Wonder what reading in Te Ara Toru is all about?

Hello again,
Below is some information, for you as parents to make reading more easier to understand. We hope you enjoy!

                               The reading colour wheel

Our Matariki Learning.

Welcome back to the exciting adventure that is Room 3!

We've welcomed James into our class, and we love his wonderful smile! 

Matariki is in the sky and today, we focused on this for our Discovery time, as well as our poem.

We watched some cool videos on the different legends behind Matariki, 
have a look at 2 below.

Next week, we will be learning about Marvellous Materials for the week as part of our technology/Science focus. We will be seeing which materials float and sink and which catch on fire and don't.

Thanks for checking in, until next time, 

Ka Kite Ano!!

Super Science!

Today, we were lucky enough to have a visit from Mrs O'B who is a super Science guru! 

We did an experiment about Dripping Drops!

Our new science words we explored were

Surface Tension

Experiment

Predict.

Ask your monkeys about what they had to do with the red dye, the coin and the pipette! 

Healthy eating in Te Ara Toru

Welcome back to another educational and inspiring few weeks in our junior classroom!

We've been exploring healthy easting and what that means and what it looks like.
We looked at our lunches and made some fruit kebabs in our discovery time last week. Room 3 tried some new fruits such as Mangoes and Permissions- they were really yummy! 

Also, as part of our healthy eating programme, we got to go and visit Harold the Giraffe in the Life Education truck. We learnt about the food pyramid, what foods are healthy to eat and what are just "sometimes" foods. We got to look at Tam, a body where we took turns at being Doctors and found out where important parts on our body live. 

"I liked the food pyramid!" Lennon.

"I liked watching the video on Jacko's party" Ava.

"I liked when Harold was being cheeky" Leighton.

"I liked that we could talk to Harold on the TV" Jordan.

"I liked putting the food on the food pyramid and Tam" Bella. 

Term 2 in Te Ara Toru!

What a lovely start back this term.


We've welcomed Lennon and Rua into our class, and now we have 13 wonderful little monkeys in here!

In maths, as well as learning our numbers 0-20 forwards and backwards, we have been learning about measurement. We've been making cylinders, and finding out how bug they need to be to fit 10 dinosaurs in them! This week, we made 20 cylinders, each one fitting a different number of dinosaurs. It's been great learning and fun too!

In our writing, we tried some tasty treats and wrote about them! 

We ate some apple slices, then tried them with peanut butter and then again with salt! It was fun to try new flavours and to see the kid's faces too! We love writing in Te Ara Toru and the kids enjoy practising their letter formations and sounding out words. 

We always have time for dress ups too, of course!! 

We did some art this week- making Crazy Birds! It's great to see the kids imagination come out! 

The last thing we want to share with you in this update is our learning of special places to us in New Zealand. We've been learning the names of our 3 Islands, and where we live. It's been so great to receive postcards from all over NZ, and even some from overseas, so thanks for your help at home.

We are about to move into Healthy Eating for the next 4 weeks, which will include a visit to the Life Education Bus, and baking of some healthy snacks- yum!!