S is for Spider.

This week we have been doing lots of work around our poem ...The Incy Wincy Spider.  During Literacy times we read a lots of different spider stories.  We liked the Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle. This inspired some great art on our walls and some fun very busy stories!

We finished out the week with a spider themed Discovery Time...we were focusing on being creative and solving problems ourselves.

We had some fun sensory activities looking for the spiders in the rice.

We have read lots of great books about spiders this week.

We got creative with lots of different making bits and pieces.

Playdough spiders are fun!!!  We know there are two parts to the body and eight legs.

B is for bucket filling

We have been learning all about bucket filling in the Kiwi Syndicate over the past two weeks.  It is a great way to share and show kindness and the children have a really good understanding of the things they can do to fill other peoples buckets.

Today we brainstormed ideas before Discovery Time of ways we could enjoy working and playing together and fill our own and others buckets.

The children did all these things during our session and had lots of fun.  When we got back to Room 6 they wrote stories about what they had done at Discovery Time.

Today at Discovery Time I played with Alex.

Today at Discovery Time I played with the girls.

Today at Discovery Time we were in a box.

Today at Discovery Time I played families with Olivia, Sophie and Millie.

Today at Discovery Time I played trains with Jayden.

Today at Discovery Time I made a flag all by myself.

Today at Discovery Time we played families only.  Olivia and Olivia and Millie only.

Nice work Room 6 - it filled my bucket to see you all playing together so imaginatively.  You were being creative as well as exploring things.  I loved seeing you play so well with your friends.

M is for Matariki

This week we celebrated Matariki in Room 6.

We learnt about Matariki - the Maori New Year.

We read this book together 

We wrote stories and created our own art, they look super up on our walls.

Matariki is a time for making things and we got busy...  We shared our new learnings on a class korowai, we are very proud of it.

We made and flew kites

We made tiki necklaces

We made porotiti

We made kai - star fairy bread

We also did some weaving.

What a great way to end the term.  

D is for Discovery Time

The children in Room 6 have been working on the Key Competency of Relating to Others in their Discovery Time sessions lately.  Discovery Time is a great time to practice and learn through play.  We have been working on cooperating with others to complete tasks together.  We had lots of fun with some of the following activities -

We can transfer these skills to our independent group work during literacy and numeracy times.