Today we learnt how to play Bingo Maths. This will help us learn to read numbers out of order. We can now play all sorts of bingo games like letter bingo, word bingo, blend bingo and addition bingo.
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Monday, July 29, 2013
COUNTING BACKWARDS AS FAST AS WE CAN
We have been learning to count backwards from 20 as fast as we can.
Some of us are still learning to count backwards from 20 without missing any numbers.
If we can learn how to do this fast it will help us with adding and subtracting.
You can help us by counting down with us when we do cool stuff like go to the park, have dessert, or play a game.
Thanks everyone!
Some of us are still learning to count backwards from 20 without missing any numbers.
If we can learn how to do this fast it will help us with adding and subtracting.
You can help us by counting down with us when we do cool stuff like go to the park, have dessert, or play a game.
Thanks everyone!
PRODUCTION!!!!
Dear
Parents/caregivers,
This
term, in week three we have our whole school production –kia whakatomuri te
haere ki mua (walking backward to the future). As you know, we have been
learning about farming and its history. We are dressing up as Sheep for our
part of the performance and we need the following donations:
·
Cotton wool balls
·
White face paint/
regular poster paint
We
also ask that we can start work on our sheep headbands. I have attached the
following instructions on how to make a sheep headband. You can either buy a
headband from the $2 shop or make the band from card. If you should purchase
the headband, either buy a white one or cover with paper.
Sheep ears instructions: Using the card, cut out a strip about 2-inches
thick and long enough to wrap around your childs forehead. Make sure you make
it an inch or two longer so you can staple the ends together. Now, fold another
piece of card in half and cut out a set of sheep ears. They can have some pink
parts in the middle to add some contrast. Put the bottom edge of each
ear up against the strip of paper and staple or tape them in place. Once the
ears are attached, staple or tape the ends of the strip together to snuggly fit
around your fore head.
Optional: A White
beanie (from the $2 shop) and add the ears in a similar manner. We will also be
needing lovely parents to help us with the hot glue gunning during the making
process. Finally, the children will need their gumboots and any white t shirt
they already own for the dress rehearsal Monday 7th August.
Thank
you very much.
Miss
Ellis and Mrs Manu (Room 21) and Mrs Narayan (Room 10)
Friday, July 19, 2013
ROALD'S GOOD DEED
Hi kids,
Today I gave away all my old clothes and toys to charity. That means I gave them to someone who needs them more than me.
I took them to a charity shop where they sell things to raise money for local kids and families.
The ladies there thought I was very cute and tried to hide me amongst the shoes!
Hope you're all having fun kids.
Keep cool and don't forget to wash behind your ears.
Love,
Roald x
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Friday, July 12, 2013
ROALD'S HOLIDAY
Hi everyone!
Here I am at my friend Ali Lion's house having a movie night. We are watching Madagascar and eating broccoli. Yum yum!
See you soon,
Roald x
Thursday, July 11, 2013
Matariki march
Today we paraded our Matariki masks around the field to celebrate Matariki and have fun with the whole school!
We were separated in to colours of Matariki:
Matariki – Red, Waiti – Green, Waita – Blue, Waipuna-a-rangi – Black
Tupu-a-nuku – Purple, Tupu-a-rangi – Orange and Ururangi – Yellow.
We made our masks the colour of our Matariki star.
Here are some action shots of the Waita group:
The teachers also took part in some Matariki group games :)
In the afternoon we watched the Kapa haka group perform! They were amazing to watch!
WHEN LETTER 'Y' SOUNDS LIKE 'EE'
We are reading the big book 'Hairy Bear'. We have been using our ' Sound it out Spanner' from the Reading Toolbox to help us. We can hear an 'ee' sound at the end of the word 'hairy'. Look at the list of words we made that end with 'y' and sound like 'ee'.
Saturday, July 06, 2013
CONGRATULATIONS ISABELLA
Isabella was awarded with a certificate at Ara Teina assembly because of her amazing progress in Reading. KA PAI! This shows the Arahoe value of Excellence. ★★★
Friday, July 05, 2013
Making Maori Bread!!!!
Today we made Maori Bread as part of our Matariki learning!
We used scone mix and water.
Mrs Manu started the process by making a big mess, then slowly, it all came together to make dough.
We all had a turn kneading.
It was gooey, but lots of fun!
I think Room 18 have some future Bakers as we did such an excellent job!
After kneading, we cut up the dough and added it to a small fry pan of oil where it turned a lovely golden brown. We waited for it to cool down, then gobbled it up!
It tasted delicious!
I hope we can make it again and roll the bread in cinnamon and sugar as a special treat!
Yum!
Here are some photos of the Room 18
Bakers :)
Musical fun
We have done lots of singing practice this week in Room 18, and we've been working very hard! We have been practicing our Farmer Larney song AND our Gumboot song!
Here we are in Music practicing our Gumboot song and our dance! 
FUN FACTOR FRIDAY!
What a fun day we had today!
We started off the day with our performance of Farmer Larney at Ara Teina assembly. We did a fantastic job singing the song we made up and doing the actions we made up. We sang so the audience could hear us and Cody and Max used a microphone to introduce us. Miss Watson videoed it for us and we will put up a video as soon as we can.
Over half of the class is doing spelling now! Our teachers think we are Whizz Kids. This week we are learning to spell words with 'an' in them. That is called a chunk. Our spelling words are what we use to help us write stories, as well as read.
After lunch we celebrated Matariki by making some fry bread. We kneaded the dough and watched it fry in the pan. Some of us looked like experts and some of us had done kneaded bread before. Some of us had never made bread before. We want to do it again! We also thought it would taste good with the butter we made with Jesse.
At the end of the day we practiced out ballistics challenge skills. We are going to find some more people to sponsor us this weekend.
Ka kite ano on Monday!
Have a good weekend from all of us in Room 18.
We started off the day with our performance of Farmer Larney at Ara Teina assembly. We did a fantastic job singing the song we made up and doing the actions we made up. We sang so the audience could hear us and Cody and Max used a microphone to introduce us. Miss Watson videoed it for us and we will put up a video as soon as we can.
Over half of the class is doing spelling now! Our teachers think we are Whizz Kids. This week we are learning to spell words with 'an' in them. That is called a chunk. Our spelling words are what we use to help us write stories, as well as read.
After lunch we celebrated Matariki by making some fry bread. We kneaded the dough and watched it fry in the pan. Some of us looked like experts and some of us had done kneaded bread before. Some of us had never made bread before. We want to do it again! We also thought it would taste good with the butter we made with Jesse.
At the end of the day we practiced out ballistics challenge skills. We are going to find some more people to sponsor us this weekend.
Ka kite ano on Monday!
Have a good weekend from all of us in Room 18.
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