Playground Time.

We finally got a sunny day today and it doesn't feel like we have had many of those lately at school! So for the last 20 minutes of the day there were many classes outside (including us!) as we decided it was playground time!

Word puzzle champions!

On Wednesday, as a fun afternoon activity I unleashed these 21 rebus word puzzles on Room 4. We are studying how to use inferences in Reading at the moment so I thought that these puzzles would further encourage the children to look for clues. I expected the word puzzles to be a bit too hard for most, but lots of the children surprised me with how many they were able to solve.

Here is a photo of our 3 word puzzle champions. Jayden, Ted and Daniel worked tirelessly together to solve 20 of the 21 questions. I gave them a couple of very small clues for about 2 of the questions, but the rest they did themselves! Here they are celebrating with a victory dance!

In the post below are the puzzles I gave to the class. See if you can solve more than we did!

Rebus puzzles for you to try.

See how many of these rebus word puzzles you can solve at home. Can you solve more than our Room 4 champions?

Cultural Performances.

Well done to all the students from the middle and senior school who performed their cultural items very well last night. These pictures show some of the items having a dress rehearsal yesterday afternoon.
And thanks to all the parents and families who supported the event by coming along for the performance and bringing food in to help celebrate with.

Tapu ae, our new game.

After practicing a lot of large ball skills last term, room 4 have been introduced to a game called tapu ae. It is a maori game that encourages involvement as every player has a designated position and each position has it's own role. There are attackers, midfielders, defenders and each team has one guard protecting the precious yellow cones! The cool thing about this game is there are two dodgeballs on the go at all times so you really have to be alert. I have been impressed with how well room 4 have picked up the rules and techniques for this new game and everyone is getting involved.

Welcome to Our Class Zishan.

Zishan is a student from our school SEU. He has been working in Room 4 every day this year for short blocks of about 30 minutes at a time. This term, Zishan has come and joined our class full time.

It is exciting for us to have him working in our class and the children in Room 4 really enjoy working with Zishan. He has fitted in very well to his new environment and it is great to have you in our class Zishan!

This photo shows Zishan concentrating hard in a game of basic facts bingo.

New Wet Day Games For Room 4.

Our fantastic Home and School team allowed us to spend $200 on each classroom this year. I asked the children in Room 4 about what sorts of things they would like to have, with the emphasis being on wet day games. Needless to say, they were very good at coming up with ideas!

So in the holidays I managed to buy a new mega marble run-game, top trumps cards, a new chess set, a twister game and a hot wheels car track. I also acquired a jenga game and a monopoly game too.

This morning some of the children decided to test them out and they were a big success. I think some children in Room 4 are hoping that we have some wet days soon!