Slime

For discovery Mrs Robertson made us slime. We did not have a lot of time to play with it but we had fun. We then talked about what it smelt, looked and felt like. Gian and Rajveet wrote great stories about our bubble mix.

Mr Ray

Last term we had Mr Ray come and visit us from Pennsylvania. We enjoyed having Mr Ray and showing him what we do at  our school.

Mr Ray working with Alex and Trayvond on the computers

Duffy Books

Trayvond, Lilly and Lovey all received  a Duffy book in school assembly. Well done

Ordering numbers

We have been learning to ordering numbers from 0-10 or numbers to 20. We were given a clown to colour and balloons with numbers. When we had finished colouring our numbers we had to cut them out and put them in order. 

Habits of Mind: Striving for accuracy; Applying past knowledge.

Certificates

Ella received a certificate in junior assembly for great maths work. Ella knows all the numbers to 10 before and after and can order them.

Rajveet Received a certificate in junior assembly for great writing. He wrote a story by himself and he used words he knew and wrote the sounds of words he didn't know.

Habits of Mind Displayed: Prior knowledge, persistence 

Caterpillar

Over the past few weeks we have been watching our caterpillars grow, turn into a chrysalis then turn into a butterfly. We have learnt about the life cycle of a butterfly and we have been reading the 'hungry caterpillar'. 

The Jigaree

We read the big book 'The Jigaree' by Joy Cowley. With Mrs Derby we drew our own Jigaree. We think they are pretty neat.

New Toys

We have got some new toys at school to play with during wet lunch times.
This is what we think of our new toys.

Habits of mind: Communicating with Clarity and precision; Managing impulsivity; Creating, imagining, and innovating; Responding with wonderment and awe

Dog Handler

Today we had the police dog handlers come to school. They showed us what  the police dogs do. We found out that police dogs search for missing people, they track down people who have run away from the police. 

Statistics

Today we counted how many people were wearing socks. We found out that 9 people were wearing socks.
We also sorted out our  shoes. We found out that most people wear shoes with velcro on them.

Moth

On Monday some of Room 12 students found a moth on the wall outside the class room. We brought it inside and we looked at the differences between a moth and a butterfly. 

After we had looked at it we let it go.

Habits of Mind: Wonder and awe; Remaining Open To Continuous Learning

Hero Day

On Friday we had "Hero' dress up day. Some of us got dressed up. After play the school had a parade. 

Statistics

On Thursdays for Maths we are working with Room 14 and Mrs Calman and learning about statistics.
We are learning to sort, count  and compare. We sorted all the children in the class to see if we had more girls or boys in the class. We found out that we have more girls than boys. 

We were all given some coloured beans. We had to sort them and see which colour bean we had the most of.

We have also looked at how many letters in our names and sorted what                                                            was the most common letter used in our names.


Habits of Mind: Creating, imagining, innovating; Questioning and problem posing;

Quad Blogging

Next week we are taking part in Quad Blogging again. We are linking up with 2 other classes around the world, where we will learn from them and comment on their class blogs. We will be working with E6 class from Eastern Hutt School in Lower Hutt and Reception Class at Stubbins Primary School, England. we beginning by commenting on E6 Superstars blog. Click on the link to view their blog and post a comment.

  E6superstars

Reception Class at Stubbins Primary School |

Mrs Wishy Washy

We have been reading different Mrs Wishy Washy stories. We used our Red Hat thinking to talk about how Mrs Wishy Washy was feeling. 



We then made our own Mrs Wishy Washy.

Habits Of Mind: Listening With Understanding And Empathy

Speakpipe comment

Click here to listen to our comment left by Allanah King who is an IT adviser in Nelson

Beach Saftey

Today the junior school went to Castlecliff beach to learn about beach safety. We had a great day and learnt a lot about being safe at the beach. We learnt about:

• slip on some protective clothing
• slop on some sunscreen (Check the expiry date)  
• slap  on a hat
• slide into some shade
• wrap on your sun glasses

We also learnt what a rip could look like and not to swim in one. We also learnt that we have to swim between the flags and if we get into trouble to put our arm straight up. We had a great day in the water learning about wading, boogie  boarding and surf rescue.

                         

Alex also got to dress up as a surf life saver. Doesn't he look great.

I also found this video to remind you about keeping safe in the sun.




Managing Impulsivity, Gather data through all senses, Taking  responsible risks.

Fitness

This week for fitness we have been skipping. Each day we have got better at our skipping.

Habits of Mind: Persistence, Thinking Flexibly,Remain open to continuous learning,Taking Responsible Risks.

Skyping

Today we had a skype session with  Mrs Sanchez class  from Wichita, KS. America. It was only Thursday in America and for us it was Friday. Mrs Robertson read The Pungapeople of Ninety Mile Beach then MrS Sanchez read us a story about school. We enjoyed the story, and are looking forward to skyping with them again. 

Check out their class blog http://bethanykindergarten.weebly.com/

Habits of mind:  Thinking and Communicating with Clarity and Precision, Responding with wonderment and awe.

'I Went' writing

This week our words of the week were 'I went'. We all talked about somewhere we went. We then used revelation Art to draw our pictures then we wrote our  'I went' sentences using google presentations. We enjoyed doing our writing using these tools.

                                

The Habits of mind we used to complete this task were' Persisting, thinking flexibly, Creating, Imagining and Innovating.