Toby's Wood Creation

Toby made this awesome plane at the woodwork table.  You can see the propellor on the plane. 

Pet Day 2014

On Thursday the 23rd of October, we had our annual School Pet Day. Mrs. Bridge was the main organiser of the event and everyone had a great time. 
From 9.00 to 11.00 a.m. there were lambs and calves on the middle field.  We had a look at the lambs and calves on the way back from our cross country practice.  We got to talk to some of the owners and pat some of the lambs and calves.
From play until lunchtime we were in whanau or mixed groups doing 3 different activities. There were sand saucers in Room 1 & 2, weaving in Room 7 and rock art in the other classes.  Mrs. Bone and Mrs. Mumby helped people make sand saucers in Room 2 and everyone took their time and did a fantastic job.
In the afternoon the other animals were judged.  There were dogs on the middle field, cats in Room 16 and caged animals in Room 17.  In the hall there were the teddy bears, the rock art, weaving and sand saucers that had been made in the morning and these had also been judged.  Look below to see a photo collage of all the photos.

More Woodwork Masterpieces

Some more of our woodwork creations:

Fractions

This term we have been talking about fractions.  We have been learning to match 2 halves, to cut a shape in half, to draw the other half of a shape and to recognise the symbol 1/2. Today when we had the i-pads, Mrs. Bone gave us a problem and we had to draw what it might look like. She said that in a family half the family were females/girls and the other half males/ boys.  We had to draw what this might look like.  Here are some of our drawings.  There could be lots of different answers. Some people had 2 in their family, others had 4, 6, and 8.

Modelling

For Art this term our topic is modelling.  Last Friday we experimented with the clay and then Mrs. Bone showed us how to make a pinch pot.

Natalie Brings Her Rabbit To School

Today Natalie brought her rabbit to school to show us. Piper and Natalie came to Room 2 to tell us about what she has to do to look after Ruby and we asked her some questions.

We made a great list of adjectives to describe how Ruby looks and feels.

Grasshopper Tennis

Today we had the first of our grasshopper tennis sessions.  We had Nick to take us. After we came back from tennis we got into groups with three children in each group and we wrote a shared story.  Below are two of these stories (unedited).

We went to grushopae tenis.  We felt happy bee kos we wow good. and erfeown als felthape.  We banst the ball. 
by Blake, Lara-Lee and Derayiz

Today we went to tennis and frost we did wiking with the tennis-rakets it was thun.  then we bdwenst the ball.  Then we did frowing the ball and caching with the tennis- rackets.
by Tyson, Dimitri and Khyzah

Phonics This Week

This week for phonics we are learning about the -ub family.  The key word is cub.  Today we had the ipads and in Phonics Dimitri and Lara-Lee wrote these words:

Derayiz's Story

We have been writing stories about our pets today.  Here is Derayiz's story.

This Week's Blend is Tr

This week our blend is tr.  We have been making trains, tractors, trucks and trampolines.

The Queen Of Hearts

One of the Nursery Rhyme activities this week is to use the playdough to make some jam tarts. Have a look at Toby and Varntay's jam tarts!

Clay This Week

The Hungry Caterpillar's rainbow word for this week is like.  Here are the group's clay words:

Woodwork

This term we have a new activity which is Woodwork.  Two children are chosen daily to work outside on the woodwork bench.  Deakan and Lara-Lee were the first to try woodwork.  Here is a photo showing what they made.

Alex is making a house and Derayiz is making a plane.