Busy Bee Bowling

We love our new busy bee bowling maths game! These skittles have numbers on the bottom and we can use them to help us learn our maths in lots of different ways. We can add up the numbers we knock over, double the numbers on the bottom of the pins we knock over and some groups can even use them for multiplication! It’s so much fun to play and we notice the more we play, the more we knock over so it’s improving our aim too.

Rocking on with our reading!

We have started to do a “must do” and “can do” in our reading. This lets gives us some choice in the activities we want to do. It’s easy to choose things we love to do, but we also think about what will be best for our learning goals, with some coaching from Vanessa.

So, if our goal is to get better at our handwriting, we might choose write the room instead of magnetic letters so we can practice.

Look at what fantastic independent learners we are during reading time:

Buddy Reading

Every day after brunch, we read independently from our browsing boxes with our reading groups. Once a week, we have started to share our favourite story with someone else who isn’t in our group. We can read our favourite page, share our favourite picture and talk about what happened in the story. This helps us to be better readers because we can better understand the things that happen in stories we read. 

Ka Pai Busy Bees! I love what thirsty learners you are! This is why you are such superstar readers!! 

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.