Our 'Star of the Week was...

Zade!

Zade, thanks for all your help in Room 4.
You did a great job of handing Choco out this week.

Next week the letter of the week is:

This will be another tricky letter so we'll be looking at words that have 'Z' in them... what can you find to bring and share for news?

During the week we had lots of fun with our Room 4

Oral Language Bag.

Florence had us asking so many questions!

Florence reads out one clue at a time and takes questions.

Who has a question?

All clues are revealed and we think we know what might be in the Oral Language Bag.
'Close your eyes, close your eyes, no peeking'
Florence reveals her item!
Super work Room 4!

We practice using a big voice, presenting so that we are facing our audience, we pronounce our words clearly, make eye contact and don't lean on anything. We try to make our feet point our audience too.

This is what a good speaker and top notch presenter does.

Room 4 does this very well when they are presenting in front of the class too!

We also worked a lot with X.

X Marks the Spot and we made treasure maps!

We also wrote about our treasure - our writing is hanging in our room with our maps.

We had a treasure hunt with Rach and then...

Shantaliya did one for us too!

We had to follow her map which took us around the school.

We found the treasure in the Little Adventure Playground!

We have started our learning on

'Our Neck of the Woods'

This week looked at the NZ flag and kiwis.

Next week we are going to be doing lots of art and craft around the letter Z.

We will learn more about what makes us, 'Kiwis' and why we are unique/special.

Have a look in the Home Learning book for a

Kiwi Scavenger Hunt that you can do.

On Wednesday morning we are having a special guest who is visiting our whole school to talk about relaxation and breathing techniques. 

Room 4 is having their session on Wednesday morning.

It would be great if everyone could be at school by 8:50am as we start on the bell at 9:00am

This week we have:

PMP - Mon/Tues

Relaxation/Library - Wed

Te Reo Maori/Sausage Sizzle - Thurs

Discovery/Assembly/Junior Singing & Certificates - Fri

Have a great weekend.

Last week our 'Star of the Week' was...

Shantaliya!
Shantaliya did a magic job of helping, giving out Choco, our Room 4 pet and she was a stunning role model for the rest of Room 4.
Shantaliya wants to be a dancer and a singer when she is older.
Ka pai Shantaliya!!!

This week the letter of the week is:

This is a tricky letter but we'll be looking at words that end in x and have x in them too.

Fox

Box

Madix

Exit

Extraordinary - that's what everyone in Room 4 is... 

What's On This Week...
Monday
PMP
Tuesday
PMP
Wednesday
SCHOOL PHOTOS
Library
Te Reo Maori
Thursday
Normal Programme
Friday
Discovery
Buddy Reading Junior Singing

NEWS - we are having 'Letter of the Week' sharing for News.
Letter of the Week items are shared first and if we have time we will fit 'other' news items in.

INQUIRY - we have started our learning about 'Our Neck of the Woods'. Last week Room 4 came up with lots of ideas about what makes us, 'Kiwis/New Zealanders' and why we are special. 
We came up with all sorts of neat thinking - have a look in our classroom at our brainstorm.

KNOWLEDGE-A-THON - this was lots of fun! 
The children were really amazing and we completed all the questions for Year 1 children as well as a few more.
Please return all forms, donations and money to the red box in the office.

SCHOOL PHOTOS 

Wednesday 10th August.

Please remember to wear your correct school uniform on Wednesday so that you look fantastic in our special Room 4 photo.

Have a look at some of the neat things that happen in Developmental Time. This is from 9:00am - 9:20am on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays.

This is a great game called, 'Car Pile Up'

Experimenting with Kinetic Sand or Moon Sand.

Drawing and colouring!

Last week we explored the letter V

Everyone had a V to make...

COME ALIVE!

They look great - have a look in Room 4.

This is what we do in Room 4 when we are 'Browsing' - this means we are all

having a look at books and browsing with our eyes, sharing with a friend or just browsing by ourselves but we are reading.

We read our reading books that we have taken home, library books, picture books, poems, big books and anything we can find with words on/in it.

On Friday we had a visit from Rosie.

She was really impressed with Room 4 and was very excited to meet everyone!

Skyla and Charlie worked really hard on their Poetry and they did the most amazing

QUALITY WORK.

We have a Room 4 goal which is to:

STRIVE for QUALITY WORK - this demonstrates our school value - EXCELLENCE.

Lots of people got Quality Work stickers this week.

Lucy was awarded our class Quality Work certificate this week.

Lydia was awarded our class Values certificate for Excellence this week.

DISCOVERY on Friday...

We have another great week lined up.

I wonder what we'll find to share for X this week....

See you all tomorrow,

Rach

PS Don't forget to take your nail polish off for school.