Library Time at The Hub

WALT: Read independently

We love our library time! Visiting The Hub to read and issue books helps us to become better readers. We also get new books out for our class library to read after lunch and during our reading rotations. 

Sometimes we are really lucky and Rebecca, our wonderful librarian reads to us. 

Vanessa is very lucky to have a class full of such enthusiastic readers! She gets very excited when we use our reading strategies like getting our mouths ready for the first sound or looking at the picture to work out the tricky words we come across. 

Discovery Time with Bright Bugs

WALT: Show our Kotahitanga

During our discovery time, we have been learning to show our kotahitanga. We made a Y chart together to show what this would look like, sound like and feel like

Here we are during discovery time. Do you think we did a good job of showing kotahitanga?

Music

We are so lucky to have music with Jenny! This term we are learning to participate in a range of music activities, both individually and as a whole class.  We are also learning to sing tunefully and to keep a steady beat. 

One activity the children particularly enjoyed was listening to music and thinking about what animal the music could represent.  

"We had to lie down and listen to the music and sit up and listen to the music and think what animal it was. I thought it was a shark" - Jacob

"I thought it was a lion" - Benjamin 

"When we were listening to the music I thought colourful fish were around me" - Atta 

"I thought it was just pink and purple fish swimming around me" - Zoe

"I thought it was a tiger" - Eshaan

"I thought it was a crocodile" - Basil 

What creative thinking Busy Bees! 

Clay Day

More Magnificent Maths!

WALT: Show bonds of 10

Wow! We have gone from learning to our bonds of five to our bonds of 10 in just ONE week. Aren’t we clever?! 

The Busy Bees are becoming such experts at using PicCollage that they wanted to make more photos in their collages. 

Here were are creating our bonds to 10:

And here are our wonderful collages! Awesome work Busy Bees! 

Sharing Circle

Each Friday we do a sharing circle in the Busy Bees. This is where we can bring one thing from home to show and tell to our classmates. We are learning to describe, listen carefully and ask questions beginning with who, what, where, how and why. We also show Kotahitanga in our sharing circle because we are learning more about our classmates and developing new friendships.

Here is a collage of our sharing circles so far: