My Mihi

Mothers' Day

I went to get my present for my Mum. We got her a cactus and a ticket on the train. On the train I put my tongue out the window. My mouth spitted at me.

Horse Riding

I went on my horse and I got it going, but it butt me off. I got hurt. My leg hurt.

Cross Country

Congratulations Alba on coming FIRST in the Te Kakano Girls Cross Country Race!

Reading to our birds

Our budgies have had three baby birds recently.  The eldest is just beginning to venture out of it's little box house.  Today Autumn and Alba spent 40 minutes....yes 40 minutes taking turns and continuously reading to them!!  They chose books from their book box and read calmly and quietly to the birds.  I'm sure those birds loved listening to you both read to them.  What lucky birds!

Achieving my Writing Goal

Alba has been working really hard during our Literacy sessions.  She is getting very good at writing more than one sentence to explain her stories.  She is ready to move onto a new goal.

Alba has chosen her new goal to be using interesting words to make her writing sparkle.  This means that Alba will need to describe her writing more e.g. skinny dog, colourful ball etc

Keep being a great author, Alba

Food Fun

Autumn and Alba made some food out of playdough.

There was a hotdog, a gingerbread man and some orange juice.

Would anyone like to try some?

Be careful, the girls are trying to trick you!!

Mrs James got tricked and had spicy juice and cat food hotdog!!!  EEWWW  YUCK!!!!!

Fun Riding Bikes

Reading and writing about things you enjoy makes literacy fun.  We have been reading lots of books about bikes and racing.   We wrote a letter home asking if we could bring our bike or scooter to school.  We had lots of fun and we shared our bikes and scooters with the children who couldn't bring their bikes that day. 

We were all a bit tired after all that racing around!

Alba helped Lawrie ride her bike.  "Look ahead Lawrie I'll push 

  

 you!"

Charley supporting Lily on Kairangi's scooter.

Kairangi demonstrated to the other children how to use the brake on the scooter to help you to stop.

Sharing Equally

In maths we have been learning about sharing equally.  Today we used pretend pizza bases to help us learn how to share equally into halves and in quarters.  We made pizza toppings with  play dough.  We then shared these toppings equally in halves and in quarters.  We discovered that if you can skip count it sometimes helps to work out how many toppings in each section of the pizza quicker.

Our houses

Alba and I made some houses. One house is made of triangle blocks and it is a hotel. It has three bedrooms.
The other house is made of paper and boxes and it is a gingerbread house. We used a box to hold the paper together because the house kept falling down.

 We were playing families with the houses. We visited each other's house.

New Maths Goal

I have a new goal. I am learning to count backwards from 20.

Writing a Letter

Tomorrow we are going to ride our bikes at school.  We are learning and reading about lots of different bikes and what they can do.   We wrote a note home asking if we could bring our bikes to school.  Fingers crossed I am allowed too.  Whoops I forgot to write I need to bring my bike helmet too!

Student Led Conferences

Alba is showing her family that she is ready to move on to a new maths goal.

My Reading

Great work on your reading Alba, you are looking carefully at the beginning sounds.

Snakes and Ladders

In a maths workshop some of the children were learning how to count in twos, fives, tens.  We went outside and used the  numbers on the snakes and ladders grid to help us learn our goal. 

 The next day Darcy, Jesse and Alba went outside and played Snakes and Ladders using a large dice Jesse had found. When Mrs Johnson went outside to see  what they were playing she was amazed how they were independently playing snakes and ladders and how they were all following the rules of the game.  Each player was supporting each other to count on  and move to the right number which was a bit tricky as the numbers on the dice went up to nine!

Writing Workshop

Today, Alba came to a workshop to work on her writing goal. She is learning to write more than one sentence to explain what is happening in her stories. We used our Peppa Pig magnets to create a picture. Then Alba shared the sentences she wanted to write with her group. She used the magnetic words and her word card to record her sentences.

'Peppa Pig and Mrs Pig is going to a fair. George and Daddy Pig is going to get a balloon'.

Author's Chair 2

Alba was working really hard during Write to Self time.  
She was using her word card to help her find words.
You are a great author, Alba!

Achieving my Writing Goal

Alba has been working really hard on her writing goal of hearing the first sounds in words and writing them down.  She is able to write sentences more independently with this skill.

Alba has chosen her next writing goal and is now working on trying to write more than one sentence in her stories.

An Alien

This is my alien. 
The marbles and the toothpaste lids are the hair on my alien. The skin is very smooth and cold and made out of stones. My alien has two short pink legs. It also has spikes on her sides. She lives on a planet somewhere called planet Bong. This alien has come to visit me. I am going to play games with my alien. When we have finished playing my alien will go back home to her planet.

Six Layer Cake

Alba has been persevering on her writing goal, which is to record the initial sounds of words. Today at library time, we read a story about a wolf who wanted to make Chicken Stew. The wolf baked lots of yummy food for the chicken to fatten it up. We wondered what delicious recipes we would bake if we were the wolf. In our workshop, we decided on a recipe we would cook if we were the wolf. This is Alba's recipe for Six Layer Cake.  It has strawberries, butter and flour in it. Look at all those beginning sounds Alba has written down. Great work!