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.