Thursday 28 November 2013

Term 4 Week 7

Kia ora team,

Just a wee reminder that next week is Shark Week. Start collecting information for your Google presentations now! 

The home learning will change on Monday but for now... Here is the Shark Week website. 

http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-shows/shark-week

Target students your new activities have been uploaded to the "Targeted Teaching" page. Any other self motivated students are welcome to do these activities! Have a go.

Check out the new photos under the photos tab. Here is a wee snippet! 


Mason winning 4 First places and 1 Second place at the senior athletics. 


Our beautiful class!



Have a wonderful weekend!


Sunday 24 November 2013

Create an Island Day Photos

Hey super learners,

Welcome to Term 4 Week 7!

Did you have a good weekend?


Check out our new photos under the photo tab!






Wednesday 20 November 2013

SPOTTED!!!!


SPOTTED....

Teacher book worm.

It's not just kids who learn,  adults are learning all of the time too.
Infact... in life we never stop learning!


Now we all know reading is cool...

and Roald Dahl is one of our FAVOURITE authors in Room 4.


 A teacher at GPS has been spotted with the WHOLE Roald Dahl set.









Do you know who this teacher is?

Learning in Room 4

What has been happening in Room 4?


Rudra is blogging about his learning in maths.


Dev is inquiring into how to simplify fractions. The picture of the pizza made him hungry


Om is inquiring into how to simplify fractions too. 


Leanne is blogging about some books she has been reading at school!


Our super interesting library! Books about all of our favourite things!


Dhanvi giving Ilham, Teba and Reda basic facts questions. Who was the winner?



Writing Term 4 Week 7

http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/story-starters/

Here is the link to our story starters! I am excited to see your fabulous details that we have been practising.

Tuesday 19 November 2013

Bird of the Year

The mohua (yellowhead) has been crowned Bird of the Year in Forest & Bird’s ninth annual poll

Click this site and explore New Zealand's very own bird and forest website. 





Tuesday 12 November 2013

Creative thinking in maths

We have been learning about negative numbers and designing our own maths activities.



Here is the link to play "connect 3" online http://nrich.maths.org/5865


Congratulations Merit Award Winners


You have worked so hard for this all year. Well done. 

Have you seen the new photos yet?

Click under the photos tab to see our new pictures. 







What are they looking at?




Happy Birthday Deasy

Nine years young ...



HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Amazing verb game

Here is an awesome verb game that I know you will enjoy.

It is like the verb activity we do in class, except you do not get to fling the teacher. 

FLING THE TEACHER

Sunday 3 November 2013

Disco Fun

Kia ora,

A big thank you to all of those who helped out at or went to our school disco!

Your support is vital to our community.