The Star of the Week was...

Madix!

Thanks for all your hard work this week Madix.
You are a fabulous person to have in Room 4.

You did a great job putting stickers in the books this week.
Thanks!

On Wednesday we had a visit from the Woolston Fire Fighters.

They came to teach us about being Fire Wise.

We got to have a look at their fire engine and we had some fun with their hose!

We learnt lots.

Only adults should light candles and they should be put in safe places where they won't burn anything or anyone.

We learnt how to keep safe from smoke by:
 Getting down, getting low and getting out fast.
We know we need to get out FAST and go to our safe place.
Most people in Room 4 knew their safe meeting place at their house. Ka Pai everyone!

The smoke alarm was VERY LOUD!

We learnt:

• Get down, get low, get out FAST!
• We need to shout, "Fire, Fire, Fire." 
• We need to call out loud so that everyone else in the house knows to get our FAST too.

We had a turn at getting down, getting low and getting out of the classroom FAST.

Get down, get low, get out FAST.

We learnt about the equipment fire fighters use and got to see the protective clothing they wear.

We know not to be scared if a fire fighter comes to help us, even though they look a bit funny!

We all got to have a look at the Fire Engine.

Then we had some FUN!!!

The letter of the week is...

Who will find interesting things to share this week?

I wonder how many R things people will bring to share. Remember, you need to be able to talk about the things you bring to share.

What's On This Week - Week 11

Monday 11

Run for Fitness training

Junior Singing

Tuesday 12

Island Mufti Day - gold coin donation for Fiji
News

Run for Fitness training

Last Fire Wise lesson

Wednesday 13

News

Run for Fitness Event at 9:30am

Parents and families members are welcome to come and watch.

No Library borrowing this week.

Thursday 14

News

Te Reo Maori

Friday 15 - last day of Term 1... Holidays!

Discovery

Last day of Term 1

Reminders

• Bring your reading folders every day please.
• Bring your library books to return this week.
• We won't be borrowing books at the Library this week.
• Remember your water bottles!

Take your nail polish off before you come to school on Monday.
This is a special picture for everyone who loves Frozen!

Remember your smile!

See you on Monday!
I wonder if we could do this...
Shall we try?

Mufti Day Next Week
Tuesday 12 April to raise funds for Fiji.

Shayla shared some interesting news today. She is in a marching team and won a trophy for all her hard work this year.

Room 4 is a great place to share news and everyone asks interesting questions. We are learning how to ask who, what, where, when, why and how questions.

Thanks for all your wonderful sharing everyone. Thanks to all our parents too for emailing and encouraging the children to bring items to share.

We had such a lovely day today. Everyone worked hard during reading and writing. We wrote some lovely pieces about oranges. During reading time we managed to open our doors and enjoy the sun.

Using our writing tools for our wonderful writing. 

We are learning to leave finger spaces between our words.

 Using our tools to find the words we need.

 Using our eyes to find the words we need.

 Reading in the sun!

 Jamal learning his reading words.

 Eve is reading from her browsing box.

 Sadie is learning her reading words.

 Enjoying the sun with play dough, big books and library books.
Madix is our Star of the Week and he is busy putting stickers on everyone's reading work.
Thanks for all your hard work Madix!

 Lydia and Emma reading together!

 Lydia is learning her reading words!

 Puzzle fun!

Using the pointing sticks to read the big books.

This is the 100 piece puzzle we managed to finish!

IMPORTANT NOTICE:
We have a Room 4 person away with chicken pox.
Keep an eye out for symptoms if your child hasn't had them yet!



We had a very busy 3 days in Room 4 last week.

We have started our Fire Wise lessons and have been learning about tools that only adults can use and tools that children and adults can use. Some things are tools and some things are toys. Ask your child about tools and toys.

We also learnt that fire can be useful and that it helps us in many ways.

We learnt that a fire needs 3 things to make it go.

Christine's Farewell

Thank you to all our wonderful parents who contributed to our shared afternoon tea for Christine. We had a lovely time saying farewell to her. 

Room 4 gave Christine a card, a special pointing stick for her future teaching and two Hairy Maclary books.

Christine had a special time with us and has given the class a new furry friend that we've decided to call Chocco. 

We all had to think of a name we'd like to call our new friend and then we voted to find the best name. 

Guess what colour our new friend is?

Eve B did an amazing job continuing her job as

 'Star of the Week'.

She was very busy on Friday making sure all the Poetry books had a sticker in them after Rach had seen them.

Everyone was awarded a Quality Work sticker this week as the standard of work was amazing. 

We have such a super class!

Thanks Eve for being such a star.

I wonder who will get to be our Star of the Week this week?

What's On This Week...

The letter of the week is Oo

Who will find interesting Oo things to share?

Remember - we have people in Room 4 who share news on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday and you might not always get to share your things on the day you bring them. If we have spare time we use that time for extra sharing.

This is Week 10 for this term. 

We have 2 more weeks until the holidays.

Monday

Run for Fitness

Fire Wise lessons

Tuesday

Run for Fitness

Fire Wise lessons

Wednesday

Run for Fitness

Fire Wise - NZ Fire Service visit

Library visit

Thursday

Run for Fitness

Te Reo Maori

Friday

Run for Fitness

Whole school Assembly

Discovery

Reminders

Remember to:

• Bring a water bottle every day
• Bring your reading folder every day - you can't take reading books home without a reading folder.
• Empty your reading folder each day - there were lots of things to take home last week.
• Learn your words every night, if you have them.
• Take off your nail polish before you come to school on Monday.

• Come with a smile everyday!

We have lots of jigsaw puzzles in Room 4

They are really good for:

• developing our brains.
• helping us think about shapes and space.
• developing our fine motor skills.
• helping us learn how to work with others.

Noah is doing a Hairy Maclary puzzle with Christine.
Madix and Carlisle worked together to get their puzzle done.
You were all so focused - Ka Pai!

James and Shayla are working with an alphabet puzzle.

Ollie is working with numbers.

This is a 100 piece puzzle that lots of us worked on together.
We have a few pieces to go and hope to finish it on Monday!

Zade is working hard with a magnetic pointer to put the correct number of balls under each number in the puzzle. Well done Zade, you worked hard on this.

Evelyn did lots of puzzles and worked with different people.
Here she is doing one by herself!

Meet Chocco! 
Did you guess the colour?

Our new Room 4 friend is sooooo cute.