What we do in our reading time

Some of our reading time is looking at a big book where we predict the story, discuss language features and look at summarising, clarifying or asking questions. Other things we do are guided reading with the teacher when we discuss a text in depth and look at features of it over a week. When we are not with the teacher, we read on our own, use puppets, listen to stories, make words with the game Upwords, play bananagrams and use board games. There are follow up activities to do with the text sometimes too.

Class Treaty

TerfhughgfhgljgIn our class we agree to follow a simple set of rules that help us get along, have ownership of our learning and social responsibility at school. This means we need to be independent and also work together as partners in our learning. We found out a little about the Treaty of Waitangi at the start of the year and learned that lots of Chiefs and British people signed that treaty too. Ours is displayed in the classroom. It was only made and signed in 2015 not 1840, like the original one.

Farewells at the end of term one to Charlotte and Bruno

Room 5 had a fabulous shared lunch on the last day of term for Charlotte who is going to Darwin, Australia, for the rest of the year and for Bruno, who is going to Hereworth. We will miss two of our lovely Year 4's but we know they will keep in touch. Thank you to all the parents who shared such delicious and healthy (well, mostly healthy!) food for lunch.

The class watch part of a movie, Marmaduke  - the funniest dog around and did an AMAZING clean up job in the afternoon. All the Maths equipment is sorted, desks and tabled are cleaned and tote trays are tidied! Have a great holiday with your family.