Discovery Wk 6

This week for discovery we were focusing on RESPONSIBILITY.

One way we can show responsibility is by taking care of the things that we choose to use.
That means we
- use the things properly.
e.g. not hitting playdough with the container lid because it might crack and break.
e.g. not throwing building equipment around.
e.g. only using the scissor to cut paper we are supposed to be cutting.
- put away the things we use.
- not snatching or grabbing things of other people.
Comment: That is not respectful.
e.g. it could break or rip it.

Some of the activities we had this week were:

• Construction - Mobilo and Blocks
• Chalk outside (We did some really awesome pictures but Miss R forgot to take a photo of them... oops)
• Playdough (We did a great job of being responsible at this activity!!! An another oops though on the photo... it was a busy session.)
• Pastel and Dye (We used white pastel on white paper to draw a picture and then painted it with dye. It appeared like magic.)
• Dress Ups (We had to be extra responsible with this because Ms Jury let us the dress ups. Thank you Ms Jury.)
• Paper craft (We got to make lady bugs. Miss R wouldn't tell us how to make them, so we had to figure out how to do it ourselves. We were super resilient and two of us figured out how to do it!)
• We also had fun creating butterflies for ART but thats a work in progress!

Literacy: Rain Poetry/Umbrella Art

Our rain poem was inspire by all the rain we had during the flood week. We liked how each sentence started the same way except the last sentence.

We decided to create our own poem. We got into groups and created a sentence each, then we all came back together and chose the once we like the best. Here is the we made as a class.

Finally we made our own poems. We were going to put them in our poem books to take home but then we got a super idea of putting on our wall. So we created a rain background (cloudy/stormy) and hung them up in our classroom.

Maths - Tens Frames

And sightword

For the last two weeks we have been practicing how to spell 'and' and because of the rain we couldn't do our poem until this week.

Go & Can Sightwords

Today we are learning to spell two new sightwords 'can' and 'go'.

This is how we sing our go song... isn't it catchy???

Don't forget to practice our can song too!!

Music with Room 1

Today Room 1 joined us for Music time. There we so many of us but we did an amazing job!!! Here are some songs we did using the instruments.

T-Shirts

Maths About me

Interesting Eyewear

On Friday, some lucky kids got to make a nosey disguise. Can you guess who we are?

Buddy Class - Sign Language Week

On Wednesday we visited our buddy class in Room 27. We spent some time getting to know each other.

We also worked together to figure out how to sign our names in New Zealand Sign Language.

Here are some of our attempts.

The Giant Walk

As part of Road Safety week, our school participated in the 'Giant Walk'. Our buddy class joined us and helped us stay safe on our walk. 

We were very tired and hungry after our long walk but we had a great time! 

Special thank you to Poppy & Dylan's mum and Summer's mum for coming with us on the walk to help us stay safe.

Learning about the expressway

Today Max's mum came to talk to us about the express way. Her job is all about keeping the people who working on building the express way safe.

This is a traffic cone. Its big and orange so its easy to see. It is nearly as big as us.

This sign is used to keep us safe. We need to STOP when they show us the red side. We can GO SLOWLY when they show us the green side.

Here is Rory all dressed up in the safety gear.

Meet the official SUPER TEAM 7!

We are very excited to have 6 talented kids joining our class.  This brings our class to 24 year 1's. We have 11 girls and 13 boys.

Here is a picture of our class of superheros.

Road Safety

NZ Sign Language

This week is New Zealand sign language week. If you would like to learn more sign language check out our page. We are going to try and learn some sign language this week too.

http://superteam7.blogspot.co.nz/p/alphabet-this-is-how-alphabet-should.html

Bag pipe

When the bag pipes started playing, we wanted to go and listen. Neve hear the big drum first. We all hear the big drums. We all wanted a turn on the instruments except Ella but only some of us got a turn.

"The bat thing felt spongy when you held it." said Max

"It felt like there was wind coming out of it." said Dylan

Rory said "It felt a little bit cold."

"It felt like air was coming out of it." said Poppy.

"When I was bang it it felt like I have hammering a piece of wood. I could hear it in my ear. It was hurting my ears." said Olivia.