Passion Week

We spent the last week in Room 6 making stop motion movies. We worked in teams. First we had to plan our setting and characters and make them. Most of us painted our settings and chose Lego or clay for our characters. Here are some examples:

Dead Pool by Lyncon, Lytrell and Tarelle:

Knight vs Knight by Moko:

Spy Girls by Huntah-Rose, Twinkles and Catherine:

Spongebob saves the world by Ryan and Zeke:

Freaky Spooky House by Shikaia, Gwendoline, Lexus and Kataraina:

The Hunger Games by Jaydyn, Bjorn, Breyton and Haki:

Frankenstein is Alive by BJ, Seddon and Moko:

Minerś Fight by Bjorn, Breyton, Jaydyn, Haki and Tommy

Killer Worm by Manuera, Sean and Tommy:

Connecting to self

We are learning to use a range of strategies to help us understand what we are reading. Making connections is when we make links between what we already know (our prior knowledge) and the text.

The Part 1 Journal group read an article called Going to School in Taiwan. They made charts to show what they do each day so they could compare their lives with the students in Taiwan.

Click on the links to see their work.

   Rykahdo         Roxci          Lexus          Chrystal

Speedball and feelings

Drew (Mrs Bingham's 16 year old son) spent the day with us on Friday and taught us a new game called Speedball. We showed lots of talent and football skills when we played.

This term Mrs Bingham is reading The BFG by Roald Dahl. We had to describe how we would feel if we were Sophie when this happened:

In the moonlight, Sophie caught a glimpse of an enormous long pale wrinkly face with the most enormous ears. The nose was as sharp as a knife, and above the nose there were two bright flashing eyes, and the eyes were staring straight at Sophie. There was a fierce and devilish look about them. (Page 4)

Chrystal and Jorjaś descriptions really showed how afraid they felt:

Planet Earth and Beyond

This term our Science topic is Planet Earth and Beyond. To start our topic we each decided on an individual focus and entered this onto a Padlet:

Created with Padlet

There are so many amazing and exciting things to learn!

Statistics and shared lunch

We have been studying Statistics this term for our Maths Strand. To plan our shared lunch we collected data about favourite foods to share. 














The winner was pizza and our data was proven correct when the pizzas were the first thing to be eaten the next day!

Dictionaries and trees

All year 4 students at Kaikohe West School received a dictionary on Tuesday from the Rotary Club. We have been using them in class to help with our writing and spelling. 

Room 6 with their brand new dictionaries

The Junior Journal reading group read Two Trees by Vivienne Joseph from Junior Journal 27. The story has great pictures so we created our own collage pictures of trees.

Twinkles

Chrystal

Buddies and Easter eggs

We did some fabulous writing about eating Easter egg. We are learning to use our senses to help with descriptive writing. Here are some examples:

The chocolate Easter egg looked delectable. Licking my lips I could taste the creamy, chocolate Easter egg. I heard a crunch. Yum! It looked tasty and sticky. I couldn wait to touch the melted chocolate. It smelled delicious...yum.
Twinkles

The chocolate Easter bunny was in my hand melting so I just took one mouthful. It was as big as my fist so it took ages to eat it. It tasted creamy. I felt the caramel dripping on my fingers and smelt the cream.
Milson

On Friday we spent some time with Room 8, our buddy class. First we read together, then we showed them our favourite Chromebook activities - Kahoot and Reading Eggs.