Miss Bunny presents certificates

Teddy bear celebration

A day for celebration! 6 room 12 team members have learnt all their teddy bear words. We are very proud of our learners.

Teddy bear picnic

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Measurement

This week we started to investigate measurement with non-standard units.  The children brought along their Teddy Bear's to measure.  We began the lesson by comparing the Teddy Bears from smallest to biggest. 


All lined up from the smallest to the biggest.

The children then traced around their Teddy's in small groups and using unilink blocks joined them together to see how many they needed to measure the height of their Teddy. Once, the children had completed this we then compared them all to see if our first estimations were correct. Who was the smallest Teddy and who was the biggest.



Daejzon and Sam tracing Teddy.

 

Manaki and Almiji using the unilink blocks to see how tall "Fred Bear" is.

 

 

 Daejzon and Mahu working together.

Hand painting

The children got their hands into the paint on Friday!!!

Sam getting his hand ready.

George enjoying making his print.

Atupuha wanted to use green paint.

"H" - Hedgehog Friday

The letter of the week was "Hh".  To celebrate we read the Ready to Read story Hedgehog Fun.  The children then created their own "Hedgehog".

Take a look at their wonderful creations.

Choosing the ingredients.

Alexis with her "Hedgehog".

Manaki, Ellie, Sam and Dean.



Yum! Yum! Atupuha, Kalani, Max and Almiji sitting in the sun enjoying
their fruit and marshmallow "hedgehog'.



Kalala, Alexis and Ellie with their yummy "hedgehogs".

Chalk Time

A small group of children took the bucket of chalk outside.  The children had been drawing and writing when they discovered the water.  The children discovered that when you wet the chalk and then draw it was darker.  The children were very engrossed in their activity and were having great conversations.  When I joined the children they all showed and told me about their discovery.

Charlette and Daejzon wetting their chalk.

Paige showing me how the chalk writes darker once it is wet.

Ellie, Charlette, Paige and Daejzon writing with wet chalk.

Block Play

On Friday the children had the opportunity to use the resources in Room 12.  The boys have been looking forward to using the blocks and cars.

George and Manaki went and gathered all the blocks and cars.  The boys worked together discussing, planning and building their creation.  After awhile I went over and asked them what they had built.

George told me that they had built a track for motorbikes and stock cars so they can jump.  Manaki told me that the big tower is for space rockets.  The lower part of the tower smashes the cars. 

The boys certainly enjoyed their time creating.  It was great to sit back and watch the boys work together sharing their ideas.

The start of the creation.

The track and tower

Manaki telling me that the coloured blocks is a jump for the motorbikes
and stock cars.

Marble Painting

Room 12 have been exploring different ways of painting.  The children have used string, cotton buds, sponges and brushes.  Today, the children used "marbles".

We used the lid of photocopy paper box, purple, green, yellow and orange paint, white paper and marbles.

Almiji enjoyed moving the box backwards and forwards.

 Sam tipped the box.

 Charlette enjoyed watching the marbles make patterns.

 

 

The children covered the marbles in paint and using a spoon dropped the marbles in the box.  The children then rolled the marbles around the boxes making tracks.

HONK Performance

Congratulations Room 12 for your fantastic effort in the production.  Well done!!


Waiting in the dressing room before performing.



Sneak preview of the beginning of HONK.



Dress Rehearsal.