Helping Heroes! Part 2

 Our cities/communities are completed! We have everything from hotels, Do Duck In, McDonalds, farms, and lolly factories. There's a beach, a tractor repair shop and a mountain bike track. We are soooo proud of our mahi!

Break in the Weather

 We were sooooo happy to have a break from the rain, rain, rain! Because our usual bush walk would be super soggy, we decided to go on an adventure over the swing bridge and check out the beach. We are super lucky to be located where we are! 

Helping Heroes! Part 1

 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!

Seasons

 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.

Writing about thunder and lightning with sound effects on the TV and outside!

Our seasons wall so far

Pastel and dye autumn leaves

T1W6 Maths!

 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

Friday Golden Time T1W5

 

Golden time in Kōtuku is what happens on a Friday when we have completed all of our 'finishing off' work. We LOVE this time together. When we were looking through our photos today, we discovered that we were displaying a lot of character strengths. The ones that stood out most for us were: teamwork, bravery, leadership, creativity, hope, kindness, and humour.

Measurement in Maths! T1W4

 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