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Matariki Homework

Wow, Room 4 has been incredibly creative over the last two weeks.  They have made delicious cakes and biscuits, amazing art works, games, a beautiful mosaic and a wonderfully, delicate pop up book - all to celebrate Matariki.  Here are the photos of their creations, enjoy!

Literacy Circles

Room 4 have been working hard on developing our literacy circle skills this term. We have focused on Discussion Rules and also on all the reading strategies we know - inferring, visualizing, questioning to name a few.

We are now able to run our circles independently, ka pai!

View the prezi Water Cycle

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Room 4 have been busy learning about the Water Cycle and how each part interacts with the other.  We used our Prezi skills to work in groups to put a Water Cycle presentation together.  Enjoy!

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One Moment in Time

Everyone has been writing amazing poems in our unit, using wonderful language features and descriptive vocabulary.  This learning can be seen in our writing about a moment in time.  Everyone is using their 5 senses as well to describe thoughts and feelings.

Here is Mia's writing about cross country which we ran last week -
            The Starting Line

My heart was pounding, sweat was dripping down my forehead, my throat suddenly had turned dry and my legs felt like lead.  My feet felt like they were sinking into the ground.

The tree’s were dancing in the wind.  I looked from left to right, there were so many other girls I had to try to get in front of.  My cheeks were flushed, my legs had turned into wobbly jelly.  I could hear the mob of deafening shouts of encouraging teachers, parents and other children.

The sun glare was enough to blind my eyes and it was beating the heat down on me!  I could see the uneven ground I was going to run on, then my nervousness started taking over.  I could taste the sour wind blowing around me and I was left wondering … can I do this?

By Mia

Measurement

Room 4 has been learning a lot about Area and Perimeter so far this term.  They had another task to complete for Mrs Kaye.
We had 24 apple trees to plant in our garden.  How would we plant them in order to take up the least amount of ground from our play area?  What was the area?  Each group had 24 counters to help model the tree planting.  What do you think we discovered?

Is this array going to work?

We're on the right track.

Another planting plan.

More possible designs.

Wow, each design has the same Area!

Measurement

We have been investigating how we find the Perimeter and the Area of a space.  Mrs Kaye needed help building a dog pen for her sister's new puppy.  She had 40 metres of fence, each one a metre long.  In groups we had to build a pen that gave the puppy the largest area to run around in.  We used ice block sticks to help us - each stick = 1 metre.  Then we had to remember the formula for Perimeter to work out which shape was the largest.  It was so much fun!

This is a long run for the puppy!

How will we work out the perimeter?

Here is our working out.

Even Joy could fit in the pen!

Room 4 Poetry

We have begun our poetry unit this term, beginning to look at using imagery, mood and themes in our poems.

Have a read of Elijah's fantastic poem.  What is it about?

Water Droplet

Running across the branch as I fell to the ground
A leaf softly caught me as it danced by
I join my friends in a puddle, that's fine
No one knows we never die, if they said we did, that would be a lie.

Yes, it's about the water cycle which we are studying for topic!

Measurement - Estimate that!

Room 4 has begun investigating different standard units of measurement this term.  We have chosen objects to measure and have made estimations first and then measured them using standard units such as mm, cm, m, and km.  We are beginning to look at using our prior learning to help us convert units from one unit to another unit of measurement.  We are having lots of fun too, ka pai!

What do you think it measures?

We better check our thinking!

Wow, my estimate was really close. 

All About Me - Museum

We had a wonderful day sharing our stories, memories and treasures about ourselves on Wednesday, when our All About Me Museum was open to the public!  
We proudly shared our photographs depicting important information about us, our Prezi timelines with 5 significant events in our lives, art that depicted a fun thing we like to do, and 4 artefacts that are our treasures from different times in our lives.
Thanks to the senior syndicate who came and shared our learning and also to all the parents and grandparents who came to view.  Room 4 worked hard on their histories and the museum was a great success, well done everyone.

Some of the questions that helped us to gather information about ourselves.

Flynn beside his amazing artefacts in our Museum.

Dan's family came to view our Museum.

Eddie sharing his learning with Dad.

Cindy-Ray all set up for Museum opening.  It was Wacky Hair Day too!

Hutt City Art Mural Competition

Boulcott School entered the Hutt City Council run competition to produce a mural that reflects our thoughts and memories of Lower Hutt.  The finished murals are to be placed around the council building as it begins a renovation.  
All of the senior syndicate were involved in some way.  Every child in each class produced a wonderful design, from which 21 were chosen and then drawn and painted by a group of 20 seniors.  The senior syndicate also took an afternoon walk to the Hutt River where everyone collected 2 river stones which were then painted and incorporated into our mural.  Well done to Kate, Mia, Genevieve, Flynn, Donald, Bronson, Daniella, Christina, Cindy-Ray, Renan and Greta from Room 4 who helped Mrs Kaye get this completed.  Ka pai!

Our finished masterpiece ready for collection!

Swimming

Room 4 have been working really hard on their swimming skills this term.  Look how awesome we are!

Learning to swim is COOL!

Some of us were learning to dive.

Competitive swimmers were in the BIG, deep pool!

Mia's AWESOME Prezi

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This is Me Art

Topic this term is All About Me, so we have completed an art piece that shows us doing something we love.  First we took a photo of ourselves doing a fun activity.  Then we printed them out in black and white and traced around the details.  We then used dye to highlight ourselves and other details and then used felt pens to colour in using doodles.  It was great fun!  Take a look…