Week 3 Term 1

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

Week 2 Term 2

This week we started our Reading Rotation activities. These included using the Letter School app on the iPads......

 ....developing our fine motor skills and observational skills using Read and Draw sheets.....

 .......enjoying books in the Library Corner....

 ......... learning how to do a Rainbow Letter, and how to cut the middle out of an 'a' shape.

 With Sam we finger printed our names and painted egg cartons ready to make our ant models next week.

 On Thursday we had our first lesson of No Child Left Inside. Lots of fun was had by all and we made sure we were Sun Safe by wearing out hats.

Lots of collaboration, exploration and imagination was seen during play based learning at the start of the day.

  At the end of these sessions we have been developing our oral language by describing our creations and answering questions about them from our friends.

 We are trialing having our own spots on the mat next week, good job we took a photo to remember where we decided to sit!

To end this week's blog we have made a short slide show of our first shared library session with our Room 5 buddies.

Library Time with our Buddies on PhotoPeach

What are we learning in Week 3 Term 1

Letter Sounds: 'i' and 'p'

Tricky Words:  'a' and 'we'

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 and spiders
Art:  Egg Carton Ants

ICT: Letter School handwriting app

Events Coming Up

THIS WEEK

Tracy is teaching   Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday

Sam is teaching Friday
Swimming Wed, Thurs, Fri
Tuesday 21st February: School Community Group Picnic starts at 5pm on front field

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