What Do These Words Mean?

In Writing today we looked at the meanings of these words and the children's understanding of what they could be. I'm pretty impressed Room 12.

Welcome Back to Term 4

What did we learn to today?

Our topic is called WE ARE WHO WE ARE and it is about how we express our cultures in our everyday lives such as in our family, school and community. We will also be looking at the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and if you would like some more information please pop over to our topic page on the main website.

Today we looked at NEEDS and WANTS and the children discussed what these terms meant and then we sorted pictures into needs and wants on a VENN diagram on the floor.

First we decided what these words could mean:

It was wonderful to see that the children already had clear ideas about what these terms meant.

Then we had a go at sorting words into NEEDS and WANTS in our Venn diagram on the floor:

We had to have a good discussion about whether some things were really needs and we moved some pictures around after voting on them.

This is what we came up with:

NEEDS:

WANTS:

NEEDS AND WANTS

OUR VENN DIAGRAM LOOKS LIKE THIS:

WE WILL SEE IF OUR UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT OUR NEEDS AND WANTS ARE CHANGES THROUGHOUT THE TERM.

Spring Fair update

• Cupcakes -We have a few gluten free cupcake recipes now so I can let you know which recipe to use and what ingredients we may need.
• Allens lollipops and chupachups. If you'd like to donate you can bring in a packet once the term starts.
• Rice Jars. If you are 'spring cleaning' bring any little toys, knick knacks and bits and pieces to school for the rice jar game.

Everything else we have the materials for. We just need to do the making!

The stall goes for 4 hours. When it is a little closer to the date, I will ask for any volunteers to help man the stall. I'm counting on Room 12 to do the sand game.

Bike Scoot Skate or Walk Performance and Video Premiere

The children performed amazingly on Friday which made all the practice well worthwhile. I have uploaded the youtube link for the video which we showed. We performed at the same time. We also videoed the performance, we are just trying to get it uploaded. Thanks Amirah and Josh C for your extra acting on the day. Well done Room 12 for your lovely loud singing and nice actions. I'm sure everyone was impressed with your hard work.

Litter Free Lunchboxes

Well done Room 12 for using those litter free lunchboxes. It means less waste going to landfill!

Ava Returned from Tonga

Ava shared her news from Tonga and she had a written journal of her trip and also pictures! We enjoyed the way she read from her journal and referred us to pictures she had drawn of the trip. Thanks Ava, it made your news so interesting. Ava brought us a gift of a Tongan fan. It makes our room look good and we can use it when we're hot! We love it.

A funny thing that happened was that we received Ava's postcard from Tonga after Ava came back. She chose it because there are lots of pigs and dogs in Tonga.

How To make a poi

Use this video if you would like to make your own poi at home. For the plaited cords I used stretchy material and cut it into 3 strips and plaited it. I used some newspaper for the inside just like in the video and wadding to put around the outside. Wadding can be purchased from spotlight or the material shop by the metre. Or you could use the middle of an old pillow like me. Then you just wrap the poi in a plastic bag and sellotape. You can even just leave out the wadding. Neeti made her own poi using a plastic bag for the cord - so clever! Poi making link here