Word detectives. We are using the magnifying glasses to find our words. They are tiny so we have to look carefully

Assembly March 4th

Well done to our confident presenters


These guys got principal awards for being thinkers...


Autahi shared a poem about change:

Mahutonga shared some beach poems

Our students in Tautoru shared some things that they have found out in their inquiry about rock pools. 

Building our reading muscle

We have been learning to read a book on our own. Even if we can't read the words we know that we can read the pictures, or retell the story if we know it already. It is great to be able to read for a longer time on our own. It is showing that we are able to concentrate and focus on a story. We are also learning to be responsible for our own learning.

Rising Fives Scavenger Hunt

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Every Wednesday afternoon we have our rising fives where the students who will be starting later in that term or in the next term come to visit.  Sometimes we have free choosing time to try different things, sometimes we have a story and an ABC game and other times we look around the school.  This week we did our scavenger hunt where we teamed up with rising five kids and did a hunt around the school for where things are and when we go there. 

We learned three ways to read a book

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This week we learned 3 different ways to read a book.  We can read the pictures, read the words or retell the story in our own words.  Then we practised using our reading muscle.  This week our muscle is only 2 minutes strong.  That's how long we could sit and read without getting up and staying focused on our books.  Next week we hope to beat 2 minutes!

On Mondays we have a news sharing circle--it's called donut news because we sit like a donut!

On Mondays we share our news in a donut circle.  We call it a donut circle because we sit on an inside circle and an outside circle.  This is when we can share news about our weekends or interesting things we've seen, made or done.

We are sorting b's and c's into our abc books

On Monday we started sorting pictures into our ABC books.  We were sorting pictures that start with B and C.