Congratulations...

Congratulations Kody on reaching 100 nights! We are very proud of you and all your good work.

Take a look at this week's star...

Take a look at this week's star of the Junior Assembly:

Congratulations Tatenda on your quick and accurate adding and subtracting.

Artists in the making!

Today in Art we were exploring sketching with artists pencils. We explored different ways we could use the pencil... 'shouting' - dark marks, 'whispering' - light marks, shading - dark to light or light to dark, smudging and many more ways:

Then we had a really close look at a variety of farm animal pictures - photos, books and toys. We tried to use our new pencil sketching skills to sketch a (realistic) farm animal.
Can you see where our pencils have 'shouted'...'whispered'...shaded or smudged?

We're so proud of you...

Well done...

Ti'a received her certificate at Junior Assembly for being a caring and kind friend...


Hannah received hers for fantastic reading...


Samuel's is for balance and skills at PMP...


and 3 more awesome readers have achieved their next home reading milestone!
Well done to all of you!

The Farm

We used KidPix to make a farm. We used a farm background, added animations and stickers, and recorded our voice. All our KidPix pages have been put together as a movie -here is our movie...

Number Boggle

Today we played "Number Boggle" to learn and practise our basic facts for 10. We played with a partner, and had to look quickly for vertical, horizontal or diagonal numbers that added to 10.
Here are a couple of our attempts......

Perhaps you might like to play at home too - print off the 4x4 grid, grab a pencil and go!
(Just click on the 'More' button below and select print)

More Stars

We are so proud of you 3! Hannah, Samuel and Ti'a received their certificates at this Friday's Open Morning for reading, PMP and being a helpful friend.

Look at these fabulous readers...

Congratulations to both Benjamin and Juliana who have reached 100 nights this week, and to Ti'a, starting her journey with 25 nights. Well done to all of you, keep up the great work!

We are proud of...

We are very proud this week of Matthew...

and Reihana...

for the fabulous effort they have both been putting into their reading - finger pointing and word recognition. Well done guys, keep it up!

Down on the Farm...

Our farming adventure is underway...to help us understand some of the ways animals can be grouped we read about Mammals, discussed what we heard, then wrote everything we could remember on post it stickies. When we put them onto our define map we had to decide if the information was relevant to Mammals or not relevant...

Then we used the relevant ideas to write a definition of a Mammal...

now we all understand what "Mammal" means!

We have learned a lot of new words (vocabulary) including the special names for the father, mother and baby animals...

And we've discussed what we get from a variety of animals - we were very surprised to learn that the leather shoes, handbags and belts are made of is actually animal skin!