Buddy Editing

We have started using a Buddy Editing Checklist at Writing time. When we have finished our writing, we pair up with someone else who has finished and we edit our work together. Our buddy uses a checklist to check for things like capital letters, full stops, spelling and to make sure our writing makes sense.

Miss Parker felt very proud seeing how well Rata Whitu worked co-operatively to edit our writing today. Everyone was so helpful, supportive and respectful when editing each others work. Nice job!

Hui Sharing

Tino pai Rata Whitu! We did a fantastic job sharing our art and writing at our whole school Hui yesterday!

Keeping Ourselves Safe - Feelings

We learnt about our feelings today during Keeping Ourselves. We discussed how it is okay to cry when we are sad. We learnt that it is okay to feel angry but it is never okay to hurt ourselves or anyone else so we shared some ideas for what we can do when we are angry.

We practised our happy, angry, confused and proud faces. To practise our face when we are sad, Miss Parker shared some news she knew would not impress Rata Whitu...

Just kidding...here is how we really feel:

Multiplication Practise

In Rata Whitu we have been practising our multiplication this term. We have used some different strategies such as skip-counting and arrays to solve multiplication problems.

Here is some fabulous work from the Seahorses group:

Run, Jump, Throw

We were very lucky to have such a sunny and warm day for our Year 1 and 2 Run, Jump, Throw!

There were many fun activities to do and we were all pretty exhausted after the busy day of running, jumping, and throwing.

Great work Takahe, the winning Whānau Group!

A big thanks to the Whānau leaders for all of your hard work and to the families who were able to come along and support us. It was a fantastic day, well done everyone!

Plant Pots Technology

We have been hard at work creating beautiful pots for our plants. After bringing in recycled materials from home like plastic bottles, toilet rolls and tin cans, we set to work bring our pot designs to life!

Miss Parker helped us to put holes in the bottom of our bottles and cans so that when we water our plants, the water can drain out through these holes. We learnt that if there is too much water in the soil, the plant will not get enough air and it will die. This is why it is important to have drainage holes.

Some of us have made hanging pots. Because we have designed indoor pots, we needed to find another way to drain our soil because the water will just drip on to the floor if we put holes in them.

We learnt that putting a layer of small stones at the bottom of the pot will allow water to drain out of the soil.

Then we began repotting some of our little gardens into our own pots!

 

A huge thank you to Mrs Gaskin for all your help with decorating our pots!

Beans!

We are growing some broad beans in our class as a part of our Inquiry topic for this term. We are excited to see how tall they will grow once they have sprouted.

Our current Social Skills focus is Responsibility. We need to be responsible for our own beans by remembering to water them every day.

Scavenger Hunt

We went on a Scavenger Hunt around the School to find different things around the gardens.

We had to find:

- A leaf with jagged edges:

- A leaf with smooth edges:

A piece of grass that was longer than our hand:

A flower that was smaller than our fingernail:

A seed pod:

A piece of man-made rubbish:

A twig with three branches:

And lots more!