Tis the season for giving....

A huge thank you goes out to Jo O'Neil for all her amazing help this morning with out Christmas cookie baking.

Yesterday, we made origami boxes to hold our biscuits.
These are for a gift - I wonder of you receive this tasty treat :-)

  

Merry Christmas Everyone

From FAB 4

Merry Christmas Wishes

Looking Back

The Silly Season has begun....

 

We had a wee bit of fun this afternoon creating these crazy reindeer.

Awesome sharing in assembly...

This is for the awesome Mums that wanted to be there but couldn't make it.
You're kids rock!!!

  

Our CEOs are the best!!!!

The wonderful CEOs in room 4 got together and made special certificates for their groups.  Kate went home and made up the certificates and they all got together and decided what they shall be awarded for.

  

Mckenzie got hers for being kind to her group members.

Charlie got hers for listening to everyone when their CEO was away sick.

Sahara got hers for listening really well and when people were arguing she didn't get shouty.

Recko got his for his great behaviour.

Aimee was a great worker and for being kind to the people in her group.

Market Day!!!!

The door sign group is all set up.

Look at the gorgeous window hangings behind these ladies.

Pom Pom pets are cute!

The Working Girls have produced a lot of groovy photo frames.


What an exciting morning we have had!  We all sold out!  We had one group, The Working Girls was the only group that made a profit but everyone did a fantastic job.  We are already thinking about what we would do differently next time.
We all think Mr Rate is the best Principal ever because he ave everyone a 10G bonus to spend!


Fab 4 Rocks!!!

Excited Buzzz

Thunderbirds are GO!

Whoa!  What a buzz there is in the classroom today.  We are busy putting on the finishing touches to our products, making signs, counting wages and working out our selling rosters, all set for MARKET DAY on Wednesday!

Everyone can be super proud of themselves! You have all worked hard, listened and shared, met your deadlines and run successful businesses!

Looking forward to a fantastic market day!

The Spongy Smart Kids have made some amazing window hangings!

If you are after a pom pom pet, you need to find the Skells stall.

The Working Girls are busy working to get thier photo frames completed.

It seems we have lots of annoying brothers and sister around here as these door signs seems to be a popular item that people are planning to purchase.

Better get in quick, you wouldn't want to miss out!

Skoolbo...

We have just started using this interactive website to practice our literacy and numeracy skills.

We started on Monday and we are already on the leaderboards!

Fab4 learners are continuing their learning outside school hours!  We totally Rock!!!

In the top 100 students throughout New Zealand!

12th top class in New Zealand!!!!!

34th School in New Zealand!!!! And it is only our class doing it!!!

Crack up story by Mckenzie

"Chevy!  I'm going to get you back!" I screamed.
"But you can't catch me," laughed Chevy.
"I can so!" I yelled.
I chased him..... "aaahhhhhh Stop it, I don't like it," moaned Chevy.
Then I turned the hose off and Chevy looked through the top of the hose.  I quickly turned it back on and BAM, it squirted all over his face!

Sam Attacks by Jack

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
"Let's get Dad with the hose," said Sam.
Tip toe.....tip toe......tip toe.......3, 2, 1......go!
"aaahhhhhh STOP IT!  I give up! SAM!" raged Dad.
"RRRRRUUUUUNNNNNNN guys," commanded Sam.
Puff Puff
"I'm going to get you back," claimed Dad.
Sams Dad was thinking about his payback.  40 minutes later he had an idea.  But he didn't have the materials so he jumped in the car and started up the engine and drove to RD1.  He got all the stuff and drove home.......Revenge starts now......

WATCH OUT KATE!!!

Splash!
The giant blue water balloon landed on Max's dripping face.
"I'm going to get you!" screamed Max with a terrifying face!
I was cracking up! Thump!  Max came running at me!  I was sprinting as fast as I could.  Max had a big yellow water gun.  My legs were tired, my face was red, who knew what was going to happen next?
"It is time for you to get squirted with freezing cold water!", said in an angry voice.
Would I lose the ultimate water fight?

Riki-Lee's exciting whanau fun!!!

We went to my Uncles to have a water fight on the bouncy castle at day time.  Braxton, Chevy, Mckenzie, Me and my friend and Kenzies cousin were bouncing and the parents were sitting down on the deck outside next to the bouncy castle.  I put soap in the slide and whacked my brother in the face because it was too slippery.  I put more soap on there and I did it again!!!!!
After we finished we went on the motorbikes, I went on the go kart.  I crashed into the fence, I got an electric shock.  I broke the go kart a lot but my Uncle fixed it.  It went again.

Check out Makaylas great writing!!

This week, we are using images to motivate our writing.
We used this image and wrote 'moment in time' thoughts.

It was a bursting hot day for me and my friends.  I was sweating on my forehead.  Then we had a water fight.  I was sort of relaxed with my friends, Tom, Jake and Jack.  We were excited.  I couldn't wait until I fell in that wetness.  As I closed my eyes, I feel that amazing water dripping on my body.

By Kate and Jade

 

I like how Fred was helped in this story :-)

A wee challenge...

Last week, we had a challenge:
With a buddy, using storybird, write a narrative that only has five pages.

We talked about what each page should include and then set off on our mission.

Here is an example by Arianna and Skylia




More Storybirds to come.

Words of Wisdom

WOW!!! Fab4 rock at PrEP!!!

We are flying along, making our products, booking in advertising in the newsletter, creating advertisements for around the school, thinking about how we are going to package, thinking of our profit, calculating our wages, developing our key competencies......We are so awesomely busy!!!

Here are some Words of Wisdom that we want to share with you all.....

• It is important to measure accurately so our products are consistent.
• We need to control our excitement and make sure that we are making the best product we can.
• We need to be careful with the glue as it might make our product look bad of we rush it.
• We need to use teamwork and not argue.
• Everyone has to know what everyone in the group is doing so we can be a good team.
• The CEO has to make sure that everyone has a job and is doing it right.
• We have to balance the bank account.
• We need to listen to each other.
• We need to be organised so we can be at the warehouse on time, some times we might have to work outside of PrEP time.
• We need to think about the quality of our product - if we are asking people to pay for them, they need to be consistent.

This is pretty impressive advice for a great bunch of business people.

I hope they are sharing the excitement at home with you too.

Spongy Smart kids

Here is that video that will help you with your product:


http://youtu.be/r49V-J6Ikt4

Gosh - whizzing by!

The term is whizzing by...... we have worked on the Labyrinth and have focussed on character descriptions.
We are now moving onto narratives, everyone is doing a great job.  We had a great lamb and calf day with creativity on display.
Congrats to all those that received a prize and showed off their pets with pride!

Here are a couple of images of the photography we did, which is on display outside our class.  So glad I wasn't the judge!

A new roving reporter

Blaze has been selected for a very important job..... he is our roving reporter.  Blaze will be keeping track of our progress through PrEP.
He will be taking the images, creating a newspaper page to show what we are doing with our businesses and money making ventures.

Here is his first effort....pretty impressive!!!

The Labyrinth

Labyrinth Film Study

We are looking at characters, settings, plot and using it to inspire our creativity and teamwork for the lead up to our PrEP.

We used our teamwork to create some hand faces - like the ones we saw when Sara fell down the well.

Term Four! Here we go!!!

Week One of Term Four!!!

Wahoooo

It is great to be back with your amazing children and to see their smiling faces and hear about their fun filled holidays.

Just a few housekeeping things:

·      Term four means we all need a sunhat

·      Could you please ensure that your wonderful child has pencils, pens etc for the term.

·      Drink bottle filled with water are welcome in the class

·      Don’t forget to check out our blog J

This week we are getting our PReP underway, it is an exciting time and we are really looking forward to using our creativity and teamwork.  This week we are writing application letters for our jobs and looking at ideas that we can create for our products.

In numeracy we are looking at money and statistics – this works in well with our topic.  We will be surveying people and learning how to show information in a variety of ways and then using that information to make decisions.

Congratulations to Recko for winning the name rights of our Prep Cash for the school – they are going to be called GOLDIES.  Congratulations to Skylia whose $2 note design is going to be used throughout the school.

Really looking forward to an exciting term!

 J Tanya

By Maia and Sophia

Completed during Literacy Take Over!!!!

Crazy Hair Day

WOW!  What an amazing effort for our Crazy Hair Day and Passport Party!!!

FAB 4 Totally rocks!!!!

Our awesome (and a little bit crazy) funky Mums!

The winner from our class for the craziest hair!

Take Over Reflections...

I was very impressed with the thinking behind these reflections... this will set us up for our exciting PReP programme next term!!!