Swimming Fun

This term Room 7 has been lucky enough to have some time in the pool learning some water skills. Today Miss Donnell brought some noodles into the pool and we were able to show off our floating skills. First we practiced floating on our backs, then we floated on our stomachs. Miss Donnell gave us some time to practice our swimming stokes with the noodle too.

Dayton you are confident in and around the water. It is great to see how much you enjoy coming to our water skills lessons. You are able to put your head fully underwater and I have seen you practice floating and sinking. It is great to see you using the pool noodle to float on your back and your front. I'm so glad you are having fun and taking risks with your learning.

L is for Lazy Lion

We have started our learning journey this year with the letter l. Room 7 had a phonics activity that made an awesome lion! Dayton did a great job colouring in the lion; I could see him trying so hard to stay inside the lines. He also cut out his lion and was determined to curl the mane by himself. After he had finished making his own lion, Dayton walked around to see where the other children were up to with the activity and helped some students cut their lions out.

It is great to see the positive start Dayton has made to a new classroom this year, especially with helping our new tamariki.

Keep up the fabulous work Dayton!

Our Trip to MOTAT

What a wonderful time we had at MOTAT.  The children loved being able to explore the museum and share their wonderings with adults and peers.  During the education session our tamariki had the opportunity to look at different mechanisms.  We explored how gears work, made skateboards & simple catapults and played with toys that had moving parts.  Getting to ride the skateboards after they had been built was a real highlight as was going for a ride on the tram!

All by myself!

This very happy face is because at this moment, for the first time, Dayton wrote his name all by himself without the support of his name card.  As you can see he was very proud of his achievement.  I have noticed lately that Dayton has shown much more interest in forming letters and creating words using the classroom whiteboards.

The key competency that he is displaying during these moments is "using language, symbols and texts".

Ka pai to mahi Dayton - we are very proud of you!

Aroha & Tautoko

What an awesome moment this was!  Dayton was doing a reading test with me today and Harlem wanted to come over and tautoko what Dayton was doing.  It was so neat to see both boys sharing their knowledge and understanding with each other to work out the words on the page.  The aroha that these two have for each other was very evident in this moment and too good not to share!

Wearable Arts Show

The Room 27 tamariki have had a wonderful time preparing their shoes for the wearable arts show at school.  They took time and care to prep and paint tissue boxes and then decorate them using a range of materials.  It was lots of fun seeing them show off their beautiful creations as well as their best dance moves in front of the whole school!

"Managing self" is a key competency that students displayed during this experience as they had to listen to instructions and exercise self-control throughout the process.

Wonderful Writing

WALT:  make sure our words match our picture.

We love Story Writing time in Room 27.  We talk about what we will write about and then we go and draw our picture.  We have to make sure the story we write matches the picture we have drawn.

How do you think I did?