KALIYAH IN THE PAPER!

Kaliyah was very excited to show me her picture from the paper.  Who wouldn't be excited?

WOW WORDS

Here are a collection of WOW words that we might try using in our writing.  We are starting to use them in our talking, so we are becoming more familiar with them.  

HOME LEARNING

We always feel excited when our students share the learning they are doing at home.  Kaliyah has been practising her fast words and she has been doing some doubles work too.  These are just some of the things we have been working on in the classroom and Kaliyah has been showing her family at home.   

WHALE WATCH

Today we were reminded how to show outstanding behaviour on the mat.  We need to:

• come quickly and quietly 
• listen to the teacher (this way we can respond - another Tohora nui whale)
• sit with our legs crossed and our arms folded (with our clothes on properly)
• face the front 
• have our hands empty (no toys on the mat)
• put our hand up to share our ideas (we cannot listen to ideas if we are all talking at once)

Many people showed their outstanding behaviour today, while sitting on the mat.  Let's see how many others we can get in our photo tomorrow!

WHALE COLLAGES

On Friday we started our whale collages.  We had to rip up small bits of magazine, using different colours.  These will be our whales.  It was exciting and we made a lot of mess.  We all had to pitch in to clean it up.  We like it when Fiona has a special piece of rubbish that needs to be collected.  

SCOOTER RULES

On Friday there was an important notice in the yellow book.  This is what it said ... 

We investigated, so that everyone would understand the rules ...

WRITING

In room 2 we have been doing interactive writing.  Fiona writes and we write too.  We have been learning to use fast words around the room to help us record our ideas.  We are also learning to leave finger spaces between our words, so that we can share our stories with others. 

Fiona is impressed, as we try our best.  This our first Tohora nui whale.  

And here is our writing ...

BUDDY READING

We are learning all our routines.  Today we squeezed in buddy reading before swimming, while drinking our milk.  Fiona was impressed!  

MORNING ACTION

Some morning action in Tohora nui.

Jaden and Lenni enjoy reading from our library,

Mac enjoys sharing his book from the library,  

Leila draws on our whiteboard table,

Isabelle types her name on our computer,

Kaliyah puts her whale name card into our 'I'm here box!'

THE NAME GAME

Today we learned the name game and the friends game.  It helps us to learn the names of all our friends in room 2 & 3.  It also helps us with the value of whakawhanganatanga (positive relationships) ...

Fiona and Robin think we are amazing.  We are showing that we are all valuable team members and that we respect one another already!  We make a great team!