I LIKE MY MUM  TO  LOOK  AT  MY  DAD  I  LOVE  MUM  AND  DAD  AND  MY  SISTER. BY CLAUDIA

Ambury Farm

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I went to ambury farm. I saw piglets. I saw a lady milk a cow. The sheep were funny. All the girls were in my group. It was fun. I saw heaps of animals.
by Zia

Week 5

Week 5 is almost upon us and promises to be just as full as those previous! To try and keep you in the loop about all that is happening I have tried to summerise it all below.

Monday: 
I am on release so the Marvellous Mike will take the class.
Sushi Day for those that want ($4.50)
Tuesday: 
Kia Kaha show comes to Green Bay.
Sausage Sizzle for those that want ($1.50)
Wednesday:

Thursday: 
AMBURY FARM TRIP!! (Look out for a notice of what to bring on the day)
Friday: 
Assembly
Police dog visit.

Hope this helps

Naomi

Pets

We have been learning about pets for the last two weeks. We have talked and written about the different pets we have, and what pets need to live. We have had a visit from Ailas guinea pig, Pepper, and have studied Pebbles our budgie. We have had lots of learning opportunities including being able to hold and play with these animals. The children decided to create a book to share what they know about Pebbles (see the book embeded below). They talked, about Pebbles needs, held him, wrote about him and published their work on the computer. They then decided what they wanted in the picture that goes with their writing. I think they are VERY clever!

Our Pebbles Book

Pebbles

I like peddles. he is cute.
By Sako

Pepper the Guinea Pig

peppr is cute anad soft. By Hayley

Notices

Hi

What a great start we have had to our term! Please check out our amazing work!

Coming up

• Monday.... NO SCHOOL!!
• Tuesday we will have our new class pet in the room. He is a budgie named Pebbles who has been in classrooms all his life with me. We will be learning how to look after a pet.
• Tuesday is also sausage sizzle day
• Wednesday The fabulous Liz and Logan will be teaching us Kapa Haka in the afternoon, our boys do an awesome haka and our girls are learning how to use poi!
• Our class will get our photos taken by Photo Life on Thursday :)

Please remember to get your quest money in asap, the kids have worked hard finding the answers.
There will be a notice going home next week regarding our trip to Ambury Farm in week 5.

We are having some amazing learning sessions in our class. Check out our terrific tiger display in the corridor and keep listening to your kids read.

Have a fab LONG weekend

Naomi Laycock

Tiger Writing

We have been doing lots of writing about tigers.
We have planned written and published our amazing writing. We even chose our own pictures to put behind them. We think they look pretty flash! We have discovered we are amazing writers!
Check out our writing!

Tiger Environments

We decided to make some tiger environments to show our learning.
We found out that tigers need water. They love to swim so we put water in the box. Tigers need a house to keep them safe and warm if they are in the zoo so we put a house in. Tigers like hiding in the grass so we put grass in. Tigers like to climb trees and lie on rocks so we put trees and rocks in. Finally we put something in to play with. Check out our environments!

Sleeping Beauty

We told the story of sleeping beauty.
Then we acted it out!

There was a princess long ago

And she lived in a big, tall tower

 

A great big forest grew around

A handsome prince came riding by
He chopped the trees down with his sword.

He woke the princess by blowing her a kiss!

Tiger pictures

 

 

Check out our awesome tiger art!!

We were inspired by Oz our tiger we have adopted from the zoo and pictures by the French artist Rouseau.
We have also been wondering and have recorded our questions so we can find answers!

Your children are

 

Term 4!

 

Wow!!  Welcome to term 4!

What do a tiger, a budgie and a cow have in common?? They are all part of our learning this term!!

Our inquiry question for this term is:

What place do animals have in our world?

Much of our reading, writing, maths, art, ICT, and Maori will be based around this question where appropriate.

 

 

We have adopted Oz the Siberian tiger who lives at Auckland Zoo!

We will spend the first two weeks investigating tigers and the role of Zoos to protect and educate us about endangered species.

In weeks 3 and 4 we will have our very own class pet.. Pebbles the budgie! We will investigate pets, how to care for and look after our pets, their different needs and the variety of pets we have.

In week 5 we are visiting Ambury farm to see shearing, and milking as well as visiting a variety of farm animals to investigate farm animals and the important role they play in our world. Week 6 will continue this theme and will see room 10 making our own bread and butter!

Week 7 and 8 will be focussed on creating a range of products to sell at our Christmas festival.

PHEW!

A few things to remember:

• sun hats - All children must have a sun hat by the end of week 1 to protect them from the sun. I will keep these at school and am happy to supply vivids etc. for the hats to be clearly named so they don't get lost!
• calendar orders - Please put in your orders for calendars asap. Great as Christmas pressies for the grandparents, uncles aunties etc. Remember they don't stay young for long! Feel free to pop in to see their artwork before purchase and extra forms are in the office if you have misplaced yours.
• Class help - If you have a free hour and would like to help there are always heaps of things to do in our class. Listening to a reading group, helping with writing, playing maths games, helping on our trip or cutting out resources (a great job to do in front of the TV!), all offers of help gratefully received. (due to the small size of our room, no pre-schoolers please).
• Allergies - Please let me know if your child has any allergies so I can accommodate them as we will come into contact with animals and will be doing some baking. :)

keep checking the blog for updates... if you are like me and misplace newsletters, permissions slips etc the blog is a good place to check what's happening, what your child is doing (pics uploaded regularly) and please post your comments on the work, pics, etc as the kids love getting feedback!

So as you can see, we are going to have a fantastic fun filled learning term! I will keep you updated with any other events that come up.
Any questions, please see me.

Looking forward to sharing the learning adventure with you and your children.

Naomi

Rain day

I was playing im kkyras  class  becos it wos raining

Today

Me and Marley did good at the show. We did dancing and we had pictures.

My Shoes

I like my shoes because they are cool. They have a great pattern on the bottom.

The amazing show

 we                did   a  show. It was really fun. We danced to drip drop and singed. We sat nicely and sang our songs.

Update

Hi

I hope you are enjoying the blog. Please feel free to comment on the posts!
So a quick update as we move into the last week of term.

• Our calendar art is done!! Please come and have a look -makes great Christmas pressies!
• Don't panic about costumes for the show I have made them!! Please just dress your child in a blue t shirt if you have one. They get VERY hot under the lights!

• Monday - Library day (+sushi $4.50)
• Tuesday - Our Matinee :)
• Wednesday - our first evening performance please sign them in at the class at 6pm and sign them out after
• Thursday - our last evening performance please sign them in at the class at 6pm and sign them out after
• Friday - Last day of term. We will finish at 2pm

:)

I have had a fabulous term working with your amazing clever children and look forward to another fun filled learning term.

Naomi :)

Maths in room 10

Take away puzzles are tricky!

James can roll the dice and put the right
 number of fish in the bowl.
He is learning to write his numbers

Aila can write number sentences



 

Carlos can add two dice and put
the right number of fish in the bowl.
He can write his numbers to 10.




Jason is doing some adding by putting the
big number in his head and counting on!

WOW! He did it!
 




Abijah is learning his numbers to 20

 

Luke is using a 10 frame to
help him work out his tricky sums
 

YES!! He did it!

 

Wow he has taken the right
amount away

 






Jason uses his 10s frame



He takes 3 away




Awesome work!



Our awesome Artwork

We drew houses first. Then we used a vivid pen to go over our pencil. When we had done that we used dye to add colour to our city scape. We had fun trying on safety gear and posing for Naomi to take our photos. We put all our work together to make a fantastic city scape showing how people can go to school with out using a car. You can see it in the hall!

Coming to school pictures

Having fun dressing up in safety gear and posing for our coming to school display! (and calendar art)

 

 

 

Some of our learning

Here are a few things we have been up to!

 

Learning to form our letters correctly.

James making sure his a's are the right way round



Aila's a has a flick

Jason is trying to remember to start at the top

Nicolas did as many as he could!

Aila, Amy and Claudia used magnetic letters to write a sentence about Kelly Tarltons

We saw some penguins and fish. It was fun and it was freezing!

The boys were learning to work cooperatively as they played this memory game.

Jason and Carlos taking turns

James, Marley, Carlos  and Jason learning together.