WALT identify the author and the illustrator in the text.

WALT identify the author and the illustrator in the text.

Room 4 has been using all of our reading skills this year, ready for Year 2. Every week we have a new 'test'
about different parts of the book. We have been searching for full stops, exclamation marks, question marks
and commas. This week we are focusing on finding the author and the illustrator. We all had a turn to come up
and point to where the illustrators name is. Miss Donnell tried to trick some of us and changed the pages!

'I know the illustrator is the person who draws the pictures for the story.'

Wearable Art Show 2018

WALT create a wearable piece of artwork.

Our art focus over Term 2 and 3 has been creating a piece of
art we can wear. Miss Donnell introduced us to a song in The Little Mermaid called 'Under the Sea' which was the focus of our art work.

We created our artwork by sketching sea animals in our books and tracing them onto laminated sheets. We coloured them in and created patterns using vivids. Miss Donnell glued them on to tutus and t-shirts for us to wear.

Check out my awesome art piece!

Our Writing Successes

    

WALT reflect on our 2018 writing.

We looked in our writing books at the first piece of writing
we did this year and the most recent piece of writing.
We talked about what had changed in our writing,
what we have learnt so far and are excited
to learn next year in Year 2.

Something I have learnt in writing this year is that I needs to be a capital letter when it's alone.

Something I am proud of in writing this year is that I can add detail to my writing.

WALT identify NZ notes and coins

WALT identify NZ notes and coins.

We had Captain Cash from ASB come to visit Room 4.
We learnt lots about saving money, spending money and
sharing money.

Miss Donnell decided to test us and see if we remembered how to sort out the coins and notes from biggest to smallest.

Look at my sorting success!

WALT explain our ideas

WALT explain our ideas.

'I can write lots of sentences now. My stories are long.'

WALT identify different phenomena in our solar system.

WALT identify different phenomena in our solar
system.

Room 4 have been learning about the solar
system. This term we have been focusing on
the planets. We have been learning about a
different planet each week and videoing some
facts. Here is a fact I have chosen about my
planet.

WALT retell the story in order.

WALT retell the story in order.

'I can order the story easily.'

WALT tell time to the hour and half hour using analogue clocks.

WALT tell time to the hour and half hour using analogue clocks. Room 4 have been learning about measurement this term and our focus has been on time. We have been learning about lots of forms of time, from days of the week to ages of people. We have made our own clocks that can tell different times of the day that are important to us.

'I like to read books when I get home from school.'

WALT sound out words using our yellow word cards.

WALT sound out words using our yellow word cards.

'I can use a blue word card and a yellow one. The blue card has lots more words on it.'

WALT explore and share ideas about music from a range of sound environments

WALT explore and share ideas about
music from a range of sound
environments.

Room 4 were lucky enough to have Mrs D come 

into the classroom to teach a music lesson 

about sound. First we made different sounds 

using our bodies, like clapping our hands and 

stamping our feet. 

Then we played a follow the leader game where

everyone had to make a different sound and we

all had to copy them. It was so much fun! 

'Music with Mrs D was the best!'

WALT identify different types of punctuation.

WALT identify different types of punctuation.

'I found a full stop and a question mark.'

WALT identify 2D and 3D shapes

This term Room 4 have been learning about
shapes. We have been learning about how to
sort shapes and what different shapes look like.

Miss Donnell took us outside to test our knowledge
on what shapes we know. She gave us some
chalk to try and draw the shapes we knew. Then
she said shapes out loud like rectangle, triangle,
a shape with 3 sides and we had to try and draw
them!

Principal's Award Winner

Congratulations Aria on receiving a Principal's Award! You have shown great responsibility, respect and resilience since you started at Elm Park School. You are dedicated to achieving your personal best and working to a high standard. Keep up the great work!

WALT read back our writing

WALT read back our writing

This term we have been learning about how to write awesome stories. We started by drawing pictures and talking about our ideas. Then we started writing our ideas down in a sentence. We have even started using full stops! When we come and see Miss Donnell we check that our work makes sense by reading it to her.

'I love writing stories in Room 4' - Aria

WALT order numbers to 20

WALT order numbers to 20.

The Seahorses have been working on ordering numbers to 20. We made sure we knew all of our numbers to 20 first and then we talked about what 'ordering' means. We used a game called 'Race to 20' which helped us to order our numbers quicker!

'The numbers are easy to put in order.'

WALT sketch self portraits

Room 4 have been learning about drawing self-portraits. We started by sketching a picture of our face and neck.
Then we used pastels to colour ourselves in. The last part was the border!

We used corrugated cardboard to design a cool pattern around our portraits.  Check out my awesome work!

"The border was my favourite part of the portraits"                   

Principals Morning Tea

Aria was selected as one of the students to visit Mrs Plowright and have a special morning tea with her. Aria chose to take her Pride Book to the morning tea and share work relating to our class garden and making mistakes.

Well done Aria!

WALT read for meaning.

WALT read for meaning.

One of our stories this week was about things we like to do. We talked about some of the things we liked to do and school. Some of the things were in the book too! This helps us to relate to the stories we read.

'I have lots of things I like to do at school.'

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