Play time

Youthtown

Youthtown have been working with us on Thursdays to improve our sports skills through fun ball games and activities...

Congratulations and Celebrations!

Well done to these tamariki at Wednesday's Assembly Award ceremony...

Construction, Music and Playdough...

Construction using Lego

                                          Selecting group songs on Whaea Janine's laptop

                                                             
                                                                    My Meatballs!!!

Quick 60 Alphabet Resource

We are using a literacy resource called 'Quick 60' now in the Junior Team.  This resource helps children connect a Letter with its sound and identify lower and upper case letters as well as words that begin with that letter in a short poem.
Today we were learning abut 'T' for Turtle, Table, Telephone, Tiger and Tadpole...

Handwriting with Squiggler

Today we used You Tube to assist with our letter formation in Handwriting, we follow Squiggler's directions and we learnt letters s-z, lower case and italic.  Squigglet makes it fun with magic writing pens and rhyme.

There are pictures of three things that begin with that letter so we can build up more letter/phonic knowledge in a fun interactive way.  We used the whiteboards and began with the whole date after identifying the day, date and month on our class calendar.

To try Squiggler at home with your child click here to begin on the Letter Aa :)

Blue Whio Duck and Stoat visit...

Yesterday we had a visit from the Department of Conservation education officer Krysia, she brought in a Blue Whio and a Stoat and told us about how the Stoat which is a pest they are trying to trap, kills the Blue Whio Duck out in the wild. 

We were fascinated with its sharp teeth and then she read us the story of Whetu the Blue Whio who escaped a Stoat and got lost, then found a mate in the river.  Later on in the year we may visit the Troat Hatchery and see the Blue Whio living there.  The children are learning about the significance of our native wildlife and how DOC are taking care of these special birds/manu.

Later on in the day we coloured in a picture of Blue Whio ducks to enter a colouring in competition and maybe win a prize!

Free play day...

Today we had a free play day like we were at Kindergarten because we all agreed we missed Kindergarten days!  Whaea Janine took these pictures of our reations and activities as we chose from the learning areas set up in Room 3...