Christmas in the Park

Christmas in the Park is on this Sunday. Some Hinni kids are going to be performing We Wish you a Merry Christmas. Here is the song to practise at home. We are all excited about the show and look forward to seeing you there!

Tuakana Teina

Every Friday we have Tuakana Teina which is where we work alongside our buddy class - Room 7. For Tuakana Teina sometimes you can be the learner and sometimes the teacher, it can change around. Today Room 7 visited our class and we shared some of our learning that we are proud of and some people read stories to each other too. We all enjoyed Tuakana Teina and look forward to seeing our buddy class next week!

Rushleigh sharing some of her writing with Tahle.

Room 4 and Room 7 busy sharing their learning.

We all enjoy talking to and sharing with our buddies!

Marcus reading one of his favourite books to Jaxon.

What do you enjoy about Tuakana Teina?

Welcome back everyone!

Hi everyone! I hope you've had a super holiday and are looking forward to term 4. Check out the amazing Ag Day art we did last term which I have put up in the classroom. See you all on Monday!

Happy Father's Day!

Last week we wrote descriptions about our dads for Father's Day. It was great to read all the lovely things people had written about their dads. Here is a selection of our stories. All the rest are up in our classroom to read!

Class photo

Last week was the first time our whole class has been here in ages so we decided to take a new photo for the blog. We also took this crazy one - check out our scary faces!

PMP

This week we started doing PMP on a Thursday. PMP is a Perceptual Motor Programme that helps us with our fitness, balance, locomotion, hand/eye and hand/foot coordination and eye tracking. We have to do a range of activities in groups. Room 4 have a responsible job because we are the leaders and look after the other students in our group. We really enjoy doing PMP!

What's your favourite activity at PMP?

Dancing Raisins

This week we did a fun science experiment with some raisins and lemonade. We had to put the raisins into a glass of lemonade and then ... the raisins started to dance! Why did they do that? Well we discovered that the lemonade had carbon dioxide in it and the raisins attached themselves to the bubbles of carbon dioxide. When there was enough bubbles they floated up to the surface of the glass then the bubbles popped and they sunk again. After we had done the experiment we made a Pic Collage in our groups.

Plays!

Last week two of Room 4's reading groups had a play for their reading. After practising all week, they performed their play on Friday for the rest of the class. We enjoyed how everyone got into character, the expressive voices they used and how they all worked together as a team!

Max, Emma, Arley, Rushleigh & Zach performing Invisible

Ali, Harry, Lachlan, Casey, Emily & Harry performing Tui in a Tree

What did you enjoy about the plays?

Mum Descriptions

In Room 4 we all love our mums! To celebrate Mother's Day on Sunday we wrote descriptions of our mums this week in class. Here are some of our lovely stories! The rest are on display in Room 4. Happy Mother's Day to all the wonderful mums on Sunday!

ANZAC Art

We created this awesome Poppy Art in the last week of term one to show our respect to the ANZAC soldiers. Room 4 is really proud of our art! We hope everyone had a good ANZAC day with their families.

Massage Circle

This afternoon we did something a bit different in Room 4. One of the reading groups had read a book called At the End of the Day about a class who had a massage circle so we decided to try it. First we massaged each others backs by drawing rain, clouds, lightning and words with our fingers, then we all leaned forward and gave each other a hug and at the end we all leaned back on each other. It was lots of fun and and good way to end the day!

What did you like about the massage circle?

Our New Special Friend in Room 4

Meet Mr Fluff! This is Room 4's special bear. He is super soft and loves cuddles. From next week he will get to go home with the VIP each day and they can write a story about the adventures they have with him.

Foamy Fountain

This week in Room 4 we were scientists! We did an experiment in class called Foamy Fountain. To do the experiment, we mixed Vinegar, Food Colouring and Dishwashing Liquid together then we added some Baking Soda. It exploded everywhere and made heaps of rainbow colours. We thought it looked like a smoothie or ice cream but it smelt a bit yukky!

What was your favourite part of the experiment?