Fun Time Lunchtime

Today at school we had fun time lunchtime.  

There were toffee apples, cakes and drinks for sale.

You could buy a balloon hat!

The big boys were giving us rides in their go-karts.

You could play games and win a prize.

We had our face painted!

It was a really fun lunchtime ;)

Story Writing

Our Number of the Week- 19

This week we are learning about the number 19.

We have a book about 19.

Tayla and Vika can find the number 19 and circle it.

Jessica and Hauofa can write rainbow 19s.

 

Epenesa can draw 19 raindrops.

Dog safety.

Last week Janet came to talk to us about how to stay safe around dogs.
She told us what to do if we saw a strange dog and if a dog knocks us over.
We practised being turtles so we would know what to do.

Writing with Room 11

Each day we help Mrs Nathan to write her story.  We listen hard for the sounds and tell her how to spell the words we know.  Mrs Nathan writes in black and we write in purple.  Today Mrs Nathan only had to help us with two letters and an apostrophe.  When we finish writing Mrs Nathan tries to trick us by asking us to find words in her story.  We are getting to be great listeners and writers. 

Room 11's Writing

In Room 11 we are learning to write a sentence about our topic.  We are learning to start with a capital letter and finish with a full stop.  We are able to write some words by ourselves and we are learning to sound out new words.

Here are some of our stories.

                                                                                                                                                  

                                                 

                                                                                                        

Wild Animal Masks

After our visit to the zoo we made some masks.

Our Trip to the zoo

On Thursday the 13 June the whole Junior School went to the zoo!
We learned about all of the jobs a zoo keeper does and then we got to explore.
Some of us got to feed the giraffe.  He had a really long neck and a long tongue!

The elephant was doing her exercise, the hippo was swimming but most of the other animals were sleeping.
We could hear the siamang monkey calling but as soon as we went to see him he was very quiet.

One of the best things about our day was playing on the playground like monkeys.
We hope we can go again one day.

Welcome to 2013

Greetings and welcome to 2013!!!
Mrs Nathan is pleased to be back and starting the year with a new class of 5 year olds.
We have had a room change so we will now be known as Room 11.

We love weaving

We learnt to weave.

First we got a black piece of paper and made four cuts.

Next we got five strips of different coloured paper.

Then we wove the first strip over and under, over and under.

The next strip went under and over, under and over.

We did this until we had used all the strips.

Do you like our weaving?

Red Nose day

On Friday we had a mufti day to raise money for Red Nose Day.  We had to wear something red, bring a gold coin and the big girls painted our noses red.

The money raised was for the sick children.

Forbes and Naumai make doubles

Naumai and Forbes were using the tens frames and counters to practice making doubles.  Aren't they clever!

Jump Rope For Heart

Here are some photos of our exciting Jump Rope for Heart day.
Check out our skipping skills

Story writing from this week.

Here are some samples of the hard work we have been doing this week in Room 10 during story writing time.

Danielle's

Noah's

Javeyah's

and Lachlan's.

At School Maths

This week it is Maths week.
We decided to solve our daily problem by using doubles, even though we knew it wasn't the fastest way.
We love to solve problems using doubles!

We decided to use our doubles knowledge and Tamahau knew 7+7 was 14.

Then we had to add the extra 2 people.

Talib knew that 4+2 was 6 so that meant that 14+2 had to be 16.

We are learning lots of ways to solve our addition problems.

Ants on the anthill

Our Letter of the week was Aa and we made a display with Ants on the anthill, a, a , a.

Doubles Doubles, we love doubles

Room10 are learning to use doubles to help them solve a problem.  Here is a video we found to help us.

At school 18 July

Today Room 10 did some amazing thinking to solve the problem of how many people were at school.
We discovered that we had 7 boys and 7 girls and got excited because this is a double.
Sifa and Forbes said we could use 5+5 to help us.  We rearranged the people so that there were 5 boys and 5 girls on the first bus.  This left 2 boys and 2 girls to go on the second bus.  Another double!
We could see that 5+5 was ten and 2+2 was four, but we had trouble solving 10+4.
Danielle said we could count the others, but that we didn't need to start from 1.  By counting on from 10 we learnt that there were 14 people at school today.
I hope we get more doubles tomorrow!!!

Room 10's Story Writing

Room 10 have been working hard with their story writing.  The words written in purple are the words the children were able to find around the room or they just knew them.
Mrs Nathan thinks they are amazing writers!  Keep an eye out for the stories Room 10 will be writing on their own.

Bryan and Bobby's visit

On Friday the 8th June Bryan and Bobby came to visit our school and talk to us about serial numbers.
We should record the serial numbers of all the electrial things at home which cost more than $200, this will help the Police to give back your things if they get stolen.
You can record these numbers on www.snap.org.nz .

You can visit Bryan and Bobby at www.bryanandbobby.co.nz

Samoan Independance Day

On Friday the first of June it was Samoan Independance day. 
We went out to the courts to watch the Tupulaga classes marching and then they said a prayer and sang a song as the flag was raised.

After morning tea we went down to the hall and watched the speeches and the class performances. 

Thank you Tupulaga for inviting us to be part of your celebrations =)

Pirate Visit

On Tuesday we had a Pirate day.  We all dressed up as a pirate and there was a pirate show.

Here is one of the songs they performed.

We were fierce pirates!!

Room 9 comes to visit

Today Room 9 came to work with us.  We read The Jigaree by Joy Cowley and then we made Alien pictures and stories.  We will publish some when we are finished.
Thank you for helping us Room 9, we had lots of fun.

If You Meet a Dragon

We read If You Meet a Dragon... by Joy Cowley, then we made our own dragons.  They can move like a real dragon.
If we meet a dragon we know that if we tickle it, it will run away... but we aren't scared!

Anjil's Writing

I went to camp to play with my friends and they were happy to play with me.