Friday, August 27, 2010

Thursday, August 26, 2010

The winners are.....







1st Tiffany
2nd Lucy
3rd = Oliver and Carlos

Photo Competition



We are learning to take good photographs.We have a photo competition going on in our room. People have been voting for their favourite photo.Our criteria is
The bug in a place it could be found
TEXTURE in the background
A frame that matches our photo.
Today at maths time we tallied all the votes to see who were the winners.

Todays open questions?


Where is the house? By Georgie
How hot is the fire? by Ella
When will the fire go out? by Tommi
Who set the house on fire? By Brooklyn
What started the fire? By Connor
Who lives in the house? By Connor

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Can you?


Can you write some open questions for this iceberg photo ? We would love to read them.

Open and Closed questions


We are learning how to ask open and closed questions. We wrote some great open questions about our bee picture. Here are some of them.
What is the bee doing?
What do bees do?
Why do bees have stripes?
Why do bees live in a hive?
How do bees make honey?

Monday, August 23, 2010

Caption contest winner



Congratulations. see Mrs Mackie for your prize.

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Library day



Today Mrs Bennitt came and read us a story about a library cat because it was National library day. She is our Librarian and helps make our library such and exciting learning space.Thanks Mrs Bennitt.

Looking closely at our Art work.



We have been looking at Reuben Patterson's art work.We made paintings like he does using glitter and paint. Today we shared them with Rei.We are learning to use words like line,colour,tone,pattern and balance when we talk about our work. Please come and look at our work in Room F. We would love to show you too!

Monday, August 9, 2010

Learning Conferences



We are getting ready to share our learning with our families. We showed our buddies all the great things we can do on Friday.They were impressed.

Winter warmers at the library



On Friday we went to the Feilding library to show Mrs Hogan our "Winter warmers " booklets. She loved them! We have read lots of great stories over the winter. we got a puzzle, pen and a book.Mrs Bennitt and Steve's Mum came with us. We had a play at the playground on the way home!

Wednesday, August 4, 2010