Our topic this term is 'Helping Heroes'. Today, we started to create our own communities. We started off with a brainstorm of what our community needs to function. Who helps us? How do we help others in our community?
We then did a community plan before creating our 3D communities on card. Watch this space!
This term, our topic is Seasons, and we are exploring all sorts of weather too. Today was a VERY rainy day and there was thunder and lightning in the morning. Autumn leaves are also all over the ground outside, so we are surrounded by our topic!
In Reading, a big focus for everyone is comprehension - understanding what we are reading.
Today, our comprehension challenge was to follow written instructions to create snowflakes, tulips and sunshines from folded paper to put in our seasons window. The instructions are included below if you want to try for yourselves.
That covered Spring, Summer and Winter. For Autumn, we created pastel and dye fallen leaves, carefully copying the designs and colours we found in fallen leaves around the school.
You might see in the photo that we are also learning Te Reo Māori words for weathery things, and have written up information reports as well from books we have been reading about seasons and weather.
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| Writing about thunder and lightning with sound effects on the TV and outside! |
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| Our seasons wall so far |
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| Pastel and dye autumn leaves |
Today we summarised our place value and rounding learning. We drew our own place houses and added and subtract 1, 10, & 100, but changing the amount of rocks we had in each area of the place houses. LOTS of fun was had and our brains hurt afterwards!
- Kōtuku class
We have had a great time learning about measurement in Kōtuku. We were able to choose different items to measure. We guessed how long some things were, and then measured them to see if we were correct. We used our small tables, sand pit toys, branches and rulers. It was so much fun!
- Kōtuku class
Today, as part of the school values 'Whanaungatanga' (community) and 'Kaitiakitanga' (others) we went for a walk around Moana picking up rubbish off the side of the road, in the gutters, around the church and in the bushes. We were very surprised at the amount of rubbish we collected, as Moana always looks very clean and tidy.
We had groups of four people who worked together to fill up their rubbish bags. Almost all of the bags were filled. The type of rubbish we found were: cans, beer bottles, cigarette butts, bottle lids, drink bottles, glad wrap, chewing gum, a hair tie, kit kat wrapper, packets of chips, chocolate ice cream wrapper, knickers, socks and so much more!
Today we went down just two streets. We can't wait for next week to collect rubbish again, but this time, with BIGGER bags!
- Kōtuku class
Welcome back to 2022 Kōtuku's Class Blog!
We've had a great start to the year by welcoming two new students to our school and class! Welcome Harmony and TJ!
This term we have decided to make use of the greatest resource we have, right on our doorstep - the lake! All Lake Brunner School classes have had their first week of swimming lessons in it, and we can't wait for next week!
