F - For Fun Friday

The letter of the week was "F".  On Friday the children made fruit salad.  They had to cut and make their own fruit salad.

Mahu cutting up his fruit for his fruit salad.

Amber's finished fruit salad.

Sam getting ready to enjoy his fruit salad.

Teddy Bears Picnic Celebration

Check out some of the photos from the Teddy Bears Picnic Celebration Day.  A great day for all!!

Manaki and Alexis in the "GLOOP".

All hands in the "SLIME"!!

Joe and Atupuha on the iPads.

George, Sam and Almiji building the train track.

Trinity enjoying the playdough.

Trinity and her family.

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".

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.