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=Welcome to our Room 4 Wiki.= =Thanks for taking the time to see what we have been up to in Room 4 at Opoutere School.= __**Term 1 2013**__

Welcome back everyone for Term 3. We have 11 weeks of school so take care of yourselves and get lots of rest. Try to avoid all those nasty colds bugs by eating well, exercising and getting enough sleep each night. We have a few projects on the go this term.
 * __Term 3 2012__**

Mrs Wylie has been setting us fun challenges on Monday mornings. We get to make notes and write about our experience. This makes writing fun. We are getting very good at writing notes on Mondays and then writing our main piece on Tuesday. Last week we had the **CurviFly** challenge. We worked in pairs to make a paper plane that would fly around a cone. This week we had the **Flag Pole** challenge. This time we worked in teams of 4. Our key competences we had to use were participation and thinking. All of us rose to the challenge beautifully!
 * Writing Motivators 20.08.12**



We are making progress with our garden ornaments and we are now entering the painting phase. We need to practice patience and learn not to rush the sanding and painting tasks. If we do, our end product won't be to the highest standard!



We have had a visit from Rosalie the Enviro waste lady and she has us all fired up about Compost. We have resurrected the compost bins and it is our job to make sure that they are cared for. Students may bring suitable materials from home for the compost bins.



Margo from St John's came to school and talked to us about how we can be helpful in an emergency. She showed us how to contact the Emergency Services and how to help someone who is hurt. She had some great resources and we learned heaps.
 * First Aid Training**

__**Term 2 2012**__ __**26.05.12**__: We have been busy over the last couple of weeks. Here are some photos to show you what we have been up to in our classroom. For writing we have been working with our partners writing and publishing picture books to share with the junior classes. We had two authors visit us and we have looked at lots of picture books. Mrs Wylie showed us a really neat video of a mother robin in England, who made her nest in a hanging basket. You might like to look at it via this link. [|Robin's Nest] This video is the idea behind our picture book stories. We hope to share our books at an assembly soon. It has been great working with a partner.



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 * Last Tuesday**, we made some pumpkin soup and everyone had some for lunch. The Flyers reading group were responsible for preparing the pumpkin and roasting it before we cooked it in a pot with onion, garlic, chilli, coriander, rosemary and salt. Teo and Shore did a fantastic job re-organising our classroom after lunch.======

Mrs Herring is working with us to make papier mache fish. We have constructed our fish from plastic bottles, bottle tops, straws, cardboard and tape. We have applied the first layer of papier mache.




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Mrs Wylie is still trying to find some spare ply between 8-10mm thick so that we can make our garden ornaments. In the meantime, we will all have to decide on what type of garden insect we will make and how it might look when finished.======

===It is great to be back for Term 2. We have some exciting activities organised for this term. Our vegetable garden awaits! We are going to check the fertility and then plant all our winter vegetables so that we might enjoy some yummy soups. We also have to design and make interesting animal insects to decorate the outside of our garden.===

REQUEST!!
===Our insects will be made out of plywood with a thickness of about 10-12mm. We hope there are some local builders out there who will donate their leftover ply. Each insect requires a square roughly 50cmX50cm. We will also need help from people who own a jigsaw cutter. Our insect shapes will need to be cut out of the ply.===

**If anyone out there can offer ply or some jigsaw time, please send a note to school or leave a message on the phone. Thanks very much.**