Burnside Stars

Collin and Alexia were our Piwakawaka Burnside Stars that we celebrated at assembly this week.  Alexia has learnt all the alphabet letter sounds and Collin has been working so hard to make his handwriting the right size and shape, and to make it the right way AND sit it on the line.  We are so proud of both of you.  Congratulations - Tino Pai!

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.

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!

Handwriting Star

Eseta was our handwriting star from the blue homebase for her fantastic size and shape of her letters.  She sat them on the line and made them the right way.  Congratulations Eseta!

Maths learning

We have been using abacus to help us with our numeracy learning.  These help us to learn the patterns that the numbers make.  We also make these on our fingers and on tens frames.  We can use the different ways to check our accuracy.

Dance with Gabby

We had a great time stretching, bending and dancing with Gabby.  Thanks for coming to our team to do some dancing with us!

Bottle Animals

We are getting ready to make our large art sculptures out of all the bottle tops that have been collected.  Some of us are busy being creative at Discovery Time making different animals.

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.