Monarch caterpillers

Last Wednesday we were really lucky as we were given some monarch caterpillars. We have been watching them everyday. Two of them have now formed their Chrysalis. We are now waiting for it to become a butterfly.

Mystery Reader week 4

On Friday after play we had a surprise visit from Ms Oconner. She was our mytery reader she read us 'Kiss!Kiss!Yuck!Yuck! by Kyle Mewburn
We really enjoyed this story. Ms Oconner also said she will come and read to us another day. We can't wait.

Counting to 10 in Japanese

Today we as part of world maths day we started to learn how to count to 10 in Japanese. We used this video clip to help us.

Huge Earthquake hits Christchurch

Today a magnitude 6.3 earthquake hit Christchuch. the earthquake was very shallow at only 5km deep.

Answer to week 3 Big Question

The answer to week three big question is John Key is the prime minister of New Zealand.

Our Pictures

We have been learning to draw ourselves. First we looked in the mirror at the shape of our face, then we drew our eyes, nose and mouth. When we had finished we coloured in our pictures using crayon. Take a look at our pictures.

Ordering Numbers

We have been learning to order numbers to 10.

Reading Outside

Today we did our Reading outside. It was a lovely sunny morning so we read our book outside.

Mystery Reader

On Friday we had our first mystery reader for the year. We did not know who was coming to read to us. After play Mr Petersen our principal came into read to us. He read us 'Smelly Berty' by David Roberts. It is about Bertie and how he pops off. He makes it clear that he is not the only one who does this. We thought this was a very funny story that Mr Petersen read us. Thanks Mr Petersen. We wonder who will be our mystery reader this week.

Ordering Numbers

We learnt a new maths game. We got into 2 teams and we had to pick up a number, run down to the blank number line and place our number on it in the right order.

Week 3 Big Question

Sandpit

Today we built sandcastles, dug big holes and made volcanoes. We had a lot of fun.

Colours in Maori

We are learning the colours in Maori.

Go-Cart Racing

Today we went and had races on the go-carts. We had a lot of fun. We then went and wrote about our go-cart races.

counting backwards from 10

W.A.L.T. count backwards from 10. We are using the song ten in the bed to help us count backwards from 10.
We started to make rockets to show what number we can count backwards from.

Week 1 big question

Tyrone Counting

Te Whetu Marama Voki

2011

Today was our first day back for 2011. Keep on watching our site to see what we do this year.

My holiday

I have been in Sydney for the past two weeks and thought I would post a couple of pictures of where I have been.
Photos of Sydney from the Sydney Tower.