FIsh and Chip Friday

To celebrate the last day of term the school had a fish and chip lunch which was organised by the SOS.  Most of the class took up the opportunity to buy fish and chips. They were really yummy!

Maths Today

Today in Maths we read the big book The Jumping Contest:A Story About Length. Then some people went outside and had a jumping competition to see who could jump the furtherest.

The other people were given a coloured piece of A4 paper and they had to try and make the longest paper chain.  We had some very long chains and Toby was the winner because he made the longest chain - well done Toby!

Eating Our Gingerbread Men

Mrs. Bone decided that we could try out a statistics activity that she had been told about on a Maths course earlier this year. We had to record which body part of the gingerbread men each child ate first.

Then we made a graph to show which was the most common body part to be eaten first.

The head was the most popular body part to get eaten.  Next were the arms and the least popular were the legs.

Cooking Gingerbread Man

To conclude our Gingerbread Man Unit we made Gingerbread Men. Mrs. Davis and Mrs. Berge helped us. First of all we had to read the recipe. We had to measure out the right amount of each ingredient.

This Week's Literacy

Our nursery rhyme this week is London Bridge. One of the activities is to build a bridge. This is the bridge that Oliver and Toby built.

Today we did our rainbow words.  Then we had to do our word practice and choose between clay, magnetic letters and the letter boards.  Here are Kingston's words on the letterboard. 

Maths Today

Today we measured everyone's height using string.  Then we compared the length of the strings to find out who is the tallest in our class and who is the shortest.  Then we lined up in order from the tallest to the shortest.

Kapahaka at Assembly

At Assembly on Friday we were treated to a performance by the School Kapahaka Group.  They will be performing in the Kapahaka Festival on Friday.

Here are some of our stories:

I liked the Kapahaka.  I liked the sound. by Oliver

Yesterday the big kids did the Kapahaka.  The big kids were wearing skirts and the girls too.  The skirts were white and black. The girls were wearing blue clothes.  by Dimitri

The Hungry Caterpillar Reading Group's Word

This week's word is went.  Here are three of the group's clay words and pictures.                 

Spring Discovery Day

On Friday we had a Discovery Day in the hall. We did lots of fun activities to do with Spring. We planted egg shells and made caterpillars with egg trays and grass men with pantyhose, potting mix and grass seed.  We made clouds, bird feeders, rainbows, blossom trees, paper caterpillars, origami and other lambs, chicks and hatching eggs, butterflies and more.

Maths Today

First of all we read The Class Trip from Sunshine Online on the Interactive Whiteboard and looked at the three activities.  We were learning about adding numbers that equal 10. Then we moved around the activities in the classroom.  Some people did the activities on the computers, some did coathanger and dinosaur addition and some did number practice.

Mary, Mary Quite Contrary

When we had the ipads today we could use Puppet Pal to retell the nursery rhyme. Here is Jade's:

Winter Warmers

Today Nikki, from the Tararua Library, came to see us.  She brought the books for the children who had done five check-ins for Winter Warmers.  We got some beautiful books to keep and they were all free!