Week 2 in Piwakawaka Room

It has been another fantastic week in Room 1 and once again I'm blown away with how much we managed to achieve in only 4 days!

This week we began our Statistics Unit and have thoroughly enjoyed learning how to gather and sort data on a range of topics that the children chose. We found out about our favourite ice creams and our favourite animals. We are now able to ask and answer questions about our pictographs, as well as, discuss the results. Room 1 are also VERY good at knowing when I'm trying to trick them by telling them false information about the graph in focus! Next week we will be looking at some simple bar graphs and analysing the information they tell us too.

Here are some photos from this week's activities unit:

On Thursday we also began our Football Programme with the coaches from Petone Football Club. Our first lesson focused on the skill of dribbling. We played two games to help us with this skill and both were fantastic! The first involved dribbling the ball through "gates" and for the second game we all grew a tail. Our job was to stop other people pinching our tail while dribbling at the same time - we were great! 

Here are some photos from our first lesson:

Have a lovely weekend and enjoy the sunshine!

Piwakawaka's Self Portraits

Kia ora and welcome back to school! I hope you're all feeling refreshed after the break and are looking forward to an exciting term ahead. 

Room 1 have had a fantastic first week at school and I've been so impressed with the enthusiasm each student has shown towards their learning. 

Today we learnt about self portraits and decided to create our own. We started by doing some exercises to feel how big our necks and shoulders were in comparison to our heads. We then used mirrors and pencils to draw ourselves on paper. Finally, we traced over our pictures with black felts and coloured them in using crayons.

We are so proud of our pictures and have displayed them outside the classroom so everyone knows who the children are in Room 1.

Have a great long weekend and I can't wait to see you all again on Tuesday! 

Term 4 Excitement!

Wow - I can't believe there are only 2 weeks to go in Term 4! It has been a term full of exciting activities including Get, Set, Go! Athletics Day and Kiwiana Day to name just a few.

Here are some photos of the above events, as well as, a few pictures of our recent art project.

 

Athletics Sprints!

 

Working on our bouncing skills at Get, Set, Go!

 

Kiwiana Day!