Pic Collage on the iPad

WALT: Use a variety of apps on the iPad

Success Criteria: 

• Take a photo using the iPad
• Use Pic Collage to cut and paste the photo onto a background
• Add text

                     

Keeping Our Friends and Oursleves Safe

In Room 12 we have been talking about how to keep each other safe.  We made a class promise and we have been using this to help us make the right choices.  

Our School

WALT: Talk about the people and places around Sunnyhills School

What we did: 

• We went for orientation walks as a part of our fitness programme
• Greeted and introduced ourselves to people
• Delivered messages to the office
• Dropped the lunches off to Mrs Coombes
• Created a mural about 'Our School'
• Shared our findings with the new people in our class

 

                      

Reading

WALT: Read independently

We know that we are successful when we:

• Know the letter names and the sounds letters make
• Know our pink, red, yellow, blue and green words in our word pockets
• Use blends to helps us read new words
• Look at the pictures to get clues
• Point to the words with our finger as we read and later read with our eyes only
• Talk about what happened in the beginning, middle and end of the story
• Answer questions about the story

 

 

Fitness

WALT: Take part in daily physical activity 
What we have been doing:

Balancing on the wobbly beam.

• Exploring the Boat and Junior Playgrounds
• Joining in with Jump Jam and GoNoodle fitness activities
• Talking about why fitness is important to keep our heart healthy
• Participating in Te Reo Kori activities

Dancing to the Wobbly Man.

Pop See Ko!

Sliding down the fireman's pole.

 
        Jump Jam in the hall with the Year 0-1 classes.

Celebrating Matariki

We celebrated Matariki (Maori New Year) by taking part in lots of fun activities like planting, kite making and cooking.

Matariki is the Maori name for a group of seven stars known as the Pleiades.  Some people think of Matariki as a mother star with six daughters, and it is often referred to as the Seven Sisters.  Matariki appears in the eastern sky around the shortest day of the year.  We worked as a team, to make roasted kumara to share with our whanau (family).  

    Did you see Matariki in the sky, while you enjoyed eating the kumara?

Peeling the kumara.

Liam chops the kumara ready for washing.

Blake and Matthew are great peelers!

                                                                       

Sophie is concentrating really hard!

Matthew adds the notice to his kumara pack

Mmmmm... the kumara smell yummy!

Aayush is putting his kumara in the tin foil. 

                                

Kapa Haka!!

Room 12 loves singing, dancing and learning Te Reo when we go to Junior Kapa Haka on Tuesday afternoons.  

Whaea Tearani has been teaching us greetings, days of the week and parts of the body.  The girls sing sweetly and the boys do Ka Mate fiercely like the All Blacks.  Tino pai rawa Room 12!!

Arts Week

In Week 6 Sunnyhills School took part in an Arts Week celebration.  

We visited teachers in other classes to take part in drama, visual art and music activities.  During lunchtimes we watched teachers, students and other visitors to the school perform or share their art.  We visited Mrs Dowden the Music Specialist at Sunnyhills and had fun with bubbles, balloons and musical instruments. We joined in with the Story Teller who visited the Junior School.  We looked at the amazing Wearable pieces of artwork created by a local artist. In our class we used clay to make creatures we might find in our edible garden.  

Arts Week was fun!!