Learner of the Week!

This week's learner of the week award goes to Fredrick. Room 13 have been presenting their speeches to the class. Some of us struggled to share our speeches and it was a bit nerve wracking getting up in front of the class to speak. Fredrick used his initiative and offered to help other students by standing next to them to support them when they were reading their speeches.

It's great to see a Year 4 student using their initiative and being a supportive classmate!

100 Sunshines!

Another outstanding achievement from Nabila! She has earned 100 sunshines this year for valuing herself, valuing her learning and respecting all others.

Great work Nabila! 

Who will be next to hit the 100 sunshine mark?

Respect

This week's PB4L lesson is about Respect. We have brainstormed our ideas about what respect looks like, sounds likes and feels like in different settings around the school.

Here are our ideas:

In the hall

• no talking
• no running
• no pushing
• respect property
• keep quiet and sit down
• laugh when it is appropriate
• respect people
• clap to show your appreciation

In the library

• respect property
• look after the books
• use the browsing paddles properly
• respect the computers
• return things where you found them
• be quiet
• no running
• do SSR
• be sensible
• keep your hands and feet to yourself

On the field

• listen to instructions
• play safely and sensibly
• don’t cheat
• respect property
• respect others
• value yourself
• talk in a friendly way
• keep your hands and feet to yourself

In the cloak bay

• clean up after yourself
• don’t run
• be quiet
• no littering on the ground
• be patient
• be safe and sensible

On the courts

• no kicking
• let other people play in games
• no fighting
• no bullying each other

In the classroom

• no whistling in the classroom
• be positive to the teacher and all students
• no fighting
• no chucking books
• respect the person who is talking
• be quiet
• don’t waste other people’s learning time

Teaching Room 8

This morning we visited Room 8, to teach them our maths games. Room 8 children were really good at listening and following instructions.

   

Some of the games were too easy, and some of the games were WAY too hard for the students. For our games we created a PMI chart to reflect on our teaching.

My maths game was….

PLUS	MINUS	IMPROVEMENTS
Room 8 children listened to the instructions	The game was too easy	Make changes, by giving them bigger numbers.

We now have a better understanding of what its like to be a teacher!

Maths Week

This week is Maths Week!

We have been doing slightly different maths in Room 13 this week. 

Some of the learning that has taken place has included:

• learning to use google forms and google sheets to collect, collate and chart data 
• designing and creating games for new entrants
• playing fractionopoly!

Yesterday, James came in to teach us about google forms and google sheets. We had to use a google form to collect our times for the cross country practice run. We then used a google sheet to collate our data in table. After that, we learnt how to chart our the data in the table.

Here is a pie graph showing the times that people have achieved for the cross county practice.

Room 13 have also been working on creating and designing maths games for Room 8. Some of us have made up new games, and some of us have modified games that we know so that they are appropriate for juniors. Tomorrow we will be visiting Room 8 to teach them.

Come back and visit our blog next so you can see how our teaching of the games went!