Helping Hands

Tumanako knows how to tie laces.  After gymnastics Temalisi needed a helping hand with her laces and Tumanako saw her problem and stepped up to help.  Well done Tumanako.  You know how to be a kind Pt Englander and have been helping lots of your class mates this week.  You are our Duffy Award person for week 3.

Tumanako giving a helping hand to Temalisi.

Colourful Quilts on Kid Pix

Mrs Fester is helping Hinemoa and Te Ao use colours on Kid Pix.  First they drew an outline being careful to close up all the squares.  Then it was into the colours.  You have both done a lovely job in choosing your colours. By Mrs Dwyer

Te Ao and Hinemoa working on Kid Pix

Te Ao's beautiful colourful quilt.

Healthy Milk Drinks

Twice a week we have milk to drink.  It comes in cartons with a straw.  We are learning to "Drink it dry.  Fold it flat.  Send it back."  We help each other with the folding as this is tricky for small hands.  Thank you Fonterra for a heathy treat. By Room 16 

Temalisi and Adrianna "drinking it dry.".

Vaha showing Jin how to "fold it flat."

Charlotte has her carton ready to"send it back."

Week TwoTeam Certificates.

Week two has seen Marius get a Duffy Award for being a kind Pt Englander and using polite manners.  He choose the book about Big Chicken.  Charlotte got a team award for continuing to do her iPad reading activity even though it got tricky.  She was able to finish her activity - good "stickability" Charlotte.  Savanah who started school on Tuesday got a certificate too.   Welcome to Pt England, Savanah.

Savanah and Charlotte with their Team 1 awards for Week 2.

Marius with his Duffy Award

Duffy Theatre Visit

"I like the Duffy Show.  Duffy had a time machine with lights and an umbrella."  Dictated by Jeyda

Pt England was fortunate to have the Duffy Theatre visit on Tuesday.  Duffy used his time machine to travel back in time to help Ruby read because Duffy knows how important it is to be able to read.

Meeting Duffy

Singing with Duffy

Duffy's amazing time machine

Drawing Bubbles with Kid pix

Today we began using Kid pix by learning how to draw a circle and close it up tight like a bubble.  We had to go into the colour swatch, choose a colour and then a pencil before using the mouse to make a bubble.  That was the tricky part but we all had a turn and managed to draw some beautiful bubbles.

"I made lots of bubbles on the computer.  I was practising making bubbles that were closed."  Dictated by Marius

Marius drew plenty of bubbles.

Jin drawing his bubbles.

Reading Activities on an iPad

Marius, Jin and Charlotte were able to do their reading activities on an iPad.  They had to find the text in their reading book.  The clue to help them was a small part of a picture which they matched with one in their book. After finding the correct page it was down to work of sequencing the text correctly on their iPad and read it out to see if it made sense.  Marius, Jin and Charlotte did a good job working as a team to help each other with the tricky steps

Charlotte finds the first word.

Jin and Marius discuss what comes next.

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