Blend and Word Family of the week!

This term instead of having Weekly Words, we are have a blend and word family of the week.  Last week our blend was 'th' and our word family was '_at'.
Here are all the 'th' words we could think of...
this
that
there
the
then
them
their
they

and here are all the 'at' family words we could think of...
fat
cat
bat
mat
sat
rat
hat
that
pat
what

Maths Fractions

We have been learning about halves of shapes and sets.

We have been doing lots of talking, sharing and showing our understanding about this. We know our doubles to 10. We discovered that finding halve of our double answers was easy! We know that when we share a number it has to be a fair share and it has to be an EVEN number!

Digi Awards

By Jessica, Samuel and Joshua.

by Nick, Trey and Kieryan.


By Eden, Jemma and Molly

By Cole, Kieran and Lucy

by Isabelle and Jaycob

By Lochie, EJ and Elise

We have made Photo essays to enter into the Digi Awards. We had to take photos that told a story and used the 'elements' of photography. We worked in small group. We hope you like the series of photos we took to tell a story.

Enjoy!

Weekly Words Term 3 Week 6 and 7

Now that we have more children in our class we have to have 2 sets of weekly words.
Group One has these words - to, is, up, for, big, he, at, went
Group Two has these words - one, my, sun, girl, boys, day, some, his.
Can you read these words?
Can you spell these words?

Assembly

In week 6 we shared a video about the elements of photography. Mrs Gunn made a movie to show all of our amazing photos we have been taking of colour, line, people and light.

Enjoy the show!

Athletics

We have had an Athletics Expert at our school! He has taught us how to correctly jump the high jump, throw the discus, do relays and throw the Vortex!

We are getting better at using the correct techniques.

We know that we have to hold the discus with our duck beak hand and throw the vortex with our muscle arm and super kid arm.

We have really enjoyed our sessions so far with Cameron and look forward to our other session this week!

PE - Gymnastics

This term, for PE, we have been developing our skills in Gymnastics. We have learnt how to roll, spring, land and rotate our bodies. Miss Heir's sister, Josephine, is a Gymnastics expert. She came and showed us her amazing skills. We really enjoy our gymnastics sessions and the teachers think we are getting better and better every session!

Kieryan, Molly and Lochie's Photos

More lines.....by Molly, Lochie and Kieryan!

Kieran, Jemma and EJ's photos

These are Kieran, Jemma's and EJ's photos. They have remembered to take a photo of themselves before they take their series of photos. Can you guess where they took most of their photos?

Cole, Lucy and Jessica's Line Photos

We have been using the Digital Cameras.

We have been learning about how

to make good photos, great!

We talked about how the 'elements of photography' can help us to this. Mrs Gunn sent us out with the digital cameras to photograph the elements of line. These photos were taken by Cole, Lucy and Jessica! Do you think we can improve?

Digital Cameras

We have been learning about Digital Cameras. Mrs Gunn asked us to do 'first thinking' about parts of the camera. We brainstormed what we knew about using the camera and the what we thought the different parts were for.
Can you name all these parts?

Singing our spelling!

We have been learning to spell lots of words by singing!
Mrs Gunn has taught us how to spell:
who
there
here
up
jump
like
the
play
one
if
all
with
and more!
We love singin our spelling songs....ask us to sing them to YOU!

Reading Rocks!

Adrian came to St James' School, during book week, to talk to us about how Reading Rocks!
He showed us how he learnt to Juggle and use a unicycle all because he could read!
He talked to us about how we can use our 'imagination' to go anywhere, be anything and do anything we like as we use our imagination to read!
When we read with Mrs Gunn, we are learning to...
use our pointing finger
learn and remember new words
sound out tricky words
remember the names of puntucation
read like we talk and
answer some questions about what we have read!
We love using our imagination too of course!

Grasshoppers Tennis!

For the last 4 weeks we have been doing 'Grasshopper Tennis' with Big John. We have learnt lots of new tennis skills. We use our tennis racket to do the
Race Track
Pop Corn
Trampoline
Cutting cheese and much much more!
We are looking forward to practising our new skills more and getting better and better and better at tennis!

Addition Rock

We have been working hard at learning our basic facts doubles to 10! We have learnt a new song called addition rock, to help us say our facts off by heart!

1+1 is 2
2+2= 4
3+3=6
4+4=8
5+5=10
I like you won't you be my friend!
So that's addition rock so everybody sing it again!

God the Holy Spirit - Te Wairua Tapu

In Religious Education, we have been learning about the Holy Spirit - Te Wairua Tapu.
We did some talking about how the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit are one God. This is the mystery of Go who is so great and so different from us. We can try and understand more about God who loves us. We did an experiment to help us. We saw how 3 colours blended together to become one. We can speak of and pray to each of the three persons but we must remember that they are all one God.

We talked about how the Holy Spirit is like water - it fills us up no matter what shape we are, it gives us life, it cleans us and it makes us grow.




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Discovery Time Term 2 Week 5

Today at Discovery Time we had to do Construction.
We were allowed to do woord work, puzzles, cardboard box, blocke and building construction.
We had lots of fun creating and building lots of cars, houses, communities, roads, tanks, bird houses and lots of other things.
Construction on PhotoPeach

Water Experiments

We were very lucky to have a 'Science Expert' come and do an experiment with us on Tuesday. Lochie's Mum Anita, came to school and did an experiment with us, we became 'Scientists!'. We wanted to find out what temperate water boils at and what temperature ice melts. We had to use a thermometer and read what the temperature was, every ten minutes.
We found out that ice melts at 0 degrees and boils at 100 degrees! We loved having Anita with us and guess what...she is coming back to do more experiments with us!
Room 7 Scientists on PhotoPeach

Weekly Words Term 2 Week 5

This week our Weekly words are:
which, their, will, about, about, how, if, said, do, each and up.
We are learning to read, spell and find these words during our Writing Card time in Reading. We are getting very clever at being able to do our learning with these words quickly and accurately.

Self Portrait Art

Our Self Portraits on PhotoPeach



We drew these pictures and have written underneath them to explain how the Holy Spirit - Te Wairua Tapu, works in us when we make good choices.


We finished this sentence..
The Holy Spirit is working in me when..
I am happy (Lochie)
I help my baby brother (Isabelle)
I am nice to my friends (EJ)
I help my Mum and Dad tidy up (Jemma)
I help my friends (Lucy)
I am am kind (Cole)
I help my Dad pack my lunchbox (Molly)
I am kind (Kieryan)
I am helpful to Eden (Jessica)
I help my Mum and Dad clean up (Trey)
I am being a friend (Rosalia)
I am playing nicely (Eden)
I help my Mum and Dad do baking (Elise)
I share stuff with my family (Samuel)

Te Manawa Photos

Water, water, water at Temanawa on PhotoPeach

Te Manawa

On Wednesday we were lucky to go on a trip to Te Manawa. A special lady called Anne taught us lots of new information about water!

Here is our White hat (new)learning...
ED - Our river is called the Manawatu
CC - Water can turn into ice
SL - Water can evaporate - it goes into the sky and into the clouds
LP - When the clouds fill with water it comes down as rain
MO - Ice 'float sinks' because it is lighter than water
IW - We put popocorn into the bottle and it sunk
EP - The popcorn looked bigger when it was in the water.
LMcT - If you make a puddle outside it will evaporate
JW - The ice turns into water when you hold it in your hand
RS - Ice is cold!
EP - I learnt how to do an experiment
JR - I learnt about the water cycle
TL - I learnt to draw the water cycle

Weekly Words Term 2 Week 2

This term we are having 10 weekly words!
We have been learning to spell them by singing!
We sing our two letter words to the tune of 'If you're happy and you know it!'
and our three letter word songs to the tune of 'Mary had a little lamb'.
Can you sing the songs to these words....
be by or
one had not.
Here are our other words for this week...
from have this and I.

Water Fun at Discovery Time

Water Discovery Day! on PhotoPeach



We had such an amazing time during our Water Fun Discovery Time!
We made lots of Discoveries about Water.
We discovered that we can...
stir it
mix it
build with it
freeze it
add oil to it
pour it
cook with it
destroy with it
paint with it
drink it
fill balloons with it
swim in it
wash with it
clean with it
play in it
make bubbles with it
and have water fights with it!

Term Two

Welcome back to Term 2!
We have lots of exciting things happening this term...
Cross Coutry
Big Question about H2Go
Discovery Time
New students
Singing Assemblies and the list goes on!

Tabloids

On Thursday, we went to OLOL to join in with the Catholic school Tabloids morning. We had lots of fun at each of the different activities. We used the Yellow Thinking hat to explain our thoughts about our exciting morning.

Yellow hat - good things/ points?
RS - We got to try different activities
MO - We got to meet the other kids and do activities with kids from other schools
TL - The St Peter's kids were good helpers
JW - The weather was good
LP - We got to have a break and eat our morning tea and brainfuel
KF - When we got back we got to cool down under the sprinkler

Discovery time Week 7

Today Mrs Gunn talked to us about St Pat's Cafe. When we normally go to a cafe we have to pay money. Some people don't get to go to cafe's because they don't have any money to buy any food. Today in Discovery Time we made banana mini muffins for St Pat's cafe so they can provide some FREE food for people!
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The 'all' song

This week, one of our Weekly words is the word 'all'.
Mrs Gunn found this cool song on youtube that explains that if you can spell 'all' you can spell heaps of words in the 'all' family.
Here are some of the words we find in this song:
hall, stall, tall, fall, wall, call, ball.
Can you find anymore 'all' words?

Letter sound song

We have been working hard to learn out letter sounds. Mrs Gunn found this cool song on youtube and embedded it into our blog.
Do you know all your letter sounds?

Weekly Words Week 6

Here are this weeks words:
are, was, went and you.
Can you make them into sentences at home?

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Discovery Time Week 6

Here is what we learnt this week at Discovery Time -
MOc - I learnt how to be careful with the paints and not get any on me!
RS - I learnt how to make up a game like hop scotch. We used hoops instead of the squares!

JW - I learnt how to chop stuff up with a knife. We made soup!

LMcT - I learnt how to mix colours. I mixed green and brown and made dark green .

LP-I mixed white and red together while I was painting my rock and made pink.

We are very proud to have been given the Generosity Heart for this weeks almsgiving. We know that our money has been given to Caritas for all of the amazing work they do! We are going to be making chocolate brownie to see if we can raise more money for Caritas.

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Dancing With Dean

We have been dancing with Dean.

We have been learning to move our bodies using the elements of dance (body, space, time, energy and relationships) and

developing our ideas by exploring how our bodies move and

sharing and talking about the movements we are exploring.

Next week Mrs Gunn is going to video us and try to embed it onto our blog!

Watch this space!

Juicing at Discovery Time

Today Mrs Edwards made Juice with some of us during Discovery time.

We had to cut up the carrots and apples and put them in the juicer called 'Oscar'.

We tasted the juice and thought it was delicious and sweet even though it was made out of fruit and vegetables.

We loved making this thirst quenching juice. Thanks to Rachael for coming and helping us too and thanks baby Dominic for being so good and sleeping through the whole process!

Week 5 Weekly Words

Our weekly words for week 5 are:
for
was
no
went
my
Can you put these words into sentences at home?

Shane Rufer Football

On Friday we had a visit from Shane Rufer. He taught us some football skills. We learnt how to 'dribble' the ball, how to kick and catch, how to thigh and catch and how to play a game of 3 on 3 football!
We had PERSEVER because we were getting so puffed out running around after the ball!
We are going to be practising our new football skills so we can get better and better and better!
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Discovery Time

Here are some of our responces to:
What did we do and what did we learn today?
MO'C - I made pesto. I learnt that you had to make it using grated cheese, nuts, basil, garlic, oil and salt and pepper. I learnt that it is delicious just like the pesto we make at home!
RS - I made pesto too. I have never eaten it before and I learnt that it is delicious!
LMcT, EdA and IW - We played hopscotch. We learnt how to play the game together!

Week 4 Weekly Words

WALT read and write basic words.
Here are this weeks words.
Every Monday we talk about our new words for the week and make them with the magnetic letters. Then we pop them into our own bags. Everyday during Reading time we practise making our weekly words as fast as we can!
Can you read this weeks words?
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New Words

We have been thinking about our words of the week and can now spell:
Dad, look, I, am, me, going, go, big, up, the.
This weeks words are:
see, mum, is, can, come
Can you put these words into sentences?

Our First Discovery Time 2012

Today we had a very first Discovery Time for 2012.
Discovery time is on Monday mornings and we get to explore and chose what we want to do!
Here are some photos from todays session and our response to the question: What did you do today and what did you learn?

SL - I did gardening and I learnt you could eat Marigolds.
LBP - I did some painting and learnt how to be careful and manage my self control so I didn't get paint on me!
LMcT - I made a car and learnt how to
JW- I did some gardening and learnt how to plant seedlings.
ED - I did some painting and discovered you need to be really careful when using the paints so you don't get any on you. I also discovered when it dries you can pick it off.
RS - I did gardening and learnt the name of some plants - apple mint and leeks.
IW - I played with the PE equipment. I learnt how to use the scoop to make the ball go from one side to the other side.
MOC - I painted Father Christmas and learnt how to use a toothbrush to paint.

The 3 big black Devon Pigs

We went to Poppa Lyons farm and learnt about lots of the animals he has there. Here is the information we learnt about PIGS!
These black pigs are called 'Large Blacks' or 'Devon' pigs.
A boy or male pig is called a Boar.
A girl or female pig is called a sow.
A baby pig is called a piglet.
Sows can have up to 14 piglets.
Pigs don't sweat so when they get hot they push over the water trough and make a mad bath to keep cool!
If we put our hands through the bars while the pigs are eating, they could have eaten our fingers because pigs eat everything!
We enjoyed meeting the Devon Pigs but think they are stinky!