Honk practise

Dress Rehearsal
We have been very busy practicing for our production. We look cool in our froggie outfits. Thanks to our Whanau for supporting our production of Honk.

Honk!!

Ribbit!  Ribbit!

The children have been practicing really hard for the school production "Honk".  Today, we had a dress rehearsal in our costumes.  What beautiful frogs!!!

Fun Run

Today, was the annual Mayfair School Fun Run.  The children are placed in Houses - Kowhai, Rata, Matai and Totara.  The children wore their house colours to school to get into the "friendly competition" between houses.  This was the first fun run for Room 12 children.  Some children were a little nervous but did really well.

Daejzon, Atupuha and Manaki are in Rata House.

 Sam is in Matai.

 Ellie is in Kowhai.

Joe, Alexis and Charlette are in Totara.

 Joe was very proud of himself.  Well Done, Joe!!

Ellie and Briar cheering on Kowhai runners.

 

An awesome afternoon.

Visit from Mayfair Kindergarten

 Max and Leon enjoying their school visit.

 Spending time with old and new friends.

 Exploring their new environment.

 

Today, we had a visit from Mayfair Kindergarten. We met the new children that will be coming to Room 12. The children enjoyed seeing and spending time with their kindergarten teacher.  The children enjoyed telling Leigh all about school.  Room 12 children enjoyed showing the new children the wonderful sandpit.



Fire! Fire! Fire!

Today, the children had a visit from the Hastings Fire Service.  The children learnt about the difference between tools and toys.  What they should do if they find matches/lighter.  The children also learnt about what they should do if there is a fire.

Get down
Get low
Get out FAST

Paige getting down, getting low and getting out FAST.

 The children learning the importance of knowing their street number, street and the city they live in.

 

The children enjoyed the morning and learning about keeping themselves and others safe.  This connects to our unit Whakakotahi.

Sight Words

A part of Room 12's literacy programme is to learn the basic sight words.  The purpose of learning these words is to gain a solid foundation for reading/writing.

Congratulations to Atupuha who has been working very hard to learn all the words.

Atupuha has successfully completed learning the basic sight words!


 

Letter "Aa"

Mixing the crumble.

Joe is enjoying mixing the crumble mixture.

Daejzon adds his magic stir.

Kalala enjoying the final product.

 

The Letter of the Week - "Aa"

To finish the week off the children made Apple Crumble to celebrate learning about the letter "Aa". 

Frogs!!!

Mayfair School is performing the story "Honk" as a whole school production.  The Awesome Acorns are playing "Frogs" in the production, this has created interest in the topic.  As a classs we brainstormed the topic.  We then researched the topic by reading books.  The children learnt what "Amphibian" meant. It also generated some further questions the children want to investigate.

Sponge Painting

Manaki using the sponge to paint his alligator.

Ellie enjoying sponge painting.

 

The children have been exploring different tools to paint with.  They have used cotton buds, string, droppers and on Wednesday they used small pieces of sponges.  The children dabbed,twisted, turned and wiped using the sponge.

String Painting

Charlette and Atupuha having a go at string painting.

Paige and Daejzon are enjoying creating their marks.

Ellie and Kalala creating their paintings.

The children are painting using string.

Life Education Caravan - All Together

Room 12 went on there second visit to see Harold on Friday.  The children have been learning that we need to co-operate with others so we can grow together in a happy, safe environment.  We discussed that we are all special and unique and need to look after ourselves and others. 

On our second visit to Harold he asked us to look after his puppet friends, making sure they are happy and healthy through ensuring the basic needs are met (food, water, oxygen, shelter, exercise, washing, sleep, love and safety).  The children watched a short story which emphasised that everybody is special and needs to be looked after.

Manaki and his puppet friend.

Daejzon and his puppet friend.

Ellie and Harold.

Teddy Bear

Teddy Gram Note Generator

Play dough

This afternoon the children helped to make a new batch of play dough.  The children decided they wanted "Yellow" play dough.  Play dough is a wonderful tactile experience for children.  The children rolled it, squeezed it, poked it, squashed it and patted it.  Working play dough with their hands helps develop their large and small muscles and aids eye - hand co ordination.  It helps improve fine motor skills which is beneficial to daily activities.

The play dough helps to foster co operative play and communication skills as the children were discussing their creations.

Daejzon made a snake.

Kalala

Ellie's flower

Manaki's Monster

I Friday

Engaged in iPad learning.

Ellie exploring a literacy app.

The children have been learning the letter "Ii".  Today, the children were introduced to the Mayfair School iPads.  The children explored literacy and numeracy apps.

The children celebrated learning the letter "Ii" with making an Ice Cream Sundae.  Yum!  Yum!

 Yum!  Paige, "That was delicious!"

 Daejzon, "I have 13 M&M's."