week 6 term 4 2014

week 6 Swimming Tuesday afternoon.....next 3 Tuesdays!
kupu te wiki- aporo - apple

Blend for the week pl

week 4 and 5 term 4 2014

week 4 and 5

the term is rushing by!!! next week we have our junior show .....dances and singing from each of the new entrant/ year 1 classes.The times for the show are:

Wednesday 12 November 2pm- 3pm and Thursday 13 Nov  6.30 pm to 7.30pm .Please check you children's bag for a notice about this! Children need to be in the classroom on Thursday evening by 6.10pm

I made an error and have now corrected the times!

For our dance we need the boys to be in white shirt and dark trousers and the girls in black short leggings and plain black T shirt...we have made little skirts for the girls.

Thursday this week we have the Jump Rope for Heart .....sponsorship is due on the day and we will be running skipping events fron 11.20am through until lunch time....whole school activity.

swimming begins week 6! 18, 25 November at 2pm and 2 and 9 December 2pm.

kupu te wiki
- inu     He inu māu? Would you like a drink?
- Otautahi- Christchurch

bl blend

week 3 term 4 2014

week 3 term 4 tena koutou katoa

teacher only day Tuesday
We enjoyed the privilege of a full day at Whakarongatai Marae on Tuesday this week. A wonderful learning and sharing experience with Waikanae school. Finding out about our place and the history and korero ...stories about Waikanae and the 3 iwi of our area was invaluable learning .
So......
...a short week ....
 ch is our blend and poem focus.

kupu te wiki- homai
Homai he inu māku. 
Give me a drink [please]. 

week 2 term 4 2014

week 2 term 4 2014

blend for the week

kupu te wiki - marama - moon Ka whiti te marama i te pō. The moon shines at night. I will be away on a professional development day on Thursday this week......we are visiting schools in the Hutt Valley. Next week is a teacher only day on Tuesday where we are going to our local marae with Waikanae School staff.

enjoy Labour weekend and have a safe time!

week 1 term 4 2014

welcome back to term 4 2014

So much happening this term so keep watching this space for updates. 

Children's work will be increasingly added to our pages and they may also get to do their own publishing on the blog like week 10 term 3.

We will be doing clay creations this term and also we have a mini production which will show case the children's dancing skills!

Our sounds for each week will be a digraph ( two sounds together) 

...so week 1 is....".th"

try this for fun......

http://www.starfall.com/n/skills/th/play.htm?f

week 10 term 3

week 10 term 3 2014

kupu te wiki- awa- river
Ka whakawhiti tātou i te awa i te wāhi whāiti.
We’ll cross the river at the narrow part.

food of the week - rice

Our visit this week to the new bridge over the Waikanae River

A big thankyou to the parents who helped

 read our cool stories!
We went to the Waikanae River and we saw a crane. We saw a steel flower and I went with Finn and I heard a pirate song.

By Journey

We went to the new bridge and we went to see the crane. It was BIG!

By Maggie

 We went to the Waikanae River and we saw a bridge being built. The crane built the bridge.

By Kyle

 We went to the Waikanae River and we saw a crane. We saw a steel flower and I went with Finn and I heard a pirate song.

By Journey

 We went to see cranes and we went to Waikanae River and it was a trip there. The men will build a bridge.

By Tyler

We went to see the work builders at the Waikanae bridge and we saw a digger.

By James

 I went to see the crane at Waikanae River and its name is Roseanna!

By Nikitah

We went to the river. I saw a crane.

By Kiana

 I went to see the new bridge and I saw it being built.

By Lachie

I went to Waikanae River and saw the bridge being built. I liked it. The crane moved.

By Arna

 We went to see the crane at Waikanae and I saw some workers building the bridge over the river for some cars and trucks. And there were tall cranes.

By Manaia

I went to see the Waikanae bridge being built and fifty trucks of concrete fill up the steel piles.

By Finn

I went to the bridge being built and it was fun.

By Michael.

week 8

Week 8

ed endings
kupu te wiki niho----teeth
food of the week - cauliflower


rhyming words...let's talk lots about rhyme..make games with the children...play competitions on rhyming words....hear the same sounds....have fun with rhyme.
DOUBLES.....1+1
2+2
3+3
4+4
5+5
6+6
7+7
8+8
9+9...............know these as fast as you hear them!
numbers to 10 .....2+8, 3+7 etc finger play and counting fingers up plus fingers down to 10
Dice patterns.....board games are great for learning the dice patterns quickly.
Count backwards and forwards from ANY number to 30
We are doing 3x2  and more as....three groups of 2....make and then write.

We are saying 15 bugs....3 bugcatchers....how many in each bug catcher ? and then ..... 15 fairshared between 3 and written as........15÷3= 5 ( you can try this with all sorts of other scenarios!)

we are going to see the new bridge under construction next Tuesday at 11.30 am....please send your form in if you can help with transport...

sorry this is late this week!
Study ladder is up to date with the whole class on the register...try it by going to the page at the top of the blog home page.