Gold Awards

Congratulations Amazon Makin! 

You are as good as gold :) 

Room 9 and 10 mudslide

So much fun for a Thursday afternoon.

The class were very excited to hear about the Room 9 and 10 mudslide this afternoon. 

We popped out at the end of the day to check out the action.

Good effort Mr Marsh! 

What shall we call it?

We are so lucky to be the first school to use the new pipe cleaning machine!

We were lucky to have a special show and touch the robot. 

The class went back with Mr Betts and wrote about the robot and gave it a name. 

Their work will be entered into the naming competition being held at school. 

Some of the suggested names were:

Red racer-protector of the pipe people- Aurora 

Doug-Noah

Zoomer-Mitchell, Jaedyn and Asten

Skylar- Ocean, Ferishta and Naomi  

Luma- Mualijcia

Anakin- Rocko 

Trip to Avonside Early Learning Centre

Earlier on in the Term we went down to meet the children and staff at the Avonside Early Childhood Centre.

We asked them if they had a problem we could solve and they said the children in their centre are forgetting to use their walking feet inside. 

We went back to school and discussed solutions to the problem. We decided to make some posters and little foot prints to put on the floor as a reminder to use waking feet inside. This week we returned to the preschool and gave them out solution. 

While we were there we had a little play and shared some Kai together before returning to school! 

Thanks for having us Sue and the team down at the pre school. We had a lovely time and look forward to visiting again soon!!

Also big thanks to Lin Ashby, Laura parkins, Joe Milne and Mr Betts for making the trip possible and helping to keep our children safe :) 

Nn is for nose!

For our language experience this week we watched the story of Pinocchio and played the game pin the nose on Pinocchio. 

It was great seeing John help his friends with the blindfold... Ka pai John! 

It was hard to get the nose in the right place! 

Keeping ourselves safe

Constable Matt came to visit today to talk about being confident kids who say no! We learnt about what to do and say if someone is touch us inappropriately. 

The tamariki in Room 2 really enjoyed being helpers and suggesting solutions to the problems in the story. 

Spring is here!

Spring is here! Thanks for the beautiful daffodil Mitchell :) 

Behind the scenes at production!

Here is a sneaky peak at what happens behind the scenes at production! 

Well done to the whole class for your brilliant performance in the land of dreams! You looked awesome and danced like super stars!! :) 

Picnic Lunch!

We decided to make the most of the sun last week by having our lunch outside! 

Happy Birthday Elshadaye!

We were so lucky Elshadayes parents brought in a birthday cake to celebrate his special day with us! 

What are we going to call the Robot?

A few more pics

Pajama Party tonight at the school Production.

Here is a Quarters Game to try.

Cross the River

Is it a half?

Here is a website we used in class. Can you beat Ocean's high score of 18?

http://www.snappymaths.com/counting/fractions/interactive/halfornotimm/halfornotimm.htm

The Art Gallery Came to Visit!

We were lucky to have the Christchurch Art Gallery come and visit to teach us about abstract collage. Check out our wonderful work. 

Fractions

This week in Maths we are learning about  fractions. We started using a chocolate cake, looking at a whole and then a half. We discussed how many pieces the cake was cut into then how many we had on the plate. The children really enjoyed eating it at the end!

Today we made fairy bread and cut it into even halves and quarters. We discussed what fraction we are and what fraction we put in our lunchbox for lunchtime. 

We are carrying on with our fractions learning over the next week or two. Test out our knowledge at home, using the veggies you cut up for dinner!!