Take a peek at our 'full house', It is good to have all our Room 10 friends fully on board now
This week we have really got into the swing of using play dough to practice our letter sounds and tricky words
With the summer finally having decided to stay we were able to start exploring some cooling water play.
We were thinking about spiders this week and learned some good turn taking skills playing this Incy Wincy Spider game.
Take a look at our thinking around comparing spiders and ants.
In Play Based Learning some great collaboration was going on...including the repair of broken cards.....
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.......exciting 'pipe' constructions........
and marvellous marble runs.
Some awesome observational skills were being developed at the painting table.
We have been learning more about composting and why we are using food scrap bins at school now. Click on the image below to watch the Peppa Pig clip we were watching.
Before the start of our literacy sessions each day we have a thinkers game to get our brains warmed up. Here we are playing Secret Squares and thinking of good questions to ask.
With Sam we have been thinking about how many letters are in our names and making a giant pictogram to represent this.
Last Tuesday was a wonderful evening for the School Community Group Picnic. It was great to see Room 10 friends there with mums, dads, aunties and brothers!
On Friday afternoon we enjoyed a fun play with our Room 5 buddies.
The week finished with our first parent story telling session. Thanks to Oscar's mum for getting this going.
Finally, have a look at our new style of slideshow and catch up with our first go at learning to draw self-portraits and also how we practiced our throwing skills this week.
What are we learning in Week 4 Term 1
Letter Sounds: 'n' and 'c'
Tricky Words:
'this' and 'are'
Writing: Our names and simple sentences
Maths: number recognition and ordering to 10
P.E.: No Child Left Inside/Swimming
Maori: Numbers to 10
Inquiry Theme: Minibeast, ants, spiders and cicadas
Art: Portraits
ICT: Pocket Phonics App
Events Coming Up
THIS WEEK
Tracy is teaching Mon, Tues, Wed and Thurs
Sam is teaching Friday
Swimming Wed, Thurs, Fri
LATER THIS TERM
Wednesday 8th March: School Photo Day
TERM DATES 2017
Term 1:Tuesday 7th February-Thursday 13th April
Term 2: Monday 1st May-Friday 8th July
Term 3: Monday 24th July-Friday 29th September
Term 4: Monday 16th October-Wednesday 20th December
Nice work room 10 keep it up from harper in room 5.
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