Easter Bunny Descriptions

We wrote these great Easter Bunny descriptions a couple of weeks ago.  Mrs Robertson typed up our stories and we illustrated our own writing.

We had to use adjectives to describe what the Easter Bunny looks like.  We also had to use joining words (such as 'so', 'and', 'because', 'which', 'but')  to help add details


Come and read the rest of our Easter Bunny descriptions up on the wall in our classroom! 

PLANTS

We watched an episode of the Magic School Bus which was all about what plants need to survive, the different functions of the parts of plants, and how plants make their own food. We made this poster afterwards which show all of the amazing facts that we learned.

Leaf Art- Positive & Negative Images

We made these leaf art pictures.  We drew half of a leaf and cut it out.  We flipped it over to form the other half.  We glued them onto another piece of paper.



Autumn Trees
Mrs Garden has been taking us for some very cool art when she has been relieving in the classroom.  First we had to dye the background using three different colours in a circular motion.  Then we had to draw some branches and blow blobs of black dye with a straw to make the extra leaves.   We haven't all  finished these yet....we can't wait until Mrs Garden is back in the class to finish them off and get them on the wall with some Autumn writing.

Writing Challenge #5

Your challenge is to write a story about this Easter Bunny.

 You can describe the bunny using adjectives and use joining words to help add details. 

What will your bunny do? 

Where will your bunny go? 

 

Writing Challenge #4

Your challenge this week is to tell me what you can see through the binoculars!  Be as creative as you want!  Is it a dinosaur? The beach? A dragon?  The stars?

Don't forget adjectives (describing words) and joining words to help add details. 

Through the binoculars I can see....

Science - Plants

We have started our Science unit which is about looking at history of plants in Christchurch and around Russley School.  Last week we went on a nature hunt around the school grounds spotting different trees.

Here are some of the plants we found around Russley School.

We discussed why plants and trees may have disappeared over the years.  We thought about animals eating leaves, people needing firewood and to build furniture, and that some areas needed to be cleared to make things like our school.


Today we drew the different leaves ourselves which we discovered on our Nature Walk.

Over the next few weeks we will look parts of plants and their functions and what they need to survive,

Butterflies!

Wintrow and Samantha have been bringing in chrysalises which they have found at home. We have found it very fascintating watching the chrysalis change from light green to dark green, and the to black. You can even see the wings through the chrysalis. Some of us were even lucky enough to see the butterfly hatch out. We know that the butterfly won't fly away straight away as its wings are wet and need to dry out.

Writing Challenge #3

Your challenge is to...

Describe the monster!

Don't forget to use adjectives (describing words) to help explain your ideas.  

Extra for experts: Use the joining words 'so'  and 'which'  to explain what the different body parts you have described are used for.

Ddak Ji with Sohee

Last week was out last week with Sohee, our student teacher from Gongju University in Korea.
Sohee helped us with our reading, writing, maths and other classroom activities. We will miss having her in our class!

Sohee shared a traditional Korean game with us called Ddak Ji which she used to play when she was at primary school.  She taught us how to make the game pieces needed and then two different ways to play the game;

1. We made our game pieces using two different colours of thick card.  We had to fold the two pieces in exactly the same way then fold them together to create the inter-lapping square.



2. We played the game in a group using several smaller ddak ji.  We had to take turns hitting the small one in the middle with our larger ddak ji pieces.  If you flipped the ddak ji over you would win that piece.  The winner was the person who collected the most small pieces.


3.  We played the game in pairs using only our ddak ji pieces. If you turned the other persons ddak ji over you were the winner and could keep their ddak ji piece.



4.  Sohee wrote our names on our game piece in Korean!

Last week in Room 11

Daily Writing:
We write a story together each day before independently writing in our books
.  Mrs Robertson models some skills and we all contribute writing the story
and brainstorming ideas together.
We know that adjectives are describing words and help create a better picture in the authors mind.

Poetry
Every Friday we look at a different poem. 
We have learned that visualisation is an important skill involving 
seeing the pictures in your head when you read.
We look at rhyming words and spelling patterns within the poem.
We discuss what senses and interesting vocabulary the poet has used.

 

Kapa Haka 
 We go to Kapa Haka every Tuesday to learn different waiata and Maori dances.

Kelly Sports

Kelly Sports on PhotoPeach
Today Kelly Sports came to school.  We had a skills session involving netball passes, hitting with a cricket bat and lots of relay races. 
Check your reading folders for a notice on how to join sessions every Wednesday.

Writing Challenge #2

Your challenge this week is to..... 

describe your favourite sport!

See if you can use the joining word 'because' to explain why you like it so much!

You can choose any sport not just the ones pictured.

Extra for experts: Include two adjectives (describing words)

More Graphs

We have been continuing our statistics unit over the past week.  We have become very good at understanding the cycle.
1. Ask a question
2. Collect the data (tally charts, counting, sorting information)
3. Display the data (picture chart, bar graph)
4. Interpret the data (discuss what we found out)

Today Mrs Robertson gave us our own bag of m&ms.  We each had to make our own bar graph displaying the colour of m&ms in our packets.  Then....we got to eat them!
We had to remember titles and labels in our graphs and make statements explaining what we found out.

Inflatable Soccer Pitch

Ricardo from Christchurch Football Academy (CFA) came to school on Friday.  We had so much fun playing mini games of soccer.  Thank you Ricardo and CFA!

Soccer Fun on PhotoPeach

Meet the Stars of Room 11

Meet Room 11 on PhotoPeach

Statistics

We have been learning about how to sort data (information).

First of all we needed a question.  Our question was:
'What pets do the children in Room 11 own?" 

Then we had to work out the best way to collect the data (information/answers).
We tried all yelling out our pets but Mrs Robertson couldn't hear everyone at once. 
We went around in the circle saying the pets one at a time but Mrs Robertson lost count.
Mrs Robertson ruled up a quick tally chart to help collect the data and then recorded everyone's answers. We could easily see the totals.  We learned that when you do tally marks you put every fifth tally through the middle - it makes it easier to count!

Next we made a picture graph to display the data. 
We each coloured in the pictures of the types of pets we own and put them on the piece of paper.  We could tell straight away that there were more cats than any other pet because the line was much higher.  Mrs Robertson said we had to put some labels and titles on the graph because otherwise people wouldn't know what they were looking at.

The last thing we did was understand and interpret the data (discussed the results).  You can read these on the graph.

All About Me Writing

We have been learning about each other this week.
Mrs Robertson was proud of our great publishing skills. 

Holiday Writing

We have been busy writing and illustrating a story about what we did in the holidays.  Here are some examples.  Come and check out the rest of our stories hanging in the classroom.