WALT identify the author and the illustrator in the text

WALT identify the author and the illustrator in the text.

Room 4 has been using all of our reading skills this year, ready for Year 2. Every week we have a new 'test'
about different parts of the book. We have been searching for full stops, exclamation marks, question marks
and commas. This week we are focusing on finding the author and the illustrator. We all had a turn to come up
and point to where the authors name is. Miss Donnell tried to trick some of us and changed the pages!

'I know the author is the writer of the story and they do the words.'

WALT identify NZ notes and coins

WALT identify NZ notes and coins.

We had Captain Cash from ASB come to visit Room 4.
We learnt lots about saving money, spending money and
sharing money.

Miss Donnell decided to test us and see if we remembered how to sort out the coins and notes from biggest to smallest.

Look at my sorting success!

Our Writing Successes

    

WALT reflect on our 2018 writing.

We looked in our writing books at the first piece of writing
we did this year and the most recent piece of writing.
We talked about what had changed in our writing,
what we have learnt so far and are excited
to learn next year in Year 2.

Something I have learnt in writing this year is to add detail to my writing.

Something I am proud of in writing this year is using full stops.

WALT create a wearable piece of artwork.

WALT create a wearable piece of artwork.

Our art focus over Term 2 and 3 has been creating a piece of
art we can wear. Miss Donnell introduced us to a song in The Little Mermaid called 'Under the Sea' which was the focus of our art work.

We created our artwork by sketching sea animals in our books and tracing them onto laminated sheets. We coloured them in and created patterns using vivids. Miss Donnell glued them on to tutus and t-shirts for us to wear.

Check out my awesome art piece!

WALT read our story back.

WALT read our story back.

WALT identify different phenomena in our solar system.

WALT identify different phenomena in our solar
system.

Room 4 have been learning about the solar
system. This term we have been focusing on
the planets. We have been learning about a
different planet each week and videoing some
facts. Here is a fact I have chosen about my
planet.

WALT read for meaning

WALT read for meaning.

WALT tell time to the hour and half hour using analogue clocks.

WALT tell time to the hour and half hour using
analogue clocks.

Room 4 have been learning about measurement
this term and our focus has been on time. We
have been learning about lots of forms of time,
from days of the week to ages of people. We
have made our own clocks that can tell different
times of the day that are important to us.

WALT read back our writing

WALT read back our writing.

This is the first story Charlotte ever shared with Miss Donnell. She has done a great job gaining the confidence to share her work!

WALT read back my writing

WALT read back our writing.

Charlotte has been building her confidence in speaking in the classroom with Miss Donnell. This is the first story that she talked to Miss Donnell about and is reading back on the camera with help.

WALT explore and share ideas about music from a range of sound environments

WALT explore and share ideas about
music from a range of sound
environments.

Room 4 were lucky enough to have Mrs D come 

into the classroom to teach a music lesson 

about sound. First we made different sounds 

using our bodies, like clapping our hands and 

stamping our feet. 

Then we played a follow the leader game where

everyone had to make a different sound and we

all had to copy them. It was so much fun! 

WALT know our alphabet sounds.

WALT know our alphabet sounds.

WALT identify 2D and 3D shapes

WALT identify 2D and 3D shapes

This term Room 4 have been learning about
shapes. We have been learning about how to
sort shapes and what different shapes look like.

Miss Donnell took us outside to test our knowledge
on what shapes we know. She gave us some
chalk to try and draw the shapes we knew. Then
she said shapes out loud like rectangle, triangle,
a shape with 3 sides and we had to try and draw
them!

3R Award Winner

Congratulations Charlotte on being one of Room 4's 3R award winners! You have shown great responsibility, respect and resilience since you started at Elm Park School. Keep up the great work!

WALT write our ideas in a sentence that makes sense

WALT write our ideas in a sentence that makes sense

This term we have been learning about how to write awesome stories. We started by drawing pictures and talking about our ideas. Then we started writing our ideas down in a sentence. We have even started using full stops! When we come and see Miss Donnell we check that our work makes sense by reading it to her.

WALT draw self-portraits

 Room 4 have been learning about drawing self-portraits. We started by sketching a picture of our face and neck.
Then we used pastels to colour ourselves in. The last part was the border!

We used corrugated cardboard to design a cool pattern around our portraits. Check out my awesome work!

WALT find the first word in a sentence

WALT find the first word in a sentence.

We have been looking at the different parts of a book while we begin our Term 1 reading. We have found that pointing to the first word when we read helps us to identify some of our commonly used words.

Charlotte found the first word in our book 'The New Cat'

WALT count forwards to 100

WALT count forwards to 100.

This is my first attempt at writing my numbers to 100!

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