Saying Goodbye to this blog

Hi everyone

We are no longer able to use Blogger on mobile devices so I have switched us over to Seesaw. 

If you wish to see our new blog for our class and also Hector's blog please do any of the following:
1. Use the QR code and your mobile device to scan straight to the blog
2. Go to Room 4 on www.outram.school.nz
3. Use this link https://blog.seesaw.me/room4outram/

This blog, and Hector's will be deleted at the beginning of Term 2

Hector is still available on Twitter and we would love more followers, see us at @HectorsClass on Twitter

Livy and her Principal's Award

Well done Livy for receiving a Principal's Award!! Mrs P showed everyone some previous students poetry books so that we got some ideas. Livy certainly lived up to the challenge of presenting a beautiful looking illustration to match the poem Buzzy Bee.

Claude Monet Inspired Art

Last Friday we learned that Claude Monet liked to paint water lillies. So we had a go at doing our own ones. We used pastels to create the lillies and lily pads. Some of us found it tricky to create the 3 circles for the lily pad. Then we all waited very very patiently while we took turns to paint green dye around the water lillies, and then blue everywhere else. They certainly do make a stunning wall display!

Completed Flower Show Art

The completed flower show art just looked amazing. Everyone worked so hard to produce their pieces of work. We dyed the backgrounds blue and green. Next we used paint to create a flower which we cut out and stuck on the background. Finally we painted bees which we stuck on with foam to look 3D. This photo shows our place getters. Macklyn and Dylan won 3rd, Fliss and Livy won 2nd and Katelyn and Jesse won 1st place. Come into our classroom and see them hanging up!

Have a Go morning

 Recently all the Year 3 and 4 children went to the Edgar Centre to participate in the Sport Otago Have a Go morning. Everyone was mixed up into 6 groups and participated in hockey, soccer, rugby, gymnastics, basketball, and netball. It was a fabulous morning and all the children did Outram proud! Hector had a great time too!

Kindness Week

Last week was Kindness Week and our class participated. Mrs Paterson presented a powerpoint to the school at the Tuesday morning assembly, and then we looked closely at ways to be kind during the week.  We each wrote how we had been kind recently - there were certainly a lot of dishwashers being emptied to help mums and dads at home. Mabel did a random act of kindness and brought in eggs for Mrs P on Friday - they boiled up beautifully for tea! Thanks Mabel. We will continue to look at kindness over the coming weeks as part of our classroom culture.

Look who came to school last week!

We were so so lucky to have Fliss' dog come to visit us one morning before school. We could tell that they were a very spoilt dog and loved getting lots of attention! Thank you Fliss for sharing your special family member with us.