Saturday, April 19, 2014

Homework for the holidays...

Kia ora Ruma Rua,

Yes even though it is the holidays it is important that you keep up with your learning, 2 weeks is a long time.

Things you can do:

- Reading eggs:  your login and password are in your notebook.  Remember mum and dad can help you login (remember you push the keys so you learn how to do this), but you need to do the work by yourself I want to know what you can do.

- Basic words and alphabet list: keep learning these.  You might get your family to mix these up and test you out of order.

- Writing: write a story about what you have done in the holidays.  Try to sound out those tricky words.

- Maths: count as many things as possible letterboxes, apples, easter eggs, fingers, toes.  


Here are a couple of NEW videos for you to watch to keep you ticking over:






Friday, April 11, 2014

Easter...

This week is the last week of the school term.  We have had a wonderful first term and our learning has already improved from day one.

Over the holidays you can keep practising your learning at home.
Here are some ideas:

- Write a story
- Keep learning your alphabet letter names and sounds
- Pracitse counting.  You may count the apples at the supermarket, letterboxes when you go for a walk or even how many wheels are on the cars as you are driving.
- Go to the local library and get some books to read

Enjoy your break, keep safe and I will see you next term!



Saturday, April 5, 2014

Problem Solving

We did some problem solving on Friday.
Miss Best shared a problem with us and we had to solve it.
We worked as a class first to solve the problem then drew some pictures to show our learning.

The problem:  Mother bear has 5 baby bear cubs she wants to make them each a new jacket.  Each jacket needs 3 buttons how many does she need to buy?

Here are our 5 bear cubs

Here is the problem

Here is Selena counting how many buttons she will need

Each bear has 3 buttons

Look at our buttons

Then we drew some bears and their buttons to show our leaning

Clever work Room 2!

Mother bear needs to buy 15 buttons!

Art

In the artroom we created some masterpieces.  We drew a bird and added some shapes to their body.  Then we used dye to colour in the different areas of the bird.

Here a a couple of our birds.  If you want to see the rest of ours come and visit our class.