Student of the week - March 29

Congratulations to Paris, who is Room 4's well-deserved student of the week, for her amazing effort in all of her school work. Keep it up Paris!

Banana penguin

Lucy demonstrates how to make a 'banana penguin'.

Our Far South

As part of our study on Antarctic Animals we are following the journey of a group of travellers who have recently visited Antarctica.
Click on the following link to go straight to Shackleton Bear's blog and video diaries of his trip: http://www.ourfarsouth.org/education/shackleton.aspx

Challenge for Room 4 students - see if you can find out something new and interesting that Shackleton Bear discovered on his big adventure to share with the class.

Student of the Week - March 22

During our weekly presentation and singing assemblies from now on, there will be a student of the week presented to one student in each class.
Room 4's first ever student of the week is.... Lucy W...

...for managing her learning, showing initiative and taking on leadership responsibilities within Room 4. Ka pai Lucy - we are very proud of your efforts!

Defence force bus comes to visit

On Thursday 15th of March the defence force bus came to visit Lawrence Area School. It was here especially to show the senior students through and discuss possible careers in the armed forces. Room 4 were lucky enough to get a quick look through the bus. We got to see a short video about things that the armed forces do, we were able to ask questions and then got to explore the rest of the bus. We particularly enjoyed the touch-screen computers!

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Sports Activator - Miniball

Mitch, the new Sports Activator, visited us for the second time this year.

This time we worked on miniball skills.

We began by dribbling up the gym and back, trying to look ahead as we dribbled.

We then had a go at some other skills like passing the ball around our feet, middle, head and then through our legs.

We tried dribbling really low and really fast.

It was cool fun to race down to the other end of the gym and try to shoot a basket. We were allowed three attempts. Blake was the top-shot with three baskets scored! Mac was pretty good too.

Finally we had a game of 'Dribble King' where half of us were dribbling in a small space.

While dribbling our own ball we had to try and knock someone elses ball out of the space.

Connie was an expert at defending her own ball and being sly at attacking someone elses while George was great at attacking too.



We look forward to Mitch returning later in the term for another miniball session.

Who am I?

As part of our It's Great Being Me unit, we have created totems to represent ourselves. Parents and family members - can you guess which one is made by your special person in Room 4?

Swimming Sports

On Friday 2nd March we held our annual Lawrence Area School Swimming Sports at the Lawrence Pool. It was a terrific opportunity for us to showcase what we have been learning over the summer and to compete against our class mates in freestyle, backstroke and width races. Although the water was a bit cold that did not deter anyone form giving it their very best effort. It was a wonderful day, enjoyed by swimmers and spectators alike!!!

George
Lucy
MacRyleeJenaya
Lucie

Rubie

Alex

William