Discovery Time

We have had a wonderful morning discovering how to show someone in Piwakawaka what we are confident at. Here are some of the newer children interacting with yellow and red home bases.

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!

Discovery Time

We were very excited to come back to school and see the changes in our learning spaces and the new things that had been purchased.  AND then we were able to use them during Discovery Time.  We LOVED our new kitchen unit and train table!  We had a great learning time, making sure that we showed respect to our new equipment and learnt where to put it back so the next person can use it easily.

Congratulations to Eseta who was our Discovery Time Star.

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.