Monday 21 July 2014

New Celebrations in Room 4

Children in Room for are motivated to learn.  They are also motivated by the positive behaviour and enthusiasm for learning of others.  A way we are able to recognise this is by achieving ticks on the board each day.  If you get 5 ticks, you then achieve a reward slip.  We have now found a way to recognise the daily champion (the person who achieves the most ticks - the record still held by Finn Grant from 2011 - 14 ticks).

Our new award is the Super Duper Soldier Award.  Lillian is our first champion.  Here is her holding our new trophy.  


Maths in Room 4
This week we are focusing on Place Value.  We have discussed a story about the Mayor of a town called Place Value and the results of this were amazing!  Below is Molly is shown standing in front of Place Value town with its Mayor - Mr Place.  Please question your child on this story and have them explain it to you.  You will be blown away by their ability to read huge numbers to you.  Whooopeee!


Sunday 20 July 2014

In term 2 we had been working on Procedures for writing, with a focus on the procedure we had followed when laying down a Hangi.  Tui reading group used the Stop Motion app on the ipad to show the procedure followed to peel and cut an apple.  Here it is below.