Haunted House - Quick Write

I am outside, too scared to even take a little step. All of a sudden a crackle in the bush. A light went on. I wanted to scream! All of a sudden a door opened. Something got my arm and dragged me inside and chucked me into a fire! I think that was the end of me!

Lucie

I am in the haunted house. I am scared and silent. I want to live but I can’t find my way out. I turned the light on. I saw a mouse! I ran and ran until I found my way out.

Jenaya

AAHHH! I scream as a cruel witch grabs me.
“Help!” I walk to her house as she pushes me across the bridge. I take a deep breath and open the door. Bats fly out like jet planes. “Keep walking,” she says.

William

I’m standing outside. The ghost is in the house. She walks to the door. She opens the door. I am breathing fast. I just had to freeze behind that tree. I just had to hide somewhere. Then I hesitated. I could not breathe.

Rubie

There are trees surrounding the haunted house with owls sitting upon one of the trees. I can see a light on in one of the upstairs windows. I can also see a path leading to the door of the house with spooky side on the path.

Kate

I was ready to open the door of the witches house. The door just opened itself. I walk quickly into the house. A voice yells up from the top of the building,
“Who goes there?” I turn around, the door locks. THUMP, THUMP, THUMP is all I hear .

George

I looked up at the scary house. It made me feel scared. I am by myself. Looking at this house makes me really scared because there is a monster flying in the sky. It has an ugly face

Emma

Lightning roars, birds fly past, only catching a glimpse of the spookiest house. One light is on but the others are off, perhaps just worn down. There’s a moat round the house with heavy black water. Also there’s a bridge you can walk over. This is a very unlikely place you’d want to be around.

Lucy W

Spooky crooked trees with no leaves hang across the grass. As I climb nervously up the stairs this is what I see. A very haunted house like nobody has seen before. At night all the lights are dark black and not on, but this night there was only one.

Jessica

It’s a spooky night in the garden of the haunted house. We slowly open the door... a ghost appears out of nowhere.

Blake

I’m flying about. I see a light. I fly over to the window. I see a witch and a little girl in a room. She is locked in the room. I saw a tree. I hide behind the tree.

Paris

Alex's Birthday - 9

 Today was Alex's 9th Birthday!!!

 This year, instead of having a party, she decided to share her birthday with the whole class. She had a shared lunch, and her Mum brought in lots of delicious party food and a wonderful cake that was decorated by her Nana - Elaine.

 Mrs Crawford helped her to cut the cake into enough pieces to share with everybody. The cake was delicious!! Luckily there was one piece of cake left for Alex to take home for her Dad!

We have enjoyed spending your birthday with you Alex. Thank you for the lovely party and we hope you enjoy the rest of your day.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!

A day in the life of Room 4

This post is especially for you parents.  How often when you ask your child "So what did you learn today?" or "What did you do at school today?", do you get the response "Not much"?

Well, in Room 4 we always have VERY busy days, jammed packed with learning opportunities.  Here's a little snapshot of how today went.

We began the day with singing.  Mrs O even got her guitar out for the first time this year!  Mrs O recorded us singing our very own creation of 'Easter holidays' which can be found on our blog.

At 9am Mrs Harrex arrived in to teach us Bible in Schools. She read us a story about how things are not always as they seem.  Then we completed an activity in our workbooks.

After that it was straight into spelling.  Some of us worked independently at our desks while the rest of us learnt about 'Magic e' with Mrs O on the mat.

Writing was next up for the day. We are all flat-out writing recounts about our experiences.  We are trying to include all of the who, what, where, when, why, and how information for the reader, as well as remembering to order our ideas. 

PHEW!  What a busy start to the day.  Finally time for morning tea and a quick play outside.

Reading was next.  This is one of the busiest times of the day in Room 4 as there are students doing all sorts of different reading activities: reading independently, reading with the teacher, studying reading-related activities on the computer, playing reading board games, listening to stories on the listening post and completing reading research activities.  Busy, busy, busy.

For Maths today we had a post-test.  This is when Mrs O checks to see what we have learnt from all of her teaching - should she get paid or not?  And also, to see what we need to learn next.  Our next maths topic is measuring Mass so she needed to get an idea of what we already know about grams, kilograms and reading scales.

FINALLY lunch-time!  Time for some kai and fresh air.

After the lunch bell, it is always DEAR in Room 4 (Drop Everything And Read), although today we did have the choice of silent reading or silent writing.

Mrs O then read our latest novel 'Tangled Fortunes' by Margaret Mahy to us.  It's great to just sit back, relax and enjoy listening to a chapter book.

We are winding up our Antarctica unit by doing our own research.  We have been allowed to choose any topic that interests us about Antarctica and today we finished off writing our questions that we want to find out and then begin to find relevant information for our research.  Everyone was so on-task today, keen to take their learning in their own direction.

Last of all was syndicate singing, lead beautifully by Room 7 this week.  The junior syndicate sang songs together and congratulated this week's 'Student of the Week' children.

So......  what learning happened in Room 4 today?

"Not much!"



Student of the week - William

There was no doubt in our minds who was Room 4's student of the week this week.  William has been outstanding every day, especially with his positive attitude and focus on what we are learning.  EVERY time there has been an instruction given William is always focused, listening and learning.
Tino pai William -keep it up!  You are a great role model to the others in Room 4.

Room 4's song creation

Check out Room 4's version of a known song 'Christmas holidays'.  We made up our own words for this song about our Easter holidays.
Push on the orange arrow button above to hear us sing.

3D wine gum models

To finish off our latest strand Mathematics topic on 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional shapes  we made 3D models out of wine gums and toothpicks. It was an easy way for us to count the number of faces, corners and edges that each shape had. There were a couple of shapes that we could not make with the wine gums and toothpicks. These were a cylinder and a sphere. We discovered that the reason we couldn't make them was that they had no corners and they did not have straight edges.

What a fun Maths lesson! Undoubtedly the best part of this lesson was devouring the lollies when we had finished. Don't worry though Mums and Dads, as we did learn alot from this activity!

Student questionnaire

Parent questionnaire

Friday 4th May

Hi Room 4, sorry I am not at school today.  I have a sick wee boy at home. 
Make sure you work really hard for your teacher today and show them what a great bunch of kids you all are!  Here's a wee challenge for you - let's see how many of you will do this.
Post me a comment to tell me something about your day - who is teaching you , what you have been doing, something you have learnt....
I look forward to reading your comments.
Have a great day.
Mrs O  :)

Student of the week - Connie

Congratulations to Connie who is Room 4's student of the week this week for her amazing effort in all school activities and achieving her goals for Term 1.  It's great to see students working towards and achieving goals that they have set for themselves.  Tino pai rawe Connie!