Term 1 Week 9

We have had a great short week in Room 6. 

We had Brooke come and take us for Netball skills. We had a great time. 

 We have been practicing our one to one counting using materials this week. We have also been taking counters away and adding counters on to our sets of materials. 

On Friday we had Buddy Reading with Room 3. They word tested us and made sure we used our finger pointer when reading. 

Term 1 Week 8

This week is a very busy and short week. 

On Tuesday we had Room 5 join us because Mrs Bodie-Rouse was sick. 

We talked about Easter and made some special art work. 

For maths we went outside to find treasures. We had to collect different numbers of different items. We talked about if we had 2 more items how many would we then have. We also put some treasures back and counted them again. We loved learning outside. 

We had been working really hard this week, so we got a wee treat of going into the Staff Room and having Milo's. We also talked about healthy options and how we should drink water and not fizzy. 

Term 1 Week 7

This week we made art as part with our topic 'We All Belong'. The first piece of art we created was Rainbow Fish. Before making our art we read the book, watched the video clip and made the our rainbow fish puzzles. We had a big talk about how everyone is different and that this is a good thing. We also talked about sharing and helping others like rainbow fish did in the story by giving his sparkly scales to the other fish. 

 We also made insects. These were linked into our maths learning with statistics and counting the objects we collected to make the back grounds.

We loved reading and listening to the book Fantail, Fantail. It was a great book to take home and share with our Whanau. 

Mark visited us on Friday to help with our ball skills. We are getting a lot better at having our hands ready for catching. 

On Friday afternoon the school spent their afternoon outside completing a range of activities. We had a great time learning how to work with people we usually don't, how to help each other and try new things. 

Term 1 Week 6

We are having a very busy week. One of our maths groups have been learning how to add numbers together by counting all the materials. 

 We let the last of our gorgeous butterflies fly free this week. We had a great time following them around the playground, while they were trying to find their new home. 

We had our weekly library visit on Monday. We have learnt to be very quiet in the library. We make sure we whisper and tip toe. We love reading books and being able to take them home to share with our friends and Whanau. 

One of our fantastic Room 6 helpers brought a birds nest to school. We did a lot of talking about why birds have nests, what they are made from and how they make them. We found out that this nest was made from feathers, straw, string, leaves and lots of other things. 

Term 1 Week 5

Thank you to everyone for coming to 3 Way Conferences this week. The relationship we have with each students family and whanau has a significant impact on their learning. It was great for the students to share their learning with you and to set goals. 

We are having a great time swimming this week. We have been learning how to be safe around water. Miss Patrick is amazed by how our confidence has grown this week. 

This is us patiently waiting for our lesson and practicing our letter formations. 

We were lucky to have Captain Cash visit us at Netherby. She spoke to us about different types of money and needs/wants. We loved having a clue hunt around the classroom and learning about money. 

Our shared reading book for this week is called "Lost". It is about a creature who gets lost. We loved this book because it also came in a smaller size, that we could each take home and share with our whanau. Here are our own creatures we created using fur. 

Term 1 Week 4

On Monday we paid our respects for the people who died or were inquired in the Christchurch Earthquake. We had a minutes silence and sang our National Anthem. 

Our Caterpillars are turning into beautiful butterfly's. They are very bight and Room 6 are loving watching them hatch from their cocoons. 

We have created our own butterfly art. We PVA glued lots of little pieces of coloured paper, making sure there was no gaps on our templates. We made sure our butterfly wings were a reflection of each other. Come into Room 6 and see the backgrounds we have made for them to go on. They are gorgeous!

We were super lucky to have Jason come and teach us rugby skills. We learnt several ball skills and how to cheer each other on. 

This week we have been working on our school value of Perseverance Hiringa - Be encouraging with others. 

We took the time to count how many tokens we had earned and made a goal of how many we wanted to have before the end of the week. 

Term 1 Week 3

Last Friday Room 6 had Mark come to teach us sport skills. We had a great time and wrote stories about it afterwards. 

We have been training for the School Duathlon. After running we had a rest under the trees and listened to all the noises.  We could hear students talking, trucks on the road and the wind in the trees.   

On Tuesday Miss Patrick got us to practice our reading with a class buddy. We are getting really good at finger pointing and learning our high frequency words. 

In maths we have been learning the number before and after a number. We have been using the number fans and number lines to help us. 

We had some students from the senior school help us out with folding our milk cartons correctly. It was great having milk with the hot weather. 

Term 1 Week 2

Room 6 had a great time Buddy Reading with Room 3 on Friday. Everyone had great manners and enjoyed sharing their favourite book with their buddy. 

We have been practicing recognising numbers quickly. With this game Miss Patrick calls out our name and a number and we have to hit the correct number with a fly swat. We love learning outside. 

We have finished our gorgeous artwork about ourselves. You can come in and see how old we are, who is in our family, what our favourite colours are and what we like to do...

Last week we wrote letters to Mr Wheeler to come and see our Caterpillars. We also made some art work and have made a wall display showing our published writing. See if you can spot our Caterpillar that has turned into a Chrysalis in the photo. 

This week we have been reading a book called 'The Giant's Ice Cream'. We loved the book so much that we wrote our own stories and painted our own ice-creams. 

We have been learning about presentation and keeping our classroom and school tidy. On Thursday we went on a rubbish hunt to find things that should have been put in the rubbish bin or the compost. We are proud about how tidy our school looks.

Term 1 Week 1

We are having a great week in Room 6. Mr Wheeler let us have the Netherbee this week. We gave him a tour of our classroom and the School. He has been watching how hard we have been working and listening to instructions. 

George our class toy looks after our caterpillars while we are busy doing our school work. 

We have been learning how to use the Ipads to help with our learning. We have also been dying the back ground of our posters all about us. Come in and look at this when they are completed next week.