Rhymes

Today during hui we had 5 little speckled frogs come and visit to help us sing our old favourite for the week! We were impressed with how high they could jump!

Assembly

This week in assembly we welcomed 5 new children to our team. Daniel, Denise, Nyah and Cici are new 5 year olds in the blue room and Autumn who is 6 years old in the yellow room. We are excited to have you all in the Piwakawaka Team!

We said goodbye to Reina who is moving back to Japan with her family. We will miss you Reina!

We also celebrated Logan and the excellent effort he has been putting into his writing this term. Ka pai Logan!

Buddy Reading

Every week we meet with our buddy classes, Room 10 and Room 12.  We enjoy listening to stories with our Year 6 buddies.  They are awesome readers!

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.

Discovery Stars

Logan and Tom both showed the Disposition of Respect during Discovery Time.  Congratulations boys for showing this independently!

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!

Great learners!

How many piwakawaka's can you fit around one computer?  It was so lovely to watch this bunch of learners before school helping each other to find the numbers.  Great cooperation, support and encouragement!

Maths Must Do and Can Do activities

We have been practising how to work with our buddies, stay at our activities and to focus on what we are doing during our must do/can do time.  Here are some photos of people that know exactly what to do and can work well with their partner.  What great role models you are, especially when you use your words and talk to your partner about your activity or where you are going to next.