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.

NE Pod visit Gonville Kindergarten

The NE Pod are making connections in the community. On Friday morning we visited Gonville Kindergarten to meet the teachers and future children of Carlton.  We were greeted with a porwhiri and ate shared kai together. The children had a fantastic time playing in their wonderful learning spaces.  Friday mornings are dedicated for visiting pre-schools or for our class to go visit them.  

School photo

Today we had our school photos. We decided to take a class photo for our kindy friends.

Aren't we a pretty stunning looking bunch?