New Term New Toys

We had so much fun with our new puppet theater this week in our learning through play time! we also made creative play-dough sculptures, made a school store, and build lots of new ships like "Daniels moving Castle" with leggo and other building toys. Some of us even worked together to build the highest marble run we've made all year!

Virtual Reality

We are learning to use VR headsets to take virtual field trips and interact in new ways with stories. The past couple of weeks we have gotten to step into the word of the dinosoars, visit underwater gardens around the world, and adventure with book charachters like the crow and discover the legend behind why he has black feathers, all without leaving the classroom! We will update everyone the new ways we are using the VR headsets as part of our inquiry.

Happy Birthday Queen Elizabeth!

We celebrated the Queen's Birthday Holiday this week by having a "Mad Hatter Tea Party" ! We decorated and ate yummy muffins made by Mrs. Salmon and had a toast to the Queen with our tea. :) The hats and crowns we created were all so unique!

Clean Hands, Mouldy Bread

We did an experiment about germs in class! We took three pieces of bread: one control bread than no one touched, a second bread that one person (Sahara) touched all ver after washing her hands really well, and a third piece of bread that we all touched with no soap and we also wiped it on Ms. Scott's dirty phone and laptop. The bread was placed in bags and we waited to see how the germs (bacteria) would grow. These were our results! Yuk! The bread touched by dirty hands was COVERED in mould because of the bacteria!!! We know now how important it is to wash our hands! 

Samoan Language Week in Room 4

We had lots of fun learning greetings, numbers, weather words, and days of the wee in Samoan! We expanded out Samoan vocabulary by creating a travel brochure for Samoa that included some of the different animals, weather, foods, and phrases to know before you go in both English and Samoan. We learned a dance with Mr. Suni, and he even brought in a lavalava for us to try on and learn how to tie! We ended the week by learning about the symbols and steps needed to make a samoan siapo. You can see our own designs based on nature below! Tofa soifua! 

Helping Our School

We had a great week back at school after being away for lockdown. We read some nice stories, worked a lot on self-care and how to show empathy, and most importantly we got to spend time with each other and have some fun in the classroom again! Our class voted on ways to help out our school community and we chose to:

1. Help pick up any litter on the grounds.
2. Weed the school garden to get it read for planting.
3. Write nice welcome back notes for friends we missed in other classes. 

There is another project we are working on as well but it will stay a secret until it is ready to show. ;)

After we finished picking up litter, cleaning up leaves, and weeding we got to harvest some of the garden veggies and fruit from the grounds. :) 

Term 2 Week 4 Remote Learning Homepage Video

Hi Everyone!

Make sure to check out this week's videos on our Room 4 website at: https://sites.google.com/panmurebridge.school.nz/room-4-2020/home?authuser=0

Hope you are all having a great week! Some shout-outs to Yavi and Kaysorn for doing lots of wok on Sunshine Classics and StepsWeb! Great work!

Term 2 Week 3 Homepage Video

Hi Class!

Here is our week 3 homepage video on our class website. Let's have fun learning about lighthouses this week!

Term 2 Week 2 Homepage Video

Hi Class!

Here is this week's homepage video that shows you around our website https://sites.google.com/panmurebridge.school.nz/room-4-2020/home . Have fun doing the activities this week!

Term 2 - Week 1 - Home Learning Video

Here is Ms Scott with Term 2, week 1's home learning...

Leaf Art Animal

Using leaves from your garden create a picture of an animal...

Be kind...

Teddy Bear Hunt

We're going on a bear hunt...

Māui Hooks and Books

As part of our Pacifica Stories Unit we learned about Māui. We read "Māui and the Sun", "Māui and the Giant Ika", and the "Māori Creation Myth" in class and in our reading centers. 

These stories were cut into different scenes and students practiced story sequencing by putting them in order and summarising a story in their own writing. We made our own demigod hooks too!

be sure to check out these awesome videos from class to learn more about the stories we read!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6q8E1laQjY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FuxypI78ws 

Rippa Rugby

What great weather we had for Rippa Rugby! Our coaches taught us relay games and had us practice our passing and other rugby skills. We ran and worked hard and had a great time in the field!

St. Patrick's Day

Happy St. Patrick's Day Room 4!

For some engineering practice, Room 4 students made their own leprechaun traps based on what we know from leprechaun legends covered in class. It seems we will have to try again next year though... because when we arrived at school on St. Patrick's Day we found all the traps set off and all the green supplies in the classroom on the floors and on table! Luckily it seems whatever set off the traps left from gold coins for us to share. :) Here are some pictures of our traps. The students came up with some really creative ways to hold up materials, bait the traps, used math to measure how big aspects of the trap needed to be for the size of the leprechaun and engineered some clever settings! 

 

Reading Buddies

We have been meeting with our reading buddies in the morning to share our library and class books with each other. This is great practice for our reading fluency as we have been practicing reading with expression, taking care to pause at comas and full stops, and to read the dialogue as a character would speak. While one student reads, the other listens and asks reading comprehension questions such as: 

1. What do you think will happen next? 

2. How do you think the character feels? 

3. What is the main problem in this story?

4. Who are the main characters in this story?

5. What is the setting of the story?

These would be great questions to ask your reader's at home as they read a story to you!