Week 7

The way this term is going so quickly is extremely scary - there is really only 2 more full weeks of school left for this 2012 learning year.

We have been very busy trying to construct bridges that are long enough but also tall enough to get the Gingerbread Man over a river safely, the children have been so intent on finding the best way that they and their buddy can achieve this. This is part of our learning about length for Maths.

This is the last formal week for reading. We will continue to do reading but with the Big Books, no readers will come home. If you do happen to find ant readers lying around, we would love them returned.

Library books are also due back by the end of this week.

Enjoy your week
Annette

Week 5

Danika and Anahera handpainting birds on their hands at JET time.

The children have all been working very hard with their learning, everyone is making great gains with their progress, well done everyone.
Last week we looked at the stories of Joy Watson, the children enjoyed looking closely into her books and especially the Grandpa series. They designed a new shirt for grandpa to wear at the beach etc. On Friday we looked at her story - Zita the Zebra- we then pencil sketched an elephant and invented a name for our elephant that could be put into the story.
 This week we will look at the stories and amazing illustrations of Gavin Bishop.
Our maths learning will continue with maths changeovers for number.
Our sound of the week is the three letter blend "scr"
Our word of the week is "yellow"


An umbrella to help a kiwi to fly?

Marshall with his amazing domino track.



Have a great week.
Annette

Week Four

It is getting so scary how fast the weeks are flying past - we are almost half way through the term.

This is also Mr Jones last week with us before he returns to Massey In Palmerston Nth. We wish him all the best with his future teaching career. It has been great to have him working with children at our school.

Last week was such a busy one with the seniors PRep market day being held on Friday. All of Room  4 had an amazing time and a huge amount of money learning took place - no teaching about money can beat having a real life experience with deciding how far the money they had earnt could go.


Tai and Marshall waiting to spend their Bled dollars.



Abby spent some money throwing water bombs at Mr Jones.


 

We completed our pictures for the PTA card/calender fund raiser. These pictures are now being displayed on our wall.

Jorja and Madison had fun spending some money  - they went into the dance tent.

This week we have "every" as our word of the week.
Our sound of the week is "wr"

Have a great week.
Annette

                                           Anahera and Dylan with there wallets and purchases.