Our little garden!

Hi parents and caregivers,
Today we planted seeds in our own seed pots. These pots can be placed in your garden and the seeds will grow. First today we put soil in our pots. Second we made holes in the soil with our finger. Third we planted a seed and forth we sprayed the soil with water.
Thank you, Miss Watson

Assembly 19th April

Hi parents and caregivers,
Today we had our final school assembly for the first term. We watched performances by children in the school. Dipesh won the certificate for excellence in his work and helping other children who are new to school. What an awesome way to end the term. Thank you for a great term and have a great holiday. See you all in term two.
Miss Watson

Looking Domain

Hi Parents and Caregivers, Today we looked at different sizes of pictures that were not in order. We cut the pictured out and pasted them in order of size. Everyone of us did this correctly and we were very proud of ourselves. Thank you, Room 20

Mathematics

Hi Parents and Caregivers, Today we were learning to write our numbers 1-6 and count the animals in the picture. We all did a great job. Thank you, Miss Watson

'Here is my Hat" sentence on the chalkboards 17th april 2013

Hi Parents and Caregivers, Today on the chalk boards we wrote "Here is my hat". We are learning how to spell 'here', 'is' and 'my'. These words are also in our book we are reading today which is "Off I go!". You can talk about these words with your child in their reading book tonight. Thank you Nikki

"Going to the river" Book

Hi Parents and Caregivers, Today we read "Going to the River". We looked at the words "going", "to" and "the". Then we made insect necklaces because we decided insects could live by the river. Thank you, Nikki

Chalkboard sentence 16th April 2013

Hi Parents and Caregivers, Today we wrote the sentence on the chalkboards "I am at the river". We are learning how to spell the words 'I', 'am', 'at' and 'the'. Thank you, Nikki

Dancing song!

Bubbles by Dot Meharry

Hi Parents and Caregivers, Today we read the story "Bubbles". We looked at the words: dog, cat, up, down, the, my, pop and the word over. We also blew some bubbles in class. Thank you, Nikki

Sentence 15th April 2013

Hi Parents and Caregivers, Today on the chalkboards we wrote "The dog is big" using the correct letter formation and casey shapes. Thank you, Nikki

Gala Day at Arahoe Primary School

Hi Parents and Caregivers,Thank you for supporting the Arahoe School gala day on saturday. What a fun day we all had. I was so excited to see some children from the Junior school around. Hope you all had a great day. Thank you, Miss Watson

Our first sentence

Hi Parents and Caregivers, Today we wrote our first sentence on the chalkboards. We wrote "The cat sat.". We talked about how a capital letter starts a sentence and a full stop finishes a sentence. Thank you, Nikki

Ara Teina Assembly Certificate winner!

Well done to Isabella who has been a great friend and helper to the new children who arive at school.

In the Garden! (Book for today)

Hi Parents and Caregivers, Today we read the book "In the garden". We looked at the high frequency words: “I”, “in”, “my”, “the”. We read the book using the pictures to help us when we did not know the word. In class we made our own sentence to go with the book. Our sentence was "I put the butterfly in the tree." and we made a butterfly to go in the tree. At home you could find all the words in the text that start with “b”. List them and read the list together. Ask your child to find other things that start with the same (“b”) sound in the illustrations. Thank you, Nikki

Chalkboard rhyming words

Hi Parents and Caregivers, Today on the chalk boards we wrote letters using casey shapes and then words using these letters. Our words today all rhymed. We used: at, mat and hat. Thank you, Nikki

Make It! (Reading book)

Hi Parents and Caregivers, Today we have been reading the book 'Make It!'. We looked at the sentence 'We made a hat' in our book and then followed instructions to make a hat. Look at the hats we made below. We also looked at the rhyming words: Hat, Mat, Cat, Sat in our shared writing. We noticed that the first letter changed in all the words but 'at' stayed the same. Thank you, Nikki

Letter G and the sound the letter G makes

Hi Parents and Caregivers, Today we have been learning about the letter 'g' and the sound the letter 'g' makes. To make the letter 'g' we use 'open mouth' 'possum tail'. You can listen to a song about the letter 'g' below. Thank you, Nikki

Fantail, Fantail by Margaret Mahy

Hi Parents and Caregivers, Our book for today is "Fantail, Fantail" By Margaret Mahy. We will have our our little book to take home tonight to read. Talk about the pictures with your child then look at how a capital letter starts a sentence and how a full stop finishes a sentence. Thank you, Nikki

Fun on the playground with our new friends!

Pirate Show 8th April 2013

Hi Parents and Caregivers, Today we went to see the pirate show. We learnt about pirates and sung some songs. Captain Festus and Captain Mcboyle were amazing. You can view there shows at www.manic.co.nz. View a youtube clip of todays show above. Thank you, Nikki

Casey shapes and letters on Chalk boards

Hi Parents and Caregivers, Today we did our casey shapes on the chalkboards. We learnt tunnel, cup, twig, ladybug spot, short stick and tall stick. We also made the letter h, i and t. Thank you, Nikki

Our Chalkboard lesson (New Children)

Hi Parents and Caregivers, Today we have been practising on our chalkboards our tree trunk, branch, egg and broken branch. Then we learnt tall stick and short sticks on the chalkboards. We have also been learning to peer and self assess our work. Thank you, Nikki

Welcome new children to Room 20

Us at Dance Party! 5th April!

Letter J and the sound J makes in words!

Hi parents and caregivers, Today we have been learning about the letter 'j'. We listened to the sound the letter 'j' made in words. For example: Jam, Jelly, Jacket, and Jar. You can watch the video about the letter J below. Thank you, Nikki