Room 4's Learning Blog

Pop Pop Pop

2011-11-09T15:28:00.000+13:00

This afternoon Room 4 investigated the properties of popcorn. We compared popcorn before and after it had been popped. The best bit was eating it at the end!

How has the popcorn changed?

"Wow! Look at the popcorn pop"

Writing down our observations.

Syndicate Singing

2011-09-16T14:06:00.000+12:00

The five instrumentalist's playing she'll be coming round the mountain.

Mrs Davies and Mr George at syndicate singing.

This week we were very lucky to have Mrs Davies' Dad to come into syndicate singing and accompany us on the piano. We did our favourite songs. We also did She'll be coming 'round the mountain. Five lucky star students were picked be instrumentalist's and Mrs Davies dusted off her violin and joined in to!

The Process of Digestion

2011-09-08T14:52:00.000+12:00

This afternoon Room 4 explored the digestive system. First of all we made a human digestion system outside with a food tube, stomach and intestines. Then in the classroom we made stomachs out of plastic bags.First we put in a piece of bread which was like the sandwich we ate at lunch time. Then Mrs Ogilvy added some digestive juices (lemon mist) and then we squeezed the bags to make our food into a smoothy just like the stomach does! We learnt that water was also very important because it is part of our digestive juices.

Looking at our stomach!

Squeezing those stomachs!

Mrs Ogilvy added the digestive juices.

Making the food into a smoothy.

Constable Sue

2011-09-05T12:05:00.000+12:00

Constable Sue talking to us about the police.

This morning Constable Sue came to talk to Room 4. She told us all about the police. We learnt that they do lots of different things. Some police officers are dog handlers and they chase people. Some officers are in the diving squad and they do underwater searches. Some officers are scenes of crime officers and they look for finger prints at burglaries. It was really interesting and we all learnt some thing new about the police.

The Adventures of Flat Stanley

2011-09-01T14:28:00.000+12:00

This week Room 4 and Mrs Ogilvy have been learning all about the adventures of Flat Stanley. Poor old Stanley was squashed under his bulletin board and he was as flat as a pancake!
First we read the story by Jeff Brown and then we looked at the characters of the story which was where we met Stanley and his brother Arthur. Then we wrote stories about ourselves when we were flat. Today we wrote to a friend to tell them all about Flat Stanley's adventures. Flat Stanley also went on an adventure around Fernridge School. Look at the photo's to see what he got up to!

Flat Stanley with Room 4.

Checking out Mr A in his office.

Cassidy, K.J and Caitlin doing some maths.

Judging the masterchef finalists!

Hanging about on the turbo challenge with Alex, Aiden and James!

Flat Stanley went to Room 8 when they were doing their silent reading.

Room 7 were doing another great Fernridge live production. We can't wait to see it!

Brilliant Bowls

2011-08-30T12:31:00.000+12:00

Mr Mahupuku showing us how to bowl.

Aiden having a go at getting close to the kitty.

Eva preparing to bowl!

Room 4 were really lucky to be able to have a go at indoor bowls today. Mr Mahupuku came in to show us how it was done. He explained that the little white bowl was called the 'kitty' and we had to get our bowl as close to it as we could. It was trickier than it looked!

Super Scientists

2011-08-26T10:10:00.001+12:00

Yesterday Jack, Amber and Alex from Room 4 became super scientists for the day. Working with Penny Jackson they discovered lots of different things about energy. This involved playing games outside, learning an energy poem and making a circuit to make a bulb light up and a buzzer buzz!
Jack said "I thought it was cool".

Amber said "It was fun. My favourite part was when we played the games to learn about energy".

Alex said "I thought it was awesome. My favourite was playing with the electric stuff".

Writing an energy poem.

Exploring circuits.

Concentrating on energy facts.

Exploring circuits.

Discovering energy facts.

Finding out about circuits.

Energy games.

Technological Outcomes

2011-08-25T21:25:00.000+12:00

Focussing on our unit 'It's all a game' we made prototypes of a counter for our class board game. The design brief was that the counter had to represent our NFL team. First of all we explored the different materials that were available to use and then we drew our design.

Exploring the materials.

Modifying the plans.

Creating the counter.

After evaluating and modifying the plans we then made our counters. They were awesome.

Lots of great learning

2011-08-20T22:00:00.000+12:00

Room 4 have chosen to find about the U.S.A as part of exploring different countries coming to New Zealand for the Rugby World Cup. The five teams of the New York Giants, Arizona Cardinals, San Francisco 49'ers, Denver Broncos and the New Orleans Saints have been investigating different facts about their states. This culminated in a grand quiz on Friday where they showed off their new knowledge.

The Denver Broncos showing great team work

2011-08-20T21:45:00.000+12:00

Some of the great learning Room 4 have done this week.