Week 6 Term 4

This week we were treated to a reading of The Ant and The Grasshopper play..well done everyone who took part.

It was great to see how Discovery Time creations had been worked on further at home. This hotel came back with a working electric light and a range of Lego furniture inside!

Another treat came in the form of a visit from Daryl the turtle who was very lucky to be rescued from a local river. Just in time too as the eels had already nibbled off one of his feet.

On Wednesday we got together with our Kowhai friends for a special visit from Isla's granddad who told us all about his bee keeping.

 We got to see some real live bees........

 ,,,,take a close up look at the honey comb.......

 .... and see the different ways that bee keepers keep themselves protected from being stung.

On Thursday afternoon we learnt all about relay running and how to pass the baton effectively. We hope that you can come along and watch as for part or all of the morning this Thursday when we have our Y0-1 athletics Day. The fun kicks off at 9.15 and goes through until lunch at 12.30.

Take a look at this movie we made of opur amazing adjective snake...he will be slithering around somewhere up high in class soon.

Discovery Time once again led to many amazing creations and heaps of cooperation which was our focus key competency. Here you can see us cooperating to try to create a beehive with 100 hexagonal cells.

 Working on projects together makes things much easier.

 We had a lovely surprise when Victoria popped into lend us a hand. I think she has been missing Discovery Times.

 Look at this amazing boat creation......

 ...which was later teamed up with this plane to make an aircraft carrier.

 Laptops were created and used in a cyber cafe to play Minecraft games.

 Stylishly dressed zigzag people were spotted being shown off to spectators.....

 ...and our windows are now lovely and clean ( up to a certain height!)

 We finished with a sharing circle explaining what we had been doing and how we had worked cooperatively.

What are we learning in Term 4 Week 7?

Letters and Sounds: revision of digraphs and extension by looking at alternative digraphs

Grammar: Adjectives continued

Writing: shared writing, recounts and narratives

Maths: Basic groupings in 10's and problem solving

P.E.: Athletics Day see below for details

Maori: waiata

Topic: Bees

Art: : Bee Masks

ICT: simple word processing and importing an image from clipart

Reminders

Don't forget to send in sunhats and water bottle daily unless you are leaving them at school.
Daily Spelling homework continues until week 9
Junior athletics day,  Thursday 27th November 9.20-12.30, families welcome, helpers needed, details to be sent home this week
Suter Art Gallery Christmas Ceramics: Wednesday 3rd  December, helpers needed. Leaving around 9.10. back by 11ish
Kowhai Big Day Out at Founders Park: Tuesday 16th Dec

Term Dates

Term 4: ends Friday 19th December
Term 1 2015 starts on Tuesday 3rd February

Week 5 Term 4

A first for us this week was our sculpture walk around Nelson with Nicki from the museum. She had never taken a Year 1 class before and it turned out to be a great morning for both the children and the adults. Why not re-live the walk with your family on a sunny Nelson day and your children can share their learning with you. Here is a selection of the sculptures we looked at.

In Discovery time on Friday we tried our hand at mini sculptures. Can you see a resemblance between this sculpture and one we spotted on our walk?

We also had an impromtu P.E. lesson trying out our skills at climbing through the hinake on the Aratuna Bridge

What else have we been up to this week?

Practicing our basic facts by doing domino addition.

 Tricky word practice is still going strong.

 We are developing our alphabetical order knowledge. 

 Crystal's mum came in and helped us plant up our bee garden, as you can see we added some bees during Discovery Time as well.

This week in No Child Left Inside it was time to learn the basic skills of long jump by jumping over Jane's lazy river whilst tapping a balloon at the same time to encourage height.

 Fun Friday started with a very informative visit from Lori the cockatiel.

The much anticipated Discovery Time again resulted in heaps of collaboration and creativity including playdough and toothpick sculptures...

 ...rocket ships...

 ...developing our bee garden....

 ...Minecraft buildings......

 .......trucks...

 .......robots......

......hotels.....

 .......toys for sisters.....

 ....animals in zoo cages......

 .....and helicopters.

What are we learning in Term 5 Week 4?

Letters and Sounds: revision of digraphs and extension by looking at alternative digraphs

Grammar: Adjectives continued

Writing: shared writing, recounts and narratives

Maths: Basic Subtraction Facts to 5 and 10

P.E.: Fundamental skills: relays

Maori: numbers

Topic: Bees

Art: : 3D paper Sculptures

ICT: simple word processing and importing an image from clipart

Reminders

Don't forget to send in sunhats and water bottle daily unless you are leaving them at school.
Daily Spelling homework continues until week 9
Junior athletics day, Wednesday 26th or Thursday 27th November 9.20-11.40, families welcome, helpers needed, details to be sent home this week
Suter Art Gallery Christmas Ceramics: Wednesday 3rd  December, helpers needed
Kowhai Big Day Out at Founders Park: Tuesday 16th Dec

Term Dates

Term 4: ends Friday 19th December
Term 1 2015 starts on Tuesday 3rd February