Term 4 - Week 4

Hi all, sorry for the lack of posts so far this term.  I can't believe we are nearly half way through the final term of the year already! In maths this week we have been working on the concept of addition, the children have been exploring this through different games and activities. Here is Malachi using the play dough to help him write an addition number sentence. He has put 4 fries on each plate and has 8 fries altogether. 

We have been playing a number game using dice as well. In this game you roll two dice to make your number sentence and then add the dots to work at the answer. Siuila and Isabelle are doing a great job. 

In PE we have been learning all about gymnastics. We now know how to forward roll safely and have got awesome jumping skills. For the first time this week we has a go on the beam and bars. We tried walking along the beam, firstly on flat feet, on then on tip toes. It was tricky to balance. 

On the bars we were trying to do big swings. Dallas is a gymnastics expert so she was able to help us. 

We also had our final tennis session with Suzanne on Monday, and as promised she brought the nets. It was great fun but very tricky trying to hit the ball over the net. The children should have brought home a letter about tennis lessons if they are interested in trying it again. We finished the session with a game of tennis ball tag. 

Term 4 - Week 2

We have been lucky this week in Room 16 to have lots of visitors. On Friday Nelson Mayor Rachel Reese came to our assembly to present Nayland Primary with the Supreme Award for the Mask Parade. She came with some exciting news that she would like some Nayland students to dress up in their costumes to show Prince Charles and Camilla when they visit Nelson. I wonder who the lucky children will be. Here she is at our assembly:

Suzanne from Tahunanui Tennis visited us and took us for a tennis lesson. The children did lots of different activities including balancing the ball on the racquet and play a game called 'Squash the Bug'. It was lots of fun and the children all learnt lots. If you want to know more about about the tennis session come and read some of our amazing writing about it. 

In PE we are doing gymnastics for the next few weeks. We have been learning how to do a forward roll safely among other things. Here are some of the children practising their jumping. We are trying to jump high off the box.

In class we have been reviewing our phonics for the last 2 weeks. The children have all been making amazing progress and know nearly all their sounds. Our letter of the week was 'd' and we made duck puppets to take home. They looked amazing and the children were all very proud. In maths we are continuing our number work - learning numbers before and after and number patterns.

Our third set of visitors for the week were dance teachers who came and taught us a very cool dance - one of them was even an ex pupil of Nayland Primary! Hopefully they will be back again next year to teach us some more moves.

I hope you all having a lovely long weekend and will be back ready for a short week on Wednesday.

Term 3 - Week 10

The holidays are here and I hope everyone is looking forward to a well deserved break. We have had an amazing term and the children have all been working very hard.

We have been busy this week getting our masks ready for the Mask Parade. The parade is on Friday 16th October (the first Friday of Term 4) and Nayland's theme is The Lorax. Each syndiacte is taking a different part of the story and Whenua are dressing as the Lorax himself. Here are the children hard at work making their masks:

We had an exciting sharing time on Monday. Cohen has Scotland as his team for our Rugby World Cup sweepstake. Over the weekend he found out lots of information about Scotland and told us all about it. Here he is with all the things he brought along. 

Patrick went to the Hope Fair last weekend and managed to knock over a coconut. He also brought it to school so we could all have a look. Well done Patrick.

We have been learning another new maths game this week and it is lots of fun. The children each start with 15 pompoms and a pair of tweezers. They take turns rolling the dice and 'stealing' the amount of pompoms they roll from the other player. The winner is the person with the most pompoms when the timer goes off. The children have been playing awesomely together and showing great sportsmanship. Well done!

Malachi worked very hard to make this amazing pattern with the peg boards. He copied it from a picture so had to look very carefully. Ka pai tō mahi Malachi.

We ended the term with our Book Character dress up day on Friday. It was great fun and our class was filled with many different characters Here are the children:

Have a great 2 week break and I will see you all after the holidays.

Term 3 - Week 9

We have had some lovely weather this week, it is beginning to feel like Spring really has arrived. The children have had a great time playing outside and are especially enjoying the sandpit. This week Room 16 has been working with Room 15 on our pallet art. The pallet will be hung in the Harakeke Garden at some stage next week for everyone to enjoy but here is a sneak preview. Can you guess what it is?

 We have been learning lots of new games as part of our maths programme. Here are Sam and Stirling playing a game called Roll, Add and Colour. The children take turns rolling two dice and adding up the number of dots. Then they get to colour in a picture with the answer in it. The winner is the person who has the most pictures coloured at the end of the game.

We have also been using the bears to make patterns. Here is Malachi with his amazing pattern of red, yellow, yellow. Super work!

Cohen, Anna and Sid have all filled another Star Chart - what an amazing attitude to learning you have. Unfortunately I don't have a photo of Sid with his chart but here are Cohen and Anna.

Don't forget we have sharing time every Wednesday in Room 16. We are working hard on becoming active listeners and asking a wide range of questions. Here are some photos from sharing time this week. There were certainly a lot of interesting things brought along.

Siuila brought these flags as she is supporting NZ in the Rugby World Cup

Sid brought his game Twister. It is lots of fun but very tricky.

Our stars of the week this week were Skyla and Alena. Alena received her award for being a great friend. She is always comforting children who are hurt or upset, well done Alena. Skyla got her certificate for amazing reading. She is working hard to learn all her red words and is making amazing progress. Ka pai!

Term 3 - Week 8

Only 2 more weeks until the holidays again, once again the term is flying by. We have been busy this week getting all the samples ready for our Sample Files which will come home before the holidays. Our calendar art is finally complete and hanging up in the class for you to look at. Here is some the the art work:

Don't forget orders need to be in at the school office by Friday 18th September.

With lots of children collecting dominoes we have set up a swap box in the class. The box is out every morning before school and the children are welcome to swap their dominoes for any they don't yet have or add any they don't need. We have had a great time playing with the dominoes, building some pretty impressive looking towers.

 As the weather is improving we have been enjoying spending some time outside. The sandpit is often open at lunchtime now and we even had a play on it on Friday afternoon.

We are also making use of the bikes kindly given to us Nayland Kindy earlier in the year. We ave 3 of these bikes and the children love using them whenever they can. We are still working on following the road rules!  

During Discovery Time this week some children chose to make origami boats and float them in the water tray. Here is Sam concentrating very carefully. We used a video on YouTube to help us, but the instructions were very difficult to follow. Next week the children would like to have a at making a jet so we will see how that goes.

If you would like to have a go making a boat at home here is a link to the clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiAWx8odStA

Here we are enjoying some oranges that were kindly donated to us.