Student of the week Caitlyn

We have working really hard to use awesome descriptive language in our writing this term and Caitlyn has been including a lot of terrific 'WOW words' in her descriptions. It has been great to see her buddied up with Year 3 students and together they are creating some very interesting pieces of writing. Keep up the great work Caitlyn. 

Junior School Athletics Day

On Thursday the 18th of February we had our junior school athletics day. This is a photo of us all in our PE gear - ready to go!!!!

It was such a great day and we loved competing in all of the events that we had been practising. 

Watch out for our next post, and on our individual blogs for more photos of the action!

LAS Athletics day

Room 4 Athletics day 2016 on PhotoPeach

 

This is room 4 having an absolute blast at athletics day. It was so much fun, check out all of our photos. 

Descriptive Writing - Sunset

Today we continued to use Google Docs for our writing. We wrote with a new buddy today, but we were still working on the same skills. We have to choose interesting and exciting words to make our writing more appealing. Some of us used a thesaurus today to help us change a word that we had already used, or to find a better word than the one we were using. These are our sunset descriptions:

Descriptive writing

We have been working on a few things in writing this week. The first thing we have been doing is working in a shared documents on our google accounts with buddies. This is quite new, especially for our Year 3's, but we are loving the new challenge.
We have been writing descriptions with a buddy, and our challenge has been to use precise vocabulary, so we need to choose interesting words that make our writing more fun to read. These are our forest descriptions.

Student of the week - Luca

When we come back to a new school year after the holidays it is always exciting to see who will step up as leaders and role models in our classroom. It has been wonderful to see that Luca is up for this challenge and she has already defined herself as a real leader in Room 4 this year. It has been lovely to see her be so helpful and kind to all of our new class members. Keep up the great work Luca!

Student of the Week - Katie

It has been wonderful to welcome our new Year 3 students into Room 4 this week, and it has been great to see them settle into some good routines and work habits so quickly. Katie has been a shining example of this. It seems like she's been in Room 4 for ever, and she is producing some terrific work! Keep up the great effort Katie!

Room 4 are becoming 'Lifelong Learners'

This morning we started to talk about what it meant to be a lifelong learner. We decided that it meant someone who learns all their life, right from the day they're born until the day we die. We discovered that we started learning when we were a new baby, by crying when we were hungry or when we needed a diaper change. We think that learning follows this pathway:

• Baby
• Toddler
• School Kids
• High School Kids
• College / University / Polytech / Sports Academy / On the job training
• Learn at our job
• Courses
• Living Life and learning from the people around us

Because our school goal is for us to be 'lifelong learners who are motivated, confident and willing to contribute' we thought we should talk about what those things meant for us in Room 4.

Motivated

• eager
• being ready
• organised
• prepared

Confident

• strong
• brave
• risk-taker
• goes-for-it
• stands up tall
• proud
• believes in themselves
• has a 'can-do' attitude

Willing to Contribute

• listening
• sharing our ideas
• help others to learn
• being a good class/school member

We can't wait to continue our journey as 'Lifelong learners'.

We love to read

Room 4 children love to read for pleasure! read on to see what sorts of books we all like to read and where we like to read them.

Meet the team! - 20016

 Welcome to Room 4 2016 - we are a fabulous bunch this year. We have 10 year 3 students and 10 year 4 students. There are 8 boys and 12 girls. We are looking forward to an awesome year of learning, opportunities and adventures. Keep visiting our blog to see what we have been up to. 

 Aria

 Archie

 Angus

 Logan

 Madison

 Ava

 Katie

 Grace 

 Luca

 Olive

 Emily

 Oranje

 Kade

 Amelia

 Floyd 

 Lochie

 Nick

 Caitlyn

 Shannon

Arnuv