Te Kupo o Te Wiki (Term 3 Week 4)

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Discovery Time!

Retelling and More Retelling

This week we have been practicing retelling our reading stories. We took some videos of the them. Have a look at what some of us have been doing:

Listening

This week we had a challenge from Barry the Brainy Bee (http://barrybrainybee.blogspot.co.nz/). He asked us to make a blog post showing our learning with he Habit of Mind Listening.  This is what we made:

Quality Writing

By Lucas

Bridges of Sand

Next time we're going to do it better by making the hills the same size (Jenysis). That is making it right. We will try this next week.

Happy Day

Today was Happy Day. We went to our morning tea shed and drew some happy day pictures of us. Have a look at what we did and watch the video!

Patterns!

Today, Mr Davidson asked us to make a pattern using anything we could find in the classroom.  We used Lego, puzzles, lids, rocks and shells, numicon shapes and Bee Bots. Can you make a pattern yourself?

Have a look at the patterns we made. Can you figure out what the pattern is?

Walter                                                 

Pasifika

Last Friday we went to our cultural groups again. Mr Davidson is in the Pasifika group and he took some videos of the song and the sasa we're learning. Have a look at how good we've become. We have a guitar and a drum playing with us!

The Magnificent Monkeys' Assembly

We haven't been updating our blog as much as we usually do this week. That's because this week was our week to put on assembly (and we had a trip!). Mr Davidson promises to update the blog this weekend with some things we did this week, but until then, here is a video of our assembly. We hope you enjoy it:

Lucas also won the attendance draw, so he gets to have cupcakes and milkshakes on Monday at morning tea! Congratulations Lucas for coming to school every day this week!

And here is our certificate for the week. Well done Robbie!

Pasifika Cultural Group

Today the Busy Bees and The Fledglings started cultural groups. Some of us, including Mr Davidson, went to the Pasifika group, run by Mr Siilata. Have a look at what we did:

Here are some videos of the Sasa that the older children were teaching us:

Jackson is our Friend

During Discovery today, we got to hold Jackson, our class pet. We listened to Mr Davidson. We had to hold him on the tail near his bum and be very careful. He was not too scared of us. See the pictures of us holding him:

Putting Halves Back Together

Today the Toucans were learning how to put halves back together. Have a look at the shapes that they fixed:

Building With Blocks

Listen to some of our boys talk about what they were building during Brain Time today:

Brain Time and Sand Pit

In Brain Time today, some of us made houses out of cards. It was cool and some were very tall. Look at what some of us did:

First we looked at the pictures of sand sculptures. We saw sharks, dolphins, turtles and alligators. Then we went to the sandpit and made some sculptures. The sand wasn't wet so it wouldn't stick together. We put water on the sand. See what we did here:

Swimming!

Today when we went swimming, Mr Davidson took videos of us swimming. Here they are:

Story Retells

Some more of our reading groups tried our retells using the iPads. Have a look and listen to see what we read about:

Chimpanzees:

Monkeys

Metal Men

For the last two weeks we have had the Metal Men activity at our Art Station. Here are some of the pictures we made:

It is awesome. It is made out of metal.

It is nice and neat.

I made a person and a dinosaur.

Mine is awesome and it is cool.

It is cool and it is unique.

I like my work because it's cool.

It's nice and neat and it's cool.

My butterfly is beautiful. It has gold and silver wings. (Mr Davidson)