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Show and tell.

In music we are learning to listen so to introduce this essential skill whilst the weather was good, we went on a listening walk and drew what we heard on our whiteboards.

Great focus!

One of the sounds we heard was the flax leaves being collected up and rustling.

Our letter this week was 'p' so of course we needed to make, feel and taste this in order to describe it in our writing.

Yum!

Many of my lovely class are learning to write their names.

Time for some play dough together, sharing and chatting.

Jayden knows he is cutting out the number 4. 

Counting together and matching numbers to groups. Emma is helping Miecke beautifully.

Time for our K.I.T (Keeping In Touch) work to go home to our families.

Rate came on his first visit.

Emma has filled up her third sticker chart!

Miele was on a visit and was writing her name.

Beau is learning to write his name too.

So is Jayden!

I was so very excited to read this sentence written by Ewan without help . Mum and I have a racing car!

In Discovery Time we were working on our collages together.(My husband is putting these up on our foyer wall as I write - do come and see them they are awesome!)

Playing with friends using the plastic chains - many dogs and cats were taken for walks this morning!

Miecke has started school too.

Ewan made a trumpet!

Alex loved his mask.

Beau made a mask too - again, come and see the documented comic life pages on our foyer wall.

Bella was so excited to finish her second sticker chart!

During maths we were discovering how to make patterns with the same number of pieces of play dough..

George our lovely soft toy is the special helpers friend in the afternoon story time.

Homework certificates - given for the first excellent homework in the alphabet book every term. Well done, chaps!

We have some brilliant new Yolanda Soryl resources and here the children are learning how to use the Smart Boards and the phonemic awareness games.

Haylie loves this!

Sol helped Jayden so kindly and patiently.

NEXT WEEK we are off to see the Kindy on Tuesday morning and Wednesday morning at 11.30 is our cross country event. Do come and support your child.
ALSO - very important...

We are redefining the values of our school using the GROW aspect of our motto 'together we learn, together we grow.' We would very much appreciate your input to decide on what each letter of the acronym should stand for. Click on this link to access our blogspot to vote! Thanks.

http://birchwoodpb4l.blogspot.co.nz/

Star of the week, week three in Ngaio 2016 Term 2.

Sol is our star this week as he is incredible accurate when asking and answering questions related to everything we do in Ngaio class! He is learning excellent waiting manners and he always so kind to others, finding things they have lost and helping them understand new topics. He is excited by his learning, keep this up Sol, it is great to talk with you.

Week two in Ngaio, second term 2016.

Beau was delighted to begin school. Welcome Beau.

Welcome to our record of our second week in Ngaio class since the Easter break, gosh, it has flown by hasn't it? We have a super class and some new faces for you to meet this week.

Ewan brought his fire engine to school for show and tell - his dad said if he could carry it, it could come and guess what? He could carry it, much to his parents' surprise! What a fabulous toy!

Kobie brought her cat which then had three kittens on the mat!

Look at our super sharing things this week!

Mrs Savill bought some new toys and this dolly is one of them, the class voted to call her Chloe.

Jayden started school on Monday too, welcome to you as well, Jayden.

On Monday afternoons we join up with the older children in Room 10 for maths games, a great opportunity to learn from each other.

Bella and Kobie are hard at work on their Core 5 programmes

Ewan  and Zane were making up a design together with pegs.

Maddie came on her first visit and was so chuffed to be with us!

Twice this week we were fortunate to have hockey coaching, we joined with Room 3 Pohutukawa for this opportunity.

We learned to play Creep Up Jack.

Anita came on three visit this week, she is already five and has come from Mapua school, she starts with us on Monday next week, welcome Aneisha.

Our story we shared with the Kindy was I Spy and we used teddies and duplo blocks to learn about positional language.

This teddy is on a block. We also showed our teddies under, behind, in front of, next to and in!

Building is great! we have a Creation Station in class for things we make that we want to continue with, show other people or come back to another day.

Wow Kayla and Alex have another piece of writing for their K.I.T (Keeping In Touch) books. 

Ewan has a super piece of writing to share at home too.

Learning to 'turn and talk' - sharing ideas.

Emma is threading her numbers.

These boys were making a complex number line through the table legs!

Sol has spotted an error - can you?

Bella has K.I.T book progress to share at home too.

Lastly some homework certificates to share - these children all worked on 's' last week and cut and pasted pictures into their alhabet books, all of things beginning with out letter of the week.
This week our letter is 'i; now that's a tricky one, you may only find ice-cream pictures!

Super homework from Kaden....

....and Emma...

...and Kobie!

In maths we have been learning all about sequencing events and time. The children know about night and day, yesterday, today and tomorrow and can almost all sequence events of a day. Please talk about this at home with time and encourage 'before' and 'after' language in addition to using the days of the week. Thanks so much, see you next week!