Friday Developmental - 15th March 2013

Our leprachaun prints and our class collage rainbow!

It's St. Patricks day on Sunday, and this week Mrs Derrick has been talking about Irish things. We have done St Patricks themed maths, language and watched a clip about Irish dancing on our Interactive TV from youtube. We finished our St. Patricks day theme with some a super-sized collage rainbow, that we all created together, complete with pots of gold hanging from it. This is now proudly displayed on our wall inside Room 7.

David's leprachaun print

Taylah's leprachaun print

During developmental, we made our own Leprachauns, using our handprint. We decorated it with a smiling face, a green hat and a pot of gold to take home for our families. We also created our own collage mini-rainbow and Mrs Derrick added pots of gold to the bottom of them.

Anise carefully making her collage rainbow

Lestat and Taylah with their collage rainbows

If you ever see a rainbow - try to find the bottom of it, as a leprachaun may have just left a pot of gold at the bottom of it!

Week 6 Published Work

We have been writing stories describing who is in our families. Here is our published work that we took home to share in Week 6. Isn't it fantastic?

Friday Developmental - 8 March 2013

On Friday afternoons, our class participates in a developmental programme. 

We do a range of activities which encourage the Key Compentencies of the New Zealand Curriculum.

Some of the activities we did today were dress-ups, pastel drawing, laptops, interactive tv and iPad, puzzles.

Marcus on the Interactive TV

Shyannah, Lestat and Riley doing some pastel drawing together

Taylah completed this alphabet puzzle.

Duffy Theatre Performance

Duffy and his younger brother Scruffy.

Today our school was lucky enough to have Duffy Theatre perform for us. The actors did a fantastic performance and told us how important it was to learn to read, and that its ok to know how to read and write words in other languages as well. 

In our classroom, we have children who can understand and speak other languages such as Samoan, Maori and Chinese.

Students spelling out P O T A T O

The school watching the performance

Room 7 Students watching Duffy Loses His Words.

 

Numeracy

We are Learning To: 

• Write numerals correctly
• Play counting games co-operatively
  
  
  Here we are doing great work in Week 5.

We Are Learning To:

Our Programme of Guided Inquiry Topic study this term is Animal Habitats.

In PE we are learning Net and Wall Game Skills.

Our Arts focus is Drawing - self portraits, based on Matisse-style portraits. We are also learning a range of songs to sing in Junior Singing and Assembly including:

• Cheeky Little Fantail
• O Le Pepe (Samoan Song about Butterflies)
• Nga Tae o Nga Putiputi (Maori Song about the colours of flowers)
• School is Number One
• Nature 

In Writing, we are learning to write our names independently and to write words from Essential List 1.

In Numeracy, we are learning to count forwards and backwards to 10 and to say the number that comes before and after up to 10.

New entrants in the Pegasus Post!

Last week, we were happy to see the children who have started school in 2013 appear in the Pegasus Post newspaper. 
The children from our room were on page 2 of the paper!
They were: Riley, Shyannah, Tua, Bobby, David, Anise, Marcus, Luzchiano and Taylah.

You can view this issue of the Pegasus Post online here: Pegasus Post 25 February 2013