Week four, term one in Ngaio class

Show and tell on Monday - Bella brought a little bird which can record your voice and repeat it back - what a hit that was!!

Zane has an amazing horn from Africa and can play it really loudly - he has a super collection of instruments, thank-you Zane!

One of our new letter sounds this week was c/k and we can sing the castanet song and play along really well now.

All about 2 - making sets of 2 with counters.

Learning about tens frames with counters.

Playing the tens game, making the number of counters to match a given numeral, the children took turns to be 'teacher' and to flash the number they chose to their friends who then made the correct pattern on the frame.

Drawing skills - we are learning to make our pencils whisper, speak and shout, do come and see our patterns - we can now stipple (make dots) and cross hatch (like a basket) and our daisies look fabulous on the wall.

Learning through play is so important and our Lego skills are incredible.

This is Ms McCauley who relieved in our room this week whilst Mrs Savill was on the planning team.

We had a cricket skills coaching session - look at Zane go!

This is Daniel, our cricket coach.

During Discovery Time we had the opportunity to use crayon and dye (our finished results are on display outside Pohutukawa class in the shared foyer space).

Ewan was a detective during dressing up.

Balancing skills on the deck with ben bags on our heads which later progressed to pots of water!!

Making K-Nex models together.

Visiting the library.

We love to read!

Kindly came to visit and brought their show and tell for our sharing time - we had the same number of visitors as in our class so a busy busy mat time, it was super!

Buddy reading with Room 7 on Thursday in Ngaio this week.

Playing with some of our literacy games, posting cards to find the beginning letter.

We have been writing all the numbers we know by heart.

Matching tens frames and numerals is great!

Exploring the Maths boxes.

Problem solving with teddies - making patterns of 3 colours.

This was our last week of swimming - no photos as I was in the water with the children, giving them confidence to come down the slide at the pool! What a great day that was!

Remember next Friday is a mufti day raising funds for Fiji after the cyclone we are dressing 'pasifika style' so wear your sarong. Have a great weekend.

Mrs Savill.