Financial Literacy

Today we were lucky enough to have Amy from ASB come and talk to us about financial Literacy. We learnt about ways to keep money, how eftpos  cards work, ways to earn money by doing chores and the importance of shopping around.  We all learnt a lot from this session and had a lot of fun.

Big Book

This morning we shared a big book and practiced ordering the main points in the story.  Here we working  together to discuss the main points and and to put the pictures in the right order.

SWIMMING!

Kiwi Can

On Tuesdays we go to Kiwi Can. Today we were discussing and practicing self-control. We started with a great game called 'Fast ball.' Our record for passing the ball around the circle was 15 and a half seconds.
To work on our resilience, patience and self-control, the next game involved teams of children trying to get 10 goals by shooting balls through hoops. The teams had to keep trying until they reached ten goals and it was great to hear the excitement and encouragement form teams to their team members.

Look At That Amazing Reading!

In Room 6's Reading Room we have slightly changed our ' silent reading' routine. Miss D is so proud of her class who are now able to sustain nearly 10 minutes of quiet reading. Each child gets to pick a text from their current journal. They read it independently and choose a paragraph to present. They need to know enough to be able to explain what their text was about and answer any questions the class asks them. The children present their paragraph to the class if their name gets drawn out of the cup! Everyone is so eager to share and the children have been a great audience giving positive feedback as well as areas for improvement. It also makes Miss D incredibly proud to see and the children develop from watching others present and grow in their confidence in presenting in front of an audience.

Strong Verbs

One of our writing classes have been learning about strong verbs. Words that make our writing a lot more exciting and help to make our sentences quality sentences.

Here we are brainstorming strong verbs for simple verbs like 'walk' or 'said'.

Claude Monet in Potu o a ''oaoga

Over the past week we have been looking at Monet's life and art, and especially his paintings of water lillies.

We looked at the key elements of colour, space and art. 

We used the different mediums of paint, collage and pastel to recreate our own water like master artwork.

These are some of our finished pieces.

Here are some others which are finished or still in the process of being created.

We learnt and practiced the process of choosing where we were going to place our water lilly shapes and the space needed in between to make it a balanced artwork.