WALT identify the author and the illustrator in the text

WALT identify the author and the illustrator in the text.

Room 4 has been using all of our reading skills this year, ready for Year 2. Every week we have a new 'test' 
about different parts of the book. We have been searching for full stops, exclamation marks, question marks 
and commas. This week we are focusing on finding the author and the illustrator. We all had a turn to come up 
and point to where the illustrators name is. Miss Donnell tried to trick some of us and changed the pages!

'I know the illustrator is the person who draws the pictures for the story.' 

WALT identify NZ notes and coins

WALT identify NZ notes and coins.

We had Captain Cash from ASB come to visit Room 4.
We learnt lots about saving money, spending money and
sharing money.

Miss Donnell decided to test us and see if we remembered how to sort out the coins and notes from biggest to smallest.

Look at my sorting success!

Our Writing Successes

   

WALT reflect on our 2018 writing.

We looked in our writing books at the first piece of writing
we did this year and the most recent piece of writing.
We talked about what had changed in our writing,
what we have learnt so far and are excited
to learn next year in Year 2.

Something I have learnt in writing this year is how to use full stops.

Something I am proud of in writing this year is I can have a try to spell words, even tricky ones.

WALT create a wearable piece of artwork

WALT create a wearable piece of artwork.

Our art focus over Term 2 and 3 has been creating a piece of
art we can wear. Miss Donnell introduced us to a song in The Little Mermaid called 'Under the Sea' which was the focus of our art work.

We created our artwork by sketching sea animals in our books and tracing them onto laminated sheets. We coloured them in and created patterns using vivids. Miss Donnell glued them on to tutus and t-shirts for us to wear.

Check out my awesome art piece!

WALT sound out words using our yellow word card.

WALT sound out words using our yellow word card.

'I can find lots of words and sounds on my word card.'

WALT identify different phenomena in our solar system.

WALT identify different phenomena in our solar
system.

Room 4 have been learning about the solar
system. This term we have been focusing on
the planets. We have been learning about a
different planet each week and videoing some
facts. Here is a fact I have chosen about my
planet.

WALT know different parts of a sentence.

WALT know different parts of a sentence.

'I can find the first word in a sentence.'

WALT tell time to the hour and half hour using analogue clocks.

WALT tell time to the hour and half hour using
analogue clocks.

Room 4 have been learning about measurement
this term and our focus has been on time. We
have been learning about lots of forms of time,
from days of the week to ages of people. We
have made our own clocks that can tell different
times of the day that are important to us.

WALT identify different shapes.

WALT identify different shapes.

'I like the square because it is red.'

WALT read back our writing.

WALT read back our writing.

'I like writing about sharks.'

WALT explore and share ideas about music from a range of sound environments

WALT explore and share ideas about
music from a range of sound
environments

Room 4 were lucky enough to have Mrs D come 

into the classroom to teach a music lesson 

about sound. First we clapped along to the 

rhythm of 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star'. 

After we had learnt the pattern, we used clave 

sticks to tap along to the pattern. It was great 

using the sticks as some of us had used them 

before! 

'I like doing Music with Mrs D!'

WALT know our alphabet sounds.

WALT know our alphabet sounds.

'I know my name starts with k k kite.'

3R Award Winner

Congratulations Kohen on being one of Room 4's 3R award winners! You have shown great responsibility, respect and resilience since you started at Elm Park School. Keep up the great work!

WALT read back our writing

WALT read back our writing.

This term we have been learning about how to write
awesome stories. We started by drawing pictures and
talking about our ideas. Then we started writing our ideas
down in a sentence. We have even started using full stops!
When we come and see Miss Donnell we check that our
work makes sense by reading it to her.

'I can draw my own picture of me and my mum.' - Kohen

WALT count backwards from 10

WALT count backwards from 10.

The Starfish have been working on counting backwards from 10. We used teddy bears to help line up the numbers and we counted them backwards. Then we had to line up the honey pots backwards too!

'It was easy to count the teddy bears but tricky to count the honey pots.'

WALT sketch self portraits

 Room 4 have been learning about drawing self-portraits. We started by sketching a picture of our face and neck.
Then we used pastels to colour ourselves in. The last part was the border! We used corrugated cardboard to design a cool pattern around our portraits. Check out my awesome work!

'I like my border and I really like my picture.'

WALT identify parts of a book e.g title,author.

WALT identify parts of a book e.g title,author.

We have been looking in our reading identify the different parts of a book. So far we have identified the front cover, back cover, spine, title and author. We are always looking to find new parts of a book to learn about, especially in non-fiction stories.

'Sometimes I don't know what the author is but I know what the title is.'

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