Cricket

We were playing rob the robin's nest. 
 

Features of non fiction texts

Welcome to my blog

Welcome to my blog. This year I am in year 4 and my teacher is mrs fletcher

WALT make sea creatures out of Playdoh.

During our Inquiry Day for the topic 'Under the Sea', we had fun making different sea creatures out of Playdoh. It was great to get creative and use our imaginations! I made a fish.

WALT write a cinquain poem.

Room 4 have been learning how to write cinquain poems. These poems don't rhyme, but have a special number of words per line. We used adjectives, which are describing words and verbs, which are action words.

Success criteria:

- Write the correct number of words per line.

- Use two adjectives.

- Use two verbs.

Winter

Frozen, frosty

Snowing, sparkling, freezing

I like building snowmen

Snowy

Chinese new Year.

Room 4 celebrated Chinese New Year by making drums. First, we learned about the legend of the monster Nian who came out to terrorise villages at New Year. The people of China learned how to scare the monster away with loud noises and the colour red, like our noisy red drums!

Welcome to Year 2.

Welcome to Year 2!

We are very excited to be in Room 4 this year.

Wild animal tee shirts

I am learning to sketch a wild animal and transfer my drawing to a tee shirt.  I used special fabric markers to colour in my design.

Numbers sentences to 10

I am learning to read and make patterns to 10. I am learning to write the number sentence using the symbols.

"I can count on from a number to 10.  I can write the number sentence." said Eti

Reading out loud

We are learning to read out loud familiar poems. We are trying to read with fluency and expression. As we get more confident, we can pay attention to the author's punctuation to help our reading sound more interesting.

"I can sound out words I don't know when I read out loud. I can read loudly so everyone can hear" said Eti

Wonderful writing

At writing time we are learning to write all the sounds we can hear in words. This means we listen for the beginning , middle and end sounds.

"I am trying to colour in the pictures nice. I can make nice letters."

Rocket ship

We have been learning about the solar system this term.  We made a rocket with paper and a straw then blew through the straw to see how far our rocket would travel.  

Number writing

I am learning to write my numbers correctly and independently to 20.

"i can write up to 20, I can count up to 100." said Eti.

Owl Babies

We are learning to publish our writing for an audience, because we are authors. In Room 3 we try to present our work in many different and interesting ways to encourage people to come and read our fabulous stories!

"I can write on the lines now.  It can make beautiful writing." said Eti

High frequency words.

I am learning to read and write my high frequency words independently.

"I can read the words and write on white boards.  I can make the sounds."

said Eti

Matariki

Our classroom celebrated Matariki, which is the Maori New Year. We came to school in our pyjamas and had a yummy breakfast together! It is great to share time with our whanau.

"I have never had my breakfast at school before. It was new for me."

My marvellous family

Here I am at the parent workshop with my Mum and Dad. They are learning lots of different ways to help me with my reading and writing. It was fun!