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.

Waitresses at Work

Our waitresses this week at the Discovery Time Cafe were amazing!  First they got our onion dip ready.  Spot how collaborative they are, helping each other to solve problems and then make sure that everyone has a turn.

Then they looked after their customers so well.  They showed them to a seat, explained about the onion dip and the hummus and then checked to see that the customers were enjoying their food and time in the cafe.  After all of that, they even did the dishes!  And with big smiles on their faces.  

Congratulations girls on being such wonderful waitresses.

We had some great chatty customers too that gave great feedback on the dips.  It was a split about which one was the best this week.

Come back next week to see what the new menu contains.

Pukeko

We used the app colAR Mix to make our pukekos come alive. We have been reading the shared book 'The Swamp Eggs' and used this app to make the main character come alive. We learnt how to take a photo of Gwen and then we had to teach someone else in our class. It was a bit tricky holding the iPhone and taking the picture at the same time but we did it! We made speech bubbles to say what Gwen would be saying in our pictures. We look forward to using our iPads for more of our learning together.

Snowmen

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

What's on the menu this week?

At our reflection time last week, we decided that we would like to have dip on the menu at Discovery Time.  So it was up to the waiters this week to prepare the classic onion dip and hummus.  They also had to cut the celery into sticks and Miss Browne chopped the very crunchy carrots for us.

Part of the waiters job was to try to teach the customers not to double dip!  There were some successes here.  They also had to help the customers to only have a few pieces of the vegetables so that there was enough for everyone who wanted to try them.

Another part of the waiters job was to ask their customers about their meal at the cafe.  We practised asking the question "Which dip did you like?" and then to ask for more information by saying "Why was that your favourite dip?"  Here are some of the replies including "I liked the hummus because it has lemon."  "I liked the dip because it was smooth."  "I liked the hummus because I have it at home."  "I liked the dip because it was yummy."

We are going to have more dip again next week so that everyone can try this at our cafe.

 "I can squeeze the lemon because we did this at the start of the year when we made lemonade."  Well done Nathan on making connections between your learning!

Frozen Assembly Video

And here is our video that also played at assembly. Spot our cool dancing and singing!

Frozen Assembly Presentation

We hope you enjoy our singing and dancing. We love this song but we were a little frozen ourselves!