B..b..Bears!

Our letter for this week is Bb..... 

So today we sang 'b'songs and read a story about a VERY grumpy bear....

Then we made our own bears and we will show them at our assembly in the morning.

It was great to have Cohen with us for his first day at school and Cooper came to join us as part of 4 Stars. 

Have a look at our boisterous bears.....!

H-h-h. We made hats

Our letter this week is Hh so today we made Lemon Squeezer Army Hats.

We learnt that Colonel Malone from Stratford invented the Lemon Squeezer hst. The top of it is shaped like Mt Taranaki and it helps to keep the rain off.

Colonel Malone wore his hat at Gallipoli.

Look at us in our hats!

A is for A.N.Z.A.C Day

We made these fabulous sunset/sunrise silhouettes today at 4 Stars. The hill represents the hills of Gallipoli and the crosses are to remember soldiers who died there. We have started to build an understanding of ANZAC Day and its ceremonies. We read the lovely book "My Grandad Marches on ANZAC Day" by Catriona Hay and Benjamin Johnson and we thought about what it would have been like to be in the war 100years ago.

It was exciting to have Kage, De andre and Chante join us for the afternoon. At the end we played ANZAC Fruit Salad  ( a chasing game ). Instead of fruit, we were ANZAC, Gallipoli and Last Post !

We welcome any beginning students to visit on Thursdays at 1.25 to get to know us and work within the classroom...... if you are interested, ring the office and let Raewyn know.

D-d-d-d-DINOSAURS!

What an exciting afternoon we had today, working with the letter Dd and it was great to have Kage and Katelyn here working with us.

We read Ruth Paul's great STOMP book and used this to try and create colourful dinosaurs.

We had a peek at some 'real' dinosaurs using a virtual reality I-Dinosaur book from Hawera library. We managed to capture this guy and photograph him sitting on a friendly arm!

After that we made our dinosaurs and went outside for our own STOMP adventure. We stomped, jumped, roared, and crawled around having great fun!

Haxe a look at our work from today.........

T-t-t-trains!

Our letter this week is t. We had a really busy time trying to make train tracks, a train and a tender  on our capital T. 

We have already come across t in our phonics so we know that we can call it Ticking Tess!

Ten is a good number to focus on because it starts with t-t-t.

It was lovely to have Jack, Anya, Katelyn and Cooper joining in with us today!

Ii........ I is for insect!

What a fabulous 4Stars we had on Thursday!

Our visitors were Ruby, Kage, Jack and Anya and together we read The Very Hungry Caterpillar- a very popular choice!

We found out that caterpillars are insects because they have 6 legs

We made paper loop caterpillars....have a look!

Ll....Ladybugs! Our first Four Stars for 2015

Look at the fabulous ladybugs we made at FourStars today!

Our first letter was of course 'l', so we enjoyed reading  The Bad Tempered Ladybird by Eric Carle and made our fabulous "Twirling Lady bugs".

We were joined by Anya, Ruby, Eli and Kage who worked really hard and were great visitors to Room 6!