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Welcome to Room 5 Amethysts

Wow the year is just about over. We have had a team trip to the Event Centre for a swim then a picnic in the Rose Gardens. Thanks to Paige our photographer we have been able to upload our photos as well as put them in our class memory capsule.



We started December off by having our Waharoa unveiled. We had a powhiri and a lot of the community came to celebrate it and our school. The carvers made sure the Waharoa told a story about our amazing school. We all put either our hand print or finger prints on the back because it is about us, knowledge, our school culture and our learning. We are very proud to have our Waharoa (gateway) and it is wonderful to walk through it every day.

Term 4 is all about weaving our years worth of work together to show us how important we are to our environment and our actions affect more than just us.

Term 4 in the Gems team we are focussing on "How are we working towards Ecological Sustainability"? The key words are: Ecological Sustainability, Growth, Change, Environment, Conservation, Health, Cause and Effect Flora [|Native Plants], Fauna [|NZ Native animals] Pests [|DOC]



We are continuing our journey of learning. In our class we have a 'Tree of Learning', a 'Butterfly of words', a 'Knowledge Net', which all comes together for us to know our learning is growing.

We have learnt that it is important to laugh at ourselves and with others not at others. We need our friends and family to share our successes and trials. We need to keep active to keep the brain moving and we also have to accept that we are responsible for our actions.



Our Keywords for Term 3 were and fitted into our learning in Room 5 Amethysts:

Responsibility - As Year 4's we know we are responsible for our property, our thinking, our work output. Respect - We must always be respectful of everyone around us. To gain respect we must earn respect. Appreciation - We have learned how hard it is to create an amazing piece of art. We want our community to appreciate the work and pride we have in it. We also learned how important it is to appreciate the things we have when others may not be so lucky. Belonging - We are Pekerau Kids and we belong to our class, school and local community. We are proud of who we are and want people to respect our community and become part of it by playing on our cool new playground, enjoy our great school and look after our classrooms because they all belong to our community. Acceptance - we know we are all special and have differences in our learning abilities and physical skills. We need to take care of each other because all our differences make us the great school and community. Tolerance - We are still working on tolerance because we are only Year 4 students and it takes time to learn about tolerance. We know about working in our own space and not getting into other peoples space if they don't want us in it. We also know its really important to try to ignore some things that bug us if it is not directly affecting us. Creativity - Term 3 was all about creativity. We looked at different types of art - graffitti, tagging, sculptures, paintings and used our school community as our motivation for our own art pieces. We worked as a team to plan it, sketch it, then create it. We also used our creativity to show off our learning at our class assembly. We are creative in our writing, reading activities, and other areas of our learning - so we think we are pretty amazing.

Each night the children added entries to their camp diaries. They have begun a class blog which can be viewed by clicking on the sparkly amethysts blog. You'll be able to read the children's perspective and opinion about camp rather than the teachers or adults perspective.