Weeks five and six in Ngaio class.

Ewan filled his star chart just before heading off to room 3.

This week, I have put two weeks of life in our class into one blog post as week five I was mostly away sick (hence not many photos) and then last week, week six, was a very short week due to Queens Birthday weekend and a Teacher Only Day on the Tuesday. Enjoy!

We had such excitement as I had visited a charity shop nd bought two bags of new toys for my class. Here you can see them waiting to be told to open their eyes to look at what I had found! (Some were too excited to wait, however)

Everyone was encouraged to find something new to explore.

Each new toy was then the focus for today's writing...

Vince and Zane trying out a new dominoes with triangles.

Discovery time on Wednesdays always has the opportunity to make something with equipment whether that is mobilo,
K-nex, lego, duplo or  polydron.

Naleah made an elephant
 family.

Writing cards to our loved ones - a great reason for writing.

Jayden loves creating.

Postcards to our friend Imogen who was at our school earlier this year, or was it last year? 

Time to leave Room One for the next class - 'bye Bella.

Good-bye, Emma!

'Bye Ewan!

'Bye, Zane!

Ka kite, Clinton.

Haylie has already filled her first sticker chart in my class.

Maddie is holding the new book we all contributed to, it tells other children what to expect when they come to join our classroom, each page is made by a child in Ngaio class with their own idea of something a new child needs to know.

Maddie started school last week...

Waiting for the helicopter to arrive...

Here is Isla, she won a colouring competition organised by Westpac and won a trip to school in a helicopter - it was her birthday too!!

Discovery last week, we made helicopters from straws.

The children made a school - it was closed until the prices had been written on the labels of course.

Miecke chose a puzzle.

Aneisha is learning how to skip.

I was delighted by he games the children came up with using the hoops. What superb co-operation.

Kobie loved making her propellors turn .

Opening time..

..or not??

The sandpit was turned into a volcano range.

Mr Butterworth celebrated his 60th birthday so every class visited him during the day and added another scarf around his neck. In case you are wondering about the hair and beard.... that was what he used to look like in earlier years!

Library time.

Rate started school this week.

Alex and Kayla taking home their K.I.T books with their super writing progress. (Keeping In Touch)

We were so fortunate to have Nicolle from Stoke Montessori with us last Thursday, she came to observe but loved joining in.

Kobe brought a doctors set to show and tell on Thursday.

We have been learning to solve number problems and here you can see our ducks at Isel Park. If you would like to find out more, come and view our Maths books.

Mrs Lawrence was teaching when Mrs Savill was on CRT and here you can see Miela explaining her understanding to the class.

NEXT WEEK we start gymnastics.
Monday - Show and tell, Kindy visit us, we go to Levity Beat and we have visitors from another class sharing their Matariki learning with us.
Tuesday - Tahlia is on her first visit.
Wednesday - Ms McCauley is our teacher, Mrs Savill is on a PB4L course, library day too so remember to bring your book back in order to get a new one.
Thursday - Show and Tell plus New Entrant parent meeting so Mrs Lawrence will be here early for the first part of the day.
Friday - We are doing writers spot in assembly with Room 3! Two of our children will share their stories.

Star of the week, week six.

Beau is our super star this week as he always has such a great attitude to everything we do in Ngaio class. He is happy, engaged, enthusiastic and very keen to share his ideas with others. He is a real 'can-do' student and I am thoroughly impressed by the way he applies his understanding. Ka Pai, Beau!

Week four in Ngaio class.

Welcome to our blog, albeit a little later than normal (sorry, I've been, and still am, sick!)

Here you can see our wonderful 'Show and Tell' sharing time which we have every Monday and Thursday morning as an opportunity for oral language. It's always really interesting to hear the children talking together and exploring each other's interests.

As part of our health unit we are learning how to keep safe and avoid spreading germs! This is part of the Kleenex 'Sneeze Safe' programme and the children are showing the 'glitter germs' spread from one hand to another by simple everyday actions! We have learned to "Trap it" (our sneezes, in a tissue) "Bin it" (pop the tissue in the bin, not the recycling!) and "Wash it" (our hands, afterwards). If you would like to try the glitter experiment at home simply dampen a hand , sprinkle some glitter on, then go and shake hands with a friend / hug them etc and see where the glitter goes! The glitter dots were our 'sneeze bugs'.

Mile started school this week - welcome to Ngaio, Miela.

Rate visited again and showed he is amazing with Lego.

As part of our transition process, we 'go back' to Birchwood Kindy twice a term and here you can see Jayden comforting his little brother who has only just started at Kindy. What an excellent big brother you are, Jayden!

Kobie and Haylie made caked with Sol.

Eddy enjoyed the transit with Zane.

Beau amazed himself, learning from Haylie how to be brave and become a climber.

The girls are taking turns on the spinner, i have no idea how they can whizz round and around, they go SO fast and love every minute!!

Aneisha and Miecke on the monkey bars, sharing agility ideas.

Tyre swinging.

And back for kai in our classroom.

One of our recent art projects, involving mixed media - collecting Autumn leaves for inspiration, rich language and, later, leaf rubbing and dye.

We took this photo for our class book "Something you need to know about school is..." for Kindergarten children coming to join our lovely class. Clinton and Bella were away so missed the photo opportunity..

A chance for painting in Discovery time.

Dressing up is so popular, especially using the hats and wigs.

Ewan made an intricate machine.

Nails, patiently waiting for a turn with the blue paint.

Miela was incredibly kind, offering to hold the paint for Sol in order that he could use it more easily!

Show and tell again.

Material maths, explaining to each other how we arrived at our answers when making a given number, having started with two counters already...

Play dough maths using our special mats.

Dominoes - it was really fascinating to hear the children discussing their plans how to play together.

Whereas Haylie and Kayle made a house!

Eddy decided to make the right number of balls for each numeral from his play dough, rather than form the numeral. Great thinking skills, Eddy!

Moving onto our next writing book means taking the old one home - great to see the development from picture drawing to using sounds and letters.

Ewan is delighted to be a write now! Zane is too, but less demonstrative.

Alex is on his second book as well, enjoy your old books, everyone.

Haylie did three weeks of Alphabet homework last weekend!

Clinton is taking home his best work to show his whanau.

Star of the week, week four, term 2.

Our star this week was Naleah as a result of her kindness to others. She is very quick to think of others and to compliment them on their efforts and their results, totally unprompted, which is just fantastic to see and hear. What a great start to Nagio, class, Naleah, keep up the super attitude!