Collaborative Games - Parents / Whanau day

Here are some photos of the Year 4 Trio working collaboratively to create a new game to play with their parents. Children were split into groups of 3 or 4 across the 3 classes and had to design a game based on a Big Foot Adventures Team Building Game. 

Then their collaborative group had to work hard to plan, organise and prepare their games for parents to come in and play with them.

You did such a great job Year 4 Trio. You should be very proud of all the creating, planning and following through with all your games. 

A huge 'Thanks' to the parents/whanau that were able to pop along.

Children: what did you learn from this whole experience? 

What would you do differently next time?

Learning to write Instructions - with good detail.

This week we looked at how precise instructions need to be in order to be successful for the reader/audience.

Collaborative groups were asked to write instructions on how to "Make Jam on Toast."  Sounds easy... but maybe not. Here are some photos of instructions that we followed.



Opps, you need to remember to tell the person to take the toast out of the toaster and place it on a plate before 'spreading on the butter and jam."

Check out these children working collaboratively. Are any of these games like the ones that you are designing?

Switch it up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-btpu4X_qs

Across the pond
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0W-1phSEjQ


Noodle Run
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tFfvQG5Nx0

Big Foot Adventures!

On Wednesday the 27th March Big Foot Adventures came to Meadowbank School and worked with the Year 4 cohort, completing a range of team building activities. 

This challenged the children to work together and problem solve and work as a team. 

The kids were required to demonstrate the Key Competencies: 

• Thinking
• Relating to Others
• Managing self
• Participating and Contributing
• Using Symbols, language and Text

Over the last weeks of the term we are going to be constructing our own team building activities and the children will be hosting an event where they will teach the families. 

More information is to come. 

Check out some of the photos from yesterday!

Year 4 Trio Art

As part of our Whanaungatanga unit, we have been getting to know the teachers in Rooms 29, 30 and 31. We have all spent one afternoon with each of the teachers producing different artwork.

In Room 29 to celebrate Sea Week, we created pictures of sea animals using crayon and dye.

In Room 30 we learnt to draw Samon Siapo Patterns.

In Room 31 we created a picture out of words to show all the things that we love. We used the online website Tagul to create this.

Take a look at the pictures to see our final pieces. We are looking forward to working in our Trio team and moving around classrooms to work with different students and teachers.

Room 30 Caterpillars

Room 30 have shown responsibility in their challenge to look after their caterpillars for a week. Many of them have their own homes and have not left their owner's side since they got them!

Responsibility

Room 31 has been learning to take responsibility of their little caterpillar friends. They are working hard to make sure they have a place to sleep and are taken to and from school.