Holiday Extras

Hello to you all,

If you are wanting to keep up with your learning/work/study/exercises over the holidays you can use the following websites to help you.

Spelling:
Digital Essential Lists to help you with spelling games
Play Snap, Fish, Memory by writing the essential lists onto card.
Test Me Game
Letter Sound Match
Spiderman Spelling
Spell Check Game


Math:
Worksheets Year 3 print off anything for your child to practise
Worksheets Year 4 print off anything for your child to practise
Addition and subtraction games
Multiplication and division games
Cool Math Games - a range of Math games


Writing:
Typing Stacker Cups
Writing Poems
Word Wizard
Fill in the gaps vocab
Cloze story - print off

Reading:
Reading activities - different stages/ages
Dairy of a Wimpy Kid to read
Tess's Tree to read
Online books to read
More Online books to read

Farewell Miss B

Today we say farewell to a special lady... Miss B!  She is heading back to her hometown to be with her family.

We made a thank you video speaking in different languages to wish her well with her travels.  However, the video is too large for our blog!!!

We wish you all the best, Miss B!

CRE Assembly

Today we are watching Poutama and LC 8 present the assembly. I'm looking forward to it!!

Choir Time!!!

We are about to listen to these amazing kids!!

Look how clever we are...

Some of my little helpers helped me today to create a festive video for you all to enjoy!!

Take a LOOK

If you would like to make your own...

CLICK HERE!!!

Keanu/Yuri/Hunter B/Hannah C

Mrs Spiers, Bailey and Luke W

Emma and Hannah C

Hannah H, Isaac, Daniel, Logan and Miss B

Hunter T

Sophie, Emma, Pyper, Miss B and Logan

Zach and Mrs Helm

How to Comment on our blog...

We have had this blog for nearly one whole year but... we don't have enough comments!!

Our class is going to practise writing a comment.

Here are the steps on how to comment on a blog

1. go on to the blog
2. 
   

Week 6 Term 4 Highlights

This week and term is going super fast!

We had our thank you assembly.  The choir was awesome.  They sung really well.  We are looking forward to Athletics day next week.

School photos are on Monday so don't forget  to brush your teeth, comb your hair and wear your uniform!!!

What Bugs Me????

Today we had the chance to write down what 'bugs' us at Riverdale School.  Look what we came up with...

Pae Ake Explore Time

Today for our ICT session we worked on photo story and created our own videos about High Jump.  Take a look at the work we did...

Oldie but a goodie!!

We have been very focused and busy today. What better way to make us all smile then singing "Happy" as we leave our classroom!!

Our manners

I am sitting in assembly at the moment feeling super proud!!! I'm looking at whetu piata sitting up, paying attention, listening and being a fab audience!!

Tau ke, nga tamariki!!!!

Shake Out!

Today we participated in the National Shake Out to practise our Earthquake drill...

We made sure we were able to drop, cover, and hold.  We came across an issue!!

We are in an MLE that doesn't have desks so we had to discuss what we would do and how we would react in an earthquake.

We talked about where we could drop in our classroom:

• close to walls
• away from glass
• away from the TV

We also discussed that we have to drop where we are... but to try and keep the above in mind.

Word sort

We looked at characteristics of what makes a 'wonderful' person and spread these all of the floor

We then talked about the words and if they could be grouped together with words of the same/similar meaning.  This is what we came up with... 

New Money

Wow, NZ is getting new money.  How interesting.  Logan started our inquiry into this by bringing a new $5 note in to school for his sharing.

We then researched it further by googling it (Thank GOODNESS for google!!)  We came across this website that is VERY informative!!

CLICK HERE

Send me in some photos of you with the new notes and I will upload them...

Citizenship?????

What is Citizenship?  We are looking at being great citizens this term...

We just watched Kid President deliver his message click HERE!

Use this PADLET to write down what you could do to make our term AWESOME!!

Snapshot your holiday...

Today we started by creating a snapshot of our holiday...  take a look

New Learning Tool...

Padlet!

I have just opened my own Padlet account.  Yahoo.

Click on the padlet link and follow the instructions.

Padlet click here

1960s Right Choice Day

Today we are going to be celebrating the 1960s.

We have seen:

• beehives
• Captain America
• Afros
• fake eyelashes
• funky hairstyles
• braces/suspenders
• flower power
• mohawks
• peace symbols
• dresses
• patterns
• smiling faces
• wigs
• hats
• jackets
• aviator sunglasses
• Elvis
• John Lennon
• Twiggy look-a-likes
• headbands
• LOTS of make-up
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Pae-Ake's Art Gallery

Wow!  Last night was a huge success!  Thank you to all of the whanau who came to help celebrate our children's amazing talent.

There were a lot of ooooohs and aaaaahs and congratulations being passed around the hall last night.  Here are some photos of our night.

Riverdale School's very own Time Capsule!!

We went through the time capsule that was created in 1996.  We found some things quite interesting especially... staff photos ha ha

We then discussed what we would talk about if we created letters to tell the future what it is like to be alive in 2015...

We thought these items were important enough to put in a time capsule:

• school uniform
• nerf gun
• photo of Modern Learning Environments (MLE)
• photo of classes
• New Zealand flag
• Playstation - photo
• phone - photo
• stories about what it's like 'today'
• pictures of technology 
• Staff photo
• everyday clothes
• nutrabullet
• stationery
• colour TV
• roller blades
• cars now
• photos of our neighbourhood
• multipurpose track

Happy Birthday Riverdale School...

Riverdale school is 50!!!!

We thought we would celebrate by seeing what we would look like in the 60s!  Groovy baby!!!

Ella Jordan

Spencer Thompson

Artemis Karvian-Pour

Reihana Tomlinson

Luke Deane-Free

Matt Ewart

Ngakau Vickery

Willow Allerby

Ayla Parsons

Daniel Greaney

Maidah Mughal

Yuri Dilks

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