Discovery Time

We had our first Discovery Time with our friends from Room 3.  We are learning to show respect.  We started by watching this video of Gilbert the Goat.  We hope that we don't see any Gilbert Goat's at school.

We had a lot of different activities to choose from.  There were bubbles, chalk, the sand and water trays outside.  In Room 2 we could do lots of different activities that exercised our fingers, including weaving, making pom pom caterpillars, building with foam bricks, and making puzzles.  We could also help to improve our environment by gardening in our community garden and making concrete tiles to go in our international garden.

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!

Elgrego

On Wednesday we went to a show in our school hall called El Grego.  He had amazing magic tricks. He could make real birds come out of the smallest containers.  We were all watching very carefully to see where they came from.  He taught us about our values and how to be a good friend.  We enjoyed watching his show a lot!