Showing compassion

Greer, Sienna, Liliana and Summer found two dead baby birds at school during lunch time.  They showed our teacher, Ms van der Spuy, who suggested they should bury them.  Liliana got the big spade and Ms van der Spuy helped them to dig a hole.  They put the birds inside and covered them up with soil.  At the end they picked some flowers to put on top.

 

 

Our first Twitter chat

Today our class participated in our first Twitter chat. We have our own class Twitter account https://twitter.com/LittleGiants7.  We talked to other students in New Zealand via #kidsedchatnz.

Here is our first tweet as Goals-R-Us, but then we changed our name to Broadlands - Room 4 so people can recognize us.

We answered questions and told other students about our school.  That was very cool! Here's just some of the things we said.

Then we had to say goodbye, because it was time for our swimming.  We are lucky because some schools don't have their own pool.

Information about Broadlands School

Hello Quad-blogging buddies!  This is a post showing you where we live and something about our school.


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Road Safety Campaign

A police checkpoint was set up outside our school.  Drivers were stopped by police and given road safety information from us. Our Year 5/6 buddy class went out with us onto the road and helped us to talk to the drivers.
This operation aimed to remind motorists to slow down for children and make them aware that we cross that road every day to get to our school hall.

Grandparents' & Friends' day

We love our Grandparents and enjoyed spending the day with them.  They came into our class to look at our work and we told them all about the technology we use in class, like our iPods, Notebooks, Interactive Whiteboard and our Individual e-portfolios blogs. 
We enjoyed morning tea together and we also had a little performance for them, which included two Kapa Haka items and our 'We will rock you' song from the school production.

Thank you to all the Grandparents and friends who made this day special by coming and spending the day with us.

Buddy Maths Quiz

We are working very hard on learning our Basic Facts.  After completing a worksheet, we sat on the mat with our buddy to quiz and help each other with our maths work.

 

Inviting our Grandparents

We worked on our invitations for our Grandparents' day which will be held on Friday, 9 November. 

We used different colours for our picture and also different colours in the 'fat' letters. We had a great time making our invitation cards.

We are looking forward to having our Grandparents spending the day with us in class and at school.

 

 

Squash

We had the opportunity to learn some basic squash skills.  It was great fun, but we had to concentrate very hard to keep the ball on the strings of the racket when we walked with it.

We were also able to go on the squash court to hit some balls.

Counting with the Hundreds Board

We are learning to count to 100 alongside our learning buddy, using the Hundreds board. We are good at recognising the numbers too.

Buddy Reading with a senior class

One of our favourite things each week is our Buddy reading with Room 3.  They are one of our Year 5/6 classes at school.  This is a fun way to help us read better and we are supporting one another in our reading.
We help when our buddy gets stuck, but most of all we praise our buddy with their reading.

A special T-shirt

Today I am wearing this special T-shirt just for my teacher.  I like lions too.  From: Zara