Yay! We are back and blogging again... Term 3 here we come...

Term 3 here we come... 

We are looking forward to sharing more of what we have learnt over last term with you and more learning from this term. 

We look forward to your regular feedback.


Many thanks 

Room 8

Week 6

Friday's Art Session

Here we are creating our Jandals to go with our T-Shirts

This is a big art project and this is only one part of our journey

Next week we will work towards finishing out project.

Week 6

This week we welcomed Seraia and Athena into Room 8, all the way from Room 4.

Congratulations on graduating from Transition Class to our Year One.

We are very happy to have you in our little whanau

Here is a photo of our growing little class

We are little word detectives

 Here we are being word detectives with our detective notebooks.

To be a good word detective you have to hunt out sight words 

Being a word detective requires a lot of concentration

I'm a great word detective

Look at all the words we have written down!

Look at us reading to each other!

We are very excited to be able to share our reading with each other.

Here we are practising EEKK Reading

EEKK means 

elbow to elbow

knee to knee

We sit alongside each other and take turns at reading and listening.

 WE LOVE READING!!

This weeks Big Book

listen to ‘T-Shirts’ on Audioboo

Week 5

Week 5

We welcomed Sam all the way from Saudi Arabia this week. We are looking forward to getting to know you better over the next few weeks.

This week we read another Greedy Cat big book by Joy cowley.

listen to ‘Greedy Cat is Hungry’ on Audioboo

Our Poem for Friday is

'GOING'

listen to ‘Friday's Poem’ on Audioboo

We also created plays about using the 
Pinehill Way in the playground using 
Puppet Pals on the iPads

It was a lot of fun taking photos and creating our digital puppet shows.

Using the Pinehill Way when we get hurt. from Karen on Vimeo.

Using the Pinehill Way in the playground from Karen on Vimeo.

Pinehill Way in the playground from Karen on Vimeo.

Using the Pinehill Way in the sandpit from Karen on Vimeo.

This is us at P.E. on the field and in the hall with Room 20

We are learning how to run, jump and throw.

Friday afternoon buddy class with Room 18

We love how the big kids teach us new games and read to us.

Week 4

This week was a busy week of learning

We had our 3rd Table Tennis lesson with Ebi

We said good-bye to Ebi today. It has been fun learning table tennis with him.

Thank you Ebi!

Week 4

Week 4

This week we have been working hard on our reading 

and 

we started sharing our learning using audioboo and educreations iPad apps

listen to ‘Friday's Poem - Week 4’ on Audioboo

This week we have been learning about patterns and repeating patterns

Abi and Jesse share their repeating patterns

*Abi's photo is upside down so his pattern is upside down too but we had to include it because his recording was so good.

Here we are reading our Big Book for this week

listen to ‘What Does Greedy Cat Like?’ on Audioboo

This is our 3rd Table Tennis session with Ebi

 Listening to instructions

 Ebi helping us to hit the ball across the net

We said good-bye to Ebi today. It has been great learning table tennis with him.  

Thank you Ebi!

Week 3

Week 3 - Room 8 is a busy little place to be...

Here we are making our little finger muscles stronger with fine motor activities.

We learnt about the importance of having strong finger muscles for handwriting and story writing. The stronger they are, the easier it will be for us to write stories which is important for little authors in training.

 Look at the concentration on our faces...

Picking up beans with tweezers can be a bit tricky

Threading beads is not as easy as it looks but the more we practise the easier it gets

Bean sorting with tweezers and Pick up sticks with a peg. These activities need a lot of concentration.

Next...

Our second Table Tennis lesson

We enjoyed our second table tennis lesson.

We started with a warm up of follow the leader. We had a buddy to follow or lead

Next Mrs Blau dropped a ball in front of us and we had to pat the ball, once on our side and get it over the net and into the container on the other side. 

Oh so tricky! But, practise makes permanent!

We finished our lesson with patting the balloons on the racquet.

This time, it was a lot easier.

Next...

Here we are after a few writing lessons.

We are getting a lot better at being little authors.

We have remembered to leave spaces or driveways (as Mrs Blau calls them) between our words. There is so many things to remember when we write. But we are doing a great job of practising.

Next...

Here we are reading from our group reading boxes.

We started formal reading this week. Lots of new things to learn each week.

We started learning how to...

Say the parts of a book - front cover, back cover, spine and title page

Predict what the story is about, by looking at the front cover

Predict what words might be on each page by looking at the pictures

Point to each word we are reading

Work out the tricky words by using the pictures

The Butterflies

 The Lady Bugs

The Busy Bees 

Next...

Here we are creating our Greedy Cat pictures

First we drew the outline on sugar paper with chalk then we sponge painted the orange and brown.

Table 3

Table 2

Table 1

Here we are with Room 19 
using our Key Competencies 
in the sandpit for buddy class.

We are... 
Sharing ideas
Playing cooperatively
Collaborating on tasks
Problem solving
Negotiating