Piwakawaka Team Report at Assembly

This week it was our turn to be the class report at our whole school assembly.  Here is a link to the video of our learning that we shared.

Circles Numeracy Group

The circles numeracy group are learning how to count to 10 and to find the matching number.  We have been using our love of caterpillars and playdough this week to help us with our learning.

We rolled balls of green playdough to make caterpillars.  We then had to count how many balls we had made and find out who had the longest caterpillar.  

We then helped each other to find the number on the number line.  We pointed to each number and counted along the number line to find the number that matched our caterpillars.

This activity also helped us to develop our fine motor skills as our fingers and hands were doing a lot of work with the playdough.

Red Room buddy reading

Each Monday we get to do Buddy Reading with Rooms 10 and 12.  The Red Room children go with Room 10 and the Yellow Room children go with Room 12.  This week we decided to go outside and enjoy the warm weather with our buddies.  

We love listening to them read to us and hope that they enjoy spending some time with us also.

Skylar-Rose's Discovery Time writing

The Te Waka o Matariki group write about what they did at Discovery Time every Monday morning after morning tea.  

This week we all drew pictures of what we had done and then Miss Browne chose Skylar-Rose's picture because it had lots of detail in it.  Skylar-Rose told us a sentence that matched her picture and we all helped to stretch out the sounds that we could hear.  

Miss Browne did most of the writing but some of us helped.  We know how to write 'I' and Nyah knew how to write 'the'.  We are super proud of these girls.  

What a super sentence Skylar-Rose.  It is so nice to tell us more than one thing that you did.

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.