Congratulations Larry

Our congratulations this week goes to Larry! He has been focussing on his learning and is striving for excellence. We are so proud of you!

Buddy Reading

Today we had some time with our buddy class, Room 10.  We listened to two Pigeon stories - "Don't let the pigeon drive the bus!" and "Don't let the pigeon stay up late!"  They are funny books.  We could join in with both of these books telling the pigeon that he wasn't able to drive the bus or stay up late.
Miss Rickard had an app on her ipad which meant we could make our own pigeon story.  Unfortunately we can't take the story off the app so you will have to ask us to tell you about what happened when you see us.  We did take some photos of our fun time with our buddy class.

Numbers before and after

The hexagon maths group have been learning to say the number that comes 'before'.  Today they worked with a partner to find the numbers to put on our game board.  Some of us found it tricky to work with a partner and next time we need to make sure that we are helping each other.  This will also help us to check our work and our thinking.  We learnt today that a partner helps us with our learning so we should try to work together to finish the activity.  We would be showing respect, tolerance and excellence.

How to make a cress sandwich.

We have been learning how to write instructions. Today we did some shared writing to write instructions for making a cress sandwich.  We have grown our own cress and now it was time to give our cress heads a hair cut and then to eat the cress.  

We are getting so much better at stretching tricky words out and writing down the sounds that we can hear.  We are all very good at writing 'the' speedily because we wrote it so many times today.

How to make a cress sandwich.

You will need:

 

butter

bread

a plate

a knife

a tray

some cress

1. Cut the cress.

2. Butter the bread.

3. Put the cress on the bread.

4. Fold the bread.

5. Eat the sandwich.

Bye Keeson

Today we said goodbye to Keeson.  He is moving to Kaiapoi which is too far to travel to come to our school.  Tyler said "Remember all the good times we had Keeson."  Lots of us said "Bye Keeson, we will miss you".  Miss Browne is going to miss how compassionate Keeson is and how respectful.  He always opened doors for other people and arrived at school with a big smile on his face everyday.  We wish you good luck at your new school Keeson.

 Hugs for our friend Keeson!

Lily's Irish Dancing

On Monday it was St Patricks Day.  Lily performed at lots of different rest homes all day long.  We missed having her at school but her Mum and Dad took a wee video to share with us and a photo.  We hope you enjoy watching Lily performing as much as we did.

Hot chocolate!

Shontai was drawn out of the Cool Kids bag today at assembly. She will be having a hot chocolate with our Principal, Mr Bateman. We are very proud of you Shontai.

Congratulations Cody!

Cody received our certificate today for aiming for excellence, especially in reading and writing. Room 2 are so proud of you!

Writing about our trip to Fendalton Library

I went to the library.  We went over the field.     Bidash

I have a library card.         Tyler

I have the library card.  I like my library card.        Shontai

I am reading a book to Tyrrell.        Kaiden

I am reading a book.         Cody

We go to the library.       Grace

Mum is reading us a book at the library.  Dad helped other people.        Lily

I am choosing a book.       Keeson

Our last births

Friday was such a busy day!  We had the last two chrysalis hatch with two boy butterflies.  We can tell that they are boy butterflies because they have black dots on their hind wings.  We stayed after the bell had rung so we could all have a hold of our butterflies.  All our other butterflies had hatched during weekends so we didn't get to have a chance to hold them.
They felt tickly!  We didn't know that they had bits on the end of their legs that were like claws.  They need these to hold on tight.
Some of us needed to be very brave but we all showed compassion when giving them to others and in helping some of the children who were a bit scared.  It has been exciting watching our caterpillars turn into butterflies and now we need to make sure we look after our plants so they are ready to go into our butterfly garden at the end of the year.