Brain Gym

We have been doing brain gym and other exercises in the morning to wake up our body and brain ready for learning.  The children enjoy the different movements and join in each morning to help with their learning.

Rataimore doing an exercise that is rather tricky

More Maths Measuring

When we wanted to find out who was the tallest person in our class we just compared our heights.  So when we wanted to find out who had the longest name in our class so we wrote our names on a piece of paper then tried to compare them but we found a problem.  Some people wrote in lovely big letters and some had small writing.  This made a long name look small and a small name look big.  What could we do to make a comparison seem equal?  Then someone remembered that to measure two things, the units of measurement need to be the same - if we all wrote in the same size squares then we could count the squares.  It didn't matter if the writing was big or small!  Rataimore had the longest name as she needed 9 squares to write her name.

Bavin pointing out some names looked big and some looked small

Elena counting squares to see who had the longest name

Team Certificates for Term 2 Week 11

Peyton and Rataimore were our team certificate winners this week.  Peyton has been getting on with work and making sure she gets things finished while Rataimore has been trying hard to write down the letter sounds that she hears.  Keep up the good work both of you.

Rataimore and Peyton with their certificates at Team Assembly today.

Animal Yoga Poses

As part of our Engage programme we have been doing some animal yoga poses.  We found if we did our breathing exercises first to get ourselves feeling calm then it was much easier to stand on one leg like a flamingo.  Also if we focused on something that didn't move but looked straight ahead it was so much easier to balance.

Olivia hung upside down like a bat

Rataimore found standing like a flamingo was easy

Elena used her "outstretched wings" for balance

Our Volcano Stories

Bavin with his great story of how the lava cascaded down the mountain

Attah's volcano story

Rataimore drew lots of rocks and wrote about them in her story

Elena wrote about the lava bubbling out of their volcano

Look What I Can Do!

Rataimore was able to follow the gymnastics coaches's instructions to balance on her tummy and put her toes up by her head.  You are very flexible, Rataimore and good listening to be able to do the exercise.

Room 16's Lunch Box Hero

Rataimore was Room 16's lunch box hero this week.  She had her name drawn out and chose some yummy spaghetti.  I hope you enjoy it with your family, Rataimore.

Bubbles

On our return to school we talked about our home bubbles that we had been in with our families.  We drew our families inside a bubble and made colourful edges.  When we were outside blowing bubbles we noticed the rainbow colours on the edges of the bubbles.  We also saw how the bubbles popped when they touched each other so we are now in our school bubbles staying spaced out and not touching each other.

Having fun blowing bubbles

Rataimore with her family bubble picture

Cruze showing the four people in his bubble.

Elevina and her rainbow bubble

Peyton colouring in the outside of her family bubble

Rataimore gently blowing bubbles

iPad Work

The children have been busy learning how to  duplicate on their iPads.  They remembered how to make a shape then they learnt how to go into the "i" tool and look for the letter "d" which is the initial letter of the word "duplicate" next to the little drawing of the two rectangles to make a second shape exactly the same.  It was great fun making lots of shapes.  

Rataimore was able to listen carefully and do the task

Elevina is happy with her duplicated shapes.

Painting

Painting a picture of ourselves and our families required  concentration.  Carnita, Rataimore and Elevina were enjoying painting their portraits.

Carnita adding colour to her picture

Elevina painting while Ratamore patiently waits her turn

Rataimore gets her turn

A New Classmate

Rataimore is five and she has joined Room 16 this week.  Welcome to our class, Rataimore.

Rataimore, our new classmate

Rataimore with her new bookbag

Team One Certificates for Week 5 Term 1

At swimming all the children have made great progress and become more confident in the water.  It was very hard this week to choose just two children for certificates when they all have done so well but Elevina and Rataimore received the certificates for their swimming.