Kick Catch Throw

We are learning a range of large ball skills. Today we worked on kicking the ball.

Red Hat Thinking

We figured out that we eat about 7 meals a day and we eat lots of different types of food. Most of the time we eat what ever we want. After watching the East Timor video we could not believe that some people can only eat 1 meal a day!

We put our red hats on and got thinking!

East Timor

Everyone needs food to live!

We have been thinking about how much food we eat, when we eat it and what foods we love and dislike. Now we are looking at how other people use food. We watched this video to get us thinking. What do you think? Leave a comment!

Dominos

In Room 11 we love to make dominos in the morning. It is fun.

By Jayden and Daniel

Autumn

We collected Autumn leaves and made a class Autumn Tree. We came up with some key words about Autumn.

leaves, cold, red, trees, orange,

gold, ground, brown, falling, yellow

Here are some stories we wrote about autumn.

It is nearly winter. The leaves are trying to fall off the trees. They are turning brown yellow red gold orange.

By Kayla

The leaves will fall in Autumn. They will fall on the ground.

By James J

Today it is Autumn. I can see yellow and brown and red and gold and orange and green.

By Makayla

The trees and the leaves are changing because it is Autumn.

By Renee

The leaves are falling on the ground. Autumn is here. I like Autumn because I like the colours. I can see gold yellow and orange.

By Catherine

Dinosaur Maths Group

We are are learning to count in tens. We can use the abacus to make any number up to 100 by counting in tens.

Tens and Ones on PhotoPeach

Ball Skills

This term we are learning a range of ball skills. Today we practiced rolling and bouncing the ball.

Super Writer Ollie!

Ollie did some Super writing today about duck shooting. He worked really hard to write tricky words using the sounds that he could hear. Ka Pai

Term 2 is Here

Save Water

We have been thinking all about how different people in different places use water differently. We know that lots of people don't have much water so we want to do our best to save what we have.

Red Nose Day Song

Cure Kids Red Nose Day is coming up in November and we are learning this song as a school. Have a practise over the school holidays.

Wonky Donkey

We saw this video in assembly last week. We love it and hope to do some super writing about the wonky donkey. watch this space for our stories.

Miss Evans showed us a movie of the Wonky Donkey. By Renee

The Wonky Donkey is funny because he farted on the bird. By Maarino

The Wonky Donkey is funny because he only has three legs and one eye. He is cranky in the morning. It was in assembly so the whole school listened to it. By Catherine

Shapes!

Red Hat Thinkhing

When we use our red hat we think about peoples feelings.

We put our red hats on and thought about how it would feel to have no or little water and how it would feel to have to work very hard to get our water.

This is what we thought...

hungry, thirsty, sick, exhausted,

tired, dirty, sleepy, smelly, sad,

miss people

How would you feel?

Leave a comment.

Writing about Spongebob Squarepants

Daniel

Ollie

Makayla

Bethany

James

Speedy Words

Chance was a super writer today.

She tried really hard to use correctly spelt speedy words like...

I, went, to, the, it, me, and, we.

Very Clever!

We are learning to order numbers to 20

Biggest to Smallest

Smallest to Biggest

Water Inquiry

We are thinking about walking in someone else's shoes. We are learning that "All people use different things in different ways."

We are beginning by thinking about WATER.

Click on the brainstorm to view our wonderings.

Please leave a comment and tell us what you wonder about this picture.

Sponge Bob Adventures

Sponge Bob stayed at Kyah's house this week . Kyah wrote a story about what they did together.

"Me and Sponge Bob played on the leapster. I shared my lolly pop. We had fun."

I wonder who Sponge Bob will be visiting next week?

James the 'Super Writer'!

Super writing James! This is an awesome piece of writing. We like the way you described what you saw while you were skate boarding on the road.

Mitchell the 'Super Writer'

"In the weekend I went to the Field Days. I watched a movie."

Mitchell worked so hard to be a 'Super Writer' today!

He remembered to use finger spaces between all of his words and he said the words he wanted to write and wrote the sounds that he could hear.

Well Done Mitchell!

Teen Numbers

In Room 11 we have been learning our 'teen numbers. We are learning to make teen numbers using groups of tens and ones.

Teen Numbers on PhotoPeach

Busy Bees in Room 11

Wharite Swimming Sports

We watched the Wharite children at their swimming sports. Have a listen to some of our stories.

JD

Catherine

Lucy

Bethany

Swimming Celebration

Swimming Celebration on PhotoPeach

McKenzie the Super Writer!

"I am on a horse it was fun. I am going to jump."

We think this is a super story because...

It has finger spaces and some great letter sounds.

Well done Mckenzie.

E Toru Nga Mea

have a listen to one of the songs that we sung during our marae visit.

The Marae

Our Visit To The Marae on PhotoPeach

Talking Partners

We have got our talking partners up and running. We love sharing our ideas, feelings and thoughts with our peers. To make sure that we get the most out of our talking partners we brainstormed ideas on how to be a great talking partner. Do you have any other great ideas?

Class Treaty

In Room 11 We have been discussing our school values then we created a class treaty together describing what our school values mean to us. Take a look!

Class Treaty

In Room 11 we stand by our Values.

we work hard to....

Respect

Keep our hands and feet to ourselves

Look after each other

Look after our classroom

Listen to our teacher

Teamwork

Cooperate with each other

Take turns

Be fair

Responsibility

Bring books back to school

Be organised in the morning

Be responsible for my own belongings

Perserverance

Stay on task and keep trying, even when something is hard.

Creativity

Share our thinking

Hello, and welcome to our new class blog for 2011. This is going to be a special place for Room 11 children to share all their learning discoveries and experiences with family and friends. For the beginning of Term 1 We are going to be focused on getting to know one another. Keep an eye on this space to see what we are getting up to.