Team Work

Maddison took this photo of Brigid, Ollie and Daniel working together to put the puzzle together. Great photo Maddie.

Capacity

Have a look at this to see what we have been learning in maths this week.

 

Pet Day is Awesome

What a great day we had today at our school pet day. Daniel and Ella really love their pets. Keep a watch out for a pet day movie tomorrow.

The Snake Cake

We read the book The Snake Cake by Pauline Cartwright and decided to make a Snake Cake too. 
It was messy but lots of fun to make. The best part was eating it. Cameron and Daniel made a movie of what we did.

Good Things Take Time

Good Things Take Time is our theme for Term 4. It was great last Thursday to have Liz Weir the story teller come along and share her stories and puppets with us reinforcing the message that good things like learning take time and we need to keep trying.

Olympic Day Fun

Well done Rooms One and Two for organizing the Junior Olympics Day on Tuesday. It was a great afternoon with everyone being A+ Springston Learners!
Kelsey made this movie of the activities for you to watch. Enjoy!

We are being Accepting!

We have been learning to be accepting. We have made a book about this by taking photos and videos of how it looks to be accepting, and writing about it. 

You can read or download the simple version of our book by clicking on the eBook picture below. You will be able to read the words and see the pictures, but you won't see any video or hear our voices.

 

 
We have also put the eBook on our class iPads, where you can hear us and see the videos. You can also do this, by downloading the ePub version. This will be readable on the iBooks app on your iPad, iPod Touch or iPhone.

We love being accepting!

Digging up the Past

Cameron made a movie of our team of archeologists on a dinosaur dig in the sandpit.
 Do you know what we found?

Making Flags Challenge

Wow! We were learning to work as a team at Discovery Time today. We had to make the tallest flag out of 10 sheets of newspaper. Brigid, Zoe and Ollie were learning to make a movie of the action.

Our Dads are great!

We have been learning to write a description of a favourite person. Including what they look like, what they like, don't like and our thoughts and feelings. Enjoy reading our wonderful stories. Who is your favourite person? Click on the book to turn the page and make it bigger.

Cross the Swamp

Cross the Swamp is a new game we have put in the Maths Folder to practice addition and subtraction facts. Let us know how you go.

Building Bridges

We had great fun at maths today building bridges for the Gingerbread man to cross. Taylor was learning to make a video of the wonderful fun. Whose bridge was the longest?

Exciting Words

We have been making wordles to help us make our stories more interesting.
 Here is our one for fabulous words.

Buddy Reading Time

On Fridays we love meeting with our Room 7 & 9 buddies and sharing our reading with them. We also like listening to their stories. What do you do with your buddies?

Rock Out

Daniel had fun learning how to make a movie about what we are doing in maths. Cameron was a great help. Well done boys!

Swifter, Higher, Stronger!

We've been learning to add more detail to our writing by adding adjectives and verbs. Here are our stories about the Olympic Games, for you to read. You can also download the stories from the eBook picture.

 

We also put the eBook on our class iPads, where we can choose to listen to Mrs Carter reading as well. What fun!

You might also like to access the full version of the book, with Mrs Carter reading the stories, by downloading the ePub version. This will be readable on the iPad/iPhone iBooks app. This is our FIRST full eBook!

Reading Rocks

Taylor has been learning to make a video. She thinks reading rocks in Room 4.

Maths Time

Kelsey, Cameron and Lily have been learning how to make a video. 

This is what maths looked like in Room 4 today.

The Rockets Super Exciting Sentences

We have been learning to make our stories more powerful by adding adjectives and verbs. We chose our best sentences to publish. Thanks to Room 1 at Brightwater School for the idea. 
The racing Room 4 rockets blast off into big learning. Taylor

The fast Springston Rockets are blasting into writing.  Kelsey

The scratchy cat bites.  Lily

The golden mermaid flapped its tail. Aria

A big caterpillar chomps. Brigid

The fast rockets are blasting off very fast. Sjaak

The happy mermaid splashes. Zoe

The blue, slippery dolphin dives up and down.  Kiera

The amazing skiers ski down the hill very fast. Cameron

The big cat is riding my horse. Jack

The super boomerang zoomed back. Jed

The enormous dog munches. Todd

Aria's Number One Reading

Aria has been practising reading with expression. What  great reading Aria.

Digging up the Past

What was life like in Ancient Greece?
Last week we went back in time to explore what life was like in Ancient Greece. Lexie and Shay dressed up like the ancient Greeks did. Do you know what food they ate?

        

Taylor's Favourite Place

Listen to Taylor's story about her favourite place. What do you like about her story?

Room 4's Orana Park Adventure eBook

Click the picture to open our book, then click the top or bottom right hand corner to turn the pages. 

You can even download the book (pdf format) to read on your computer, or put into your iBooks app on your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch.

Puppet Pals

The Rockets Team have been thinking about being accepting by helping new people at our school. We hope you enjoy our puppet shows.

Snow Stories

We hope you enjoy hearing our snow stories.

Help Endangered Animals

Cameron and Ella wanted people to be aware of endangered animals by reporting about it as news on the blog.

More Magical Makeovers

Puppet Pal Story By Kelsey

Sjaak's Puppet Story

Brigid's Puppet Story

We have been learning to make a story on Sock Puppets.

What is Lottie?

Kiera's Snow Story

Lexie's Snow Story

Brigid's Snow Story

School open - no buses

School will be open at 10.30am today (Thursday 7th June)

Buses will NOT be running this morning - please deliver your children to school.  
We expect them to be running  at 3pm.

Fun in the Snow

Lily had fun in the snow yesterday!

When not playing in the snow Lily made a hat and paper aeroplane to go with her handbag.

School open 10.30am tomorrow

School will be open at 10.30am tomorrow (Thursday 7th June)

The buses will run an hour and a half later then usual.

Guess Who?

I wonder who these animals are. 

Snow - school closed

School is closed due to snow.

Ella's Story

How many adjectives can you see and hear in Ella's story about Orana Park?

Animal Games

Take a look in the literacy folder and check out some new animal games.

Rainbow Mufti

On Friday it was Rainbow mufti day to help raise money for making our new mosaic art. How many colours can you see?

Magical Animal Make Over

I wonder who has had a magical animal make over and what this animal is?

Magical Animal Makeovers

Ollie's Story

Zoe and the Wood Pigeon

Cameron's Story

Kiera's Story

Todd's Story

Todd hopes you enjoy listening to his story about his favourite animal at Orana Park. How many adjectives did he use?

Meet Mr Oink

Meet Mr Oink who came to see Room 4 today. Daniels Dad brought him to school. He is a big pig skeleton. Did you know that a pigs skeleton has 216 bones and 44 teeth. We think that he is a wild pig because he has tusks. 
Do you know why they have big noses? Who will be the first to reply?

Shay's Orana Park Story

We have been learning to use adjectives to make our stories more interesting.
Listen to Shay's story about the meerkats at Orana Park and see how many adjectives he has used.

Camerons Orana Park Story

Orana Park

We have been learning to make our writing more interesting by adding adjectives. How many adjectives can you spot in Camerons story about his favourite animal at Orana Park?

I saw the swinging Gibbons. They were all playing inside the house. 

I loved them because I could talk to them and I also liked the still meerkat. 

I liked the jumping tiger too. It was eating fast. I loved watching them.

Feeding the Giraffees

We had fun feeding the tall, spotty, giraffees with long necks at Orana Park. Some of us were a little frightened to start with! 

Endangered Animals at Orana Park

Orana Park on PhotoPeach

Prizes Galore

Prizes Galore for Brigids Family

Lucy, Isaac and Brigid all received prizes at rugby last Saturday. Brigid was the most improved player. We think they are great.

Meet Shay's Frogs

Look what Shay made. 

Too much rain to go to Orana Park so we stayed at school and had a fun time going into other classes and learning about animals. Shay made some jumping frogs in Room 4 and here they are meeting Kiwi. Do you know what animal group frogs belong to? We wonder who will be first to reply with the correct answer.

Orana Park Postponed

Unfortunately the weather is not good enough for the trip to go ahead today. We will postpone the trip until next Thursday.

Orana Park Trip

At this stage the Orana Park trip tomorrow is on. We remain hopeful that the bad weather will hold off so remember your warm clothing and a jacket.
If it is raining at 7AM the trip will be postponed until next Thursday.
Check here at 7AM for an update. Fingers crossed for good weather!

Treasured Times

Our class enjoyed the special time they had with their treasured family members.

Treasured Times on PhotoPeach

New Maths Game

Who can get the highest score on this new maths game?  Look in the maths page at the top.

Discovery Time

Look at what we made at Discovery Time today. We made poppies and did paintings of the poppies that grew in Flanders Fields where the brave soldiers were fighting for their country. They were very adventurous and brave.

The Navy Ship

Ollie told us about his adventure on a big navy ship.

On Wednesday I went on a big navy ship. I stood by a tank and saw two other boats. I went on the captains chair. I was happy because it had my favourite army tanks that I had not seen before.


Have you got any questions or comments for Ollie?

ANZAC DAY

ANZAC Day Writing

Cameron wrote and illustrated this story about ANZAC Day. Let him know what you think.

It is going to be a sad day tomorrow because it will be ANZAC Day. Maybe I will be crying.

Alphabetimals!

Look at what is new in the literacy page. Have a go.

We Love Comments!

We have added a page at the top so you know how to make a comment. We are looking forward to hearing from you soon! 

New Maths Songs and Games

Check out some new links for Fun Maths On the Maths Fun Page

Camerons Diorama

Look at what Cameron made at home after school on Friday. 

I wonder if anyone else can send in what they have made.

What has been in our classroom?

I am green.

I was a tadpole.

I like flies and slaters.

Daniel brought me to school.

What am I?

Who is going to be the first to reply to this what am I?

Craft Day Fun

Look at the sand saucers we had fun making on Craft Day. We thought one of the best things was making and buying things from the stalls at the end of the day. Have you got any good ideas for us for next year?

Welcome to Room 4 Rockets 2012

Here are the Rockets team ready to blast off into learning for 2012.

 Follow us on our learning journey. We love to see your comments!