More Patterns...

We have been making patterns with special stamps and also on gingerbread men this week.  Spot our great concentration as we find the right colours to put on our gingerbread men!  

Ka pai Te Waka o Matariki group!  What great learning you are doing.

Artists at work

We have been busy at interchange over the last three weeks learning some painting skills. We used shaving foam and PVA glue to make puffy paint for our snowmen. Last week we painted our background by mixing the secondary colours - purple, orange and green. This week we cut out all the details and put them together. 

Patterns, patterns, patterns

We have a great bunch of new children who are part of our Te Waka o Matariki group.  These children are new to school and are learning about the different things that we do at school and we work on some goals to make sure we are ready for learning.
This week, the Te Waka o Matariki group are focusing on making patterns.  Some of us find this tricky but we have had a practice and tried again today and we had some great results.  We are all very proud of the patterns we made.
Tomorrow some of us are going to have a challenge to see if we can make an even more tricky pattern.

Snowmen

These are our finished artworks. We love our fluffy snowmen!

Discovery Time Cafe

This week the cafe opened with two items on the menu - warm milo and juice.  Waitresses showed customers to the table, took their orders and delivered their order, checking that they enjoyed their drink.  Conversation was flowing this week with stories from some very busy weekends.

Porridge playdough was also a hit this week along with our new puzzles.  What an interesting cafe we have!

Handwriting Stars!

We've had two handwriting stars recently.  Destiny is working hard to make her letters the right way and Martin has been working hard to get his handwriting finished on time, making his letters the right way.  We are very proud of both of these handwriting stars! 

Humpty Dumpty is broken!

Oh no!  Humpty Dumpty has fallen off his wall and we need to try and stick him back together again!  We were practising our cutting skills as well as showing compassion to Humpty Dumpty.  Once all the pieces were cut out we had to put him back together again, like a puzzle, using sticking plasters to stick him together.