We had a short week at school as two days were Easter holidays but we still managed to pack in a lot of learning - hope you have fun looking at our Blog and enjoying the photos record .
Natureland visit : What do you do when you work in a zoo?
Rooms One and Three went together to Natureland on Friday and spent the morning there learning about being a zoo keeper, how to look after the many species of animals and having 'hands-on' experiences normally reserved for children on a 'keeper day'.
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| Joel, being a monkey! |
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| Finding out about meerkats and what they need to know to survive in the wild. |
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| Thanks to lots of families for helping with our transport. |
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| Mia, just 'monkeying' around. |
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| 'Micicles' in the freezer - ask your child what these were and how did they feel to the touch? |
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| Yes, its true, I love blue tongued skinks and spent most of the morning with this one half zipped up inside my jacket. |
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| Cade experiences touching the blue-tongue with Miss Driver . |
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| Sophia and Shylah examining the stuffed polecat - an introduced species which is a danger to NZ wildlife. |
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| Christine, our zoo teacher - she was brilliant with the children. |
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| Sophia matching lower and upper case letters. |
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| Making up three letter words about feelings with matching pictures |
OUR VISITORS
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| Vinny |
This week we welcomed new faces on visits..
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| Hadlee |
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| Ella |
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| Oops! This got in the wrong place - Louis meets the kune kune piglets. |
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| On Wednesday it poured with rain so we have helpers from Room 11 in our class at break - here you can see India playing a word recognition game with some of Room One and our flash cards. |
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| Sharing time on Thursdays is always fantastic. |
MAKING MUSIC - we are making up beat and rhythm patterns of our own for our friends to copy - se how much fun we have?
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| Mia, Ava and Shakana with their claves. |
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| Shylah and Carey o the two-tone wood blocks, having a ball. |
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| Max and Louis making music with their castanets. |
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| Evie and Ruby shake their maracas to a rhythm of their own making. |
We welcomed Carey and Ruby officially to our class in whole school assembly this week and look forward to welcoming Evelyn and Kaylee next week. Having said 'good-bye' to Kobe, Jayden, Cade, Sofie and Leon who moved up to Room 3 it has given us space to welcome new faes. The following week we will be having Xavier, Talei and Hadlee also in Room One.
NEXT WEEK
Monday - The Kindy children who will soon be five join us for story time on the mat, then we explore the Life Educatioon bus for the first of our two sessions this week. We will be painting our favourite animal or experience from Natureland ready to show in Whole School Assembly on Friday!
Tuesday - Mrs Eades will begin teaching us until the end of term (it is likely there will be no Blog entry until the holidays).
Wednesday - Second Life Education bus visit for Room One and Library this morning - please remember your book bags and to bring your book back in order to exchange it for a new one!
Thursday - Wheels days are Thursdays, please feel free to bring a scooter to school today and it can be ridden on the back court at lunch break - no scootering on the walkways though. Buddy reading with Room 7.
Friday - Whole School Assembly at 2.30pm and we will be showing our paintings so do come and join us if you are free!
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