The Saturn reading group have been working on finding and summarising information in a non-fiction text. They read a book about White-tailed Spiders and gathered information and produced a Google Presentation about what they learnt. Check it out...
Kia ora! Welcome to Room 16's blog. We are a Year 4 class at Elm Park School in Pakuranga, Auckland, New Zealand. We are looking forward to sharing our thinking and learning journey with you over the year! Please feel free to leave a comment as we would love to have your feedback!
Friday 31 May 2013
Amazing pizza fractions!
Today we made some pizzas using our fractions knowledge.
We used our maths fractions to know how many slices we had.
Our teacher put us into groups of four so that we all had a quarter each.
We had lots of delicious toppings on our fractions pizza.
Our favourite topping was cheese.
We took some amazing photos of us making our yummy pizzas.
Thursday 23 May 2013
Cybersafety Performance - MyFriends Dot Com
On Wednesday we watched a StoryLines Performance about Cybersafety.
We learnt a lot of interesting things about being safe on the internet.
Here are a few things we learnt:
Monday 13 May 2013
Travelwise Week 2013
This week is Travelwise Week.
HOW DO YOU GET TO SCHOOL!
We’re celebrating active and sustainable ways to travel to school during Travelwise Week in May! That includes walking, cycling, public transport, carpooling and even scooting to school.
This week we are going to fill out an on-line calendar to track the different ways students in our class get to school. By taking part in this survey we could win some cool prizes for our school.
Check out our calendar below:
R16 WOW Travelwise Calendar
HOW DO YOU GET TO SCHOOL!
We’re celebrating active and sustainable ways to travel to school during Travelwise Week in May! That includes walking, cycling, public transport, carpooling and even scooting to school.
This week we are going to fill out an on-line calendar to track the different ways students in our class get to school. By taking part in this survey we could win some cool prizes for our school.
Check out our calendar below:
R16 WOW Travelwise Calendar
New Zealand Post Children's Post Books Awards 2013
Check out the website below to have a good look at the Finalists in the NZ Post Children's Post Book Awards. There are 5 great books in each of the Picture Book and Junior Fiction Sections. Some of these are in our School Library and we will look at the during Library time on Thursday this week.
Which one is your favourite? We will be voting this week!
New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards
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