Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Pen Licences

 In room 4 we work really hard all year to get neater and neater at our handwriting. Our ultimate goal is to be so neat at our linked handwriting that we can write in pen. 
When this happens we are issued with a pen licence, which means we can do our handwriting in pen every day. 
 Today Mrs May presented some of us with our pen licence, and we also received a special pen from 'Office Max', which came in the mail for us. 






Monday, October 30, 2017

Sphero fun in Room 4

 Today we had so much much in the afternoon. 
 Our school now has 12 sphero robotic balls, and we got to test them out this afternoon. 
We used the iPads to write code/programme our ball to move the way we wanted it to. We had to do a lot of problem solving. Here are some photos and videos to show you how much fun we had as we experimented with these new learning devices. 







Friday, October 27, 2017

Book Review - Do Not Push - Kyle Mewburn


Do not push it a story about a boy, called Cam, who likes to play in the forest at the back of his house. One day he came across a big red button that said, "Do not push." But Cam pushed it anyway. Then he thought it felt very different, and then he saw a level that said "please pull," but he decided not to pull it.

When he got home everything was VERY different, and it was like living in some sort of opposite world, where there were no rules, parents behaved strangely and children drove cars. 

We think that children aged 6 and over would really enjoy this book. It was a short, funny story to read aloud in our Year 3 and 4 classroom. Kyle Mewburn has written many books, and this is one of our favourites. 

"I liked the part when he found his Mum shoving her face with ice-cream and her face was covered in chocolate sauce." Hannah, Jess, Ava, Addy, Chloe, Oscar, and Charlotte
"My favourite part was when Mum gave Cam Dad's credit card." Angus, Waka, Austin, Issy, Oranje, Nick and Emily
"My favourite part was when he looked outside and everyone was crazy on the street, and things had gone haywire." - Archie and Skye
"I like it when the police were racing their cars." - Olive
"I liked the bit when Cam saw that everything in his backyard was upside down." - Grace and Livvy
"I liked it when he found the button." - Annabelle
"I just really liked the whole book," - KC and Aria
"I liked how Kyle Mewburn always has cheeky little twists and wonderfully descriptive language." - Mrs May


Friday, October 20, 2017

Welcome Waka

Today Room 4 welcomed Waka into our class. He joins our Year 4 group, and we are very pleased to have another boy, bringing our total of boys up to 6.
Welcome Waka - we are very pleased to have you in our class.