Week 11 Term 1

Welcome to our final blog for Term 1 in Room 10. We have a special treat for you on our Kidzstuff Blog where you can find a video of each of our self portraits accompanied by a voice recording of out pepeha (mihi). Use the link to the right of this post to navigate to the Kidzstuff Blog.

Plenty of examples of learning with and from our friends this week including............

...practicing letter sounds.......

.......practicing Tricky Words......

...matching sounds, pictures and words....

....and practicing our basic facts in maths

What do you think we are all looking at here? Read the story below to find out.

We went to watch rockets at the front field. It was fun. I liked it. It was scary. I wish I had made one.

Oscar 14/4/16

In our Maths Rich Task this week we tried to help Mrs Muddle to make sure she had just 5 cherries on each of her cakes...a tricky problem for both children and adults! We will do some more sorting for Mrs Muddle in our maths rich task next term. 

Discovery Time this week had an Autumn feel to it.

Our Room 5 Buddies on PhotoPeach. You can see a display of these photos in Room 10 with the children's names as well.

What are we learning in Week 1 Term 2

Letter Sounds:'f' and 'b'

Tricky Word; 'no' and 'so'

Writing:simple recounts and descriptions

Maths: addition and subtraction to 10

P.E.:  throwing and catching with balloons and beanbags

Maori: a,e,i,o,u sounds, 

Inquiry Topic: Me and My Environment

Art: Flower printing

Events Coming Up

THIS WEEK

Tracy is teaching  Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs
Christine is teaching on Friday

TERM DATES

Term 2 starts Monday 2nd May

Term 2 ends Friday 8th July

Term 3 starts Monday 25th July

Term 3 ends Friday 23rd September

Term 4 starts Monday 10th October

Term 4 ends Thursday 15th December

Week 10 Term 1

In the style of budding entrepreneurs we have been developing our retail techniques in the popular Cow Cafe..a fund way to practice our key Competencies as well as enjoy our daily milk drink.

Last week Discovery Time was inspired by a picture of the Eiffel Tower. In pairs we designed and construed our own towers.

In Maths with Sam we practiced our months of the year and revisited how to make and read a pictogram when we made our class birthday chart.

We used double sided red and yellow counters to explore ways of making 5.....

...then learnt how we could do the same things with our fingers

Our Rich Maths task this week was to work out how many pairs of shoes an octopus would need.

In Phonics we were learning the sound 'g', a bit tricky to form correctly but we all had a good 'I can' attitude.

  Later in the week we tackled to tricky word 'of'.

In No Child Left Inside we practice our throwing and catching skills using a tennis ball, we tried hard and will keep on practicing this challenging skill.

 We spotted some great team work going on during morning rotations.

 This week ended with another Discovery Time session using some of the new items that had been sent  in for recycling.

We are ending this weeks blog with a voice recording of our poem: Orange Octopus. Please leave us a comment if you like it!

What are we learning in Week 11 Term 1

Letter Sounds:'l' and 'u'

Tricky Word; 'put' and 'look'

Writing:Simple Recounts

Maths: adding to 10

P.E.:  No Child Left Inside

Maori: a,e,i,o,u sounds, pepeha

Inquiry Topic: Class Treaty

Art: warm and cool colours

Events Coming Up

THIS WEEK

Tracy is teaching  Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs
Christine is teaching on Friday
No library books wil be sent home this week due to end of term stock take

LATER THIS TERM

TERM DATES

Term 1 ends Friday 15th April

Term 2 starts Monday 2nd May

Term 2 ends Friday 8th July

Term 3 starts Monday 25th July

Term 3 ends Friday 23rd September

Term 4 starts Monday 10th October

Term 4 ends Thursday 15th December

Week 9 Term 2

Check out these happy monsters in our classroom and on our Kidzstuff blogs linked on the right hand side bar of this blog. We read the book Monster's Lunch and then made our own monster pictures using oil pastels and dye in the primary colours: red, yellow and blue.We added speech bubbles sharing what our monsters like to eat for their lunch.

When you are next in Room 10 also take a look at our painted self portraits and pepehas. We will be recording our pepehas next week and putting them onto the Kidzstuff blog.

This week we practiced the rather tricky to form letter 'd'.

In maths we worked with our maths buddies to solve a farm yard problem: If there are 8 legs in the field how many dogs and ducks could there be in the field? It was great to see the collaboration and different ways of solving this problem.

We continued our painting focus in art by exploring primary and secondary colours. Check in with next week's blog to see what we create with these colourful circles.

What are we learning in Week 10 Term 1

Letter Sounds:'g' and 'o'  

Tricky Word; go and this

Writing:Simple Recounts

Maths: adding to 10

P.E.:  No Child Left Inside

Maori: a,e,i,o,u sounds, pepeha

Inquiry Topic: Class Treaty

Art: Painting with secondary colours

Events Coming Up

THIS WEEK

Tracy is teaching  Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs, Friday
Sam is teaching part of Monday

LATER THIS TERM

TERM DATES

Term 1 ends Friday 15th April

Term 2 starts Monday 2nd May

Term 2 ends Friday 8th July

Term 3 starts Monday 25th July

Term 3 ends Friday 23rd September

Term 4 starts Monday 10th October

Term 4 ends Thursday 15th December