Learning Maps

Check out Romans Learning Map. He worked hard to achieve his goal of working with others and making friends.

Narrative Writing

We have been focusing on narrative writing for the past three weeks. We have been using silent videos to motivate us to write narratives using the correct structure and language.  Here are two narratives that the children have written.

Marshmallows by Lilly and Hunted by Braeden

Marshmallows

Once upon a time in the dark woods there was a little boy camping. He had built a campfire and he was roasting marshmallows. Then a fat green monster that loved marshmallows came out the water and came sneaking behind the boy. “Greee!! ahaaa!!” yelled the little boy. He held up a stick with a marshmallow on it. The monster looked at the boy with puppy dog eyes. He really wanted the marshmallow. So the boy took the marshmallow off the stick and the monster ate the marshmallow.  Then he threw one up in the air for him.  The monster was so happy.  Snatch! the monster grabbed the last marshmallow from his hand. The boy was shocked. He went to get another one when he realized there were no more left. The monster got mad and started to chase the little boy. Then he saw the pillow so he grabbed the pillow and held it in front of him. Yes, it looked like a marshmallow, he thought.  He chucked the pillow and the monster ran after it. The boy ran away into the woods screaming. 

The monster was happy. He put the pillow on a stick and held it by the fire but it turned into dust. He felt sad and sat and stared at the moon.

HUNTED

Once upon a time in a jungle full of palms and bushes there lived a jungle boy with blue eyes and brown skin. He was very hungry. One night he popped out from behind a tree and could smell something good. He followed the smell over wooden boxes of all shapes and sizes until he saw a cooked chicken. He ran up to get it but he fell into a hole. He had been trapped in the hole by a hunter. The hunter used a camera flash and blinded the boy. 

When he woke up he was chained up, upside down.The hunter showed the boy the chicken wishbone and said “this could be your lucky day.” They pulled the wishbone and the boy won. He used the bone to undo the lock and started to run. The hunter chased him and started to catch up. The jungle boy ran as fast as he could until he reached a hole. The hunter grabbed him. Suddenly the boy saw the camera and flash and blinded him. 15 seconds later the hunter woke up and started to chase him like a gorilla. The jungle boy raced through an animal cage and the hunter followed him and got knocked out by the bars. 

When he woke up he was trapped in the cage, hanging on bamboo sticks. He looked down and there were a whole lot of jungle people dancing and singing around him.

Athletics Day

Well I am a bit late updating our blog for the beginning of Term 2.  Last week we had Gina from Project Energise in to help us run our first Athletics Day. The children really enjoyed rotating around the different activities competing against one another.  There are a few athletic champs in our class.
The top three students got awarded with an achiever pin.
Our top three were:
Boys
1st: TeAorangi
2nd: Cyprus
3rd: Jayden

Girls
1st: Jessica
2nd: Lani
3rd: Bailey

Rally Car Co-Driver

On Thursday we had Lindsay visit our school for the Duffy Role Model Assembly. She is a rally car co-driver for her husband and son. She told us all about the protective clothing and equipment that she wears to keep herself safe during a race. Lindsay also gave us lots of time to ask questions. Everyone asked really good questions and we learnt lots about Lindsay and her forty years of rally car driving and being a co-driver.

Here is Lindsay with her race helmet. It has a microphone and speakers so she can talk to her driver.

This is Lindsay holding up an OK sign. They use this sign if they have stopped in a race but they are OK. If something is wrong they hold up an SOS sign and the next car has to stop.

Filling our Kete

This term our theme is Filling our Kete with Character. Everyone took home the digital camera and took photos of how we fill ours and our families kete at home.  We then used the pictures to create a video. Here is our class video. If you want to see individual videos you can check them out on the children's blogs.

Unboxing Day

The day had finally come and the children were so excited they were jumping around like Jack 'n' the boxes.  Yes, it was chromebook day.
We had a whole school assembly.  Mrs Whitelaw, Mr Jack and some children who had chromebooks last year all said speeches then the countdown began.  As the bomb timer exploded the children tore into their boxes to reveal their precious chromebooks. Roars of excitement filled the room.  Then we all enjoyed a shared morning tea.

WELCOME to Room 9

Welcome to Room 9's blog for 2015! We are a Year 4 class made up of 28 amazing learners.  This year we are beginning our learning journey on Chrome Books.  We are looking forward to un-boxing these on Wednesday 11th February at 10am.  In the meantime we are busy preparing for them and learning all about how to be safe online, using Hector's World.

This year's theme is 'Filling our Kete'

This term is 'Filling our Kete with Character. We will also be focusing on the School Mission Statement and the School Values.