Room 4 Sunnybrae Normal School

Welcome to our Room 4 Blog

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Haere mai, welcome everyone!I hope you enjoy reading our blog.

New posts and updates will be added on a regular basis, so keep checking in.
The posts are grouped (eg: News, Art, Topic etc), so please scroll down whenever you login to view the new posts in the different areas.

2011: Meet Our Students:

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2011: Our Buddies

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Our buddies are Year 6 students from Room 13. Their teacher, Stephen Gordon, brings our buddies down to our class every Friday at about 11AM. Our buddies support us on the mat during the introduction of the new Big Book. Afterwards they help us trace over some high-frequency words and then we draw and colour a picture together. We love to learn about what our buddies are doing in their class, so every now and then, Mr. Gordon, encourages them to bring something that they have worked on in Room 13, to share with us. We think that they are very clever, and we love them.

Ambury Farm

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We went on the bus to Ambury farm as part of our topic studies. Room 4 watched the cows being milked and the sheep being shorn. We fed the hens and patted the calves.

Hosting Assembly

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On Friday the 28th October Room 4 helped to host the school assembly with our buddy class Room 13 and Room 3. Our theme was Old MacDonalds farm. We wore the masks that we had made and sang some animal songs. It was such fun.

Library Time

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Every week on Friday we go to the library. Mrs Sutherland helps us to choose books.
We enjoy our time looking through the lovely selection of books at Sunnybrae School.

FAREWELL

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Mrs.Pretorius and Kayla gave us a little party to say goodbye, on their last day at Sunnybrae Normal School. Mrs.Westcott took some awesome photo's:

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2011: Fancy Feet Day

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It was Fancy Feet day on Friday. Students were encouraged to walk to school, and it was a big success. Later, some senior students visited the classes and chose the best three fancy feet from each class. Isobel chose Carlos, Zara and James from our class. They went to the hall to have their photo taken, and they got a sticker and a tattoo as a prize. Well done to everyone who made their feet fancy.
FANCY FEET on PhotoPeach

Here are the Room 4 winners:

2011: Book Week - The Grouchy Ladybug

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We made our own story based on Eric Carle's book, "The Grouchy Ladybug".

2011: Book Week - Book Character Parade

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To celebrate the end of Book Week, we got dressed up as our favourite character and had a book character parade. Have a look at our photo's:
Our Book Week on PhotoPeach

2011: Book Week - How many books did we read?

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Every time we read a book during book week, we filled in the details of the book in a fruit shape, and stuck the fruit shape to our fruit tree. At the end of the week, we all got a certificate for reading so many books during the week. Have a look at our photo's:

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2011: Book Week - Read Around

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Mrs. Naran and Mrs. Seath read a story to our class during "read around" this week. Here are a couple of photo's of Mrs. Seath reading her favourite story to our class:

2011: Book Week - Zara's Book

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Zara brought her favourite book in to school one day during Book Week, to share with the class. It was a fascinating book, because the animals moved when you moved the page back and forth.

2011: Book Week - Mrs. Morley

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Mrs. Morley brought some of her favourite books in from home, and she read a book to the class every day.

2011: Book Week - Stu Duval the Story Teller

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Stu Duval the Story Teller on PhotoPeach

2011: Mimio - Morning Activity 1

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Our First Mimio Activity on PhotoPeach

We learnt to move our photo from the bottom to the green area, and then we learnt to click on the pen icon to write our names. It was a little tricky learning to write on the whiteboard with the interactive pen. Have a look at the end result:

2011: Mimio - Morning Activity 2

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We are little experts with the Mimio now.
This is a different morning activity, and we managed it really nicely. Mrs. Pretorius showed us how to read the sentence, click on the for "yes" or click on the for "no". It is a great activity, because we get to check that we have done everything we need to do, before the 8.55AM bell. This is what it looks like:

2011: Wii Sports

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The teachers set up the Wii Sports Games as a "choosing activity" at the end of the school day, and here is a video of a student being amazing at ten pin bowling:

2011: There's a mouse in the house!

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There's a mouse in the house! on PhotoPeach

2011: Fire Safety Week.

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Fire Safety Week on PhotoPeach

2011: Easter Bunnies with our Buddies

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In the last week of Term 1, we did a fun Easter Bunny craft activity with our Buddies.

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2011: Topic (Minibeasts)

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We are learning about Minibeasts during our Topic lessons.
We learnt that minibeasts do not have a spine.
Mrs. Pretorius prepared a puzzle reveal for each of the different types of minibeasts. Six of us had a turn to be the teacher. We chose other students to take off a numbered piece of the reveal puzzle, and each time a puzzle piece was removed, we tried to guess what the minibeast was. We had great fun discovering the six different types of minibeasts:

2011: Art - Painting Techniques

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Here we are trying out some of the different painting techniques:

2011: Art - Our Caterpillar Segments

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This is what our caterpillar segments look like close up.

Our Caterpillar Segments on PhotoPeach

2011: Art - Our "Very Hungry Caterpillar"

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Look at the beautiful 'Very Hungry Caterpillar' that we made:

We each made our own segment of the caterpillar, by layering the different shapes onto the base shape. We used a different technique of painting on each shape: sand painting, marble painting splattering, dragging, sponging and strokes.
Segments were made by the following students, from left to right: Latoya, Jean, DaVin, James, Chan-Paul, Kalaneti and Zara.

2011: Topic - Define Map (SOLO Taxonomy )

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We added pictures to our Define Map today. Our focus was "invertebrates". We learnt that we must put all the creatures that do not have a back bone, in the "Relevant" area of the Define Map, and that we must put all the creatures that do have a back bone, in the "Not Relevant" area of the Define Map.
Invertebrates Define Map on PhotoPeach

2011: Art - Our Butterflies

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Look at the end result ... our beautiful butterflies have hatched out of their chrysalises, and are now hanging from the net in our classroom!

2011: Art - Our Moths

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We used three different painting techniques with this art work. First we splattered the black backing sheet with white paint. This formed the stars in the night sky. Next we painted our moths using different shades of brown. Next, we painted a light beam, by dry brushing yellow in the corner. Next we painted the black vein lines on our moths. Look at our beautiful moths flying towards the light beam:

2011: Topic- Life Cycle of a Butterfly

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We coloured in the four pictures to make a Life Cycle of a Butterfly spiral - the egg, the caterpillar, the chrysalis and the butterfly.

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2011: Art - Bubble Printing

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We are learning about Forces now (Push + Pull), so we practiced blowing/pushing air through straws. We put the other end of our straws into a bowl of soapy, coloured water, and this is the result:
BUBBLE PRINTING on PhotoPeach

2011: Topic - Mimio Activity (Buttefly vs Moth)

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Mrs. Rennie-Younger made this mimio activity about butterflies and moths.
We had to move the pictures from the bottom to the correct box.
We had to think very carefully, because butterflies and moths are very similar.
Mimio Activity: Butterfly vs Moth on PhotoPeach

2011 Friday Maths - Number

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2011: Friday Maths - Measurement

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We focus on the Number Strand every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday during our Math lessons, and then we focus on one of the other Strands every Friday (Measurement, Geometry, Algebra, Statistics).

Have a look at the photo's of us measuring our bodies with our hands:
Measurement on PhotoPeach

Measurement 2 on PhotoPeach

Have a look at the photo's of us measuring our bodies with rods:

2011: Friday Maths - Capacity

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It was a beautiful, warm and sunny day. Perfect for experimenting with water and containers. A fun way to develop an understanding of capacity.

Capacity on PhotoPeach

2011: Friday Maths - Statistics

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We thought about our favourite colours and then did a bar graph to show which colour was liked most, and which colour was least like.

This is what we found:

Next we thought about our favourite toys, and then did a bar graph to show which toys were most liked, and which toys were least like

This is what we found:

Next, we did our own bar graphs. We looked at our timetable and put the different activities that we do at school in order. We also thought about the clothes we wear when it is hot, cool or cold, and we put the pictures of clothes in the correct columns. Have a look at our photo: