We have been learning about some different breathing when our body engines our beginning to speed up or running too fast. 'Whale breathing' really helps us when we are angry or in the red zone and 'Snake Breathing' can help to slow our engine down when we are in the yellow zone.
We can go and practise this breathing when we need to now because we have a QR code that we can scan on our iPads. On Friday we practised using these.
We read the book when 'David Goes to school.'
We made a picture of David and gave him a striped t-shirt just like he was in the book. Then we thought about what things in our classroom were really important that David would need to know if he was a member of Weka Tēina. We are going to be focussing on each of these things in our class so that we all know what these look like, sound like and feel like. We will share them on our BLOG when we cover each one.
Look at our awesome David's. Well done Weka Tēina, you did a fabulous job.
Each week when we learn a new sound we have been searching for something at home that starts with this sound and taking a photo of it. We have put our photos together into a pic collage that we keep on our sound wall.
Great searching Weka Tēina, you are taking some awesome photos.
Milo monkey's pic collage
We have been learning about how our body is like an engine. Sometimes our engine runs fast, sometimes it runs slow and sometimes our engine runs just right.
We use colours to show how our engine is running. Blue is slow, Green is just right, Yellow means our engine is starting to speed up and Red means our engine is running too fast.
Different feelings and emotions change the speed of our engine. Sometimes they change to different speeds for different people.
Today we played Bingo. It was lots of fun. Joy modelled an emotion and we had to guess what it was and then see if it was on our bingo board.
We used a colour dinosaur as a counter. We used the colour dinosaur that would match how our body engine would be running.
Then we used our own marker to show how our body engine was running at the time.
We had lots of fun today. We can look at the wall in our learning space to help us sort some of our emotions. We are going to be looking at ways to help our body engine when the engine speed is not where we need it to be. We will share our ideas with you.
We met Milo monkey as part of our phonics programme. Milo loves munching on muffins. Milo monkey is helping us to learn the m sound.
We were so excited for our 1st swimming session to finally arrive. We were both excited about the bus ride to and from the pool and swimming as well. This is what we enjoyed.
It was really hard for some of us to find our own sunhat before we went out to play and lunch as alot of our hats all looked the same.
Yipee we have come up with a way to recognise our own hats quickly - we all have our very own button so that we know exactly which one is ours. Ka pai Weka Tēina - great problem solving. Can you spot our buttons? Maybe you can see a ladybug, spider, frog or turtle.
How exciting, our 1st day at school for 2021. We are all excited and ready to learn and practise all the great values we have at Kaniere School. We all look super grown up in our uniforms too. Welcome to Weka Tēina, we are going to have a great year.
