Happy Holidays Room 4!!

Thank you for all your hard work this year! You have been a very special class to teach! Enjoy your summer holidays and I will see you next year!

Miss Naik :)

Thank you parents for all your support throughout the year!

The Royal New Zealand Ballet!

Today was a special day for room four, we were lucky to learn some fabulous ballet moves and positions! Shannon from the Royal New Zealand Ballet came all the way to Muritai School and spent the afternoon teaching us Ballet dance, technical terms and miming! We learnt how to communicate without taking. It was very interesting and fun!

INQUIRY: Our Playground!

Last term the junior students talked about how we could make our school a better place. One of the most common requests was for a bigger junior playground. So this term we are finding out what makes a playground fun. We have designed our dream playgrounds and now we need to learn about some of the practical things like keeping safe and having enough space.

This week we visited Bishop's Park. It was great fun! We played on the different equipment and talked about which equipment we liked the best and why. We found out that moving fast in different directions is quite fun!

A visit to the Senior School gardens

Today we went for a mini field trip across the road to the senior school. Mr Eames told us all about the garden and about how much work the senior students have done to create and maintain such a wonderful garden. We looked inside the worm compost and found out why it is so important to put our food scraps in the red bins at school... Our food scraps feed the worms and the garden! We liked holding the SQUIGGLY, SLIMY worms in our hands.

Flat Stanley visits England!

Flat Stanley had some incredible adventures in Sussex. He visited the train station, lounged under the hot sun and strolled through beautiful gardens. We loved looking at all the information that Flat Stanley brought back, especially the books and pamphlets about castles and knights!

While in England, Flat Stanley adventured in the Rossendale Valley. He travelled on the steam train, flew model planes and visited the panopticons which are large modern sculptures. The beautiful halo that lights up at night was our favourite.

Flat Stanley also visited London, what a lucky world traveler! While in London Flat Stanley went to Buckingham Palace to visit the queen, he went to Big Ben and to the Tower of London... And he even went on the London Eye! Lots of us have been to London before so we loved sharing our stories about our own travels.

Luke's grandad made us a special slide show that charted Flat Stanley's journey through London. We loved reading his funny comments! If you would like to see the slideshow please come and have a look on our Flat Stanley board in our classroom.

Soccer Tournament!

Room 4 had a BLAST at the soccer tournament. We played many games. We loved running really fast, scoring goals and cheering for our friends. Have a look at the photos.

Australia!

We opened five packages from Australia! Flat Stanley travelled to Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney and Karratha! What an experience!

Flat Stanley visited Mines in Karratha:

Dreamworld In Brisbane:

And beautiful beaches in Melbourne and Sydney:

We noticed that there are many similarities and differences between New Zealand and Australia. Here are some of the ideas we came up with:

Similarities:

1. We have a harbour and a boat dock in Wellington.

2. The city of Brisbane looks similar to Wellington. They both have tall buildings and busy roads.

3. We have a Zoo in Wellington with lots of animals just like in Sydney.

4. We have beautiful beaches as well!

5. The main language in both places is english!

Some Differences:

1. In Australia there are koalas, kangaroos, crocodiles and snakes!

2. There are different road signs like ones that tell you to watch out for kangaroos!

3. They have different sayings like, "G'day mate!"

Flat Stanley goes to Tauranga!

This week we opened Zane's Flat Stanley package. Zane sent his Flat Stanley to visit his Auntie in Mount Maunganui.

This is what we learnt about Flat Stanley's trip:

1. Hot Pools are special because they are salt water from the sea that has been sucked into the earth, heated, and bubbled back up to the surface.



2. Tramping up the mount is great exercise.


3. Mount Maunganui is famous for its surf beach. There are lots of sand dunes at the beach and great big clumps of seaweed!




Some other things we learnt about New Zealand are:

1. New Zealand is made up of two islands called the North island and the South island. We live in Wellington city which is on the bottom tip of the North Island.

2. Wellington is the capital city of New Zealand and that means that the government buildings are here.

3. John Key is the Prime Minister of New Zealand and he works at the Beehive.

We loved looking closely at the Maps!

We Can't wait to learn all about Australia next week!