Play dough Sculpture

Today the Yellow room had their second sculpture lesson with Miss Smits we are learning how to add texture to our Gruffalo using our fingers, toothpicks and popsicle sticks. We were so focused on our learning that we didn't want to stop for lunch!

Bottle Top Collectors

Collin and Elizabeth went on an adventure to pick up bottle tops that have been collected for us.  They went to New World Fendalton, Ngaio Marsh Retirement Village, Fendalton Retirement Village, Misceos and Crisp.  They were wonderful at using their manners to thank all the lovely people saving bottle tops for us.  It was such tough work that we stopped for a drink at Crisp Cafe.

Subitizing

In Numeracy time we complete knowledge activities as well as developing our strategies for solving addition and subtraction problems.  We have been focusing this term on subitizing in our knowledge development.  This is where we learn patterns of dots and how to recognise how many dots there are quickly.  This helps us to be able to learn how to add groups together and to recognise patterns that numbers make.  Here we are working in pairs against another pair to play snap.  There is a lot of counting still happening with the larger number of dots but we are getting quicker and it is great to have a buddy to check our counting!

Balancing

Look at all the different ways we can use our bodies to balance.

Making Gingerbread

This reading group read a story called 'Making Gingerbread'.  They enjoyed mixing the ingredients and then rolling it out ready to make gingerbread squares.   This was a great group of learners who worked together to make sure these turned out perfectly.