Star Writers

Today Kasslin and Isaac L shared their writing with Mrs Dawson.

They are both getting really good at writing the sounds they need and finding words on their alphabet card and around the room.

Counting Stars

Today we have new counting stars.

Kepu and Sacha can both count to 100 by themselves!

Look what we have noticed!

Wow have a look at our beanstalks now!

Look at the beautiful flowers, and are those beans we can see starting to grow?

Check out Dara's sunflower plant!

An Arty Afternoon

Today Mrs Nathan took our photos.

Then we coloured them in like Andy Warhol

Here are our finished masterpieces

Star Writer

Today Isaac L took his great writing to Mrs Dawson.  He was able to hear most of the sounds he needed for his story.  Keep trying hard Isaac!

Star Writers

On Monday Laki and Kasslin took their writing to Mrs Dawson.

Kasslin knew where to look for the words she needed.  

She found them in her reading book and on the wall.

Laki listened hard for the sounds he needed.

Great work you two!

Computer time

Today it was our turn with the netbooks.
We choose our working buddy and learnt how to move the mouse using the mouse pad.

This is a great website to let us practice.
fungooms.com

Our Plants

Wow! 

Look at how much our plants have grown!

Today Alofa and Mrs Nathan moved our plants into cups so that we can take them home to plant in our gardens.  We can't wait to eat our beans and see how big our sunflowers grow.

While we were replanting our plants Mrs Nathan showed us the roots from one of the plants that had been broken.  We had to guess what they were.  Some of us looked, some of us touched them and some of us even smelled it! 

 It smelt like beans.

More Maths Whizzes

Today Group 2 had a turn to solve the same problem.

They worked in thinking buddies to solve the problem

Here is Monaro's thinking

and Kepu's

an Kasslin and Matamaria's

Wow!  Great work Room 11!

Star Writer

Today Dara shared his writing with Mrs Dawson.
He is learning to write all of the sounds he can hear and he is getting better at making his letters look right.
What a star Dara!

ASB visit

On Tuesday morning we had a visit from Tessa.  She shared a secret with us...she's a saving superhero! Shhhhh!!! Don't tell anyone!

She trained us all to be saving superheroes too!

We now know the difference between needs and wants.  She also taught us to speed for your needs and wait for your wants.

Thanks Tessa, we had a great time!

Maths Groups

Today for maths we had to solve this problem.

We worked in thinking buddies to find the answer.

Krishnav and Dara explain their thinking.

Isaac explains his thinking.

We are getting better at sharing our working with our friends.

Letter of the week is Letter Tt

Our letter this week is the letter Tt.
Dara said this was his favourite song now.
What do you think?

We know that train track, tree, toothpaste, toothbrush, tea, turtle, tiger and table start with Tt.  What other words can you think of?

Star Writers

Today Kasslin and Kepu used their letter sound knowledge to write their stories.  They were both able to hear most of the sounds they needed and to use the butterfly card to find words.

Keep up the great work!

I for Insect

Today Sacha brought an insect to school.  It was a green grasshopper.

We wrote a story about it.  Look at all the sounds we were able to hear!

planting seeds

On Monday the 23rd of February we planted bean and sunflower seeds.
We predicted that they would have grown by the next morning when we came to school... we were wrong!

Yesterday when we came to school four of the seeds had sprouted!  Over the day we watched as Kepu's bean stretched upwards and Kasslin's began to come out of the soil.

We watched this amazing clip to show us what had happened to our seed!

We can't wait to see how many plants we have by the end of the day!

Letter of the week , letter Ii

The letter of the week this week is the letter Ii.  We found this cool song to help us learn some 'i' words.
Isaac L said it was his favourite song so far.  Everybody agrees with him.