More Poet's Theatre

This poem is called how to torture your students. We all thought it was quite funny.

Poet's Theatre

In Room 9 this week we have been learning about performing poetry.  We have had to make sure we use a slow speed when reading,  have the right amount of volume and to use expression. We have done a lot of different activities to learnt these things. 

Find out what your hobbit name is. Room 9 has had heaps of fun doing it. www.chriswetherell.com/hobbit/

Our Bird Art

Our Bird Art! on PhotoPeach

Soiree

On Tuesday night the years 3 and 4's put on a Soiree, for our families in the school hall. We showed them what we have been learning at art interchange. First we sang a song then room 14 did a play. Next it was our turn and we did a dance. After that the other classes did theirs they played recorders, ukuleles showed their art, poi and wearable art. Finally we sang another song then it was time to go home. I was very tired at the end of the night. By Caite

The Soiree

Our Self Portraits

Our Self Portraits on PhotoPeach Check out our awesome new self portraits!

Soiree

Room 9 has been working on their top secret performance for the Soiree. The Soiree is on Tuesday the 20th of November in the hall. The invitations will be coming home on Thursday.

Egg-cellent Egg Babies

Today in Room 9 we have got some eggs to look after.  We have to keep our egg safe for 4 days.
We can not boil our egg. We always need to have some one looking after our egg. And our egg must have a name. If our egg breaks we are not allowed another one. Unfortunately we have already lost 4 this afternoon.

Who Am I?

                             
                                                                   WHO AM I
I  am  a person...

I'm  old and wrinkly...

I'm larger than a child...

But smaller than a house...

Sometimes I cook children and eat them...

Mostly I make lollies for my house...

But i HATE children.

Spider in the Bath

Each week in Room 9 we have a different poem. We do lots of fun things with them, like finding out new words or hot seating, where we pretend to be a character from the poem and the rest of the class ask the character questions.
This week our poem is Spider in the Bath - which is actually a song. Miss Dippie's Mum taught it to her when she was little. Miss Collins learnt the song on the recorder so that she could play it for us. Here is a video of us singing the song.

2012 cultural festival

Last Thursday all the year 3&4 class's went to the cultural festival all except the kapa haka group who went earlier than the other classes.
First the kapa haka groups lined up in their classes.
Next we got split up into two groups one with Miss Collins and one with Mrs Kahi and we went on two separate buses.
 Then we all went to the  CBS  Arena.
We were at the Arena  because we were doing Kapa haka.
Kapa haka is a maori group that peforms maori songs and does poi and movements.
Our Kapa haka group was in the second half of the cultural festival. Sumner school year 3&4 went to watch  us perform. 
We felt really nervous and excited!

 

Congratulations!

Congratulations Stewart. She has got a distinction in the ICAS exams and has got a Sumner School badge! Awesome work.

Calendar Art

We have finished our calendar. It looks fantastic. We were looking at Kandinsky, and his "Squares and Concentric Circles" Artwork.
Come and see it in Room 9. Here is a photopeach of the finished ones.


Our Calendar Art on PhotoPeach By Ryan

Reading

In Room 9 we have been completing some activities related to our class novel - Matilda, at reading time.
On of the activities is to write a diary entry in the day of the life of one of the characters.

Can you guess which character Stewart has written about?

Dear Diary,
Oh my gosh, my arms hurt so much from throwing that Amanda Tripp girl, but boy did she deserve it! I did enjoy putting that Wormwood child in the chokey. She needed that, but a tradgedy has happened.  I have lost the key to the chokey, so now I can't put anyone else in the chokey, because it is locked.

Science Experiements

In Room 9 we are busy doing different experiments getting ready for Science Fair in Week 11.
We are getting really good at using the P.O.E method. All the children in Room 9 have been coming up with some outstanding predictions and we have had lots of fun observing and explaining whether our predictions were correct.
We are keeping our experiements secret at the moment but come in to Room 9 and see our CRAZY CHEMISTRY wall to see some of the things we have been doing and have a look at our topic books to see all our experiments so far.

Writing up our method



Recording our findings

Discussing our predictions



Recorder Lessons with Miss Collins.

Look at what we have been learning with Miss Collins! Miss Dippie was so proud of us. Next week is our final lesson.

Visual Art

For art this term we are looking at the work of Kandinsky. We have been looking at complemetry colours. We know that they are colour that are across from each other on the colour wheel. We have spent the afternoon mixing the primary colours to create our own colour wheels so that we can choose our colours for our own work in the style of Kandinsky.

Room 9 News For Week 5

Here is the Room 9 News Report for Week 5 presented by Stewart and George

Oobleck Recipe

Here you go Room 9

Goo Recipe

1 cup of corn flour

1/3 of a cup of water

3 drops of food colouring

Directions

Add a cup of corn flour into the ice cream container.
Add 3 drops of food colouring to the water.

Slowly add the water to the corn flour, stirring as you go.

Which one is Oobleck?

This afternoon we had Science. We were using the POE investigation model to find out which substance was Oobleck - Predict, Observe, Explain.
Miss Dippie read us Batholomew and the Oobleck and we came up with a description on oobleck from there.
We read through the recipes for Slime and Goo. We predicted what each substance would be like from what was in the ingredients. We thought the Slime would be sticky because it had PVA glue in it, and Jak predicted that the Goo would be thick because it had cornflour in it.  Then we had to observe. We made the two substances and wrote down our observations on what they looked like and felt like. We thought the slime felt like melted ice cream. The Goo was hard when you pushed on it quickly and gooey if you pushed slowly.
Finally we explained which one we thought was Oobleck by using what we had read in the story. We all decided that the Goo was actually Oobleck.
We are all excited about our next Science experiment!

Tennis

Today we had tennis lessons. It was lots of fun. Here are some photos of what we did today. We have lessons twice next week and once the week after, so keep an eye out to watch the improvements.

Science Alive!!!

Science Alive! on PhotoPeach

Home Learning

Great to see people reading their home learning sheet and leaving comments on the blog.

Hannah! You get 200 house points for being the first person to comment on the blog this week.
Let's see who else will leave us a comment. Don't forget anyone can see our blog so you can send the link to family and friends around the world so they can see what you do in Room 9.

swimming

The year 3 and 4 team went to Pioneer pool to do some swimming lesson's.
Last week we did some water safety we had to bring our PJ's we got put into groupe number 1's and 2's.  One group went into the big pool and went on a boat, They had to wear life jackets. They had to jump off  backwards. The other group went into the small pool and swam in their pyjamas, and made pretend rapids by pushing the water with flutter boards. They made a whirl pool, learned how to huddle and get the attention of people in a helicopter. We learnt all these things so we would know what to do if we needed help in water.
Some water rules we talked about were:
Always wear a life jacket on a boat,
Always swim with an adult,
Swim between the flags,
One of the messages we learnt was if in doubt, say out!

It was fun wearing our pyjamas

Getting into the boat

It was hard work pulling people up into the boat

Learning how to huddle

Making the rapids

By Hannah and Ollie

Tagxedo

Next week in Room 9 we are going to use this cool website called Tagxedo! It makes words go into different shapes! Miss Dippie has made this one using all the children in Room 9's names.

Book Week

On Friday we had book  week. Our theme was heroes.

Check out us all dressed up!

Olympic Wall Wisher

Hi all,
your home learning for the next few weeks is related to the Olympics. When you have an idea that you want to discuss or some questions or Olympic facts you can add them to our wall wisher!
I would love to see lots of comments up there from all of you.

http://wallwisher.com/wall/room9olympic

I will be giving house points out to the first 10 people who post. Remember all your sticky posts have to be checked by me first so they won't come up straight away.

Book Week

This week is Book Week. We have been visiting our buddy class Room 1. They were reading us some of their favourite books from their browsing box. We are going to read our favourites to them on Thursday.

Our Favourite Books

Today the Caterpillar's reading group made interviewed a few people in Room 9 about their favourite books and who they recommended them for.

Popplets

This week in Room 9 we have been making Popplets for writing.

We have taken some photos and labeled objects in the classroom using Te Reo.

 

Cartooning with Miss Smith

Cartoon Drawing with Miss Smith on PhotoPeach

Our Playground Inquiry

We are drawing to a close with our playground inquiry and now are up to our create and share part.
The children are busy making models of the playgrounds they have designed. Next week the top 3 designs from each class will be chosen. These children will be filmed explaining their design. The videos will then be shared with the BOT and P.T.A so that a final design can be chosen.

Here are some photos of our designs so far.

Instructions

Room 9 has been busy writing instructions! 
Miss Dippie has made a new page where you can view our instruction writing.
Leave us a comment and let us know what you think.

Brain Games

Hi Room 9 Check out the Brain Game page and see how you go on the new games. The colour one is quite tricky! From Miss D

Snow Day

Dear Room 9

If you make any snow men this snow day could you please take a photo and get Mum or Dad to email it to me so we can put it on the blog?


Outside Room 9

Here are some photos I took at school after you got picked up.




The "snow" pit

Our school field

Cartoon Art with Miss Smith

On Tuesdays after lunch, we go to Miss Smith's class to do cartooning. Today we learnt how to draw a cartoon monkey. After that we got to go onto youtube on the ipads and choose a bunny or a cartoon character like Spongebob to draw.

Our new website

How many Room 9 people can you spot in the new Sumner School video?

Dr Seuss Art

With our playground inquiry well under way, we have been using our green thinking hat to design our dream playground. Using this idea we have looked at the art work of Dr Seuss. We talked about the shapes used in his art work and have created our own crazy buildings and playgrounds using vivid and dye.

Here is a photo peach slide show of our work so far... Our Dr Seuss Art on PhotoPeach

Show not tell by Benji

My Show Not Tell on Storybird

The Antarctic Centre

Yesterday Room 9 went to the Antarctic Centre to meet Nick and Shackleton. We got to go because we won a competition by following Shackleton's blog of his trip to Antarctica. We got to meet Nick. He told us all about his trip with Shackleton Bear to Antarctica. He got chased by an angry sealion! We saw the little blue penguins. After that we went and saw a 4D movie. It was a bit scary. The seats moved when the boat bumped. When a sharp iceburg came towards us we got wet. Then we went on the Hauggland ride. The best bit was the mountain of terror and floating in the water. After lunch we went in the snow room. We had to wear special slippers on our feet so we didn't get the snow dirty. Thank you to Jane and Nick for taking us along to the Antarctic Centre! We had a fantastic day. Our Antarctic Centre Visit on PhotoPeach

Dr Seuss art

Room 9 has been doing Dr Seuss art recently. With curvy lines and 3D shapes with houses and buildings.So far we have drawn them and vivid them.We are going to use dark and light colors with dye.Dr Seuss loves stairs and crazy art.We have read a couple of books by Dr Seuss to get ideas.So far we have used Fox in socks,Oh the places you'll go and Oh the thinks you can think.

Drama

We have been doing drama with Mrs McKendry. We are learning how to do mime and do facial expressions. The other day when Mrs McKendry read to us about the Kiwi who lost its wings, Caite was the pukeko, Quinn and Stella were tui's, Sophie was an owl, and Zoe was a fantail. It was fantastic!

House Day

On Friday it was house day. All the children and teachers dressed up in their house colour. Even Mr Cameron.We did lots of games. We had a really fun day. We will make a photo peach of some photos next week.

By Alex, Charlie Benji, Ryan and Ben.



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Cross country

Last week we had cross country. We ran around St Lenards park three times!
We got puffed at the end. Everyone in room 9 did really well. Miss Dippie and Mrs Ngan were really proud of us. Sophie, Quinn, and Stella got in the top 10 for the year three girls. Makyh and Thom got in the top 10 for the year 4 boys.


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Dr Seuss art

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Show Not Tell

This week Mrs Ngan has been teaching us writing.  She showed us this cool website called Storybird where we can make our own books using images that they have on the site.  We had to choose an image and write a show not tell description about it.  Here is our first book. It is by James, Thom, Hannah, Ben, Jak, Guy and Sophie.

Show not Tell Book 1 on Storybird

Show not tell

We have been learning to write setting descriptions that show not tell the reader what we are writing about.

Here is one from Thom.

There is dirt whooshing into my eyes, kids screaming with laughter. A giant Eiffel Tower of rope above me. My face sweating, my tummy hungry.

Episode 3

Episode 3 of The Adventures of Skipper the Penguin is now up on Skipper Blog

skipperthepenguin.blogspot.co.nz

Check it out

Annah Mac's Visit to Sumner

Annah Mac came to Sumner School today because Jamie in Room 14 won a song writing competition. Her prize was for Annah Mac to perform her song. We liked the way she sung and played the guitar. We got to help her sing Girl in Stilettos.

Our Mystery Bus Tour

Our Inquiry Immersion on PhotoPeach

The Mystery Bus Tour!

Today we went on our Mystery Bus Trip.  Mr Cameron gave us our Top Secret Letter and we got to open it once we got to our destination. We arrived at Spencer Park and we found out that our inquiry for this term is to design a playground for the year 3 and 4 team. We had to test out some playgrounds at Spencer Park, St Martins and Opawa School.
Here are some photos from our day.