Sam and Charlie love Pudding

We are learning about setting. We created these dioramas to show one of the settings from our chapter book. We used clues in the story to help design it.

Cute Puppies!

All about giraffes

WALT to summarise and synthesise what we read. To do this we need to read about something, take some notes and then put away the book. Once we have done this we can write down what we have learnt.

All about Cheetahs

WALT to summarise and synthesise what we read. To do this we need to read about something, take some notes and then put away the book. Once we have done this we can write down what we have learnt.

Our emerging knowledge of life-cycles

We are learning how to write explanations. This is a shared piece of writing. We drew life cycles to help our planning as we watched the video (below).

Look out - writing alert!

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

Gardening...

Little gardens have been a source of fascination, with some students taking on the responsibility to watering and planting the seeds, then nurturing the seedlings. Here is a snapshot of what goes on!

Outside

Statistics Reflection

You demonstrated that you know how to create and interpret simple graphs, including tally charts. Your next step is to explain your thinking in greater detail.

Statistics Reflection

You demonstrated that you know how to create and interpret simple graphs, including tally charts. Your next step is to explain your thinking in greater detail.

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.

Our retell

We are learning to retell stories

Jessica's fluent reading

WALT read fluently, while attending to punctuation, and using this to help us also read with expression.

The Plants of My Aunt

I am learning to read smoothly, looking through the whole word.

Frations

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

Our Fraction Groups

Skipping

We are learning to skip on the spot in the Matai hub, and to try several different moves. Can you skip with us at home? It is great for developing our coordination.

How to help...
   (beginners): Use a piece of long rope. Remind us how to hold the skipping rope, move it over our heads THEN jump. Our feet should be glued together when we jump.
 
All levels
 - Have a skipping competition with us - who can skip for the longest?
 - Put on some cool music in the background (we added 'Battlefield' by Jordin Sparks to this)
 - Google 'Jump Rope for Heart Skipping Videos' to get inspired with some different moves.

Snow

The snow fell last night and we were left with some on the ground. The paths were very icy so the Matai hub had to stay inside all day. Lucas ventured out to take this photo and Jessica described it.