We made a reading hut

Each day we finish our online learning with listening to a story. On Friday we were lucky enough to hear two stories. Our challenge in the morning was to make a reading hut they we could use to listen to the stories in. Our class really enjoyed making our huts to do our listening in. Have a look at the huts we created.

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.

The Matific competition has begun

Today was the beginning of our Matific competition. Our whole school is taking part in the competition which involves students from New Zealand and Australia. The competition runs for 48 hours, 2 days. We were very excited about beginning today. We are staying focussed and working hard on our math.

Jasper, Maisy and Cooper were busy counting flocks of birds that flew past with their binoculars.

Logan was helping to build a brand new spaceship.

Angus was at the circus with the acrobats.

Emma was counting to see if there were more bees or flowers or the same number of each.

Sienna was on a safari counting the different animals she saw.

We were so busy and engaged and doing some great math thinking. We were able to dress up today too as a Matific monster if we wanted to. Here are some of the students and Mrs King our Principal in their costumes.

Don't they look awesome.

We have a new boat at school

This week we were bubbled out

Our shared big book this week was Bubbles.

We wrote stories about floating in a bubble.

Then we decorated our published stories by blowing bubbles out of water, paint and hand soap and pressing them onto our paper. We were all lucky we knew how to blow through the straw instead of sucking.

We have hung up our bubble stories in the class to share them with others.

We finished off our bubble week by reading our big book together all by ourselves.