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Welcome to our blog! We are a new entrant/year one collaborative class at Hurupaki School in Whangarei, NZ. Visit us regularly to see what we have been learning about! We do lots of fun and exciting activities in our classroom. Remember to 'Follow by Email' on the left hand side so that you don't miss anything!!
Monday 7 May 2018
Friday 4 May 2018
Loose parts Thursday 3 May 2018
Today we introduced some new loose parts for the children to explore. We put outside some long cardboard tubes of varying diameter, plastic boards, a large wooden reel, and some small plastic reels along with the cars and plastic animals. The children were immediately in engaged in collaborating, sharing, problem solving, and using their imagination to explore what they could do with the parts.
Loose Parts Play
It is great to see the students building on their loose parts play from yesterday and exploring new things, the conversations that they are very rich and it is amazing to see the way that they are collaborating and working in teams...
Meanies By Joy Cowley
This week our shared book was Meanies by Joy Cowley. It is such a fun story to read and the students really enjoyed using their imagination to discuss the ideas they had about the characters. Today we are making our own Meanies!
A visitor for the weekend...
In Pod 6 we have got some special friends who are going to be visiting students homes throughout the rest of the year. Each special friend has items unique to him or her that they will be bringing with them. They also have a journal so that families can record their special visit to be shared with the rest of the class. These friends are Kuwi Kiwi, Edward Bear, and Paddington Bear. Each Friday they will choose a student to go home with and will come back to school on Monday. We hope you enjoy having our friends to visit.
Thursday 3 May 2018
Autumn Leaves Stamping Art
Today we used leaves as stamps to make beautiful pictures of the autumn colours...
Learning through play...
We got some more different activities out today and the students were working hard on managing their relationships, establishing rules for their play and working through conflict together. There was also a lot of development of motor skills throughout the day.
Renee and Alfie are forming a new friendship through their conversations and play. They are also working on motor skills as they build the train track together.
Katie and Daisy are making different patterns using a range of shapes, colours and formations.
Mason and Dylan have developed their own game and rules for their play with the bugs, they are engaged in conversation throughout this play.
Bohen, Cass, Tae, Theo, Alfie, Luca and Louis developed rules and boundaries together for their car races. They were also exploring force throughout this play.
Our doctors, nurses and surgeons are developing communication skills and literacy skills during their hospital play. They are writing patient notes and well as engaging in lots of conversation with a range of students which is in turn developing new relationships.
Luca and Dylan are developing their fine motor skills while they are building houses.
Mixed Ability Maths
This week we had a tricky problem to solve in our mixed ability maths teams. We had to work out how many different ways we could park 5 cars inside and outside the garage e.g. 1 in and 4 out etc. The teams worked really well together using the materials to support their understanding.
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