Salamander

The BFG

How to climb a ladder

Gardening with Mrs Martyn

We were really pleased to have Mrs Martyn in the Matai Hub today to help us transplant some of our seedlings into the tubs and pots that people have provided for us.  We were very aware of the safety precautions when working with potting mix.  Mrs Martyn told us all about seedlings that need to grow in a hot house and ones that can be planted outside.  You can come and check out our pots all planted outside the Clearing.

Look out - writing alert!

Here is a snapshot of some amazing writing that was spotted by Miss G. Enjoy.

Gardening

Ben & Amy write a book

We hope you enjoy this wonderful book. It is aimed at beginning readers.

Ben's retell

WALT retell stories
Success criteria
-characters
-setting
-problem
-solution
-events in order.

We read a book and drew pictures to help us retell the story.

Ben's maths

WALT that the equals sign means 'same as', so a number sentence can be rearranged as long as it balances (like on a seesaw).

We are also learning about families of facts.

Matisse

WALT 'draw with scissors' like Matisse did. We had to think about colour, shape, space and use fine motor skills to cut the shapes out.

We were inspired by a bush walk through our school gardens.

Ben

My retell about Nelson the elephant.

The Dragon Flies

We had to pretend to be the dragon and describe 'ourselves'. We published our stories by reading them out loud.

I used green screening to create this video.

Our Reading

We are learning to read smoothly by attending to punctuation. We read some text straight from the book and retold some of it.

Ben's Independent Action Station Writing

Ben reading...

We are learning to read smoothly by reading through a word and using the punctuation to help us read it.

The Diamonds Read Trampoline Bounce

Puppet planning

Here is our puppet planning. We worked hard to do this before we made it into a 3D model.

Frations

Fr
We were learning fractions. We were learning to see how many groups we had.

Ben's Photo on Monday, 31 August 2015

We were very lucky to visit the museum in Invercargill and touch the tuatara.  Here are some interesting facts I found out.

Our wharenui

We are learning about the wharenui on a Marae. After talking about the different parts, we went and tried making our own structure with all kinds of materials.