Word Study - 'sc' or 'sk' ?

Here's an example of some of the word study work we do in Room 4.

We've been discussing if we use an 'sk' or an 'sc' in words and how do we know which one to choose when they both can sound the same.  We began to write some 'sc' sounding words on our whiteboard and came up with a theory.  We were then able to organised these words into columns to show our thinking.  This is what we came up with. 

Room 4 Athletics

Congratulations to some of the Fantastic (room) 4 students for coming in the top 3 places at the athletics day. 

You guys are funny! I love your cheesy smiles :-D

Paradise

This is one of the songs we sung at the Room 3 & 4 Assembly.  Room 4 had great pleasure teaching the lyrics and sign language to Room 3 kids. Where we then were able to share it with you all.  Singing makes us feel happy, especially with such a lovley Kiwi song as this one. 

Just incase you want to keep practicing at home and Mums, Dads, Grandmas, Koros, Tipunas, Uncles, Aunties or anyone wants to learn this beautiful song, here it is!  A hyperlink to the youtube signing and the lyrics, are below. 

PARADISE

(Waimarie Smith) ©2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlHyZyUR4EA




In the morning, can you hear the tui call
Can you hear the tui call. Can you?
Then in the evening when the sun goes down
And the moon is out, hold my hand

Can we chill underneath this pohutukawa tree,
Life is a breeze like 1, 2, 3 ahuh. Come on
Let’s take a dip in the ocean and watch the sun‐set
Time is precious that’s what we forget oh no. It’s gone…

This is, where the taniwha was born
Where Maui drew his hook, my home
And no one can take this away from me
My land is a part of me till I’m old

Hold my hand and raise your glass to
Life in paradise, paradise
I can take you places people only dream of
But it’s all mine in paradise

Time is precious that’s what we forget
Time is precious that’s what we forget oh no, it’s gone
Time is precious that’s what we forget, time is precious, oh no, it’s gone

Term 2 Karakia

Here is our karakia we are learning for Term 2.  We are very lucky that one of our wonderful class mums has been coming in to help us with our pronunciation of Te Reo Maori.  We will practice some more in Term 3 till it's perfect. 

Here it is here if you want to keep practicing at home:

Circus Challenge

Wow, this was fun, learning how to do cool plate spinning and stick juggling.  We have some super circus kids in the making here, showing their resilience and curiosity in trying new skills.

Letter Writing and ANZAC Day

We had been learning to write letters.  We've been learning where the address goes, where to put the stamp, how to address who the letter is to and from and how to sign the letter at the end.

We had been learning about ANZAC day and had been reading some stories about the Gallipoli campaign.  We also read a great (but sad) book called Jim's Letters by Glyn Harper.  It's about two brother's who write each other letters during WWI. One brother is at home on the farm and the other is away at war on the front line, fighting.

We had to make some letters to pretend we were family members writing to each other during the war.  We first made some paper look really old by using coffee and tea stains, we got some old stamps images and then some nice poppy images to make our display and letters look like they had come from Gallipoli where the poppies grew.

Here are some pictures of our display.