Making Patterns With Magnetic Shapes

 Titan and Tamaimon had fun making shape patterns and building with the magnetic shapes.

Tamaimon used all triangle shapes to make his pattern

Tian mainly used squares to build his structure

Duffy Certificate Awards

Tian, Joseph and Faauma with their certificates

 Titan was awarded this weeks Duffy Certificate for his work with reading big books.  He enjoyed the stories and participated fully in the discussions.  

Enjoying reading their Duffy books

Lunchtime Fun With Friends

 Team one has some very flexible girls who love having fun together at lunchtime.

Practising the splits while playing Duck, duck goose

Doing the splits

Five friends making a bridge

Dothan in a bridge pose

Introducing Room 16 2022

 

Room 16 had a busy start to the year, then COVID intervened and some of us had to stay at home.  Those of us at school have had fun learning, using our iPads, playing games and having ice blocks each Friday to celebrate another week of learning at school.  Our movie is about all the children in Room 16.  We miss our buddies at home and hope you enjoy seeing yourselves in our movie.

Sorting and Making Pictographs

 Team one has been learning about pictographs.  First we looked at some pictures of cats and saw some were similar colours and some were different.  So we looked at each picture and found we could put them into groups - ginger cats, white cats, black cats and grey.  Putting them into columns we could quickly see how many cats were in each group.  Next we put then into two groups of standing or sitting.  Then          Te Hiritanga thought of another way of grouping them - if they were outside or inside.  So many ways to sort the cats.  

Team One's Lucky Day

 At assembly last week it was team one's lucky day.  The names of four members of team one were drawn out of the Snack Box Heroes box and they were able to choose a healthy snack.

Dothan, Joseph, Tamaimon and Kairo with their healthy snacks

Up In The Sky

 Athena likes to climb up high in the tree outside our class.  She likes to be up in the sky and watch her friends playing down below.  Thank you Miss Kathy for the photo.

Online Google Meets

 It is nice to see some of the children online each morning as they are working from home.  Here is a screen shot of Mrs Lal with the children.

Thinking About A Sentence

 As we have changed seasons, today we listened to a story about a girl picking up leaves in Autumn.  Each child got a cut up sentence from the story which they needed to unscramble and make sense.  It required some thought and to hear - "Did it sound right?" and see - "Did it look right?"  Here are some of the children hard at work.

Ms Hockly helping to get the sentence correct

Dothan and Leylah working it out

Joseph and MeyLee thinking hard. 

 

Ice Cream and Jelly

Mrs Lal's class made some jelly.  They invited Team One to share their jelly and ice cream.  Here is Team one enjoying a tasty snack.

 

"Point, Aim, Throw!"

 "Point, aim, how us your muscles, throw " these were the instructions we were given in how to throw a ball.  It worked as we had competitions to see who could throw the furtherest.  It was a fun sports session with Coach Chelsea. 

Lining up for our competition

MeyLee in the right position

Tamaimon Likes Yellow Corn

 We painted a plate with our favourite foods on on it. Tamaimon painted his favourite foods on a paper plate and wrote a story about one of his favourite foods.  Your plate of food looks delicious Tamaimon.

 

Sabian at work

Maia with her finished plate

Memory Shopping Game

 We like playing Memory type games.  We learnt how to play the Shopping game.  To play the game we each needed a "shopping list" and a "trolley".  Remembering where the tiles were in the array was hard sometimes but Tamaimon found easy ways to remember and he filled his trolley first.

Tamaimon with his full trolley

Sabian with her "shopping list."

Thursday is Certificate Day

 Thursday is certificate day and this week Titan got our class certificate for making good choices during reading time.  Ka pai Titan for making good choices.

(Titan on the left)