W is for Wonkey Donkey

Craig Smith did a great job with the kids from Kiwi Syndicate this afternoon, he entertained us all with his wonderful books - he writes in songs, and we enjoyed his show.

Craig shared his new book Square Eyes with us - if you are not familiar with his work check out his website here Craig Smith

T is for Tyrannosaurs

The Tyrannosaurs Meet the Family exhibit at Te Papa is AMAZING.  We loved our day out - for some children it was their first time on a bus.  Te Papa had a great education session for us, we spent time digging for fossils in the dinosaur pit, and enjoyed the exhibit.  There was also time to visit some of our other favourite things at Te Papa.

I will add photo's to our Dinosaur Site so visit it for more information.

Room 6 Dinos

D is for Dinosaurs

Can't wait to get into this topic!!  We have lots of really fun things to do, and the Te Papa trip is going to be fantastic.  Make sure you have sent back your forms so that we can get this organised.

I have created a Google site on Dinosaurs, and we will be doing our research from this page in in class, as well as sharing our learnings....click on the Dinosaur tab above to get to this site.

C is for Cleanup

Thanks so much to the parents and grandparents who supported us this week while we were out participating in the Keep New Zealand Beautiful event.  Despite being rained on we managed to fill some trash bags and tidy up our community a little.

We are almost at the end of our What Rubbish? topic - we have done a lot of learning - tomorrow we are going to try making paper from the scraps we have been collecting all week.

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!

D is for Dress Up

The children in Room 6 love the dress-ups.  They had fun dressing up today and then writing about the experience..

I dressed up like a policeman.  Miss Gargan took a picture of me.  I was a little bit scary.  Hannah was a witch.     Izak

I dressed up in the New Zealand hat and....there was a long thing.   Luca

I dressed up as a dinosaur a Mum helped me put on the dinosaur dress.  Chhung Li

I am a witch I am mean.  There is a princess and I am going to eat her.  I don't like princesses!  I felt like a real witch.  My cape was silky.  My witch hat had a spike on the top.   Hannah

I dressed up like Batman and I felt brilliant.   Miles

I dressed up as a witch.  The cape was purple and my witch hat was pointy.  I looked pretty.   Addison

I dressed up like a star man.  Miss Gargan took a photo.  It was red and white with stars and a little bit of red.  I t was brilliant and fantastic.  Harley

I dressed up as an octopus.  His name is Henry.  It was fantastic.  Harper

I dressed up like a fireman in a top.  I put on pants.  I thought it was funny.  Cooper

I dressed up to look like a witch and I had a pointy hat.  Madison

I am batman.  I would fly to Italy to see Luca's family and all the other families in Italy.  Nicholas

I put on the New Zealand hat.  I loved it.  It was brilliant.   Kayden

V is for visitors

Today we had a day full of visitors in Room 6!

Jack from Room 15 came and shared his invention, made from recycled materials.  He did some pretty clever things using plastic cups and a paper towel roll......perfect timing Jack that fits so well with our topic at the moment!

Next we did some buddy writing with the children from Room 7.  We had to find out 3 things about our buddy and then write about them.  We found out some really interesting things.

AND then Mrs Arlidge came in as part of the Read Aloud programme and read some really cool animal stories to us.  Thanks Mrs Arlidge.

Never a dull moment in Room 6!!

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.

W is for Wheels

We had so much fun last Friday.  Thanks to the PFG for the pizza, it was a really yummy.  The wheels afternoon was a real treat.  Go Room 6!

F is for Fractions and Fruit Salad!

What an awesome discovery time we had today.  We have been learning about fractions, how they are part of a whole and becoming familiar with the language.  So we did one of my favourite things, we made maths part of our everyday world by using food!

We made a fruit salad using wholes, halves and quarters -

Of course we enjoyed eating it when were had made it too!!

You can expose your children to the language of fractions at home by making them aware if you are cutting their sandwiches in half or quarters, when you cut different food items into parts of the whole.