Term 4

Straight back into it this term:

starting with calendar art, 

pet and flower day

 and the cultural food festival.  

We all loved pet and flower day! The students will be bringing home their 

writing recount on their experience on pet and flower day, in their achievement books!

Sad new, our other beloved fish Silvey, past away during the holidays. So we 

have now replaced the fish tank with a pot plant, 

that I hope I will have better luck keeping alive.. 

For the Cultural Food Festival, we have been making 

Ula Lole - which are Samoan lolly necklaces given to people on special occasions. We all had so much fun making these and Kome did a great job as our co-demonstrator! 

Term 3! WOW!

Welcome back to school everyone!TERM 3 ALREADY!

We have had a great kick start to the term, with the students itching to share their holiday news and jump back into learning. 

We have had slight changes to our reading rotations and our writing program which will allow learning with other students in our class, rather than just the ones reading at the same level as ourselves. 

We are starting the term with a mini-unit on the movie Inside Out!
I went to see this in the holidays and loved it. Physiologists are claiming that this film is very
valuable to children and their growing understanding of their emotions and how to identify them and control them. We are doing work about the feeling of Joy, Sadness, Angry, Fear and Disgust, which are all characters we meet in the movie that are the 'little voices inside our head'. We have already had a great classroom discussion about times that evoke these feelings, and when they take over our 'feelings console' (seen in the picture).

There is no pressure to see the movie, but it is highly recommended. :)

learning, learning and more learning!

Welcome Teddy into our class to join Olaf and Lamb Chops!

 They make our learning fun and imaginative. We have loved giving Teddy big cuddle and we have been learning lots about how to respect the things in our classroom and how lucky we are to have them. 

We have been doing lots of hard work on our multiplication! We have been using our handy whiteboard tables to practice our skip counting and applying this to our learning of our 2, 5 and 10 times tables. Remember we don't want to be reciting the whole list, but visualizing it in our heads so it becomes "instant recall". Some great thinking going on in our class! 

Here we are working on using repeated addition to figure out an equation. understanding how the 'x' in the equation means 'lots/groups of' so we can draw this on the table and visualize it in our heads, to see how we got the answer.

ANZAC week

This week we have been learning all about the ANZACs and both The First and Second World War. 

We have created poppies to cover our wall as a 'field of remembrance'. 

Feel free to come in and take a look at them. 

our fish

Silvey&Spot 

Last term we got two new fish named Silvey and Spot. Silvey is grey and Spot is orange and white. They live with us in Harakeke. I hope my class help take care of them. (smiley face)                           (as you can see below)

                         this is Silvey                                      this is Spot

                                  

       

                                                    

welcome back harakeke!!!

Welcome Back!!!

Welcome back Harakeke. Wow the holidays went fast I can't wait to do all the fun things I have planned for us to do together this term.

 I have missed you all so much I am just so happy to be back in the class room teaching all of you again. (smiley face)     

I hope you are excited to start learning with me again this term I hope we get to do a bit more on singing this term maybe we can learn a few more songs.

                

                    I hope you had a great holiday!!!  

Highlights for term 1 2015

These are some of the highlights from term 1 2015 

As you can see (down below) Harakeke has had a really fun and exciting time this term, we have all learned new things (including me) each day.                                                            

                                                                                                              This is one of our pet fish Silvey

We did a lot of singing this term 

                                                       







This is my guitar,we use this for nearly  every song we sing!      
We sang songs like:                                                                            
3 blind jelly fish                                                                                           This is Spot our other fish
The yellow submarine
8 days a week 
(E.C.T)

                                                                           

This is one of the fun times we have had in discovery time. Playdogh is one of the activities we love playing with.                                                            
                                 

1.  My cute owl mail box                                                                                                                                                                                              

         

We all hope everyone had a fun and exciting holiday and look foward too seeing you again in term 2

                    

Kia Ora Everyone! 

We had a really exciting starting week. lots of singing and fun. We were straight into our writing which is awesome and ended last week with a massively fun Discovery Time!