Pen Pals

This term room 4 have been writing to a group of kids in Ohio their school is called  Grove City Christian School they are year 3's and 4's that means they are mostly 7 to 9 year olds.

Survival Swimming Sports

for swimming sports we did a survival day. we had to take our PJs to school and then to Saint Peter Channels to swim in them. when it was our turn we had to jump in the pool and then take our PJs off when we had done that we had to tie a knot in the bottom of our PJ bottoms. it was so funny watching other people trying to tie a knot in the bottom and then filling their pants up with air.

Survival Swimming Sports

For swimming sports we did a survival day were we had to take our P.J's to school. We also had to take
them to Saint Peter Channels to swim in them. When it was our turn we had to jump into
the medium pool. In the pool we had to take our P.J's of and tie a knot in the bottom of our P.J bottom,
also known as the place you put your feet in to give them fresh air. It was so funny to watch others trying to tie a knot at the end

Anzac posters

Room 4 are doing posters about Anzacs. We went to the Motueka, Lower Moutre, and Mapua memorials and found a few names to write about. We got information about the people from the cenotaph, Anzac.com, and CWCG. We found information and we are writing about them. We are writing about their personal information, their family, their information about the war: their rank and other facts, and their burial. Once we have finished, we will probably put them on the walls of the Motueka library.

One of the  memorials.

This term room 4 did a sports competition called Summer Sports. We did three sports which were Touch,Volley ball and Ultimate Frisbee. Volleyball was the most fun for me. We (the competitive team) won all our games except one. Everyone tried as hard as they could even though sometimes they would not get it over the net. I think it was fun serving and hitting it back. The school also had a social team they did quite well but they had very good sportsmanship.
    

Memorial Visit

In term 1 room 4 was learning about World War 1 because Anzac Day is coming up. So we decided to go for a little trip what we did is we planed to go to three different memorials. The first memorial we went to was in Mapua we each got three different names the names I got were C.J Harvey T.L Field  and F.G McKee. The second memorial we went to was in Lower Motere. But, this was very strange when we figured out when we got there that there was NO NAMES! That was very strange. so we went to the Motueka memorial luckily there was some names I picked three but only used 1 I used R Lynch. When we got back to school we had to figure out where the Lower Motere Memorial got moved to.
thanks for reading you can find more information at the following websites.
NZhistory.net.nz
Anzac.govt.nz
muse.auckland.museum.com
thanks :)
by Mia  

Painting.

On Friday 11th of April a lady came to take Mr Matthews place so she did art with us. She taught us how to blend the colours and then we waited for the paintings to dry. After all of our paintings had dried we drew some birds on a piece of paper then painted it on our paintings.

Bird Paintings

On Friday a lady called Mrs Deck came onto our classroom. We did bird paintings with different coulers and shades. It was really fun. 

Art

On Friday Mrs Deck came in with us to do Art. First we covered our page with different colours then we blended it in from the middle is light and from the side it was dark.We then let it dry and then we drew pretty black birds on the page to make it look like they are flying away or flying to you.Here is my painting.

swimming sports

This term, Room 4 has been practising swimming sports. They include over arm ( freestyle), back stroke, and breast stroke. We only had two weeks of practise and then we had to compete against 5 other schools. The school that we race at was upper Moutre.