R4 Speeches

Today we shared our speeches with the whole class. Everyone did a great job and next week Kate and Max C. will represent us at the Totara team speech event.

Sophie sharing her speech with R4. 

Sharing our speeches

Today we shared our speeches with Room 6. We were practicing our delivery techniques, varying our voice levels, pace and tone and using gestures.

Abigail's secret sound

Abigail has recorded a secret sound, do you think you know what it is?

Science Mystery box

Today we explored a mystery science box. We were learning to observe like a scientist. We either observed what we saw or made inference by identifying evidence to lead us to make a likely conclusion.  It was great fun.

Jayden's hole in 1

Recently Jayden scored a hole in 1 at the Rotorua golf club. We searched up the odds of this happening and found that it's about 12500/1. Pretty impressive.

Don't forget Dad!

Week 6 Term 3

Our focus value this term is Wonder and our speech topic is I wonder... Parents please make sure you have read your child's speech to give their some feed back. You can access it though their Google Drive. Thanks.

Monday

Tuesday
Library - bring your library books to exchange.

Wednesday
School library open after school
Warmer day - bring something yummy to warm up.

Thursday
Singing practice
Go4It PE - bring your PE gear
School library open after school
Kapahaka practice

Friday
Choir practice

Introducing “FrysDay” - Friday 31^st of August

Children will be able to buy a punnet of Chips for $3.

They will need to place their order in class on Wednesday 29^th August.

There will still be juicies for sale as well.

There will be NO sausage sizzle this day.

Please make sure you have headphones at school - we discussed this all last week.

Designing inspired by what's around us

During our visit the the town Library today we explored David Trubridge's designs and then used Tinkercad to make our own 3d designs. We will explore Tinkercad a bit more in class.

Thank you to all the adults who came along and also those who offered to help.

Sharing our narratives with a real audience

We have written some great narratives but the problem was that we only had a small audience. So we asked the Year 2 students if they would like to hear our stories. By reading to a real audience we got to practice reading with expression and enthusiasm.

Exploring our design ideas

Jett's lego marble run.

Jasper gluing together his marble run. 

Lego marble run. 

Week 5 Term 3

Monday

Tuesday
Library - bring your books to exchange.

Wednesday
Warmer day - bring something yummy to warm up for lunch.
Dance/Music

Thursday
Go4It - bring your PE gear.
Library visit - We will be walking to the town library at 12pm, we'll be back by 3pm
Kapahaka practice

Friday
We will be walking to the Footloose show at Rotorua Boys High
Sausage sizzle
Choir practice

A fun, busy week to look forward to.

Please ask your child if they have a blue and red pen ready for learning.

Brave Bongani

Today Bongani was very brave when he read in the school Liturgy to celebrate the Assumption of Mary.

Learning about our family in Te Reo

We are learning our family member's titles in class.

Makyla and Aydin learning some more Te Reo

Matching Te Reo words to the images. 

A few midweek updates

Wondering what to give your kids for lunch this Wednesday when they are home from school?

Come to Pita Pit at Trade Central.

Kids Pitas will be $4.50 and they will get a free packet of Pita Chips (while stocks last).

Come and get their photo taken with Peta Pete the Pita Pit Mascot between 11.45am to 2pm.

The school library will be open this Thursday after school from 3pm to 3.45pm for parents and their children to visit, browse, chat about and select books together. As from Week 5 this will be extended to include Wednesday after school as well until the end of term.

We are walking to and from the town library next Thursday. We'll leave school at about 12:00pm and return before 3pm. If you would like to join us please email Mr J. 

Week 4 Term 3

Monday
Art in Motion practices and show. 

Tuesday
ICAS Maths exam
Library- bring your books to exchange

Wednesday
Teacher strike day - No school
Tough guy/gal challenge.

Thursday
Assumption of Mary Liturgy
Go4It PE - Please bring your gear to get changed into.
Kapahaka
Homework club - contact Mrs Wallbank for more information.
Kapahaka

Friday
Sausage sizzle
School choir practice 11:45am

Nyla and Robert have made a poster to help us learn about the order of operations. 

Mary Mackillop Day

Today we celebrated the Feast day of Mary of the Cross Mackillop.  We had go at many different fun activities, like the graffiti art shown below.

Narrative writing

We have been working hard to write interesting and descriptive Maori Narratives. Our narratives are posted on our blogs - have a read of this one, planned and typed by Abigail.

Go4It

We are really enjoying our Go4It sessions, today we worked on improving our passing and moving.

Getting ready to play a game.

Week 3 term 3

Thank you to all the parent/caregivers who managed to make it to 3 way conferences last week. If we haven't yet made a time to meet please contact me to do so.

Thanks you everyone who supported the St Mary's raffle.

Monday

Tuesday
Library- bring you books to exchange

Wednesday
Warmer day - bring something yummy to warm up for lunch.

Thursday
Singing practice
Go4It PE - Please bring your gear to get changed into.
Kapahaka
Homework club - contact Mrs Wallbank for more information.

Friday
Mary Mackillop Day
Mass in the church at 9am.
Fun activities from 11am-12:30pm
Shared morning tea (Everyone to bring a small plate of food to share)
Sausage sizzle

Max and Jett cooking just a few sausages on Friday. 

Reading about the 7 Wonders of the ancient world.

Some students have read about the 7 ancient wonders of the world and then developed an online resource to help others learn.

Click here to view their website.

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Pop, pop, pop

Dylan read a book about cooking popcorn so we thought we'd have a go. It was all going so well until we took the lid off the pot and the smoke set off the fire alarms.  We continued the cooking outside.

Adding the ingredients. 

Cooking the popcorn outside. 

a x b = algebra

We have been learning to identify and continue patterns in maths. This includes developing equations where we might have an unknown quantity. Who knew maths could be such fun.

Creating and continuing patterns.

Describing the rule for a repeating pattern. 

Steam Extravaganza

On Tuesday many students from Room 4 and the Totara team presented workshops for other students during our Steam extravaganza.  This was a great event where the students developed their leadership qualities and really excelled.

Steam - science, technology, engineering, arts and maths.

Craig from Microsoft talking about whanaungatanga

Ella, Mia, Makyla and Marian using spreadsheets.