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!

Reading Strategies

Room 5 are busy going over the complex reading strategies that we know.  Mrs Kaye made a poster for the class after seeing something similar on pinterest!  The poster helps us to remember all the thinking we need to be doing as we read, ka pai.

Flat Stanley Math Problems

Over the first two weeks of term, Room 5 have been learning about measurement and time.  We read a story called Flat Stanley and used problems Stanley faced in the book to learn how to solve word problems about measurement and time.  It was lots of fun learning!

Books that are just right for me!

Room 5 has been working hard at choosing a chapter book from the Library that is a good fit.  They came up with the success criteria for selecting a book 'that is just right for me' -

Re-telling the Main Idea

Room5 have been working hard on making their own books based on the main events from 

The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch.

They have retold the main event from each day and sequenced the story together to form their own book.  Everyone worked really hard to include interesting words and to draw wonderful pictures.

Their books are amazing!  Want to come and read them?

Our Fun Learning so Far!

Room 5 have had an incredibly busy start to their Year 4 learning this term.

They have had fun writing descriptions, looking at ways to 'hook' our readers interest and how to choose interesting words when describing something - like a 'Gruncher' from Roald Dahl's The Minpins and also their 'Rocking School Shoes'!  Here is some of our writing -

It's hermit crab eyes are really high but it still can't see above all the smoke he blows.  All of his spikes are covered in blood from all the animals, humans, and Minpins he's killed!  It's dark as night stomach can squash 14 cows when it lies down.  The Gruncher's blue as the sea hooves can run up to 70km an hour.  By Jed.

What is your favourite pair of shoes?  My favourite pair are black and red and they have got a rubber sole.  They have got white lines down the sides.  My shoes are super bendy and they have got little holes down the sides too.  By Matthew.

We have gathered data, made bar graphs, looked at the mode, range and median and discussed what our graphs tell us.  In these pictures we had to count how many books we had in our desks and build our bar graph.

We started topic about Boulcott's past, particularly Boulcott Farm in 1846.  We did a 'gallery walk' where we looked at photo's and pictures of our past and came up with 'What I noticed...' and 'One question I have now...'

We thought about the things that make our hearts healthy for Valentine's Day, and came up with great ways to keep ourselves healthy.

The class has been super swimmers over the last two weeks.  Well done to all those who have tried really hard to improve, ka pai!

The News

Room 13 read Kiwi Kids News at shared reading time and discuss any issues that the news items raise. Today we played Newspaper Scavenger Hunt that involves finding different types of articles in an actual newspaper. It was interesting and great fun!

Collaborative Workers

WALT - Vocaroo

Voice Recorder >>

Inferring game

Room 13 is learning to infer meaning while reading by looking at clues in the text and in pictures.  We played the Mystery Box game to help us learn how to infer information from clues.  We each picked up the box and gave it a shake, then made a guess about what was inside.  Then four clues were given out 1 at a time.  From this we had to infer what was in the box.  It was a lot of fun and lots of people got it right!  We will keep playing the game until we are experts at inferring!