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.

Maths Whizzes

Yesterday and today we have been working hard in our maths groups, using our number knowledge to solve number stories.
we showed how we got our answer by drawing a picture, using the number line and writing an equation.

Trophy Winners

Last week Room 11 won the trophy for the class with the best attendance.  Only one person was away on one day!
Keep it up Room 11!

Guest reader

Today Krishnav read a story to the class.  He used a loud and clear voice so that we could all hear him.  He was able to ask some great questions to make sure that the class were listening to the story.

Maths in Room 11 Today

Today we used our Number Knowledge to help us colour in a picture of a parrot.
How did we do?

Play dough

Today we used the play dough to practice making letters.

 

 

 

Welcome to Room 11 2015!

Welcome to Room 11 2015!
We are very excited to be starting a new year with some new whanau and some old friends.

This is where we like to share all our good learning and exciting things we do at school.  Please take the time to leave a comment for your children as they get very excited when they know you are visiting our page.  The instructions on how to leave a comment can be found on the right of each page.


We are very excited to share the great writing from two of our boys who have only been at school for one week!

Krishnav and Monaro have worked hard to find words they know and record the sounds they hear.  They have even remembered to start with a capital letter and ended with a fullstop.  What a fantastic start to the year!

Room 11's Mice

This week we have been learning about the letter Mm.  Today we made pet mice.

Our Number of the week

Our number of the week is the number 3.  Here is a song we found which shares why the number three is so important.

Some more photos from our Kindy visit

Star Writer

Today Kilifi surprised us with his writing.  He was able to hear and write a lot of the words and sounds he needed by himself!  Well done Kilifi I love surprises like these!

A visit to Homai Kindy

Today we also had a visit to Homai Kindy.
It was great to see some of our old friends and to meet the children who would be coming to Room 11 soon.
Thank you for inviting us.
We can't wait to see you all again soon.

Athletics Day

This morning we had athletics at school.  We had a race from one end of the field to the other.  We ran as fast as we could!
Congratulations to Riley and Kilifi who made it through the finals for 5 year old boys.

Star Writer

Today Apeta wrote her story all by herself.  She knew where to find hard words like 'park' and 'with'!

Apeta you are becoming the best writer in Room 11!  I am so Proud of you!

Star Writer

Our Star writer for Monday was Apeta.  She was able to write most of the words she needed by herself and hear the main sounds in the one word she couldn't write.  Great work Apeta!

Star writers!

On Monday when Jay started school he couldn't write his name.  Today he wrote his name all by himself!  Wow, what a clever boy!

Kilifi was working hard to write all the sounds he could hear in his writing.  He wrote about the mum and dad in Frozen.

Lion lollipops

Today we made lion lollipops.  When we finished we read them a story.  They were really good at listening.

Here are the Ll words we know.

Ladybug   lick   lollipop  love  leaf  lion  lips  legs  lemon  ladder  light  Lilly  lizard  licorice  look  long  low  long  like  learning   listening    lid    laces

Maths

Today we were learning to notice how many spots were on the tens frame cards without counting.
We were looking at the patterns and we were noticing the empty spaces.
Here is a video for us to use to practice.

Star Writers

Today Mylene and Lilly did amazing writing.  They were able to write most of their words without help and they were able to write the sounds they heard in their tricky words.

Letter of the week.

Our Letter of the week is the letter Ll.

Here is one of the songs we have enjoyed.

What words can you think of that begin with the letter Ll?

Star Writer

Congratulations to Joshua who was our star writer on Tuesday.  He was able to hear a lot of sounds while working with Mrs Nathan and he is trying really hard to write his letters correctly.

Keep it up Joshua!

Friday's Super Writers.

Today's star writers are Kiara and Lilly.  They drew wonderful pictures of their dad and wrote about Father's day on Sunday.

More Star Writers!

Today Mylene and Te Amomai showed Mrs Dawson their writing about the bouncy castle.
They are both really good at hearing the sounds they need and looking for words around the room.
Keep it up girls!