Hair and Handwriting!

Look at our whacky hair! We had Whacky hair day on Thursday to raise money for Ronald McDonald House. It was heaps of fun!

If you have been to our class this term, you may have noticed our new name tags, where we write our names each day on the whiteboard. We are learning how to make each letter the right size, and to sit the letters on the line.  The 'ground, grass sky' cards to help us 'see' where the letters go.  Here are Sacha and Cooper's names before and after learning how to use the cards.  Can you see the difference?  Great work!

            

Week 5

What a busy term it has been so far!  We are learning how to create, and reflect on our creations to make them better.

We have been busy at action stations this week.  Here are some pictures of children busy with their learning.

"We are busy learning how to write curly caterpillar letters" said Joseph (like o,c,a,d,g...)

Hadlee creating a butterfly.  We have a lot of different designs using the same materials.  How can we improve our creations and make them better?

We are loving being in charge of collecting the Meadow Fresh promotion stickers for our school.  We have made boxes to collect the stickers in, posters and of course stuck in and counted the stickers.  The children have loved visiting the other classes to 'promote' the stickers.  Don't forget to send yours to school!  The more stickers we collect, the more art and P.E gear we will earn for our school!

 Sticking the stickers onto the sheets.

Writing messages so others know what to do.  Maybe we'll share them in assembly!

We are learning some dance moves as we get ready to create our production dance.  Here is our 'dance' poem this week, and here we are practising some dance verbs.  Can you see move at different levels-tall, medium and low?

silly hat store

People Who Help Us

Today the ASB team came to school to offer a sausage sizzle to help raise money for the St John's Ambulance. Some of us dressed up as doctors, nurses, firemen or police. These people work so hard to help our community every day!

The Planets

We have been learning about the planets this week and their orbit around the earth. We know a great song to help us remember the names. All the planets orbit the sun. Earth takes one whole year to go all the way around the sun. Everyday, it rotates around, giving us night and day. It takes 1 day and 1 night (24 hours) to do 1 rotation. Today, we illustrated the song by colouring, cutting and sticking the planets in order. We had to look carefully at the sounds in the planet names and use the labelling skills we have been practicing to help us. "What colour are the planets?" we wondered. Luckily, we found an i-pad app about the solar system to help us discover what they were. We think planet Earth has the best colours!

The Jump Song

As we explore more about the earth and the sun, we have been wondering what it might be like to be in space. Here is a fun song we have been dancing to to warm us up on cold days. Maybe you could warm up at home too!

Week 4

This week we welcomed Ollie Speight to school and to our Kauri classroom. He has his big brother Matthew to help him along with all the smiling faces behind him. We hope has a good time learning with us all. Certificates - Riley for being a caring and thoughtful person and Rafferty for keep trying even when it gets hard.