C is for Calendar Art

I love Calendar Art!  It is a great fundraiser for the school - and makes awesome gifts for grandparents!  I aways buying the cards - they look good and are good value as well.

I love doing Calendar Art with the children, however passed it over to Miss Monty who was in Room 6 today.  Here is a sneak peak of the work the children were doing and some of the finished products.

I am sure there will be information from the PFG shortly on how to order these -

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 Box!

This week we have been having lots of fun during our shared reading time.  We have been reading the book    It's Not a Box.

We have had so much fun as we have been learning and creating through play.

First we played and talked about boxes...

Then we created...

Then we did some writing...

And now we have a great wall display...

Well done Room 6 - so much fun!

P is for Poem

Room 6 did some lovely art with Mrs Goodin this week - it went with their poem of the week and also relates to one of the animals that features in our production.

They shared this art at our school assembly today.  Well done Room 6!

P is for Production

It's all go in Room 6 getting ready for the production.  A notice went home today so be sure to get your tickets sorted.  We were busy working on our props and costumes today - thanks so much to the adult helpers - much appreciated.

C is for Cow

Loving the cows the kids drew today.  They are looking amazing on our wall.  Love the stories that the kids wrote about their farm trip too!

D is for Dot!

Yah for International Dot Day....September 15th.  We had an awesome time at Redwood School today...the kids looked awesome in their spotty dots and we did some cool dotty learning!!

Maths was all about subitizing...lots of good learning recognising dot patterns.

Thanks to the PFG for the dots of pikelets for morning tea.

The kids were all mixed up and went all across the school to different classes  to do all kinds of fun art activities.

We spent the afternoon making our own version of the Press Here book....you will have to stop by and take a read.

THEN we had another treat....Lexi had read the book You Can Make a Happy Cake, and guess what...she did...Thanks Lexi, your happy cake sure made us happy on Dot Day!

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.  

S is for Stuck!

I love this book by Oliver Jeffers, it makes me laugh!!  Listen to him read it...so funny!

We had lots of fun with this book today in Room 6.  I read about half of the book to the children and then stopped and asked what they would do if they were Floyd, and how they would get everything out of the tree.  There were some good ideas...

If I was Floyd I would throw another whale at the bottom of the tree because it could work.  If the tree would bend I would grab it.  But if it wouldn't work I would throw a brick.

Then we created the coolest art work with all the bits stuck in the tree....love them!

E is for Elephant

We had a great poem this week - it was about the elephants trunk.  It inspired some cute art, which the children in Room 6 proudly showed at the Kiwi/Tui Assembly this week.  It looks super cute on our classroom walls now, come check it out!

They did a great job of reading the poem with interesting voices....it is in their poem books, so make sure they read them to you over the weekend.

P is for portrait

Well portraits of a sort!!  We had a bit of fun last Friday with this Andy Warhol style of portrait.

The children were asked to use only 4 different colours on each photo.  They could colour any part of themselves they choose.

R is for Reuse

Thanks for the egg cartoons you all sent in - thanks Fifi Colston for your inspiration - and well done Room 6 reusing an egg cartoon to make a pretty good looking crown!

B is for busy.

We were busy in Room 6 today!  It is the start of Book Week at Redwood School and our theme this year is Let Books Open Doors For You.

We have started the week with a visit from a local author and illustrator Ruth Paul.  We love her books and she gave a great presentation.  It was very inspiring.

We also had our class and individual photos taken in the school hall.  The photographers do a great job, and it is quite fascinating how they put the class photo together.

We also worked on decorating our door, we did reading groups, and had a special visit from Mrs Hughes who came in and read to us.

Wow and this is only Monday!!

F is for fun that is funny!

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!  This week has been a load of fun.  We celebrated Dr. Seuss's birthday with the rest of the school in our pajama's on Monday!  It was an awesome day.  How lucky are we that our principal came and read to us - she was in her pajama's too!

Our focus for the week has been the Cat in the Hat - one of the books that Theodor Seuss Geisel wrote for children using only 223 easy to read words.  
We did all sorts of fun things with this book - in maths we worked on our repeating patterns making stripes for the Cats Hat!  

We enjoyed these cute little cupcakes Miss Gargan had heaps of fun making!  You've gotta have cake for a birthday!

I love the art and stories that the children produced - so cute and clever!

We finished the week off with some Dr Seuss activities in our Discovery Time, we had activities from One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish, The Lorax, The Foot Book, Cat in the Hat, Horton Hears a Who and Bartholmew and the Oobleck - so much fun!