This week our super star student award goes to Riddhika ...

Riddhika is a super star learner.  She has a go at all our learning activities and loves a challenge.    
Riddhika has a friendly smile and is a kind and caring learning buddy in E6.   She loves to sit and talk with her learning buddy about her ideas and learning.  She is really clever at putting up her hand and sharing her own thinking and ideas with the class.  We love how Riddhika shows lots of 
enthusiasm and pride.    

Tino Pai Riddhika - we are super lucky to have you in our class!

Riddhika gets to take Bobby Bear home for the weekend.  Click on Bobby Bear's page at the top of our blog to see what adventures Riddhika and Bobby Bear had together!

Discovery Time

On Friday we had Discovery Time.  We love to make discoveries and explore our thinking while we learn and play together!






This week at Discovery Time we got to be Bug Detectives.   We made a bug garden.   We needed dirt, sticks, leaves, soil and grass clippings.








Mrs Graham hid some little rubber bugs in the bug habitat so that we could discover them.  (Can you remember what the word habitat means?)  We talked lots about where bugs like to live...

Some bugs live under leaves and some bugs live in the grass.

We used magnifying glasses to help us be Bug Detectives!

We had clipboards and we had to record how many bugs we found, and what sort of bugs we found in our bug habitat.  

Some of us made playdough bugs.  We had bug photographs to help us look at the features of all the different bugs.  We had a go at making our playdough bugs look just like the bug in the picture.

Pepper Jo's snail is sitting on a leaf! 

Jacob is making a centipede.  How many legs does your centipede have Jacob?

We did some teamwork to help each other make our bug!
Anesh is showing Dhruv how to roll a little sausage shapes to make his caterpillar.
Great job Anesh!






Next we wrote a label to match our bug so we could identify it.

Look at our amazing Playdough Bugs!  We took them home to show our families.  Can you tell your family what your bug looks like? How many legs does it have? How many body parts does it have? What colour is your bug?

Some of us just love art and learning to colour in!  We coloured in a bug jar today, and found a picture of our favourite bug to glue into our bug jar.    

We practiced writing the name of our bug. We gave it a label so everyone knows the name of the bug we caught.

What fabulous activities we got to choose from this week!  

I wonder what discoveries we'll make next Friday?

Bugs Bugs Bugs!

We are learning about bugs....

Some bugs look scary! Some bugs look yucky!

But...did you know that some yucky bugs can do super duper awesome things?

Check out Rud The Bug Man's you tube clip below.  He loves all sorts of bugs!

I wonder what you already know about 

bugs E6? 

Do you know what bugs look like? 

Do you know where bugs live?

Do you know what they do?

Bring your thinking to school and share it with us!

Te Akonga o Te Wiki - Student of the Week

This week our super star student award goes to Dhruv ...

We are so lucky to have Dhruv in our class.  Dhruv is always smiling and asking if he can help his friends.  

Dhruv is so good at concentrating.  He shows us all how to focus during mat time.
He has excellent listening ears and looking eyes! 
Dhruv loves to learn new things.  We know  this because he is so good at thinking and talking about what he is learning.

Tino Pai Dhruv - we love learning with you in E6!

Dhruv gets to take Bobby Bear home for the weekend.  Click on Bobby Bear's page at the top of our blog to see what adventures Dhruv and Bobby Bear had together!

How many ways can we make 5?

We are learning the different ways we can add groups together to make 5.  

• We have been learning to join and split sets.   
• We have been working out how many more we might need to make a set of 5.  

We made towers with the maths cubes.  Our towers are 5 blocks high...   

We used 2 colours to show the different ways we can make 5...

two red blocks and three more blue blocks makes five.

two pink blocks and three more purple blocks makes five.

three red blocks and two more green blocks makes five.

five yellow blocks and no more blocks makes five.

two black blocks and three more brown blocks makes five.

Look at all the ways Pepper Jo can make block towers to five!

How many ways can you make five?

Number Line Adventures!

We have been learning to order numbers between 0 and 20.  We have been learning to order numbers forwards...and backwards!

Today we had a number line challenge at maths time.  Mrs Graham drew a chalk number line on the carpet.  It had no numbers on it!  

We each got a turn to put a number on the number line, and we had to work together to make sure they were in the right order from 0 all the way to 20.


We each had a turn to pick up a number - it was like a lucky dip because we didn't know what number we would get!

We had to tell everyone where we were going to put our number.

Lohita knows that 6 comes after 5.

Way to go Lohita!

We had to use the words 'before' ... 'after' ... and ... 'in between' to explain where our number should go on the number line.

Hmmmm, Hope is thinking hard, and checking that she has put 8 in the right place, and that the numbers are in the right order.
  

We had to do lots of thinking and checking!

Hooray - you did it E6.   All the numbers are back in order on the number line!

Maybe you can write some numbers on paper at home and then make a number line like we did at school - you might be able to do it outside in your backyard with a piece of chalk!