Negotiation

Jack, Ollie and Aiden were playing with the new lego.  They couldn't decide who was allowed the sword so they used the Paper, Scissors, Rock game to sort out their dispute.  It brought up lots of discussion about the rules of Paper Scissors Rock.
"Paper beats rock because it covers the rock" said Ollie.

Play dough - Ruby made a snowman. Diyala made a party.

Hazel started school today. She made a 'Stop Go' sign.

Cooper has started school. He made a Darth Vader potato head - like Darth Vader on his lunchbox. He likes being a shop person.

Whanaungatanga

Whanaunatanga meaning: Play, relationship, kinship, sense of family connection - a relationship through shared experiences and working together which provides people with a sense of belonging. 

 Every Friday we meet with our Buddy groups.  We are in a buddy group with children from Te Kete Aronui and Te Kete Manawa.  Today our buddy groups went around activities together.  We painted leaves and printed them onto paper.  Some of us visited the Play Zone and others went outside together to play.

Poems - we have a new poem each week. We practise our reading. We can see and hear letter sounds, and we can find our HEART words. We drew pictures to match the words in the poem. We had grass, a tree, a rooftop and ME!

LEGO - sometimes when we are building something with lego it takes a long time. Aiden and Jack wrote a note asking people not to break their creation because it wasn't finished. They talked about the plans they had as they were building. Sometimes it wasn't looking right or fitting together so they had to problem solve and change their design. Oakley explained what he was making to Amiyah.

Ollie S, Serah and Mrs Griffin worked together to create a person made of play dough. Ollie S made the hair, the legs and the feet. Serah was telling us all the parts of the body we needed - arms, legs, hair, body, eyes, nose, mouth.

Smart Moves

We are developing our gross motor skills. These are some of our smart moves we practise in the morning.

Play dough - we made some new play dough this morning. We made yellow play dough and pink play dough. The play dough was really soft. It felt warm when we first started playing with it. "The play dough feels really warm," said Serah.

Threading letters - we wrote our names by putting the letters on the string. We wore them as our very own name necklaces.

Dolls House and Farm. We have many different family characters and animals. We can create a game acting out these characters. They can feel the same as us . . . sometimes happy, sometimes sad, sometimes angry, sometimes excited . . . and having fun learning together.

Quoits - we need to use hand-eye coordination to throw the circle of rope over the rods. It can be a bit tricky, but we persevered. We looked at the numbers by the rods to see what our score was. We can play this game inside or outside.

Puppet Theatre - we have got lots of puppets in Ruma Toru and Ruma Wha. We can make the puppets talk and put on a puppet show. We can work together and have turns. Puppet shows are fun.

We were practising forward rolls and cartwheels. We have to control our body movements.

Water Play - Mrs Longley added metallic paint to the water. It made the water look green and shiny. When we lightly touched the top of the water with our hands, we made a swirly pattern.

Playing Skittles - we needed to use hand-eye coordination to knock the skittles over. Then we needed to add our points together to see who got the highest score. The highest score was 11.

Science in a van