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!

Mathematics Activities

These were our Can Do activities for Mathematics.  We enjoy working on our strand maths activities each day with our buddies.  These help us to remember important skills that we have learnt, including our shapes, patterns, length language, and to work on developing our fine motor skills.

Te Waka o Matariki

This was the sentence that Mason wanted the Te Waka o Matariki group to write together.  We all helped to form the sentence and worked out that there were six words in the sentence.  We then stretched out the words and wrote down the sounds that we could hear.  Hopefully our caterpillar will grow bigger as it has 3 leaves to eat.  The caterpillar's length is found from the number of sounds that we wrote correctly and the leaves come from the number of words that we wrote correctly.

Thanks Mason for a great idea!

Kites

As part of our 'Talk to Learn' group we made these awesome kites.  We are so lucky to have Mrs Stagg at our school.  She always makes our learning fun!

Soccer

Today we had a visit from Xavier from Mainland Soccer. We had a fantastic time learning some new ball skills and practising them in some mini soccer games.

Handwriting Stars

Today in the yellow room for handwriting we wrote the letter y. Miss Smits had such a hard job choosing the handwriting superstar that she had to choose two!!

Mason worked hard to make sure his lower case y's were sitting nicely on the line.

Collin made sure his capital Y's were starting at the right place every time!

Well done boys we are very proud of you!

Hui

This week in hui we sang one of our old favourites - two little dicky birds.

Today Ahi, Collin, Mason and Alexia were our leaders! They did a fantastic job in leading the whole team in our rhyme!

Check out their awesome performance!

Handwriting superstars

Congratulations to Dexter, Mason, Elizabeth, Collin and Isabel from the Yellow Room for being our handwriting superstars this week.

We have been very impressed by the excellent effort you have all been putting into your work!

Thank you Alexia!

On Friday Alexia and her mum brought us a pineapple and some grapes to try.

We wondered why pineapples are so spikey and guessed what it might look like inside.

We really enjoyed this special treat!

Swimming Lessons

We have been having a great time at our daily swimming lessons and have been making lots of progress.  Miss Smits and Miss Browne are super proud of everyone having a try at something new.  Tino Pai Piwakawaka!