WALT identify the author and the illustrator in the text.

WALT identify the author and the illustrator in the text.

Room 4 has been using all of our reading skills this year, ready for Year 2. Every week we have a new 'test'
about different parts of the book. We have been searching for full stops, exclamation marks, question marks
and commas. This week we are focusing on finding the author and the illustrator. We all had a turn to come up
and point to where the authors name is. Miss Donnell tried to trick some of us and changed the pages!

'I know the author is the writer of the story and they do the words.'

WALT create a wearable piece of artwork

WALT create a wearable piece of artwork.

Our art focus over Term 2 and 3 has been creating a piece of
art we can wear. Miss Donnell introduced us to a song in The Little Mermaid called 'Under the Sea' which was the focus of our art work.

We created our artwork by sketching sea animals in our books and tracing them onto laminated sheets. We coloured them in and created patterns using vivids. Miss Donnell glued them on to tutus and t-shirts for us to wear.

Check out my awesome art piece!

Our Writing Successes

   

WALT reflect on our 2018 writing.

We looked in our writing books at the first piece of writing
we did this year and the most recent piece of writing.
We talked about what had changed in our writing,
what we have learnt so far and are excited
to learn next year in Year 2.

Something I have learnt in writing this year is how to sound out tricky words.

Something I am proud of in writing this year is writing lots and my pictures are good too.

WALT identify NZ notes and coins

WALT identify NZ notes and coins.

We had Captain Cash from ASB come to visit Room 4.
We learnt lots about saving money, spending money and
sharing money.

Miss Donnell decided to test us and see if we remembered how to sort out the coins and notes from biggest to smallest.

Look at my sorting success!

WALT sound out words using our yellow word card.

WALT sound out words using our yellow word card.

'I am writing stories with one or two sentences now!'

WALT identify different phenomena in our solar system.

WALT identify different phenomena in our solar
system.

Room 4 have been learning about the solar
system. This term we have been focusing on
the planets. We have been learning about a
different planet each week and videoing some
facts. Here is a fact I have chosen about my
planet.

WALT use our prior knowledge while we are reading.

WALT use our prior knowledge while we are
reading.

'This is what I like to do on the playground. I always have

fun on there.'

WALT tell time to the hour and half hour using analogue clocks.

WALT tell time to the hour and half hour using
analogue clocks.

Room 4 have been learning about measurement
this term and our focus has been on time. We
have been learning about lots of forms of time,
from days of the week to ages of people. We
have made our own clocks that can tell different
times of the day that are important to us.

WALT explore and share ideas about music from a range of sound environments

WALT explore and share ideas about
music from a range of sound
environments.

Room 4 were lucky enough to have Mrs D come 

into the classroom to teach a music lesson 

about sound. First we clapped along to the 

rhythm of 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star'. 

After we had learnt the pattern, we used clave 

sticks to tap along to the pattern. It was great 

using the sticks as some of us had used them 

before!

'I like using the sticks - they are like rakau sticks that we used with Miss Donnell.' 

WALT sound out 3 letter words.

WALT sound out 3 letter words.

'I can find all of the sounds in these words.'

WALT understand that illustrations help us to tell the story.

WALT understand that illustrations help us
to tell the story.

'These pictures are all about tigers. I have seen 

a tiger before.'

WALT identify 2D and 3D shapes

WALT identify 2D and 3D shapes.

This term Room 4 have been learning about
shapes. We have been learning about how to
sort shapes and what different shapes look like.

Miss Donnell took us outside to test our knowledge
on what shapes we know. She gave us some
chalk to try and draw the shapes we knew. Then
she said shapes out loud like rectangle, triangle,
a shape with 3 sides and we had to try and draw
them!

'I can draw lots of different shapes. I like using chalk!'

WALT read back our writing

WALT read back our writing.

This term we have been learning about how to write
awesome stories. We started by drawing pictures and
talking about our ideas. Then we started writing our ideas
down in a sentence. We have even started using full stops!
When we come and see Miss Donnell we check that our
work makes sense by reading it to her.

'Can you see me on the big wave? I am surfing.' - Liam

Travelwise Walking School Bus

At our whole school assembly Liam was presented with a certificate for completing 100 walks with the Walking School Bus.

Well done Liam!

WALT sketch self portraits

 Room 4 have been learning about drawing self-portraits. We started by sketching a picture of our face and neck.
Then we used pastels to colour ourselves in. The last part was the border! We used corrugated cardboard to design a cool pattern around our portraits. Check out my awesome work!

'My hair is super spiky!'

WALT identify numbers to 5

WALT identify numbers to 5

The Dolphins group have been working on identifying numbers to 5. Once we connected the number itself and the number word, we started looking at what that number looked like. Miss Donnell showed us a game called 'Roll and Cover' which helped us to match the dice patterns to the numbers.

'The hard number to find is 5 because it looks like 4 on the dice.'

WALT identify parts of a book e.g title,author.

WALT identify parts of a book e.g title,author.

We have been looking in our reading identify the different parts of a book. So far we have identified the front cover, back cover, spine, title and author. We are always looking to find new parts of a book to learn about, especially in non-fiction stories.

'The title is the big one, that is easy to remember.'