Lizards, lizards, lizards!

Look at our fabulous lizards!! We have been reading a book called Lizzie the little lizard and we are also going to see the show 'Lizard and Snake' next term so we decided to make our own lizards for the wall. We did drafts in our art books before enlarging them onto paper. We used mosaic squares to create patterns on our lizards and dyed them so they would be camouflaged in all our leaves! We think they look very cool!

Monkey's shoes!

Our shared book this week was Monkey's Shoes by Jill Eggleton. We loved reading it so much that we decided to record us reading it! Here it is with images we have drawn!

New playground game!

Our lovely student teachers have made this fantastic new playground game for us. It is a kiwi version of snakes and ladders called...Lizards and ferns! It is big and strong enough for us to actually play the game ON it which we think is very cool...thank you!!!

Simple machines!

We have been learning all about simple machines. Our favourite ones are levers and pulleys because they help us lift things. We have been playing with them in class to figure out how they work.

Fraction fun!

We have been learning about fractions in maths and our student teacher had a fun lesson for us. First we got to play with playdough and make pizzas! We were learning about halves so we cut our pizzas in half and shared them with a friend. Some of us even pretended to eat them! Then we traced around lots of shapes on paper and cut them out and folded them in half. We cut them down the middle with scissors and glued them into our maths book. Now we are starting to understand what a half means...next up we will try quarters!

Our lamb visitors!

This voicethread is about our lamb visitors that we had recently. You can play all our comments by pushing the play button or just to hear one of us you click on our pictures. It will automatically go to the next page or you can click on the arrow. We loved having the lambs come and visit us at school!

Gymnastics!

For the last few weeks in P.E. we have been doing some basic gymnastics. Last year we were lucky enough to go to the Bruce Pullman Centre with proper instructors and equipment, but this year we managed to still have lots of fun just doing what we could at school. We used our playground and some basic equipment in the auditorium to work on our balancing, jumping and landing skills. We noticed great improvement in our balancing and upper body strength in just a few weeks! And of course we had lots and lots of FUN!!