Gymnastics

We have loved doing to gymnastics!! We are gutted that today was our last session. We have learnt to tuck, pike and saddle jump, roll forwards and backwards, climb, jump and balance!

Discovery and wonder

We have been discovering the wonderful world of water beads...
This is a great sensory experience for our children and has scientific elements as well.

Yoga - A journey through India

Emma took us on  a journey to India. We learnt about the animals and foods of India. We learnt about the weather, clothes, animals and food. We also celebrated and learnt about Diwali. We made rangoli patterns, milk sweets and lanterns.

Week 2 - Mrs Wishy-washy, car races and math games

Mrs Wishy-washy as a big focus for our children this week as they drew pictures and told stories about her and the animals on the farm. Lots of great creative writing came out of it.

With Miss Ravindran and Mrs McIntrye both away towards the end of the week, we thought the car rally wasn't going to happen...and then the rain set in on Friday! Mr McFunn came to the rescue and we made our very own ramp for the cars to roll down. This activity was helping children to make sense of the mathematic principle of probability...who was going to win?

We played maths games to help us build our number knowledge too.

Super week back at school!

 We have had a "SUPER' start to Term 4.

We have built lairs, planned traps to catch the bad guys, weaved our way through lasers to save little furries, hid our identies with masks, battled slime, phoned superheros and so much more.

We also learnt that not all heros wear capes like doctors, nurses, teaches, mums or dads. Oh and flash too!

Thank you to the families who came to watch our incredible super kids. I apologies for our technical difficulties but didn't the children do great!!!

Here is our all about us presentation.

Grow it - Hi Five song performance practice

Duffy performance was amazing!!!

We really liked the Duffy performance this week. Some of the highlights were…

Michael: The baby was pouring his bottle.

Jai: The army part, the noises.

Reipan: The ninjas because he was a boy.

Harmony: The dab (saluting) because they were joking.

Ashlee: The ninjas

Liam Winiata: I liked the when the soldiers came home.

Drake: I liked the time machine, the hat.

Raama: I liked the ninjas when he did the flip.

Awatea: I liked when the girl was the ninja because she was sneaky.

Sage: My favourite part was the ninjas, the way they moved.

Myah: I liked the bit with the flips.

Shyella: I liked it when the kids let us ask questions.

Philippa: I liked the ninjas, the noises that they made.

Jasmine: I liked the girl ninja because she was sneaky.

Danielle: I liked the dress with the flowers.

Kesaia: I liked the dad, that he was a soldier.

Sheldon: I liked that part where the soldier did the slow motion.

Levi: I liked the ninja because of the music.

Treidyn: I liked the ninja when he flew across.

Hoani: I liked the ninja when he slid.

Braedyn: I liked the soldier, he was about to die.

Jasper: I liked the boy soldier, he was funny.

Riley: I liked the ninja when he slid.

We can recognise and make our own shapes

I can see...

We can produce amazing mixed media artwork

Can you read and write here, in & said?

Our sight words/popwords this week are 'here', 'in' and 'said'.

Patterns

This week we have been learning about patterns. We looked around and found patterns in our classroom, then we made some patterns ourselves. We used our bodies and what we were wearing to make patterns, and realised that there could be more than one pattern.


Our artwork has patterns - landscape/portrait/landscape/portrait...


Our teacher was making a boy/girl/boy/girl pattern, but we discovered that there was more than once pattern, can you see the others? There are four other patterns.


We found patterns on our new mat...


We can even make patterns with our classroom equipment


Look at this great pattern...


Lots of our new mats have patterns we found...

Last week of Term

What a great term we have had!

What is Matariki/Puhanga?

At first we thought Matariki/Puhanga was about

• Children
• My self
• Spanish
• No no naki a
• Singing
• Hello
• They have to have actions.
• Family
• They are brothers
• They are sisters
• We sang a song.

After learning about Matariki/Puhanga through songs, stories, art, HOLT learning and our families.

Thank you Kylie for coming in and helping us learn more about Puhanga, teach us a new waiata as well as guiding us in weaving a Puhanga star.

This is what we think now.

• It’s the Maori New Year.
• Its called matariki.
• In Wanganui, we call it Punga.
• We celebrate the 7 sisters, they are stars in the sky.
• We celebrate by telling stories, made kites, shared food, we fish, gardening, grow new plants and look after them.
• We see the Puhanga star outside our window.
• We think about those who have past away and remember their lives.

Learning about number stories

Puanga Celebration

Learning about the HOMS

Striving for Accuracy

Lily and Seth are throwing a beanbag at a target. They are trying to get it as close as they can.

Assembly

Today was our turn to take assembly.

We were feeling lots of different emotions about taking assembly from being scared and nervous about talking into the microphone to happy and excited that our families were coming to watch us.

We sang the library song, read our favourite Greedy Cat big book 'The New Cat' and shared our greedy cat art. We are very proud of the job we did.

Here is a movie made out of picture Miss Nation kindly took for us.

Thank you to all the families that were able to come and support our learners in their very first assembly at school.

Bucket Filling

This week we revisited  our learning about bucket filling and re-read stories the stories below for our new friends that have started this term.

This is what we learnt from the story.

Drips in the story meant:

• being mean. - Kristinn
• taking things/snatching. - Dustin
• people were whispering about him. - Jack
• his drops came out. - Peighton
• his sister laughed at him in a mean way. - Braedyn
• bullying him/jumped up on him. - Seth
• drips coming out of his bucket where making him angry - Austin

Drops mean:

• the water drops into the bucket - Dreus
• giving notes - Braydon
• they played together - Cassady
• they weren’t silly to each - Austin
• team work - Kristinn
• people were being nice. - Nevaeh - His teacher gave him an A on his story.
• he got to share with the class
• smiling
• kind hands
• not hitting
• sharing
• being nice
• saying hi

A bucket dipper takes drips out of peoples buckets. They make other people sad.

A bucket filler puts drop in other peoples buckets and their own. They make others and themselves feel good.

Non-standard Measurement

He Puna Aranga spent the middle block of the morning outside experimenting with non-standard measurement. The children were given maths equipment to measure a given area outside. The first group were given the straws to measure the path to the drop off bay. The second group measured the blue bench outside the junior classrooms-using small sticks. The third group had popsicle sticks and measured the black seat. The fourth group were given interlocking cubes and measured around the sandpit. The fifth group had a variety of different equipment to measure around the junior playground.

The learning investigation: How many of your equipment does it take to measure how long the sandpit is? or the area they were given.

The children set out problem solving ways to measure these large areas. We saw teamwork happening as the children took turns with the equipment. Some people were given the job as 'fixers' to ensure there were no gaps between each popsicle stick, cubes, straws etc.  Predictions were made as the children guessed how long was their area. Big numbers were used to describe how many of each material it took to measure the length or circumference.

Watch the videos below of some children explaining their learning.

We are learning about Measurement!

This term, measurement is our focus for maths in the New Entrant Pod. We have started out learning about height. We introduced the new vocabulary of short, medium and tall.  We compared different objects in the classroom and had a go at putting ourselves into height order.

 

Our classroom has a height chart on the cloak bay door. We each wrote our name on a white sticker to mark our height on the chart. This is a visual way for the children to see how tall they are. We made comparisons by asking 'who is taller?' and 'who is shorter?' This lead into a good conversation of how our height does not measure our age.

A great start to Term 2!

We have had a bounced back into school with big smiles! From making superhero masks, listening to superhero stories and building superhero vehicles. We even have a superhero small world station. Sadly some of our spider men have lost there arms but Giacon has become an expert at discovering different ways of fixing them.

What shoes do we have most of in Rooms 11 and 12?

We have read a book called 'Whoose Shoes'. It was about sorting lots of different shoes that got mixed up. Today we mixed up our shoes and sorted them by how they look. We had shoes with laces, buckles, velcro and slip ons.  We lined them up and compared the shoes. The questions were asked: What shoes do we have most of? and What shoes do we have least of? After much discussion, counting, sorting and comparisons, we made a class pictograph to record our findings.

Writing/Art: Where is Green Sheep?

We listened to a story called Where is the green sheep?

After we listened to it we practiced writing our popwords (sightwords) 'here', 'is' and 'the'. We decided to write our own "Here is the green sheep." style sentence but using our own imagination. We drew sheeps just like the illustrator in the story and created our backgrounds using dye.

Here is our own class version of the book "Where is the green sheep?

Poem: Incy Wincy Spider

This week our poem was called Incy Wincy Spider.

We used our imagination to create spiders and insects out of playdough,  drew pictures of spiders, wrote spider stories and created some spider art.