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 sounding words out.

Something I am proud of in writing this year is writing lots and lots.

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 explain our ideas.

WALT explain our ideas.

'This is my story.'

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 love doing music and singing and dancing and making songs!'

WALT sound out words using our yellow word cards.

WALT sound out words using our yellow word cards.

Savoury is a tricky word to sound out sometimes.

WALT understand that illustrations help us to tell the story.

WALT understand that illustrations help us
to tell the story.

'The pictures and the words help me to read.'

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!

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.

'I can read all of my writing about my trampoline that my big sister gave me.' - Kimberly

WALT count backwards from 10

WALT count backwards from 10.

The Starfish have been working on counting backwards from 10. We used teddy bears to help line up the numbers and we counted them backwards. Then we had to line up the honey pots backwards too!

'I know how to count the numbers backwards and forwards.'

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!

'I like my eyes and my hair and my ears and my lips and my t-shirt.'

WALT read for meaning

WALT read for meaning.

One of our stories this week was about things we like to do. We talked about some of the things we liked to do and school. Some of the things were in the book too! This helps us to relate to the stories we read.

'There are so many things I like to do at school. I have lots of friends.'