Room Three - Year 3 and 4
Fiona van den Brink
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Room Three
Currently we have twenty three children in Room Three, all of us were at Hiwinui School last year.
We have started off the year making a Classroom Treaty – To tatou Tiriti Akomanga. It states that: we all have the right to learn, to be respected, to have our voices heard and to listen. That we learn when we: use our manners, make mistakes, share, are kind and laugh. We are all continuing to build our personal Pepeha knowledge and look forward to sharing them throughout this year. Many of us will have the opportunity to present ours at our weekly Hui and during our Ruahine  Ropu morning routine time.
In Literacy, we are exploring books in a new way. Learning to describe settings, characters and inferencing. We are continuing to build our Heart Word and Spelling Pattern knowledge, to grow and broaden “Our Code”. For Maths, we are learning about numbers that come before and after a number, and putting jumbled numbers in order. We are practising counting up and back through tens. We will be spending lots of time problem solving and deciding what operation e.g. + or x to use when solving the problem. During Literacy and Maths time we will be ‘tumbling’.  Harold and Tim are here with us at the beginning of the year. We are talking about “Being a team member”.  We will continue to work with Rooms Two and One, who are just across the Learning Corridor from us.
 
Fiona and friends, in Room Three
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