I am Learning to add Detail to my Writing.

Room 8 has been learning how to add detail into our writing to make it more interesting. We can think about the questions: Who? What? Where? When? How? and Why? to help us add this detail.
We have recently started swimming again and chose this shared experience to write about.

We went to the pool and we did jump jam. I thought my watch was lost but I didn't care. It was an hour. It was amazing. We did jump jam for an hour. The best part was free swimming for 3 minutes. When we got out it was cold.

My Reflection

I think that I did a good job of my writing because it is really long and I tried hard to add detail. It is tricky to add detail because it's hard to think of different things really fast. It is important to add detail to writing because it makes it longer and more interesting.

I am Learning to Solve Subtraction Problems by Counting back from the Largest Number.

I am in Toru for maths and we have been learning how to solve subtraction problems by counting back from the largest number. We started with single digit numbers and moved on to double digit numbers.

My Reflection

I think that I did an amazing job of counting backwards. It is easy to solve subtraction problems by counting back. It can be tricky when the numbers are bigger. 

I am Learning to Find Information from a Text.

I am in Thumper Group for Reading. I am Reading at Green Level 14. We have been learning how to find information from a text.  We read the nonfiction book Cats and made a mind map to show the different facts that we learned.

My Reflection

I think that I did good to find different facts about cats. It is kind of tricky to find facts in books because you have to turn a million pages. I liked reading about cats because they are cute!

I am Learning to Draw Patterns.

Room 8 made flower headbands for the Term 4 Wearable Arts Show. We copied and created new patterns to put onto the different petals. We worked hard on our art and had a lot of fun making and displaying it.

I am Learning to Recognise and Read Long Vowel Sounds and Silent E.

I am in Max group for reading. We are at the green reading level. We have been learning about long vowel sounds and how a silent e can change the vowel sound in different words.

Success Criteria:

- correctly identify words with long vowel sounds and silent e.

- correctly identify the long vowel sound in the words.

- read words with and without the silent e and notice the difference.

My Reflection
I think that I did a good job reading the words with long vowel sounds.
I find it pretty easy to read long vowel sounds in stories.
It can be tricky to read a word without the silent e first and then change it with the silent e.

I am Learning to Ride my Wheels Safely.

Room 8 has recently taken part in Wheels Day. We were able to bring our bikes, scooters, skateboards or other 'wheels' to school. It was great to see all of the different ways that we can get around besides driving. It was important to wear our safety gear and act sensibly. We all had a fun time!

I am Learning to Identify 2D and 3D Shapes.

In Room 8 we have been learning about Geometry. We have looked at different 2D and 3D shapes and their different parts. We learned that shapes have different numbers of sides, faces, edges and corners of vertices.

We had a lot of fun making monsters out of different shapes!

My Reflection
I like him because he has seven eyes. He is a rectangle and if he was 3D he would be a rectangular prism. I found geometry hard because you have have to remember all of the different names of shapes. It is easier to count the sides and corners of 2D shapes than 3D shapes. If you stare at a drawing of a 3D shape it looks like it moves and changes!