Room 4 Kotahitanga

Hi and welcome to Term 3. Room 4 would also like to welcome Shanna to our class. She is a German exchange/intern and will be helping both our room and Whaea Carly's room. We look forward to sharing our class with Shanna. Our focus for this term is to discover information about our solar system, where we are within the solar system and our relationships within the solar system. The syndicate teachers have been busy introducing the three lines of inquiry and setting the scene with rich vocabulary. We are discovering how the tide works, the influence of the seasons, why the moon shines and one group is considering making a model of the solar system to scale! Some of us are looking at how the moon has influenced myths and legend - or cultural practices. From weeks five onward we are going on an adventurous journey through New Zealand and beyond. We will be selecting a famous adventurer and researching. We will then use this information to re create the adventure through a variety of genres like poetry, information reports, debates, advertising etc. Planning, thinking skills and surface features (sentence structure, use of language) will be a focus throughout. Highlights for the term will be our ski trip, visits to and from Nelson Intermediate School, Tree planting, Totara Trading, Rock da House and a Suter visit. Milo Mondays will continue until the end of the term,like wise for the baking sessions every Friday.