2017 Art Exhibition

Our Art Exhibition theme for 2017 is 'We are Elm Park.' We decided to look at the flowers we could see around our school.

Room 4 practiced sketching the flowers before we decided to make them using paper. We looked at our sketches to see how many petals our flowers had. We all made two flowers that were the same that we had seen around the school; a daisy and a daffodil. The other flowers were chosen by us.

We made vases out of paper and cut out little designs.

James: 'I like my flowers.'

WALT find and identify punctuation

All About Shapes

This term Room 4 has been learning about Shapes. We have been looking around our school for different shapes that we can find (we found lots on the playground!) 

After we found the shapes, we looked at the qualities of each shape, like how many sides they had.

Miss Donnell took us outside and we drew some of the shapes we had seen around our school. In the middle we wrote how many sides they had.

These are my shapes.

Writing for the Future

For our 50th Jubilee Room 4 decided to write about what they love about Elm Park School. We brainstormed some ideas about the things we do in the classroom, people who make our day better and our favourite things to do at morning tea and lunchtime. These stories went into a time capsule that will be opened when the school turns 100.

Using finger spaces in our writing

We are learning to leave a finger space between words.

Looking into our Reading

We are learning to comment on character, plot and setting.

Making Groups

We are learning to join and split objects into groups.
'This is my group.'

Celebrating Chinese New Year!

For our Inquiry, we are learning about Celebrations.

We have been learning about Chinese New Year. We know some of the food they get to eat during Chinese New Year, and the special things they get to do. Some cities have awesome parades with big dragons. We decided to 
make our own Chinese New Year drums. We painted our drums red and yellow, and Miss Donnell helped us to attach the bells. We think they are awesome!!

Talking about our great writing

We are learning to talk about our ideas.

Celebrating Celebrations - Dragon Boat Festival

We are learning to design and create dragon boat paddles.

This term Room 4 have been learning about different celebrations. We have been learning
about the Dragon Boat Festival this week. We decided to design our own dragon boat
paddles because we liked the different designs that some of the racers had. We used
pastels to create bright colours so our paddles would be seen in the water.

Identifying parts of a book

We are learning to identify and describe parts of a book.

Finding Patterns to 5

We are learning to find patterns to 5.

Before and After Numbers

We are learning before and after numbers to 10.

Picture + Words = Writing in Room 4

We are learning to match our picture to our words

I like reading about animals

Swimming with Room 4

We are learning to get in and out of the pool safely.