Fire wise

Today Fireman Paul came to visit Vardon School and came into Room 4. Fireman Paul taught us about being safe with fire. We had to shout "fire, fire, fire!" to practise if there was a fire. We need to get down, get low, get out, fast, when there is a fire. We need to go outside and go to the safe meeting place. He said "don't go back inside when there is a fire". We need smoke alarms to tell us if there is a fire at night time.

Written by Room 4

Patterning

Last week we were learning all about patterns. We spoke about repeating patterns, and how the things in the pattern keep repeating. We made up all sorts of patterns using our bodies, using blocks, threading beads and with colours.

Here are some of Room 4 working on cutting and sticking matching patterns together.

Here are our own patterns we made on snakes...

Vardon School Class Award

 On Friday Room 4 was awarded this certificate for "making a wonderful start in our learning" and for settling in at school so fantastically. You should all be very proud of yourselves for this great effort. Keep it up!

Buddy reading with Room 8

Room 8 is our buddy class and they come over and read with us. Together we read fluency books, listened to stories, and just spent time with our buddies. It is great for building confidence in all of us as readers, and we look forward to our reading time together.

                                                    

                               
                                      

Disco

Some childen from Room 4 went to the disco on Thursday night. There was lots of dancing, and lots of fun. It was great seeing everyone dressed up and all the cool dance moves!

Milk in Room 4

Today was our first day getting our Fonterra Milk in Schools. It was really yummy :) Mr Freke even popped in and he helped us to fold our milk boxes correctly. They were pretty tricky, but we did try really hard to do it. We will get better and better at this.

Waste to Wow Trashion Show

Room 4 and Room 8 have been working together to create lollies of all shapes - that can be worn! It has been pretty tricky for us in Room 4 to do some of the things, but we have tried hard and been resourceful and resilient - we don't ever give up! We had lots of fun working together with our buddies, and we had a great time at the show.

Fun with the letter 'z'

We had lots of fun learning all about z on Friday...

We also used our bodies to make the 'z'

And practised on the Ipads, 

the interactive whiteboard...

and the whiteboards.

Shapes, shapes, everywhere!

We have been busy looking for shapes around the classroom, here are some of the shapes we found...

We found rectangles

and circles...

and even some triangles and squares (which were pretty tricky to find)

Sorting shapes

Play dough fun

We used play dough to make sea animals from our story today. Then we used the iPad to take pictures of it and wrote about what we had made. We are learning how to use pic collage. 

Gummy bears

This is our favourite song to dance to! Look how great we are.

Weather

We have been pretending to be weathermen/girls to recap our morning routine - looking at the weather, and the date. We are also learning to use our big voices so everyone can hear us.

Working with Room 8 - newspaper garments

In preparation for our Trash to Wow exhibition, we used some newspaper to make clothing. It was lots of fun, and we needed to make sure we were working together as a team and using our listening ears (to hear everyone's different ideas).

Well done Room 4 and Room 8, you guys did a great job!

10's frames

We have been working really hard getting to know the 10's frames. Here we are putting on the correct number of counters needed... Room 4 is getting good at this :)

17th of May - trip to the Museum

We were SO excited about our first trip! We went to museum to look at the World of Wearable Art display, which was really cool. Then we set about making a head piece out of paper (thank you to the mums, dads and nanny who helped us with our creations)

Going through the museum

                                                          All our wonderful hat creations...

Letter fun

We have been learning our letter sounds in Room 4. A really fun part of this is making the letters with our whole bodies! It can be a bit tricky some times to work out how to make the letter, but we keep trying, and are getting better at working this out (some letters are easier than others!)

A small 'a' - a round part with a straight line

The capital A was much easier!

Making a 't'

We all made our own body 't'

Can you guess what letter this is?