Room 4 Ōpāwa School

Thanks Ollie for being such a 'Star' this week.

Ollie was so organised with books, stickers and Quality Work stickers.
He had everything organised and ready to go each day.
Ka Pai Ollie!

I wonder who the 'Star of the Week' for Week 5 will be...

The Letter of the Week is...

This is a tricky letter.

I wonder what we can find for the 'Letter of the Week' table?

We have a new 'News' Roster

This will be in place for the rest of Term 2.

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday
Lydia	Sadie	Eve B	Eve T
Lucy	Emma	Evelyn	Shantaliya
Noah	Zade	Madix	Shayla
Ollie	Vadim	Jamal	James
		Carlisle

News can be about anything!

News doesn't have to relate to the Letter of the Week.

It would be good if it wasn't a toy or something the children have shared before.

You can email photos or images to me for the children to present via the big screen. rach@opawa.school.nz

Oral language features.

We are learning to present our news clearly by using:

o Eye contact

o Volume & projection

o Clarity of speech

o Tone – expression & gestures

o Good pace

o Confidence

Questioning.

We are learning about asking good questions – thick/fat questions rather than skinny questions.

We will be able to do this when we:

o Know the difference between a question and a statement.

o Can think of appropriate questions to ask.

o Can ask questions to gain more information.

o Can ask a, who; what; where; when; why; how question.

o Can ask a ‘fat’/‘thick’ question to find out more.

Room 4 is also starting a Mystery Bag!

This is part of Oral Language.

Our 'Star of the Week' will start this on Monday.

They will be the first person to take the bag home, write some clues about their 'Mystery Item' and bring it back to school so that we can all be Detectives.

We need to try and work out what is in the 'Mystery Bag' by asking really good questions!

The 'Star of the Week' gets to choose someone else to take the Mystery Bag home on Tuesday.

We are really looking forward to this!

What's on for Week 5?

Monday

Bring a 2L plastic bottle if you can.

It needs to have a skinny neck like a soda water bottle.

PMP

Tuesday

PMP

Wednesday

Library

Thursday

Sausage Sizzle Day

Te Reo Maori

Friday

Buddy Reading

Discovery

On Friday the Juniors went to the hall to watch a group called STRIKE. They were awesome and played all sorts of percussion instruments.

Jeanette and Maria played some music!

The fire was amazing and the performers made it sound just like and instrument.
They had a good rhythm going!

Check out the flames!

We had a lot of fun in Room 4 this week!

Lisa reading a story to us.

Getting the porridge ready for the 3 Bears.

Shantaliya and Eve had a creative time with the blocks and ponies.

The boys love working together with the cars, blocks and maths equipment to invent roads and games.

James was very busy building on the car mat.

Gave loves the trucks and diggers.

We are really lucky to have this castle in Room 4.
Everyone is great at sharing it.

The letter of the week was 'U'.
We imagined holding our...
UMBRELLAS!

Introducing Room 4 and their
IMAGINARY UMBRELLAS!!!