Room 12 2022

  Sunday, 27 March 2022 Week 9 Term 1 2022   Big News - We are Swimming this week! As many of you know I tested positive on Sunday and wasn't able to be at school. A big thank you to Mrs. Hunter for filling in, she reported that the kids in Room 12 were exceptional and willing to help. I will be away again this week as both of my boys tested positive at the end of the week. I will be involved in a three-day course this week as it was a zoom one anyway. Congratulations to Addison, Louis, Lilly-Maye and Kryee who won our Values Awards l ast week. Shown E xcellence through hard work and perseverance during the whole term. Excellence isn’t about being the best, it's about doing our best. Excellence is having another go when we’ve gone wrong, being honest about our mistakes and learning from them.  We’ll be on the lookout for more people showing Excellence at school this week. C. (Courage) R. (Respect) E. (Excellence) W. (???) Wonder is the focus for this week, who is a...

  Sunday, 20 March 2022 Week 8 Term 1 2022   It’s great to see the engagement spikes on educa and blogs when our posts go up. Thanks for the comments, too - the kids get a real kick out of knowing that people are checking out our work. Congratulations to Ian and Arianne who won our Values Awards l ast week. Ian and Arianne have both shown E xcellence through hard work and perseverance during the whole term. Excellence isn’t about being the best, it's about doing our best. Excellence is having another go when we’ve gone wrong, being honest about our mistakes and learning from them.  We’ll be on the lookout for more people showing Excellence at school this week. C. (Courage) R. (Respect) E. (Excellence) W. (???) Hmmmm, I wonder what we might be looking for next week? Mini Covid Update We have air purifiers on the way BUT they’re not here yet so we need to keep our doors and windows open for air flow (MoE guidelines).  I’ve been looking at the weather out there and...

Dear Mum and Dad, This week was week seven each morning we went swimming. This week Hank was teaching us how to use proper arms and he didn't do this by making us use our fists, index finger, and our OK sign, this made us realize how important a cupped and strong arm is in freestyle. We also learned about swimming with the use of no arms or legs. It made us realize that proper technique is so important. Today we swam blind. First, we counted our strokes, then we had to swim with our eyes closed counting our strokes to see how close we could get to the end.   This week we learned how to use our math sides, we are still working on place value and graphing. We will be starting next week to add using place value. For example 345 + 123 =  300 + 100 = 400  40+20= 60 5+3=8 =468  Writing this week was on reports, the main focus was on paragraphs, punctuation, and using our structured literacy spelling strategies. We wrote on St. Joseph. The kids did an excellent job. Co...

  Sunday, 6 March 2022                                                            Week 7 Term 1 2022 This week we have an important day in the church with St. Joesph's day. We also see the Luck of the Irish come visit on St. Patrick's day, I encourage the kids to wear an accessory to celebrate as Mrs. Dinniss's mate may make a repeat appearance and I would hate for him to play any tricks on kids who didn't wear any green. (uniforms are still mandatory ). Fall seems to have snuck in with today being cooler, because we have been spending alot of time in our outside classroom and when in the classroom with all the windows and fans on children will need a jersey in the mornings. Please make sure that your childs name is on it. A huge thank you to the kids who have gotten into the habit of wearing masks inside, hand sanitising and wiping d...

 Today we looked at bar graphs and why we need to learn about them. We learnt how to develop a question? How to create a tally sheet to collect data. Then how to properly draw a bar graph. Tomorrow we will look at how to interpret the data that we have collected.  10/03/22 Choose a problem.  What is your favorite type of chips?  Create a tally Chart Type of Chip Pringles lllllll 7 Burger Rings ll 2 Plain  llll 4 Chicken l 1 Other llll 4

  Procedural Writing This week we had to write instructions for 'How to make a six brick structure". Mrs Dinniss reviewed what is needed in this type of writing. 1. A title about what we are writing about 2. Materials or ingredients (detailed instructions of amounts or in this case colours of bricks) 3. Step-by-step explicit (word of the week) details. We learned very quickly that the editing process was our friend as what we wrote wasn't always what we meant. It caused some very funny moments.

  Sunday, 6 March 2022 Week 6 Term 1 2022 We have had a lovely start to this year and have been really proud of the way that our Year 4 CREW is coming together as a supportive team. We have been focussing on our CREW values and are working hard to show these everyday. This year we have decided to award special certificates to children who have really exemplified our CREW values during the week.  In the first couple of weeks our focus was on courage. Tristen, Kennedy, Ariana and Grace were awarded our courage awards in a special team awards assembly a couple of weeks ago. Last week James A and Carwyn received respect awards. We are on the lookout for two more people who model respect for this week's awards. We are looking especially for people who use kind and encouraging words.  This Weeks Learning Literacy: Procedural writing. We are looking at how instructions/procedures are written and the kinds of words used to give instructions. At home you could use a recipe to coo...