicating. If we hear a cat meowing it might want food or to play. If we hear our family laughing we know that they are happy and having fun. Here are our poems we wrote about the sounds we hear in our homes. 

Buddy Reading

The last two weeks we have started buddy reading with room 15. It is so much fun. We read our books to them and share our stories and they read to us. It is helping us to become more confident readers. It also means we get to share our writing with other people. 
Thanks Room 15 for being such awesome buddies!

Super Spellers

This weeks super spellers awards go to three children! Although all children should be very proud of their accomplishments! EVERYONE was able to break their super speller record.

This weeks Super Speller awards go to:
Tangi -  wrote 49 words 
Deevah - wrote 31 words
Timote - wrote 21 words

Well done team! 
Have a safe weekend! 

The big storm!

Room 4 were all a bit tired after the big storm that came. But we all had a lot to say about what we saw and heard. Here are some amazing stories from the wonderful writers in Room 4, enjoy!

The storm made all the trees fall down. Jeremiah

The wind whistled and made the trees fall down. I saw the tree on the grass. When I went to school I saw a tree had fallen down on the road and it broke a fence. Melissa

The loud noises kept me from sleeping. When the big rain storm started to rain I couldn't sleep so I watched tv. Then I cried cause all my family were asleep and I was scared. I was scared because the big rain storm was really really loud. Fe'ao

I went to school and the big tree fell down. Soni

I was asleep and I heard the storm. I was scared. Adalyn

The storm went boom! I was scared when the tree fell down. Toa

The tree fell down at school. My sister couldn't come and play with me. Michael

When I went to sleep I heard a loud storm. When I went to sleep in the night. The loud noise woke me upI was a little bit scared. When I came to school the tree fell down and I couldn't get to the classroom. Deevah

Fresh Movement came to visit

We were lucky enough to have Fresh Movement dance crew come to perform for us. They were amazing! 
Here are some photos!!!