Practising reflection through drawing

Creating art with circles

 This morning we created art by using circle shapes. If you look very carefully at our drawings you will see most are created with circles. You can even see tiny circles in our picture frames.

With circles we can create lots of different pictures.

Reading

Reading in class

We are practising our reading skills in class. We are learning to sound out words and read with fluency. We can look at the pictures to help us with clues as to what is happening in the book.

We can retell stories by using our memory skills and by writing our own stories.

 

Creative learning

This week we have been creative

with our planning, writing, and 

our art.

Some of the children will rejoin

our class at school and some

will carry on with our distance

and zoom meet ups.

No matter what we are all learning

together!

 

Blog by Ms Charli

  

Kia ora everyone, Ms. Charli here.

Another great day of zoom lessons. Thank you to the children who came along and who have been sharing their work on Class Dojo.

This morning we read about Greedy Cat and learnt about rhyming words in the story before dancing to the Freeze song. This afternoon we read about how we are all different and discussed border design ideas for the family portrait school house challenge. The school house challenge involves the children drawing or taking a family portrait to remember 2021. For more information see the Term 4, Week 4 Plan on the class site link.

Tomorrow we are going to learn about animals who live on a farm through a guided reading activity. See you there!

Ngā mihi,

Ms. Charli.

Blog from Ms Charli our student teacher:

 

Kia ora everyone, it was great to connect with many of the students today. This morning we had a jump around and practiced our writing skills with a Diwali theme. Then this afternoon we created Mehndi and Rangoli patterns followed by a story about Rama and Sita and the story of Diwali. The activity booklet posted earlier today has lots of different reading and writing activities for the students to engage with and also reinforces their learning from this week. The Maths activity focuses on shapes in a Rangoli pattern. I look forward to more teaching experiences next week!

Here are the links from todays zoom sessions.
Who Let The Dogs Out Jump Jam - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAFzBJ3H3oc
Disney Diwali Music Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l53N612meiY
Mehndi Design for Beginners - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1_jYOa3Juc
Ngā mihi, Ms. Charli.

Diwali

 Happy Diwali

This week we have been learning about Diwali. We have read stories about Diwali link. We have watched videos about Diwali and created art too.

Today Yerassyl completed the Diwali bridge building activity from the story of Rama and Sita. Great work Yerassyl!! 

Can you see any shapes that helped in the construction of his bridge?

Reflections

Learning about Transformation: Reflections

We are learning think about symmetry and reflection. Lines of symmetry are mirror images in reflection.

 

Week 2

 Loving life... the fantastic room 4 children are always eager to catch up with each other on zoom. They love to share their thoughts and ideas, their favourite toys and even what clothing they like to wear. Our favourite game to play in zoom is something that they like to play in class too.. the Floor is lava maybe whomever is reading this blog would like to play too!!

What else have we been up too....?? 

A snapshot of learning

Well it is week one of the new term and the children of room 4 are back into learning new knowledge and skills.

Here is Caleb working through the geometry question for math:

Here is Yerassyl completing the fitness challenge for disconnected learning. His mum says he completed the whole challenge four times. Awesome work Yerassyl!!!

 

Welcome to Term 4

We have lots of exciting things to look forward to this term. Not the least of which is catching up with our friends from class.

It was Karin's birthday today. Happy Lockdown Birthday Karin!!

Amazing cake Karin. All the children were very excited for you today. I was too especially when I saw what an amazing cake you had! 

New Windsor Way

 

Chinese language week

 

Learn Create Share is a big part of New Windsor and Room 4 children love to learn and share what they are learning whether it be on zoom, through discussion or sending photos through to class dojo.

Learning about life cycles

 

A few weeks ago Caleb showed the class one of the caterpillars starting to form a chrysalis. 

Caleb has continued to show the class on zoom his observations about the caterpillars/chrysalis/butterflies on his swan plants at his  home.

Practical learning

The children have been engaged in practical learning tasks. They have been doing everything from making fruit kebabs for a snack. To learning how to ride and balance on their bike. 

Caleb made his own puppet theatre complete with props. These tasks enable children to grow their belief and confidence in themselves. Which links really well to our New Windsor School values and competencies.