Castles

Room 4 as part of our Toy Unit have been making castles this week. Each group did a great job and presented their castles with lots of creativity.

Ferrymead Visit.

Three teachers form Ferrymead came to St Anne's today to do a programme about olden day toys.
We were broken into two groups and we each looked at puppets and puppet shows, homemade toys, heritage toys and indoor games and toys. It was great fun for all.

Spin Toys

As part of Room 4's Toy unit we started with making some spinning toys.

Term 2 Class Newsletter

 

Monday 6^th May 2013

 

Dear Parents/Caregivers of Room 4 Students,

Welcome back to another exciting term, I hope you all had a restful and enjoyable break.  This letter is just to let you know a little about what will be happening in Term Two.

Spelling, tables and reading log will begin this week and will be the same as it was last term.  Please sign your child’s notebook and reading log to show they are completing these at home.

Our Inquiry Topic for Term Two is ‘Change’, looking at ‘the technology of toys past, present and future’. During this unit students will be designing, creating, building, and evaluating their own new and modified toys. If you have any handy bits and pieces to help with the build such as; egg containers, lids, bottles, shoe boxes, old rugby socks, plastic containers, buttons, small boxes, could you please bring these during the term..

In week 2 educators from Ferrymead Historic Park will come to school and bring with them example of old toys and games and facilitate a day of teaching and learning about historic toys, puppets, games etc. There is a cost for this of $4 and if this could be paid to Shelley by Week 2 this would be much appreciated.

Other focus subjects in Term 2 are:

Religious Education -Holy Spirit and Church.

Mathematics- Addition and Subtraction and Statistics.

English- Discussion and instructions.

Kiwisport and Library continue on Thursdays.

Please check that your child still has all stationery needed in Room 4 including a red pen, ruler, pencils, eraser etc.

All dates and times of events and activities this term will follow in the School Newsletter.

I hope this answers some of your questions. If you have any other queries please feel free to contact me at school for an appointment or e-mail at ryan@stannes.co.nz

 

I look forward a very productive and successful term with your child.  Please check out our class blog: http://stannes104.blogspot.co.nz

Yours sincerely,

Ryan McInnes

Cross Country 2013

Today we had our School Cross Country. Everyone tried hard, did their best and supported their friends. There are now 18 children who have been choosen to go to Zone Cross Country in May.
Room 4

Again a big thanks to Gordan Trigg for his stunning photography.

Science Alive

Science Alive.

Today Science Alive came to school. We learnt about forces, gravity, energy, pulleys, wheels, gears and axels.

We got to build our own vehicles, using a design brief, this was lots of fun especially when we put motors on them and drove them around the room.

 

Year 3/4 Basketball

Great game last night with 2 minutes to go it was 8 all. Players got a little tired because there was no subs and so they just missed out on their first competition points.