Welcome back to Matua Madison!

After two and a half terms away we are so pleased to see Matua Madison back here at Clifton Terrace. This was our first week back into proper kapa haka this term and interest is at an all time high with many children from Room 4 opting into kapa haka group.

Repeating Patterns

This term we have been exploring the mathematical concept of repeating patterns. After doing a some different activities in the classroom the children got to go 'free range' with the digital cameras in the playground 'hunting' for repeating patterns.

Check out some of our photos and see if you can see the repeating pattern in them...

Let us know what you think!

Learning to write recounts.

In Room 4 at the moment we are learning to write recounts. We know recounts need to include the following three things...
1) A great title.
2) Tell the reader, when, who, where, why.
3) Tell the story in the order that it happened.


Here is a story we wrote as a class about our Wednesday science lesson with Sterling.

Wednesday Science

The other day Room 4 went to the art room for science with Sterling to do some exciting experiments.

First we poured 75ml of water into a cup. Then Sterling put some powder into our water, we then stirred it. We had to stir it for a long time! Then Sterling came round and put some "magic" liquid in our cups. Our liquid then became thick and sticky. Finally we added some food colouring and then put it into our bags to take home. We felt like real scientists because we got to do real science experiments!

Pop, pop, pop!

Yum! We have been writing food poems in Room 4. We have had great fun cooking, eating and writing about popcorn. In our food poems we explore words that describe how different foods look, smell, feel, taste and sound. Come to our class to check out our latest poems! 

Thinking Tuesdays ?

Thinking Tuesdays is a chance for children in Room 4 to explore a range of scientific and philosophical concepts. So far this term we have done a range of simple science experiments that have looked at the nature of air, fire, heat and lipids (that's fat for all you non-chemists).

Here are a few photos from our latest experiment. We added food colouring and dishwashing detergent to a saucer of milk. During this experiment we were learning to observe carefully so we could later write what happened. We really enjoyed this experiment especially when we were able to put the dye in the saucer ourselves.

Adding the milk.

Food colouring.

All four colours, ready to go...

Here we go.

WOW!

And it keeps going!

Off to a great start!

Welcome back to Term 2. We have really dived straight in and have begun a really interesting maths unit on shapes (both 2D and 3D), check out what we have done so far... 

"I have made a jet plane with triangle wings."

"We have a circle and triangle. Triangles have three sides."

"I have made a person, who has a round bomb."

"I have made two rockets. One has been made with an orange  oblong, it also has square yellow windows."

"I have made a caterpillar that has four squares for its body."

"I have made a house with two green triangles for its roof."

Our Swimming Display

Last Friday we had our swimming display. We had lots of fun showing everyone just how good we all are at swimming.