Sunday 26 March 2017

Week 7 Term 1

This week we have been learning about what to do in the event of an earthquake. I have been very impressed with what the children already know and how they were able to pass this knowledge on to their classmates.
We are now getting into the swing of publishing our writing. The comments that families are leaving in these books are lovely for the children, and for us, to read.

As usual we have been doing lots of letter sound and tricky word practice on whiteboards.....
 
......and .using our imagination to make amazing creations.
 

In maths these week we have paired up with a maths buddy to work on maths knowledge skills together. 

With Sam we continued working on using pictographs to answer questions about mini-beasts
An exciting new maths resource  arrived in our classroom this week. We now have our own Numicon set. Pop in and have a look at how we are exploring this in our before school discovery time. Below you can see how we used it to count how many acorns we had collected.

Don't forget to check out the maths display in the entrance area of the class.

Another resource we used for the first time this week was our "Silly Sentence ' game. This helps us to learn about capital letters, full stops and sentence structure,...plus it made us laugh heaps!

In art this week we have started adding the finer details to our portraits. It is great to see this art work developing each week.
On Friday in Buddy Time we started to make balancing robots with our Room 5 Big Buddies.
Finally check out your our Talking Ant posts on the Kidzstuff blog and on the classroom wall as well.

What are we learning in Week 8 Term 1

Letter Sounds: 'g' and 'o'
Tricky Words: 'go' and 'no'
Writing:  simple sentences, captions to go with creations from play based learning time
Maths: Counting and ordering Numbers to 20
P.E.: No Child Left Inside
Maori: Waiata Purea Nei
Inquiry Theme:  Minibeast: caterpillars and butterflies
Art:  Portraits, caterpillar prints
ICT: Reading Eggs App

Events Coming Up

THIS WEEK

Tracy is teaching  Monday Tuesday and Wednesday ( Classroom release on Thursday)
Sam is teaching  Thursday and  Friday
Library day: Tuesday

LATER THIS TERM

Sunday 9th April Room 10's Garden Makeover working bee. 8.30-2.30.

 TERM 2

Saturday 17th June Grand Opening of our Sensory Garden
Friday June 30th Whole School Cross Country event in afternoon

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

Tuesday 21 March 2017

Week 6 Term 1

Welcome to a round up of the learning we have been doing in Room 10 over the last 2 weeks.

We have been enjoying reading with our friends


In maths we made a graph to show the months our birthdays are in. Come and check out the finished graph on our classroom wall and see if you can spot which other members of Room 10 have their birthday's in June.


Lots of number play has been going on during play based learning as well.


 
 We also explored making  a puppet theatre during play based learning..a few hiccups with things falling down but a new improved model is now ready to be used.


If you are in Room 10 check out our spiders and spider stories up on our wall.

 We have been practicing out letter sounds and high frequency words in may different ways




 In No Child Left Inside we learnt how to throw and large ball with our 'w' hands and how to catch it.



 We have continued to look at all kinds on minibeast including a huhu beetle and a dragonfly

On Monday of Week 6 we went on our first school outing to see the mini-beasts at the Nelson Museum. Thank you to all the adults who came along with us. It was a fabulous opportunity to see some amazing models and preserved mini-beasts. Check out this animoto slideshow to see what we got up to.

What are we learning in Week 7 Term 1

Letter Sounds: 'd' and 'm'
Tricky Words: 'me' and 'my'
Writing: Our names and simple sentences
Maths: writing numbers to 20
P.E.: No Child Left Inside/
Maori: Waiata
Inquiry Theme:  Minibeast, ants, spiders and cicadas
Art:  Portraits
ICT: Reading Eggs App

Events Coming Up

THIS WEEK

Tracy is teaching  Monday Tuesday, Wednesday  and Thursday 
Sam is teaching  Friday
Library day: Tuesday

LATER THIS TERM

Sunday 9th April Room 10's Garden Makeover working bee. 8.30-2.30. 

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

Sunday 5 March 2017

Week 4 Term 1

This week started with a full school assembly underneath the lime trees on our front field. Well done Kowhai children for setting a great example of our key Competency 'Managing Self" during this gathering.
Now that our reading programme is well underway we are enjoying practicing reading with our friends after we have worked in our reading groups with Tracy and Sam.
During play based learning this week we saw some complex creations being made in class.....
...and also at home. We loved this crocodile which was a great inspiration for more egg box creatures during the week.
Outside we were busy problem solving ways to get tennis balls from the top of our fort into a bucket below.
We have been exploring patterns and shapes in  maths as well as using a pictogram to sort out minibeasts.



Lots of learning linked to letter sounds and Tricky Words has taken place and it is really helping us get to grips with our reading and writing.



 

 
      In No Child Left Inside we started to learn how to throw an object using an underarm throw.




We ended the week by doing the next stage of our portrait work with Sam, they are shaping up really well.

What are we learning in Week 5 Term 1

Letter Sounds: 'k' and 'e'
Tricky Words: 'like' and 'see'
Writing: Our names and simple sentences
Maths: counting forward and ordering numbers to 20 
P.E.: No Child Left Inside/Swimming
Maori: Colours
Inquiry Theme:  Minibeast, ants, spiders and cicadas
Art:  Portraits
ICT: Jolly Phonics app

Events Coming Up

THIS WEEK

Tracy is teaching  Tues, Wed  and Thurs 
Sam is teaching Monday and Friday
Swimming Wed, Thurs, Fri
Library day: Tueasday

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