Year 3 & 4 2018

  This week we have a new Maori 'word of the week'  in room seven it is ' p oitarawhiti '  which means netball. We do discovery every Monday and Friday. We get out equipment that we want to play with like straws and connectors, blocks and we get to use chalk outside.   We have started doing Jump Jam in the mornings. It is songs that have actions that we watch and copy and dance. Our favourite song is 'Who Let  the Dogs Out' or 'Freaks'.

We learn a Maori word every week and we name it the 'Word of the Week' . This weeks Maori word is ' heihei it means chicken. Room 7 makes sentences with the word of the week this can be one of the sentences A popo the pahi will fly up to the rangi, engari the awa will be to flooded for the pahi to drive and the heihei will have to swim. All the word of the weeks are, apopo it means tomorrow, pahi it means bus, rangi it means sky, engari it means but and awa it means river. We keep the word of the week on the whiteboard and if you come in room seven you will see the word of the week. We are learning about Dick Frizzell art works and we have coloured our own and they look stunning. If you come in our classroom you will see them on the wall. We did two and one was hot colours and the other one was cool colours. Under all of our art works we placed our signature to know which one is ours and Dick Frizzell put his signature that's why...

Mrs Bibby belongs to a Year 3/4 Teaching group on Facebook. Recently one of the other members asked if anyone would be interested in writing letters to her class in Leicester, England. Mrs Bibby thought it would be good to do some learning about other cultures from other countries as well as learning about the cultures we have in our own classroom. She put Room 7 down and waited... We think the class voted on who to write to and they chose US! We were excited when we received the letters through Mrs Bibby's email address. We had them printed off and we have read them.  We have started gathering our ideas about what to write back and are trying to answer the questions they have asked as well.                                                                             ...