PLAYING FIRST TO 120

Today we played FIRST TO 120. We played on a 120 number chart and rolled a 10 sided die. We moved our counter that number of places. If we rolled a 5 we had to go backwards by 5. In this game we were practising our adding on skills. For example, if we were on 76 and rolled an 8, instead of counting forwards by ones, we thought in our heads "What is 76+8?" and moved our counter to that spot (84). We had to land exactly on 120 to win. Birthday Boy Sam was the first to 120 in his game.

Gymnastics

Throughout term three the children in grade 3/4B have been enthusiastically participating in gymnastics in the school hall. The children have been rotating through four activities each week. The activities have included:

• cartwheels
• walking on their hands
• tumbles
• forward rolls
• backward rolls
• use of the rings
• parallel bars
• trampoloine

The children's progress has been phenominal! Here is a video of us enjoying gymnastics:

literacy at work

Throughout the year we have been working in four Literacy Groups. Each group has a 'communicator' who leads the group. We take it in turns being the communicator. When we read a text we discuss what we have read and share our ideas. We are becoming better listeners when others are talking to us.

Here we are sharing what we have read and discussed with the class.Sometimes we sing a short jingle about an adversiement. The focus of our literacy groups was how advertising is used to persuade people to buy things, even though they might not need them. Advertisers use pictures, headings, colours and and interesting adjectives to get our attention to read about and want the product.

Pull Along Vehicles

Have wheels will travel is the result of planning and designing a pull alomg vehicle. We worked in pairs to design a pull along vehicle, From the plans and drawings we made a list of materials which we needed to build the vehicle. We used recycled materials for our constructions such as wood, plastic bottles, aluminium cans, icy-pole sticks (new), lid tops, tissue boxes, cardboard, nylon mesh, skewers (new) and cupboard hinges. To join the various bits and pieces together we used glue, nails, wire and screws. After completion of the building of our vehicles we painted and decorated them. Now we can play with them.