BLOG CLOSED

This blog is now closed for the 2012 school year and there will be no new posts. You will still be able to access our blog through the Halcombe School website and we'll link it to our 2013 blog too.
Thank you for all the support that has been given to Room 4 and we have enjoyed the comments posted on our blog.

Thank you Room 4 for being absolutely fabulous this year. I wish you all a very Merry Christmas. Make sure you have lots of fun in the holidays and I look forward to seeing you in the new year.

Go to our new blog by clicking on the link below:

http://www.room4halcombeschool2013.blogspot.co.nz/

CHRISTMAS IS COMING

Why not get into the Christmas spirit!

Room 4 put up our Christmas tree today. It is super exciting to have Christmas coming.
Having a tree adds to our beautiful sparkling room.
Great job Room 4!

JAPANESE VISITOR

Room 4 have been very enthused about learning the Japanese culture and language.
They have experienced eating sushi, dressing in a kimono and have much more. 
Today we had Ueta Sensei from St Peter's College, Palmerston North visit room 4. Ueta Sensei was Miss Campbell's teacher for 4 years when she was learning Japanese.
We are very lucky to have had Ueta Sensei in our class. He taught us lots of Japanese. It was very entertaining as he also knows a lot of magic.

Thank you Ueta Sensei for coming to help us with our learning. Arigato!

Bonzai!

TRIP TO THE RECYCLING CENTRE

On Tuesday the 13th of November room 4 traveled to Palmerston North to visit the Awapuni Recycling Centre. This trip helped us with our Science unit around rubbish and recycling.

We were very lucky to have a lesson in a well resourced classroom, watch a short movie and go into the busy areas where all the hard work and magic happens. What a process! We never realised how long the journey of our rubbish is!
We were also very lucky to stop for lunch at a very entertaining park near by.

We thank all the parents who took transport and Pip Crystall for making it possible to enhance our learning.

Having a run around at lunch time. What a slide!

BUDDY CLASS

This week to celebrate having sunshine we decided to teach our buddy class - Room 1 how to play Dribble Dribble Drench. They picked it up super fast and it was a great way to end our week. Thank you room 1 for being a super awesome buddy class.

A SPECIAL VISITOR

PERFORMANCE

This morning Halcombe School kapa haka and choir performed to the school.
It was fantastic to see Room 4 student enthusiastically taking part in such great learning.

HUNTERVILLE CROSS COUNTRY

Congratulations to all those who ran in the Hunterville Cross Country on Friday.

CROSS COUNTRY

Congratulations to all those who ran the cross country. I was very proud of all your hard work, determination and positive attitude. What a fun day!

PET DAY

Today was Halcombe School's Pet Day.

There were many dogs, lambs, cows, cats, rabbits and even a quail. 
Some of us brought our precious pets to school while others created recyclable creatures.

It was a great day to have a sausage sizzle and enjoy some good sunshine.

MAKING MONEY IN MATHS

Room 4 have been learning about Money in Maths this week.
It has been fun role playing supermarket scenes to help us learn to calculate our prices and how to give change.

Take a look at the great work Kerry, De'Quante, Ashley and Destiny did yesterday.

 

PET DAY PREPARATION

END OF TERM

Time has come to have a holiday. Thank you Room 4 children for working so hard this term.
Keep safe and happy over the next two weeks.

Teachers at Halcombe School are heading off to a conference to get taught lots of things about reading. We get to learn too! It would be great to think you guys are doing some reading at home too.

Winning the classroom cup was a great way to end the term.
Ka Pai Room 4. Happy Holidays!

DANCE

This term Room 4 has worked extremely hard learning dances. 
Today was performance day. We danced a Hip Hop dance and a Rock 'n' Roll one. 

Message from Miss Campbell:

Room 4 I am extremely proud of each and every one of you for giving 100% effort to your dances. Thank you for your hard work. You all looked AMAZING!

Shake Out

Today at 9.26am we took part in the Shake Out event. We dropped, covered and held our positions before assembling to our safe school area. We were pleased that we knew exactly what to do in case of a real earthquake.

GETTING INTO IT

Room 4 have been getting into our invention projects!
We have been facing some challenges but have problem solved calmly and worked great in our groups. We can't wait till we share our final products.

BEST LEARNING

To Room 4 students

I want to hear what you have to say about learning in Room 4.

Here are a whole lot of questions for you to think about and answer a few in your rely to this comment.

What things do we do in our class that helps you learn better? Is there types of activities that make learning more fun and easier to understand? Would you rather get told exactly what you have to do every minute of the day or feel having your own literacy plan helps you? What materials help you learn?
For those of you who do Rainbow Reading and Phonics, can you tell in your reading and writing that it has helped you. Can you explain why?

How do you think you learn best?
 
I can't wait to read posts about this topic.

Thank you.

From Miss Campbell

INVENTIONS

Room 4 have been planning our invention projects.We are working in groups and are all getting involved enthusiastically. We cannot wait to see the inventions we all come up with.
  

Recently our Student Council decided to donate $100 to the Palmerston North Rescue Helicopter! As you can see they really appreciated our support!

TIME TO LEARN ABOUT TIME

We have been learning about time.

Post a schedule of what you do on a weekday.

* "Scales" group please use 24hr time.

DOG STARS

On Monday we had The Dog Stars come and visit Halcombe School.

We were amazed to see how talented the dogs were.

We have decided to write Chelsea (the trainer) and the dogs a letter.

To find out more about the Dog Stars go to www.dogstars.co.nz

WHEELS DAY

Check out what we got up to during Wheels Day!

ROOM 4 OLYMPICS

To finish of our Olympics learning Room 4 participated in our own unique Olympic competition. 

Our teams were "Team Lightning Bolt", "The Broken Bones", "The Sharks" and "GAA"

After many competitions Team "GAA" got Gold. Some competitors even decided to dress up for our class event. 

I hope Room 4 enjoyed learning about the Olympics this term.

MUDDY TOURNAMENT

On Thursday Halcombe Senior A netball, Senior Rugby, Junior Rugby, Junior A and Soccer team went South Makirikiri for a tournament. We had great fun and the best part was playing in the mud. 

We are very thankful for all those who helped organised and those who supported this event to make it possible for us to take part in such a fun day.