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Video from assembly

Here's our video that we shared from our last assembly. It shows what we did during our 'Make a change' inquiry.

Toy & Tech day

Just a quick notice - this Thursday, we're having a special day to reward all the amazing behaviour and hard work we've put in over the term. We are having a "toy & tech" day. This means that the children can bring in one or two things to play with. We will have some rules to ensure everything safe. Please give me an email if you have any questions.

Three little pigs - a different perspective....

It's been far too long since I've updated our class blog and I've had requests from the children that this video goes up online. We've been looking at fairytales in class this term. We've studied characters, setttings and plots. We've also written our mixed up fairytales (these are in the class in booklets - please come and have a look!). Our next step is to tell a fairytale from a different perspective; here's a video we used to start off our discussion:

* This video does has some difficult concepts to comprehend - we didn't go into many of them. Instead we talked indepth about the Big Bad Wolf not being so bad after all. We also read "The true story of the three little pigs" which gives a similar changed perspective story.

Spelling & Maths

Unfortunately our printer is broken today so I haven't been able to print out spelling and maths homework. Instead, we've written them in our notebooks and I've provided them below:

List 1:

Term 4
Words to learn: contractions	M	Tu	W	Th	F
don't
won't
can't
hasn't
aren't
Total

List 2:

term 4
Words to learn: contractions	M	Tu	W	Th	F
couldn't
shouldn't
doesn't
they're
weren't
Total

Our maths home is either....adding 4 or multiplying by 4.

Hopefully the printer will be back and running tomorrow.

Athletics Day

On Tuesday we had our athletics day. We all had lots of fun participating in the different activities. We competed in sprints, long jump, high jump, tug-of-war, sack races and relays. It was lots of fun but really windy. Here's a quick reflection from Amara and Connor (the rest can be found in our Korero Books).

Fractions

This week we're finishing fractions in maths.

We'll be making sure that we can all....

- identify fractions
- order fractions
- find fractions of shapes (and some numbers)

Some of us might be able to....

- identify equivalent fractions
- add or subtraction fractions
- convert improper fractions

Have a go at these games to help you practice

Egg Fractions

Golf Fractions

Pizza Fractions

Have a watch of this video to help you

This week in Te Reo

We are really lucky in Room 17. Each week, Whaea Adrienne comes into our classroom and spends time teaching us Te Reo.

This week we focused on place names.

Here's a link to a quiz from today that Mr Mcintosh created. You'll need to copy and paste the class code into the box. The code is 124788

Quiz

Assembly Movie

Here's our movie we shared at our latest assembly - it very quickly details a few of things we've been learning.

Oktapodi

A little while ago we watch a really cool short film called 'Oktapodi'. We talked about how exciting the film was and decided to retell the story. We tried to use lots of descriptive language to keep our audience interested. You can check out the video and our stories below:

Oktapodi Stories