Daffodil Day 2022

Today we dressed up in yellow for Daffodil Day. We brought gold coins to school to fundraise for the Cancer Society. Our school raised $370 this year!  Michele painted daffodils on our cheeks with the face paint.

Lykan's funny biscuit

We love our school lunches. Today Lykan found a funny shaped biscuit. One of his friends thought that it looked like a poppy flower. What do you think happened to his biscuit???

Fun Maths!

 Coding with BeeBots!

Richard visited our class to teach us about robots.

We learnt names for directions: turn left, right, go forwards, backwards.

First we worked out the instructions or codes on a white board.

Then we programmed the Beebot with our code.

Go Beebot! Now we see if our instructions are correct

If it doesn't work, we press Clear and try again.

We also learnt to scan a QR code on our iPads.

We found the Beebot emulator programme and different maps.

We chose a map or grid to move the little Beebot around on.

We loved our new learning and we are practising each week!

New jackets and music lessons!

Thank you to the Kids Can Trust for our warm Winter jackets! We LOVE them!

Now we are ready for the Winter rain...!

"We can play C, C, C on the ukulele..."

We can play G and A on the keyboards.

 

TUAKANA/TEINA DAY!

 Our Learning Day with Te Manga

We spent a day in the whare with an older class.

We learnt titi torea or stick games.

Some siblings chose to work together...

... and they worked happily with one another.

The big kids helped us illustrate our poems.

We illustrated the legend of 'Rona and the Moon'

We all loved our tuakana/teina day and have made some new friends!

Learning the titi torea and waiata for 'Rona' 

Titiro ki nga marama! Tino pai!

Patterning in Maths

Our maths topic for term 3 is Algebra (patterning). We have been learning how to copy and continue repeating patterns. We created some of our own patterns using unifix cubes, beads, lego and foam 2D shapes.

2D Shape Pictures

For our maths topic, geometry we have been learning to name and describe 2D shapes (flat shapes) We made pictures using coloured 2D shapes. We used circles, rectangles, squares, triangles, semi-circles, hexagons, ovals and diamonds. It was so much fun!