WAL: To say and spell our fast words

We love our new cup game! All of these cups have our fast words and other tricky words from our reading and writing on them. We work together with a buddy to read the words on each cup. The ones we get right we get to build a tower out of! As you can see, we are very proud of our efforts! Our next step once we can read each word is to learn to spell them as this helps us in our writing. 

Our Family Trees

Wow! It has been so awesome to see all your fantastic family trees! Thank you to all your wonderful parents for taking the time to fill these out. This really helps us for our inquiry of “This is my story. What is your story?”

I put my family tree below. Our Busy Bees find it very funny that I was going to be called Aaron if I was a boy! 

Story Time!

Thank you to the wonderful Stephen for reading us a story!  We had never seen a book within a book before so it was super special. We are going to try to have as much expression as you did when we do our reading.

Mexican Hat Dance!

We did the Mexican Hat Dance as part of our inquiry. We made our own sombreros using a paper cup and hat. After we decorated our hats, Vanessa and Nicole showed us how to do the Mexican Hat Dance. We had so much fun! We got quite puffed and had lots of giggles. Keep an eye out for our performance of the Mexican Hat dance at our assembly in a couple of weeks.

WAL: Our bonds to 10

Our Whetu maths group have been working hard on learning their number bonds to 10. 

We made a rainbow with all the ways we can make 10. Our rainbow works from either end, for example 0+10 = 10 and 10+0 = 10.

They then practiced by playing matching up our number bond eggs. They were so much fun to match together! They could check using multi-link cubes or our rainbow.

 

Awesome work Whetu! You really are stars! I liked how hard you worked to match all the eggs. 

Our medal winners!!

Congratulations for getting a medal for showing your beautiful manners at assembly Keira and Alessandra! I am so proud of you both!!