AT THE MARAE

On Tuesday room 2 and our buddy class Poutokomanawa, along with room 8 and 14 visited Te Ahu A Turanga Marae in Woodwille.  A fantastic time was had by all.   

Here are some photos from our day ...

FAST WORDS

Victoria takes on the coaching role with this group as they practise their fast words. 

WRITING

While we we talking about things we are good at, Fiona discovered many of us love scootering.  We think this video is really cool.  

Today we wrote about it.  We brainstormed these words for a word back ...

Reagan is learning to write fast words, while also using finger spaces, so that he can share his stories ...  

I saw the man on his scooter and he did a back flip.  That is amazing.  It was very cool.  

Connor has the same goal ...

Scooter ring man did a back flip and a front flip and he twisted his handle bars. 

Victoria is learning to use joining words ...

I can do a back flip, because my mum taught me on a scooter and it was fun.  I always do go on my scooter, because it is fun, very fun. 

Helna is very good at using joining words now.  Her next goal is to use new WOW words.  We look for these in books we are reading ...

I love scootering with my scooter, because it is a Barbie scooter and I love my Barbie scooter very much.  I love going to the park too. 

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.  

BUDDY CLASS

Today we met our buddie class. 

Here we are with our big buddies.  

WRITING

WOW!  

Today we talked about our different writing goals.  Victoria's first goal this year is to use joining words (and, because, but) ...

Fiona used Victoria's writing from yesterday to show the class how we can join ideas together using our joining words ...

And then today Victoria used because in her writing.  

Fabulous Victoria.  

BUDDY READING

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

MUSIC

Today we had our first music lesson with Jenny.  Music is always a highlight.  

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!