Saturday, November 19, 2016

Last week our Star of the Week was:
Charlie!
Thanks for all your amazing help and for being such a 'Super Star' in Room 4.

This week the letter of the week is:
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For Show & Tell this week, everyone needs to bring something that begins with 'R' in your paper bag.
Don't forget to write 3 clues so that we can ask some great questions!
We swapped the Friday and Monday people around this week.
Check your Home Learning book if you have forgotten you day.


Learning Conferences
This week is learning conference week. 
Please remember that the school closes at 2:00pm on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Remember to bring your Portfolio to your learning conference.


🏊Swimming
  • Room 4 is booked to swim on Mondays 12:30 - 1:00 and Thursdays 2:00 - 2:30
  • Please bring your swimming gear in a named bag to school on Mondays and Thursdays. 
  • Please make sure all your swimming gear is named as well as your school uniform. It's quite good to name your underwear as well, as it can get mixed up in the changing rooms.
  • If possible, leave your tights and thermals off on swimming days. This will make getting changed a wee bit easier for you.
  • We always take our fleeces to the pool and you can put your fleece on after swimming.
  • Girls - please tie your hair up really well for swimming.

With outside temperatures still being quite cool and wanting you to enjoy your swimming experience, we will make a decision on the day as to us getting in the water or not. 
Assume we will be swimming! 
We'll see what the water temperature is like tomorrow and hopefully, we will have a swim!


🏃Tuesday Athletics Interchange
Image result for kids running clipartLast week the junior school started an athletics interchange. This will continue for the next 3 weeks. If you have shoes that are good for running in and easy to take on and off, can you wear them on Tuesdays? It was tricky putting some shoes back on after long jump last week.

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Thanks for sending in glue sticks. They have all been named and will be returned at the end of term. We were running very low!


Tomorrow morning we are going to finish our Elephant Art!
We have been creating some stunning artworks.
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I am looking forward to seeing everyone this week. 
Rach
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Saturday, November 5, 2016

The Star of the Week was...
Madix!
Thanks for being such a great leader in Room 4.
May the force be with you!
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We have had a lot of fun in Room 4 this week!

Rugby Skills & Drills
We had a very special visit from Joe & Dotty.
Joe taught us some rugby skills.
Then we had a real surprise...
Joe revealed the Ranfurly Shield for us to see!
We all got to touch it and have a good look at it.











Thanks for donating all the rugby balls to the junior team Joe!
We had a great time with them on Friday during our Discovery session and this week, we're going to practice our kicking and passing skills every day for fitness.

The Letter of the Week was G.
Thank you for finding such interesting Green  for Show & Tell this week.
It is very exciting seeing all the items you bring to share!




















What a neat week we had with Show & Tell!

Show & Tell for  this week:
Something that can be recycled!
People who are down for Friday can bring their items on Thursday.

On Wednesday Rach read us this Story.
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On Thursday we made GINGERBREAD MEN!

Room 4 would like to thank Caitlin, Ollie's mum and Dotty, Florence's mum for coming in to help.

Rach & Caitlin made some dough.
We had to guess what was in it!
We all came to school with our rolling pins and cookie cutters.



We got in to 'Cooking' Groups.
The dough needed warming up so that we could roll it out.







Ready to roll!















Don't they look fab!

We designed our gingerbread men while they cooked.
We had to think about, 'bringing them alive' with coloured icing.
We had to give them buttons, eyes, a nose and a mouth.



We used our designs to decorate our gingerbread men.













We finished icing them and then had a look at everyone's designs.



Then... we ate them!







Thanks for all your help getting rolling pins and cookie cutters to school.


Week 4 - What's On...
Due to the shortened week and the Talent Quest, we may not get to read a new book every day this week. Everyone will have a browsing book to read.
Monday
Talent Quest 11:30-1:00 in the hall.
Junior singing.

Tuesday
Normal day!

Wednesday
Library

Thursday
Discovery
Te Reo Maori

Friday
No school - Show Day

Enjoy the rest of the weekend.
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