We love music with Mr Kim!

We really love Thursday afternoons music with Mr Kim.
Look at this huge instrument Mr Kim played for us today. We learned that the smaller instruments make a higher sound and the bigger instruments made a lower sound. It was fun watching him take it apart to pack it in his case!

We also play our xylophones and then had turns playing different instruments like the triangle, castinnets, tambourines and drums.

Lot's of fun!

maths

We are working hard to recognise and order numbers to 20.

 Great team work Maddy and Sariyah, you have ordered the numbers to 20.

More great team work from Elsa and Latrell-they are using the number line to help order the numbers to 20, what a great idea!

Play dough fun!

We are making our names out of playdough.

Did you know that rolling out the playdough strengthens our muscles and helps to develop our fine motor skills.

Keeping Ourselves Safe

Over the next few weeks, our school is working through the Keeping Ourselves Safe programme.
In Tuatahi, we have been talking about safe places which includes when we might feel safe or unsafe.

As part of this, the learners are being encouraged to know their address, in particular the street they live in.
Our learners have drawn a picture of their house to put onto our 'class street' display.

We decided to extend the house 'theme' into our play based learning and here are some photos of different houses or safe places that have been built.

Israel made a house to keep the dinosaur safe.

Willjay counted 7 windows in his house!

Maise is drawing a picture of his house.

Siddharth made a castle to keep his cars safe.

Cultural Unity Day

On Friday it was our annual Cultural Unity Day.

Our day began with an assembly in the hall which was decorated with the many flags represented in our school. Then we listened to greetings in the many different languages represented in our school. There were 30 children up the front to share their different greetings!

Then each class had an opportunity to walk across the stage to share their special clothing and costumes with the rest of the school.

We also sang a song together called "Under the Southern Skies"-you may have heard your children practising it at home, it sounded amazing when sung in assembly.

 

Tukaha bought a huge watermelon that he had grown in his garden for our shared lunch-yum, thanks Tukaha!

Here is a photo of our beautiful Tuatahi children dressed in their special clothes on Cultural Unity Day.
                 

More maths fun!

Latrell made a very tall tower out of cubes and then he put his tower on the ground to see how long it was.
Some of our learners decided to see who was longer-them or the tower!
Who do you think is the longest?

Maths fun!

We are learning how to gather information to make a graph.
Last week we made a pictograph to see which insect we would like to find in our garden.
We found out that a butterfly was the most popular insect and the cockroach was the least favourite.

This week we made a tally chart and a bar graph.
First we sorted a bowl of cubes into colours.

Then we counted how many of each colour there were.

We put our information into a tally chart and then we made a bar graph. Next time you are in Tuatahi, pop in and have a look at our finished graphs on the wall.

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swimming

We had a fun time in the swimming pool this week with our wonderful instructors from Swimsation.
We put life jackets on and tried floating on our backs. It was tricky to get ourselves onto our backs, but we felt very proud when we could do it!

A few more learners in action this week!

 Look at these beautiful pictures Bethany has done for her 'v' page.

 Clemence has practised writing our word of the week using magnetic letters.

          Great team work with this puzzle girls.

Wednesday afternoon saw us all hot and tired

 and some learners chose to relax with a good book!

Maddy and Imaan are having fun writing their name using chalk-look at their great letter formation.

Maths

Some of our maths activities this week have included counting and matching activities like the one Toria has done here.

 Bethany and Clemence have been exploring different patterns.

 Eris is practising her counting by counting how many circles she has used in her construction.

Gyzharn, Divit and Sione have been experimenting with the scales and were very pleased with themselves when they made it balance!