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?

Easter

We had some easter fun this week.

Mrs Budge read us a story called Making a Rabbit and we used the information to create our own rabbits.

 We also had an easter egg hunt in the classroom and then wrote some cool easter stories. We will be publishing the stories soon so you can come and read them.

The Farm Concert

Our big book this week was 'The Farm Concert' by Joy Cowley.

We looked at punctuation like speech marks, exclamation marks and full stops. We practiced making our animal noises and changing our volume depending on the size of the writing. Our popwords were 'the' and 'went'.

Come listen to us reading The Farm Concert.

Swimming

We have loved swimming this term. We have learnt how to do a safe entry and exit. We practiced putting our head under water, blowing bubbles and learning how to kick properly.  Some of us can even pick items from the bottom of the pool.

However, our most favourite part of swimming was our free time where we explored the water and tested out our skills on our own.

Math: Legs! Legs! Legs!

As part of our rich maths learning, we were set the challenge of figuring out what a group of animals that had 12 legs all together could look like. Here are our answers.

Isn't it amazing how many different combinations you could make! Did you think a group of animals that we didn't think of?

Who am I?

Today the Hippo reading group made their own 'I am' story. The children have been learning to find their names and then point and recognise their very important 'first letter'. Our sentence starter has been 'I am' and they have become known 'popwords' for the children. They helped me write their sentence and then each child glued their name and photo. Using our pointer fingers we read our own sentences, by pointing under each word and bouncing over the spaces. We now know that a sentence always finishes with a full stop.