Danish Day

Amelia's grandad comes from Denmark.  He lives in Tauranga and his name is Johannes (but people call him Joe).  Amelia's grandad and grandma came over for the afternoon to tell us all about Denmark.  We learnt how to say some Danish words and we ate some Danish baking. What did you enjoy the most about the visit?

Kebabs

 We celebrated Maddison's birthday with fruit kebabs that her mum kindly bought in.  We were lucky that we got to make our own ones.  What fruit do you like to put on fruit kebabs?

Writer's of the day

Kaden and Brody are the writer's of the day.  They both used verbs to help paint a picture for the reader and used repeating words to make their writing effective.

Verbs

We have been learning about verbs (action words) and how to use these in our writing.  Can you write one or two sentences telling us what you did on the weekend and include verbs.

Shelley and Germany

We had the coolest day today!! Archer's Mum Shelley came in to talk to us about Germany.  Archer's grandad is from Germany and so Shelley used to spend 6 weeks of every year in Germany.

Shelley can speak German and she is a great at making german food.  We were lucky to try some delicious german potato salad and cute heart biscuits that she made especially for our class!

We love learning about new cultures and we think Archer is lucky to eat german food at home. Thank you Shelley for coming in.  We learnt so much :)

Kiwi Food

On Wednesday we talked about food that come from different countries, like sushi comes from Japan.  We had pavlova, kiwifruit, pineapple lumps, jaffas and hokey pokey ice cream!
Can you name a food or a dish and tell us what country it came from?

Writing group

Congratulations to Miss Wiseley's writing group who have all been doing clever things in their writing.

Alligator Alley

We have been reading 'Alligator Alley'.  How could Mrs O'Malley have solved the problem differently with the alligators?

It's cold out there!

The weather has turned and it is getting cold out there.  What clothes will you need to wear or bring to keep you warm outside today?

Performers from Ghana

On Friday we watched some performers from Ghana.  What did you like the most about their performance?

Having Courage

What have you done this week that required courage?  It could be in your learning or something at home.  I had to show courage this week when I had to talk to a group of mums at ABC Early Childhood Centre.

Pepeha with Room 6

We have been learning about our pepeha - which is how we introduce ourselves in maori.  We invited Room 6 to our class to share their mihimihi with us and help us with our pronunciation of the maori words.

Blend of the week

How many words can you write with the blend 'wh'?

Writer of the day ..... everyone!

Room 17 wrote such great stories today that we couldn't choose! The whole class is the writer of the day.  We wrote about 'What's in the box'.  We had a model that we could write from and there were lots of great ideas written down.

Writing

Mrs Murray and I went on a course all about how to make writing fun.  What do you like most about writing?

Monday.

What is the weather like today?

Chunk and Blend

Our chunk of the week is 'ump' and our blend is 'gr'.  How many words can you think of with either the chunk or the blend?

Grumpy Rhino

Our shared book this week is 'Grumpy Rhino'.  What is the problem in the story?  What makes you grumpy?