On Wednesday we were incredibly lucky to have an author come and visit us at school. Her name was Sarah Johnson and she has written books including the Bold Shop Phenomenal and Wooden Arms. She spoke to us about how a book is made- we didn't realise there was so many steps involved in this process. Here is a link to her blog if you want to find out more information. http://www.sarahjohnson.co.nz/ Thanks Sarah- we had so much fun learning from you!
Welcome back to Term 4 everybody. It sounds like you all had amazing holidays and I was so excited to see you all back on Monday. Term 4 is going to be a busy one- we have lots of amazing things to get through before Christmas. We have had a great week this week, refreshing expectations and handing out lots of Roopu points for doing the right thing.
We started learning about Perimeter this week. We know that it goes around the outside of a shape- like a fence around a garden. At first we though that Perimeter was going to be really hard but then we found out all we have to do is add the lengths of all of the sides together! The hardest part for us is remembering to put the right unit at the end. We started exploring this concept by learning a cool new song
Then we had a chance to practice in groups. We had to measure the perimeter of different pencil cases and calculate it on the whiteboard.
We finished our kitchen science unit by making ice-cream in a bag. It needed a lot of shaking and we got pretty tired, but it was so much fun and very yummy Here is the link if you want to make it at home Ice Cream in a bag receipe
We started our Topic day by making apple sauce in the slow cooker. We had to peel and core the apples which was very tricky but our classroom smelt amazing
