Sewing to strengthen our pincer grip

The children sewed around the first letter of their name. Turning the material over and going through and back was quite challenging. Everyone persisted and were able to go all the way around. 

Firemen Visit

Room 11 have been learning about how to be firewise. We have practised 'get down, get low and get out' to our safe meeting place on the field.  The children can discuss what objects are tools for adults and toys for them.  We have learnt about smoke alarms and what we need to do when we hear one go off. The firemen were very impressed with our knowledge !

How to plant a tree procedure writing.

How to plant a tree

You will need:

• a baby tree plant
• a dug hole
• soil
• water
• scissors
• watering tin or hose

Instructions

1. Cut the plastic off the bottom of the plant.
2. Take off the plastic.
3. Put the plant in the hole.
4. Cover it up with soil.
5. Water it with a watering tin or hose.

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