Enjoying an afternoon walk

Sharing a book with Koko

Numeracy Time

At Numeracy time we have been working with numbers to 100. We have been making numbers with materials, writing and expanding numbers.  
We have been been learning to count forwards and backwards from any number up to 100 and also learning to count forwards and backwards in groups of 10.

Koko Exploring Clyde School

Today we took Koko around our school and when we got back to class we wrote about where we had taken him.  Click on the book below to see some photos and read our stories.

Tavish's Reading

Uenuku - The Rainbow

Our Rainbow Fish

We have made our very own Rainbow Fish after reading the story written by Marcus Prister called  The Rainbow Fish. We used stones, paint, foam pieces and google eyes.

My Brolly

After reading a story called 'Molly's Brolly', in which the little girls brolly takes her on different adventures, we started to wonder where our brolly's might take us.  Click on the book below to read about our adventures.
 

PLC Travel Buddy Project

On Thursday one of these special parcels arrived at our school. Inside was Koko the Koala who had travelled all the way from Australia to spend a week with us.

Koko is one of three travel buddies that have been sent off around the world by PLC School in Sydney, Australia. The children have set up a special blog so that they are able to find out what their travel buddies have been up to and learn about different parts of the world at the same time.

We are very excited about having Koko visit us for the week. 

Click on the travel buddy link above to see what Koko has been up to since she arrived in our classroom.

Briar and Maz - Writing

Great work today Maz. You have two complete sentences.

Well done Briar. You are listening so carefully to the sounds you hear in words.  Keep up the great work.

Blake's Writing

Miss Tyrrell was very impressed with your focus today Blake.  

Lexie Rose's Writing

Well done Lexie Rose. I like how you worked independently to complete a whole sentence on your own. What a super effort writing the sounds you heard in each word.  

I saw the snow on the mountain.

Lexie Rose - NE

Meisha's weekend writing

By Meisha

Some super Yr 1 Writing

by Piper Lambeth

by Bridey Sangster

Kyla's marble run

Kyla and her family made a marble run at home by using things out of their recycling bin!
Kyla's mum and brother brought it to school today to share with us all.
We got to work on making a marble run of our own on the other side of Kyla's.
A big thank you to Lisa for leading this activity and we can't wait to complete our run next week.

Sharing our classroom learning at home

What a lovely surprise I had tonight. Remi and his Mum, Anna, sent an audio message of them singing the colour song that we have been learning in class. We love when children share their learning at home. Well done Remi.

This week during guided reading Maddie, Avie, Meisha and Annie read the poem 'The Wild Wet Wellington Wind'. Today they recorded it. They tried really hard to use lots of expression. 

Making a Rainbow

We are continuing to explore colour in our classroom. We experimented making a rainbow by using absorbent kitchen towels, food colouring and water. We observed our rainbow forming as the towels absorbed the liquid. Some of the colours mixed to create different shades and colours.

Wee Willie Winkie

We have been learning and sharing nursery rhymes in the Junior Classroom. 

Nursery Rhymes are a great way to practise pitch, volume and voice inflection as well as learn about the rhythm of language. We are also increasing our vocabulary and having great fun!

Walking in the Rain

This morning some of us went for a walk in the rain to play centre. The rain drops fell on our umbrellas gently at first and then heavier. We discovered that keeping everybody dry under our umbrellas involved clever thinking and team work!
We enjoyed visiting our play centre friends and loved racing the rain water rushing down the footpath back to school.

Colour experiment

We are exploring colours in our class. Today we did an experiment with M&M's. We put them into water and watched carefully to see what would happen. We learnt that the food colouring that coats the M&M dissolves in the water. The colour from each M&M moved to meet each other. Where the colours met they became darker.

It's Raining! It's Pouring!

What a wet day it turned out to be. We are not use to all this rain her in Central Otago.  We decided to use the rain as inspiration for todays writing.   Maddie I really like the way you are carefully sounding out words. Well done Remi - super independent writing after only 3 months at school. 

Maddie

Remi

Our Imagination Playground

Can you tie your shoelaces?

This week's homework is to learn how to tie your own shoelaces.
Click on the picture below to see a 'step by step' video that will help you learn.

Special Challenge:  If you know how to do your shoelaces, then we have a special challenge for you.  How fast can you put your shoes on and tie them up?  We will have a race on Friday.

We love to Jump Jam!

We love to Jump Jam. What do you think of our awesome moves?
Thanks Miss L for getting us all energised and pumped for another super Friday of learning and fun.

Jimmy makes a Happy Clown

Jimmy read the book 'A Happy Clown' this week. He then did the most amazing job of following the instructions in the book to make his own clown. What do you think?