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.

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.

Shape Up!

We have been learning about shapes in maths.  We can identify lots of 2D shapes like triangles, squares, oblongs, circles, and even pentagons, hexagons and octagons.  We have been challenging ourselves to identify 3D shapes.  These are fat shapes and they are great for building different things.  Check out our cool buildings that we made in cooperative groups.

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.

Lots of Learning!

We have been doing so much learning and it all came together today when we combined statistics, oral language, and statistics!
Today we followed instructions to make a piwakawaka with a folded tail.  We talked about house groups and what colour we are in.  When you are in a house colour you can get points for your house and then at assembly we find out which house colour has won for the week.  We have to show our values to earn points in our classroom.  We made the tails of our piwakawaka our house group colour.

Once all of these were made, we talked about our statistics learning this week.  We worked out that we could sort all the piwakawaka into the house groups and that would make them easier to be displayed.  We could work out how many children were in each group.

Yesterday we had watched 2 short movies about piwakawaka.  We used these to help us learn something more about them.  We then used our white thinking hats to think of a fact that we know about them now.  Miss Browne has published our writing and made them into clouds above our piwakawaka.
  We are very proud of the display we have made in our classroom and how all our learning has helped us to make it. Please come in and have a look at it!

How many letters are in your name?

Today we collected information about the number of letters in our names.  We then put each letter into its own box and lined them up to see which name had the most letters and which name had the least letters.  Here is a picture of our pictograph showing the display of our information.

Statistics - Finding Out

We are learning to collect, sort and display data. This means that we are sorting items into groups of things that have something similar about them and give that group a name. We sorted pictures of toys into lots of different groups. As long as we could give a reason why they belonged in that group, we could put our picture.

We coloured in our hands to show our favourite colours.  We had them all on the floor but then we grouped them together.  You can see our pictograph on the walls of our classroom.

I wonder what Room 2's most favourite colour is?  I wonder what Room 2's least favourite colour is?  The pictograph shows the answers to these questions easily!  Come and have a look!