Puppy Rap

Today we  read our shared book Puppy Rap by Alan Trussell Cullen. We asked Miss Zeier if we could record it and put it on the blog. Check it out!

Special Guests

Today we had two special visits. One was from Brian and Bobby who talked to us all about serial numbers and how we can enter the serial numbers on the back of things like TV's, phones, play stations on to the internet in case they get lost or stolen. 




Our second visit was from the Our far South Team and Shackleton Bear who came to talk about their adventures to antarctica. We learnt all about penguins, seals and icebergs. 

 


They are working hard to raise a million dollars to rid mice from the Antipodes Islands that eat the eggs and baby chicks of the seabirds.

Geometry

In maths we have been learning about the features of 2D shapes. We talked about the number of sides and points a shape has. Can you name some of the shapes that we made?

We also looked at the position and orientation of shapes. We made a school out of our maths equipment and hid a sticker under one of the shapes. We used instructions such as "move 3 jumps" and "turn left" to help the other group find the sticker. 

Cracker Jack Kids and The Olympics

Cracker Jack Kids and The Olympics

We learnt 3 new words today and these are what they mean to us

Perserverance - Keep trying your best, it doesn’t matter if you dont succeed the first time 

Honesty - Telling the truth, playing fairly 

Stay Focussed - Keep trying, follow our goals and dreams

We found that the values of cracker Jack kids were like the values that people competing in the olympics need to have in order to succeed!

We made a display of words that show these values

And remember...

If we try our BEST

then everyday we will get a little bit BETTER!

Literacy Week

The first week of Term 3 and it is literacy week! Room 1 and 2 worked together for a Dr Seuss inspired week of wackiness.

We made our very own Cat in the hat biscuits, Thing 1 and Thing 2 creatures, wacky class designs and bookmarks. We dressed up for the book character parade and even had a wacky hair day!

Take a look at some of our photos

Maori Week

Rooms 1, 7 and 14 worked together during Week 10 of Term 2. Together we became Whanau Tahi!

Together we practised our Te Reo skills, weaving harakiki, singing waiata, poi, playing Ki-o-Rahi and much more.

We completed a large art mural to represent Ranginui (The Sky Father) and Papatuanuku (The Earth Mother) and the areas of the land that Maori used to gather kai.

 Look at the finished product. Ka Mau to Wehi!