Kete Filling Videos

This week the children in Room 4 have been creating videos of each other.  These movies are showing the different ways they can fill different peoples Kete's at school.  Please check out their individual Blogs.

I must say it is sooooooooooooooooooooo exciting that they are becoming such great movie producers.  When you check them out, I'm sure you will agree.

Please feel free to make your own videos about 'how your child fills Kete's at home' as well.  If you do create one, please share it back with me at school and I can pop that onto your child's Blog.  This could be a collection of photos which you email to me or you can use your phone/device to create a short movie.

I is for Incredible insect..

Today we like our insect hunt.  We split into 2 groups.  Samantha and Will recorded our videos.  Please have a look.

Group 1's Movies.

Group 2's Movies.

Zero Waste

Today we had some people from Zero Waste come to visit, and talk about where rubbish goes.  We got to sort and discuss why rubbish went to  different places.  We are looking forward to them coming back next term.  Also check out our individual videos on our individual Blogs.

F is for Fridays Fantastic Feijoa Feast

Here is a clip of the Children's Fantastic Feijoa Feast.

A Sounds Scavenger Hunt

And some more F fun - back at school.

The Juniors at Riverview School thought it was a FABULOUS FRIDAY!

Skyping on world read aloud day.

Sorry, this has taken a couple of weeks to get out to you.  This is because I wanted the class to not just enjoy this marvellous learning experience but to think about what they liked, and to reflect on the different things they shared.  It has been a wonderful way to connect to an expert the other side to the world.

Take a look yourself.

Swimming with Room 2.

Today we could only have a quick swim, because the year 2's were having a swimming display.  We still had fun!!! 

We even got to see Issy on the special swimming chair.

W is for Wacky Wednesday's Wickedly Wonderful Waterslide.

C is for Caterpillars on our Corn, and Cooking Corn on the Cob.

Take a look at us enjoying the letter C!

Constable Rob - Road Safety

Today Constable Rob came to visit us.  He talked to us about Road Safety, and how to stay safe on, and around the road.  Take a look at our little movie clip, and ask us lots of questions, about what it is showing.

Caterpillar Stories - GREEN SCREEN STYLE!!!

Today, Mrs G brought in her Ipad again, and her Green Screen kit as well.  We had to practice reading our stories, that we had been writing, during the week about our caterpillars.  Our stories included what they liked eating and what they felt like.  This was to go with our letter of the week and our shared book "The very hungry caterpillar".

Here is a couple of the green screens ... Mrs G is planning to set up a page for each of us so that we can share all of them.

Enjoy.

PS:  A big thank you to Stella's mum who came in, and helped finish these off for us.  Also thanks Cole, a Year 6 student from Room 15, who came over to learn how to green screen.  We look forward to being able to use you both again to Green Screen in the future.

Buddy Class Time

Today we visited our Buddy Class.  While we were there we looked at our buddy classes Weebly and they looked at our Blog.  We had lots of fun reading as well.  Mrs G took lots of videos of us during this time and here is a link to the video this created ...  We think it is very cool.

C is for Caterpillars...

This week our letter focus is C.  We have also been reading "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" book as our shared book.  Yesterday, Mrs G brought in some Very Hungry Caterpillars from her house, and we all got to hold them.  We talked about what they felt like moving on our hands, and what we thought our caterpillars liked to eat.  We even looked at one under a Digital Microscope.

T is for Teddy Bears, Tea parties, Tutu's, T Shirts, Ten Toes ...

Here is us enjoying T...

Visiting Mr McLeay

Today we went to visit Mr McLeay.  We had been reading "Greedy Cat is Hungry" by Joy Cowley as our shared book this week and we had created our own version.  This version had Mr McLeay as one of the characters.  So we thought we would take it over and share it with him.

We snuck into his room while he was busy working on his computer and then shouted BOOO!  We gave him such a fright.  He then talked to us about all the things he does in his room while we are working in ours.  He even gave us spins on his twirly chair ... Then we read him our story.  He thought it was great ... So did we.  Here are a few pictures to share.

What did go in the tank?

Today was the big reveal.

After the kids in room 4 spent the week getting the tank ready, making graphs about what was going in the tank and having lots of discussions about what it was for they finally got to peek into the bucket Mrs G brought in... Here a few photos to show what happened!

A is for Arrow, Aim, and Archery.

Today was "Fun Friday", so Mrs G brought in a few things from home to help us think about the letter/sound of the week.  Can you guess what it was?  

We asked our buddy class to come and join in the fun ...  Mr Cookson was mowing the field when we all lined up on the courtyard ... When he saw us get our Arrows out he pretended to be a moving target ... but then he decided he would mow the other side of the field.  

We all had great fun together.  We hope Room 10 will come again soon.

Magic Mimio

Today Mrs G was showing us a very cool and new thing to our class...

WE NOW HAVE A MIMIO and it makes our WHITEBOARD INTERACTIVE.

Here is a video of some of us trying it out.

What is the tank for???

In our class this week we have been setting up a tank.  The children have washed the stones, put them in the tank, washed the plastic weeds, put them in and poured lots of water in as well.  They are so excited!

This has provided us with lots of oral language experiences, fine motorskills practice, and rich tasks for both Writing and Maths... Check out our Graphs and discussion notes in class on what they think will go into it!!!

WATCH THIS SPACE

Powhiri

Here is a photo of us sitting in our school hall.  We were welcoming our new school members...  In our class that meant ... Issy, Leif, Wills, and Mrs G. 

Welcome to Room 4

Well I'm so excited to begin working in Room 4 at Riverview School.  I am looking forward to meeting everyone and getting to you all.  Bring on Tuesday!!!