Week 8

                Fete de la Musique - World Music Day

On Tuesday our school celebrated the Fete de la Musique at playtime.  It was great to see so many children playing instruments.  We had two special musicians - Israel and Michael - who joined in this celebration.

 

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In Math this week, Room 4 is learning how to tell the time on analogue clocks - o'clock and half past the hour,

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Our Topic focus this week - looking at the Famous New Zealanders we have on the outside of our our learning areas.   These special New Zealanders were chosen because we believe they have made a positive difference to the lives of others.

Matariki

The children have spent the week exploring Matariki - reading stories, listening to legends, string games, singing.

We talked about the traditional uses of Matariki and the way we celebrate it today.

 In groups, the children created posters about Matariki.

Project Energize 4 Food Groups

Renee played a game of "Snacks and Ladders" with our class today. 

The children showed they remembered all the four food groups we need to eat everyday to keep our body healthy and energised. 

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This is an exciting week for Room 4 - Book Week.   We are listening to stories from other cultures, sharing our own special books with the class, finding out about different authors, dressing up as a book character and much more.

Last week we started to learn Mandarin in our class.  We have a wonderful teacher - Zhang Ting.  This week we learnt to count to 10 in Mandarin.

Stories from other Cultures

Mr Clark shared a story from Scotland with the children - he tried to convince them that haggis would be a yummy meal.  I don't think the children were really convinced!

Rita came in and shared a fable in Hindi with our room.  She talked to us about the way Hindi is written.  We also learnt to say "hello" नमस्तेnamasteand "thank you"        

"धन्यवाद्" (dhanyavaad) "thank you".

Adu's mother read us some Indian fables about animals from a book called : "Stories from Panchatantra" .
We found out that the Tamil language is one of the oldest languages in the world.  The children asked her some interesting questions about India - we found out that the tiger is their national animal an the peacock is their national bird.

Week 4

Class photographs are being taken on Wednesday morning. Order forms were sent home last Wednesday - if you wish to place an order, please send the envelope and the money to the office before Wednesday morning.

Our focus for this week is Fairy Tales.  On Wednesday. the Hillcrest High School Drama students will be performing "Twisted Fairy Tales" for us to watch.  

We have been exploring some of the traditional fairy tales and how these could be changed.