St Patrick's Day - Rainbow Day Celebration

We celebrated St Patrick's Day as part of our team focus on celebrations from different cultures this year.  We have a great teacher aide, Mike, who works in our learning spaces.  He is from Ireland so we thought this would be a great day to celebrate with Mike.

We focused on the rainbows and the different colours that we can find in these.  We made chains with pots of gold at the bottom, bead strings for bracelets and necklaces, hand print shamrocks, clouds with rainbows hanging which we made into kites, and potato print rainbows.

We practiced a lot of skills doing these activities and found out a little bit more about Mike and the country he is from.  It was a lot of fun and we had a lot of time to develop our oral language with each other while completing some new activities.

Happy St Patrick's Day everyone!

Making Good Choices

During Hui time today we discussed what good choices look like in Piwakawaka. 
We had some pictures and we had to spot when the children were making a good choice. Some of these included when the children were packing up, giving 5 and being a good friend. 
After that, Mrs Ibell and Mrs Shamy-Brown used some puppets to role play different situations which might happen during our school day. We then had to help the puppets make a good choice in the particular situation. 
At the end of Numeracy time, some children were spotted making good choices. Can you see what their good choice was?

Numeracy learning

This week we have been learning that we don't have to count the materials, especially when we are working with the same number of items that have been separated into two group.  To check our learning, we have been trying to count on from the biggest number using tens frames in our heads.

We have also been making up number stories about frogs and tadpoles and telling our numeracy buddies.

Cyrus and Tian Xi have really enjoyed using our Morphun blocks to make some new creations this week.  They have other great shapes to use and connect using little rods that slide into groves.

Discovery Time

We again had another busy week at Discovery Time.  We had helpful helpers in the garden, scientists watching the caterpillars and butterflies, bubbles, birds in the forest and a designer at work with bottle top lids.