We finished our online learning with a dress up and pet sharing

We decided to finish our online learning with a dress up day. What a great assortment of dressups. We had a cow, a cat, a sherriff, a skeleton, a pirate, Ana and Elsa from Frozen, a leopard, a lion, Ariel and a butterfly. Check out the photo of some of our gorgeous characters. It was really fun to dress up.

Check out some of the pets we mwt. They were very well behaved and we enjoyed finding out about them.

Taking photos on our iPad

We had a challenge this week to take photos using our iPads.

We had topics that we could choose to take our photos about.

When we had taken our photos we needed to make a pic collage as this is one of the apps on our iPad. We learnt how to insert pictures and how to insert text and make changes to it. It was great to share our pic collages with each other. We think you will enjoy looking at and reading them too.

Shadow Power

On a lovely West Coast day we were able to experiment with creating our own shadow art. We used our shadow and any other natural materials we could find to enhance our art work. We thought our shadow art looked great and Mrs Scott was really impressed with our creativeness. Awesome work, we nailed it.

We have loved doing our handwriting at home

Even though we have been doing our learning online we have all really enjoyed continuing with our handwriting at home. We do our handwriting all together in our google meet at 12pm and Ann joins us as well, just like she does when we are at school. We have been reflecting on our work by circling the letter, sound, word or number in each line that we think has been formed the best. When we have been practising, we remember the language that Casey Caterpillar uses to form each letter or sound. On Friday at Assembly we chose to share our handwriting with the school. Ka pai Weka Teina for your great work.

We have been learning how to read time

In math we have been learning hoe to read the time on an analogue clock. An analogue clock is a clock that has hands. We have been learning about the minute hand and the hour hand so that we can read o'clock and half past times. We are learning to read these times so that we will know when it is time to join on our google meets. This is an anogue clock.

To help us practise reading times we made our own clock at home and then we took a photo of our clock showing our favourite o'clock time. Some of us gave reasons why this was our favourite time. Take a look at our clocks. Can you read the time they are showing? Can you spot the half past time?

We have been great helpers at home

As part of our daily online programme this week, one of our tasks was to be a great helper at home. We earnt dojo points for ourselves when we did this. We sent our photos to Mrs Scott and she put them on a slide that we shared each morning to show the different ways we had been helping at home.

Look at all those fantastic helpers. Well done to you all. I'm looking so forward to having you all back in my bubble when we get back to school.

Online Learning has begun for Weka Tēina

What a fantastic start to Online Learning Weka Tēina has made. It was great to see all those beautiful smiling faces online several times a day, each day this week.

We have covered so many different things. We enjoyed using our listening ears to complete a scavenger hunt. Here we are finding something blue.

Listening for and then finding a vegetable.

Great work Weka Tēina. It's great to see that you are using your ears well as part of Whole Body Listening at home.

We are all unique

As part of our  Keeping Ourselves Safe unit we looked at why we are all so unique and special.  We drew a self portrait and wrote about 4 things that we were good at.  We did a fabulous job at completing this task. Check them out......

We are at the beach or the lake for writing

We used a picture prompt for our writing this week. We live close to the beach and near a lake so we have all had experiences there. Read some our writing about what we have done there.

Computational Thinking

 

What great holidays we all had

 We all really enjoyed our holiday break. Read our great writing to see some of the things we got up to.

Matariki Art

 We completed some art work for Matariki.  We made the stars in the sky, ripped paper to make the Southern Alps and used chalk pastels to show the Southern Lights in the night sky during winter time. We then put on our Matariki star cluster. In our class we enjoy making art work. Some parts were a little tricky and we had to show our patience - especially when we were ripping the paper in the shape of the mountains and when we were cutting out the Matariki star cluster. 

 We did think our art work turned out really well and we were very proud of what we had achieved. Ka pai Wēka Teina - awesome work!!