Identifying Parts Speech

Reflection I was learning about parts of speech. I found it confusing as I am not sure of nouns, verbs and adjectives. I need to listen more carefully.

Did You Ever Poem

I was learning to write a poem using simple imagery. I found this tricky because I didn't use punctuation  correctly.  I learnt about verbs  and  nouns. A buddy helped me to create a slide.

My Welcome Post 2020.

Welcome to my Year 4 learning blog.  This year  I am in room 12 and my teacher is Mrs Prendergast.

I enjoy reading.  A goal I have this year is to try and make sure I put capital and full stops in my writing.

 I hope you will enjoy my blog and leave lots of feedback.

WALT: Create a collaborative piece of art.

I was learning to draw a x pattern and you need to draw squares,
lines and circles. I know how to do patterns and squares. 
I can do that because it is cool. It was tricky. It was easy too  because I know how to do this.  


        

                                         

WALT: Summarize the main ideas.

I was learning to summarise the main ideas in the book.  Now I know how to summarise. It was tricky to upload the picture.

WALT: draw a volcano.

I was learning to draw a volcano.

Now I know how to draw a volcano.

It was tricky to draw a volcano because the steps were hard.

Autumn Leaves

We have been learning to describe a scene using adjectives and our senses.

Reading for Information

Reflection: I enjoyed reading about White Sunday.  It was hard but I figured it out with my group.
Matthew  05.06.19

Teacher Comment:  Well done Matthew you were able to find information to answer the questions working with your group.  Keep reading as much as you can to help you improve your skills when reading tricky words.  Mrs Templeton 2019

Maths: Learning to solve multiplication by skip counting in2s and 5s

Reflection:  I found it easy to skip and to show repeating adding. It was tricky for me to write the times tables.  Matthew  05.06.19

Teacher Comment:  I like the way you could explain what you were able to do and what was tricky.  We can work on more times tables and try to learn some for homework.  Mrs Templeton 05.06,19

Football Clinic

I enjoyed learning soccer skills with my friends in Term 2.

Comparing School: Past and Present

Reflection:  I enjoyed learning about the past in the Howick Historical Village - I would like to be at school now not in the 1800s.  Everything was so old in the past.  I like our tick chart,
Matthew  05.06.19

Teacher Comment:  I like the way you grouped these ideas.  You have been able to think of some things you like about school now but found it difficult to explain why you would make this choice.  I'm glad you like our tick chart for showing our 3 values.  Mrs Templeton 05.06.19

Fun Learning about the Past at the Howick Historical Village

Learning to use Adiectives.

I have been learning to use adjectives to make my writing more interesting.

Welcome to m 2019 Learning Journey.

This year I am in Room 18, Year 3, and my teacher is Mrs Templeton.

I am Learning to Find Information from a Text.

I am in Thumper Group for Reading. I am Reading at Green Level 14. We have been learning how to find information from a text.  We read the nonfiction book Cats and made a mind map to show the different facts that we learned.

My Reflection

It was tricky to find new facts and information from the book because some words were hard to read. I liked reading about cats. My favourite part of the book was learning about food for cats to eat.

I am Learning to Solve Subtraction Problems by Counting back from the Largest Number.

I am in Toru for maths and we have been learning how to solve subtraction problems by counting back from the largest number. We started with single digit numbers and moved on to double digit numbers.

My Reflection
I think that it is tricky to solve take away problems because you need to say it out loud  and it is scary to be on video.  Counting back from the biggest number is a good way to work out subtraction problems. I think that I could do it with even bigger numbers! The biggest numbers ever!

I am Learning to add Detail to my Writing.

Room 8 has been learning how to add detail into our writing to make it more interesting. We can think about the questions: Who? What? Where? When? How? and Why? to help us add this detail.
We have recently started swimming again and chose this shared experience to write about.

On Friday Room 8 went to the pool. I didn't go to the pool because my mum said it's cold. We had jump jam in the pool. After that I went back to class and it was lunch time. We did jump jam. I felt good because I was not swimming. Yay!

My Reflection

I think that I did a good job of my writing because I tried to add detail. I think that it is easy to add detail because we have questions to help us (who, what, where, when, how, why?). I will try to add detail to my writing everyday to make it more interesting. I like writing.

I am Learning to Draw Patterns.

In Room 8 we have been making flower headpieces for our wearable arts. These will be displayed next term! We have worked really hard on our patterns.

I am Learning to Identify 2D and 3D Shapes.

In Room 8 we have been learning about Geometry. We have looked at different 2D and 3D shapes and their different parts. We learned that shapes have different numbers of sides, faces, edges and corners of vertices.

We had a lot of fun making monsters out of different shapes!

My monster's name is Matthew. He is a circle. If he was a 3D shape he would be a sphere. The monster likes to go to the slide and do fitness.

My Reflection
I think my monster looks funny.
I found geometry easy because I knew some of the names of shapes already.
Learning about 3D shapes can be tricky because there are lots of sides.

I am Learning to Recognise and Read Long Vowel Sounds and Silent E.

I am in Max group for reading. We are at the green reading level. We have been learning about long vowel sounds and how a silent e can change the vowel sound in different words.

Success Criteria:

- correctly identify words with long vowel sounds and silent e.

- correctly identify the long vowel sound in the words.

- read words with and without the silent e and notice the difference.

My Reflection
I think that I did very well.
It is easy to read words that have a long vowel sound. I can tell the difference between words that have a silent e and the ones that don't have a silent e.
It can be hard to know what sound the vowels make when they are short or long.