Dad's snore - retelling with stick puppets

Our shared book this week is "Dad's Snore" by Heather Lovich. We made stick puppets of Dad and one more character of the story and then performed a mini-puppet show to each other.

Exploring Patterns in Numeracy

This week we are learning about patterns in numeracy.
We explored different kinds of patterns today and recorded this video. Look at all of the different kinds of pattersn Room 7 made.

Samatha's F

Look at the F that Samantha made and took a photo of. 

 F is our letter of the week this week in Room 7!

Triangle maths group doing Fly Flips

We have been learning to use imaging to solve addition problems to 10 

P is for Penguin (and lots of other P words!)

Our letter of the week is Pp

We made some Penguins today because Penguin starts with the letter P

Other words that begin with Pp are:

• pirate and panda - Sebastian
• pig and popcorn - Lueqis
• pizza and princess - Bella
• potato and parrot - Masi
• peas and pen - Samantha

Fun friends - making our houses using natural materials

We have been talking about how although we are all different, we do some things and have some things that are the same as others.
Here are the houses we made using things we could find under the big tree by our playground. We all have a roof and a mailbox, some of us have a tramp and a garden.

Room 7 Flower Petal Counting

We are learning to match symbols and words for numbers in the range 1-10 to objects in a set.
Here we are doing the Flower Petal activity.

First day of school 2014!

Welcome back!
We had a wonderful first day back at school. We welcome our two new students Lueqis and Masi who had a great first day at school.

 

We read 'David Goes to School' by David Shannon and made a list of things we should do and should not do at school. Then we made pictures of David with guided prompts from Mrs Derrick. We practiced on the white boards first then did another copy in coloured pencils. Check them out here!

 Here is the final result:

Room 7 sings Nga Tae (The Colours) waiata

This term Whaea Sally and Mrs Derrick have been teaching us this song! We filmed ourselves singing it the other day!

Click here to see our video on Vimeo

Here are the words so you can learn it too!

Ma is white,
Whero is red,
Kakariki is green,
Pango is black, mangu is too,
A E I O U

Kowhai yellow,
Parauri brown,
Kikorangi blue,
Parakaraka is our orange,
A E I O U

Welcome to Samantha and Sebastian

We welcomed Samantha and Sebastian to Room 7 this week!
We hope you enjoy school at Aranui Primary.