Being A Learner - School Visit #4

Today we had our last school visit! We had a busy day drawing, painting and naming body parts. 
First we got Mat Man out and assembled him.  We all had parts and Miss Collins sang the song and we had to add the body part to Mat Man and point to that body part on our own body. 

Then we drew lines from the body part names to the body part.  There were lots of tricky words to read!  Alex a big boy helped us out with this activity.

This is Mat Man.  There is also a game students can play online.

Mat Man Game: https://www.lwtears.com/hwt/learning-lounge/mat-man-world/build-mat-man/online-game

This video is another class singing the Mat Man Song.

After that we painted a background using paint.  We had to dab the green paint to make it look like grass and we swirled the blue paint around to make it look like the sky.  Miss Collins taught us how to manage the paint by only dipping our brush in a little bit, wiping our brush, how to change colour, painting techniques and how to put on an art shirt.  We enjoyed painting together!

After painting we looked at Mat Man again and then we tried drawing ourselves with pencil.  Once we had drawn ourselves nice and big we drew over our lines with vivid.  Miss Collins cut them out and she is going to glue them onto the background for our Art display.

Here are our artworks!  

   

Being A Learner: Our First PE Lesson

We have started our Run, Jump, Throw PE unit.  As part of this we learn how to throw a shot put and discus, run in lanes, jump over hurdles and the high jump, long jump and long distance running.  It is a lot to learn!  We get to showcase our skills at our whole School Athletics Day at the end of the term.  Here are some photos of us practising our shot put. 

Being A Learner: Our First Kiwisport Lesson with Nate

On Friday we had our first Kiwisport lesson with Nate.  We have Kiwisport every second Friday and every other Friday we practise the skills that we learnt at the last lesson.  

We played a game to develop our locomotor skills which involved us moving around others.  This is an important skill for invasion games.  

After that we played a game where we had to move through the hoops in different ways and drop a bean bag for the next person in our team to pick up.  It was good to practise taking turns in a relay situation.  

Being A Learner: Ww is for Walruses

Today we watched a You Tube Clip about Walruses as part of our Writing.  We watched the video one and then we watched it again to gain more information.  It was interesting!

Here is the video clip that we watched.  

   

After that, we created a plan with three ideas using pictures.  Next we will write about our three points into a story.  Watch this space!  This will be our first writing on our wall this term!  

2016 in Room One

Room One will open once Room Two is full.  We are hoping this will be early Term 2.  In the mean time Miss Collins and Mrs Tizzard will be teaching in Rooms Two and Three.   

Please visit these class blogs to see what our Kakano Learners have been up to.  

Ka kite ano!  

Being A Learner: Fabulous Fractions

Over the last two weeks Room One have been learning about fractions.  Our Teachers found that when they tested us we didn't know about halves and quarters so they decided to teach us about them so that we know what these words mean.  Our Teachers planned lots of cool activities like fraction fairy bread, cutting up shapes, making pizza, cutting up fruit and cutting and eating cake.  We enjoyed making the connection with food and our everyday world.  We also did some sorting of fractions and cut up strips and labelled them.  Learning was lots of fun!  

Here are some photos our learning about Fabulous Fractions...

BEING A LEARNER: Our letter of the week is Jj

Room One's Letter of the Week is... Jj

Each week we focus on a letter to learn, read and write about.  We do this through phonics, singing, reading stories, handwriting, alphabet activities, letter writing, playdough, Language Experience, make and do and lots of other things.  

This week we are learning about the letter Jj.  We will learn its name, its sound, how to write and recognise it and about some things that begin with this letter.   

The teachers love planning exciting learning experiences to help us learn our letters. 

At the moment we LOVE alphabet songs so Miss Collins has posted a couple about the letter Jj that we might like.  

How many Jj words can you see and hear in these You Tube Clips Room One?

Here is NEW clip where you have to find the things that start with Jj.  In this video the capital letter looks a little different to how we write it but it is good to get used to seeing how some people write the letter J.

School Cross Country

Today we had our school Cross Country.  Room One ran first with Room Two.  We managed to run all the way round without stopping.  

It was exciting taking part in Cross Country for the first time.  

We had been training since last term and when we started running we couldn't run around the field non-stop.  Our fitness has improved!  

We enjoyed cheering our whanau, buddies and friends on as they raced.  

A big thanks to the parents who came and watched us!  

Room One Results

1st Boy - Lucas 

2nd Boy - Cody

1st Girl - Lupe

2nd Girl - Sasha

This photo shows the different things we did today.  We lined up ready to be called for our race.  Then we sat on the start/finish line.  After that we got ready and Mr Marsh blew his whistle to set us off.  We ran around the field without stopping all the way to the finish line.  The last photos are of the first and second place getters in Room One.  

Wonderful Room One Linwood North Learners

Wow!  We have finished our second week of school and what a great week of learning we have had.  Room One LOVES Reading!  We are superstars at pointing to each word.  Miss Collins and Mrs Tizzard are very excited about the cool books we will be able to read soon.  

Room One have made a great start on their Home Learning and it has been awesome seeing the Room One students reading nights adding up in their notebook.  Both Teachers are looking forward to giving out the first 25 nights certificate!  Keep reading!  

We thought we introduce the first 2015 learners in Room One...

This is Izzan and he started this week.  Izzan enjoys reading and likes our class fish Ma and Karaka.

This is Micheal and he is a pointing superstar.  Micheal enjoys fitness and can run really fast.

This is Dupree and he does everything with this wonderful smile.  Dupree is a super messenger.

This is Naomi and she enjoys drawing.  Naomi is great friend to the other children in Room One.

This is Justine and she loves School.  Justine is the most amazing dancer and loves to take risks and try new things.

This is Mitchell and he is a confident LNS learner.  Mitchell is a superstar at writing and enjoys writing stories.

This is Jaedyn and he loves to draw pictures.  Jaedyn is a superstar at thinking of ideas to write stories about.

This is Aurora and she is a great friend to others.  Aurora enjoys exploring the Learning Centre.

This is Zivan and he loves coming to school.  Zivan is great at getting ready to start the day and at packign his bag at the end of the day by himself. 

This is Ferishta and she is a superstar at getting her work finished.  Ferishta loves learning new things!

This is Rahnui and Miss Fraser.  Rahnui is a special member of Room One and loves being read to by other children.  This children in Room One have been making Rahnui a special feelie book.  Rahnui loves music and responds with lots of laughter and smiles.