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.

Easter eggs, self-portraits and whales

Lucky Rykahdo won second prize in the Easter Egg raffle at school. 

We have been using different techniques to create self-portraits as part of our topic Ko Au.

We have been reading the book 'A Handful of Blue' by Vince Ford. Each week we complete tasks and share them with schools around New Zealand as part of #NZReadAloud. Lexus wrote a news report about the whales stranded on the beach in Chapter 6.

Fun Friday

We are learning how seeds travel around the world. Many seeds need to get away from their parents and escape the 'zone of darkness' to survive. We made rotocopters to show the way some seeds move:

We used Kahoot to practise our maths skills. It was fun!

During Brain Break we played a very competitive game of Paper, Scissors, Rock:

Ki-o-Rahi

Whaea Gina taught us how to play Ki-o-Rahi on Friday. We had a lot of fun!

We are going to keep our workbooks in magazine files this year and made some labels to brighten up the spines.

Hedgehogs and hockey

Ammoron and SanAnDreas read the book 'Hedgehog Fun'. They followed the instructions in the book to make their own hedgehogs to share with the class. Yum!

Nice work Ammoron and SanAnDreas!

We all loved the fruit and marshmallow hedgehogs.

On Thursday we learnt some hockey skills with Jose.  We practiced passing and stopping the ball before playing a game.

Ready with our hockey sticks!

Danielle  running to receive the ball from her team member.