Andrew Chinn

We had such a great time with Andrew last Tuesday and while I did get some photos, none were as gorgeous as this.  Andrew took a real shine to Sophie and loved her fish face.  Here she is dancing out the door.....

Andrew has an amazing gift and we are lucky to have him visit our school every couple of years.  I have been here sooooooo long that this was my fourth time!  LORD!  The children wrote some super cute stories about Andrew and he is keen to read them so they will be emailed to him asap.  Hopefully we will get an email back from him.  Good times with Andrew!

Golden Time Crepes

We had delicious crepes with ice cream and chocolate topping on Friday for Golden Time.  Thank you to Claudine and Jessie who came along and served them up.  Yummy!  We are so spoilt by you Claudine, we might just have to keep you as an honorary parent next year.

Here we are:

Great knife and fork skills Olly.

Geometry - Learning about the characteristics of shapes

Max W discusses his shape design with Olly.

Jesse is hard at work deciding which shape fits best.

Olly concentrates hard on his shapes and matching the colour attributes.

We have been describing shapes that we know well.  We are trying to use descriptive language to talk about what a shape looks like and feels like.  Here are our three new boys engaging in some shape discovery......

Last Term

Last Term we did some fun activities so here are the photos....
The puppet shows were a huge hit and the kids did so well.  Very funny and very cute!

Fairy bread was also a hit and the children wrote some great procedural writing which will appear in their Portfolio's at the end of the Year.

Good times in Room 13.

Room 13 Lean with Dean

We are right into America's Cup fever in Room 13, watching the races on our Activboard with enthusiasm and it has to be said, some disappointment.  The children and I are keen to win a prize on the lean with me website and this is the photo we are sending in.  Go Team NZ!

Superhero readers!

Wow! We have some fantastic readers in Room 13 and recent testing has shown that some of our readers are already reading at National Standards for 1 Year at school.  I am so proud of all the children and would like to celebrate the success of these super hero readers....

Dylan, Aarav, Max and Maiah are already reading at National Standards for 1 Year at school.  WOW, CLEVER! 

Making Kebabs

Last week Whaea Tania made kebabs with the children as part of their Procedural writing unit.  They had to learn a process, practice it then write about it using a particular format.  The children loved making and eating the kebabs and have cleverly explained what they did to achieve the desired outcome - YUMMY KAI!
Here are some pics.....

Lots of concentration needed here - Saya and Kennedy.

First a marshmello, then a grape.....

Putting the kebabs together, Ella and Molly.

Jayda enjoying her kebab.