Stick Games

Go girls!!!! you have been having a lot of fun practising and performing your stick games.

Tricky Words

Olive has been busy learning her tricky words.  

Letter Formation

We are working hard on forming our letters correctly.  

Olive and Ayla are great role models to Show where the tall letters start and making sure we use the lines in our books.

Ka pai girls!!!!

Our Fabulous Holiday Stories. We have been trying different sentence starters and using adjectives to make our stories interesting.

I fastened my boots.  I buckled my boots and slipped into my skis.  

I got better and better.  

I had a smile on my face from ear to ear.

I smiled and smiled.

I was proud of myself.

I went on the chairlift.

Ania-Kanu

I fastened my seat belt.  The air hostess said "Please be seated"

I drove in my car to my Nana's  house.

Then we went to a house beside the beach.  

The sun shone in through my window.

Olive Seddon

I flew over my poles.  I went flying and fell over.

I went with my family.

The cold air flew past my face.

I had to wear a warm jacket and a woolly hat.

Ryan Coupe

Splash! I jumped into the water.

I was proud of myself because I learnt how to swim in the swimming ring.

In the swimming ring I kicked and kicked.

It was fun.

Marley Lahood

Hip, hip hooray!!!It was my birthday.

I loved it when my friends gave me a present.

Then I opened them.  I couldn't wait to open them.

I ripped the paper off the present.

I loved when I saw the presents.

Saria Halabi

"Mmmmmm". The cookies are cooking in the oven.

  I can smell the chocolate melting.

I am stirring the mixture to mix it up.

I am eating a cookie.

It crunches in my mouth.

Ayla

The lonely tree

We got to publish our amazing' lonely tree' stories.

We had a lot of fun with the paint.

Amazing Winter Stories.

WINTER

The snow danced to the ground. 

 I got white snow on me. 

 It was freezing and it was cold. 

 The snow shines in the sun.

Myles Nichol

SNOW

It is like a blanket when it covers the mountains.

I like the soft snow.

It is like silk.

The snow floated onto the ground.

Lili Kaler

SNOW

It is like a blanket covering the mountains.

The snow is glittering in the sun.

I was freezing.

Olive Seddon

SNOW

The mountain is covered with snow like a blanket. 

 When the sun came out it glistened.  It felt cold.

  I like the snow.  It is cold,  like an ice block.

Jazmine Allison

Shape

Pod 2 are learning all about 2D and 3D shapes.  We are learning to sort shapes, describe them and find out how many sides and corners they have.  One way to help us to do this is to make shapes, this can be with clay, rods, straws, geoboards and rubber bands, drawing them etc.  Here are some examples of some of our independent work last week.

 Monty and Myles comparing their triangles on the geoboards.

 Olive and Caitlin drawing shapes in their investigation books.

 Hunter and Jorja making shapes on the geoboards.

 Here is Sebbie's cylinder he created using 2d shapes - great thinking!

Kahlarni and Fletcher with some of the shapes they made using rods, they made a number of hexagons using 6 rods.

I'm doing it!!!

Learning new words is hard work. Olive is showing us how to take charge of our learning and practice our learning on our own. You are a self managing and self directed learner Olive. Congratulations.

Yahoo!

Congratulations to these hard workers for achieving recognition with a certificate this week. 

Our POD's Travel Agency

W have been having a blast in POD 2.  We now have a Travel Agency in the Role Play area.  Children are making their own passports and brochures.  They are learning about phone conversations, taking bookings and flying a plane. Looking at other cultures and countries, maps and flags.The children are loving this. YAY!!

Measuring on our own

Our investigation into understanding measurement continues. Check out the different ways we have helped each other with measurement using different things in different ways. This type of learning alongside intensive teaching has lifted our test scores really high in a very short amount of time. Well done Pod 2. Great independent learning.