Thursday, 29 October 2015

Week 3

Room 16 have had a busy week this week.

We have been learning lots of information about the octopus and we have decided we are all a bit like the octopus species because they have big brains and are very intelligent.

Our big book had an octopus in it and we watched some amazing clips of octopus in their natural environment and in captivity.  We also saw an octopus open a closed jar to get  the crab inside.  Wow they are clever!!

We have a new wall display with some of our writing and we also made an octopus for our art.  Please come in and see it.




Seondly, we have been excited about the All Blacks versus Australia game on Sunday morning and we are all keeping everything crossed in the hope they will win.  Lots of us wore black today and the whole school got together and made a silver fern to support the All Blacks.


Finally, as part of our Maths unit we are learning to identify 2D and 3D shapes and be able to talk about their attributes and what is the same and different about them.  We joined with Room 17 and had a learning afternoon all about working with and discovering shapes.

Both classes were enjoying their learning and lots of students used fantastic problem solving skills making the different 3D shapes with the construction sticks and play dough.  We also made pictures with cut out shapes and made paint prints with different shapes.
Check out our photos:























Just a reminder that we have swimming on Monday and Spelling books are meant to come back to school on Fridays.

Have a great weekend and GO THE ALL BLACKS!!

Wednesday, 21 October 2015

Week 2

Wow!  Another school week is almost finished.

This week we have had a Big Book called Haere Atu, which is set at the beach.  The story has had lots of rhyming and descriptive names like "spotty dotty bag" and "Floppy sloppy sunhat."  We have enjoyed learning the Maori words in the book.
They are:
Haere Atu    - go away
namu            - sandfly
kia tere         - be quick
aue!              - an expression of surprise
haere            - go

We have also continued our "Rocky Shore" topic and we have written about starfish, crabs and learnt about their habitat.  We also learnt that Starfish don't have a brain and range from quite small to very very big!

We have worked hard on writing about what we are seeing when we learn about the Rocky Shore. The class were working on including lots of detail in their writing. We also sketched and dyed our pictures of crabs and added glitter for some sparkle to show the glistening water.  Here are the pictures of the stages of drawing, outlining with sharpie, dying and then putting glitter on our pictures.  Then the final result.

Our Rocky Shore trip is on Wednesday 25 November.

Here they are: