Thursday, 13 March 2014

Week 6 in MR Class

In MR Class we like to have little ‘brain breaks’ after we have been focusing for awhile! We have a little bucket that we get to pick ideas from. Our favourite at the moment is ‘watch and wiggle!’




On Monday we went to the Cyberbusters show! We all thought that the show was very funny. We learnt that we need to “leave an extra chair.” This means that we need to include everybody so that nobody feels left out or sad. We are really good at including people in MR Class.




We have been focusing on the blends SH, TH, and CH this week. We made some shields and read a cool poem. 


For athletics we have been practising hurdles. I think we are going to be super stars for athletics next week!





It has been nice and sunny this week. Some times when it’s sunny MR Class likes to go outside and read a story under the trees. The story this week was “Cat in the Hat” by Dr Seuss. We are going to be focusing on one book each week during March.


Our first activity for the story “Cat in the Hat” was to make some hats! We were learning about word families and rhyming words. We were looking at words that ended in “ap, at, in, ip, an” We are all pretty good at rhyming!



Our next Cat in the Hat activity was to do a Glyph. We had to follow instructions to colour in our own cat in the hat. If we answered yes to a question we had to colour it in a certain colour and if we answered no we had to colour it in a different colour. After we finished colouring we compared our pictures with the rest of the class. Here are some of the things that we found out:

I noticed that only one person in MR class doesn’t like Dr Seuss (Petro) 

They might not like Dr Seuss because he lets Thing 1 and Thing 2 mess the house up! (Annelise)

11 people want Cat and the hat to come to their house. This is so that people can have fun with him! (Tessa)
 
13 people didn’t want cat in the hat to come to their house. I think it is because people will mess up the whole house (Maddie)

Cat and the hat can break things so that could be another reason why people don’t want them at their house (Telesia)
Only one person doesn’t think that cat and the hat rhyme (Matthew)

Most of us knew they rhymed because both the words ended with “at’’ (Kartika)

Lots of people don’t like Thing 1 and Thing 2 because they don’t always do what you say! (Toby)

Thing 1 and Thing 2 are also really messy (Grace)

The people that like Thing 1 and Thing 2 are good at tidying so they don’t mind having Thing 1 and Thing 2 over (Trani)

I noticed that we have more girls in the classroom than boys in the classroom (Max Wallace)

This could be because there were lots of girls at kindy too (Maddie)







On Thursday we made Dr Seuss fruit kababs! We used banana and grapes to make our kababs for the "cat and the hats" hat. We had to follow instructions to make them and then we got to eat them! Most of us thought they were yum, yum, yum!









Today we had purple and white day at school. We all dressed in purple and white to help raise some money for cancer. We all bought in a gold coin donation. The school raised lots of money! We were so lucky because we got given little purple cupcakes to eat. We thought they were super cute!






Next week we have athletics. We are all going to wear our house colours and try our very best. Bring on Wednesday 19th March! 

Friday, 7 March 2014

Weeks 4 & 5 in MR Class

What’s been happening in maths?

We have been doing lots of statistics in maths. We looked at how many different vowels were in our first and last names. These are some of the things that we noticed:



We also did an activity where we found out which was the most common food in our lunch box. We enjoyed looking in our lunch boxes and seeing all the different kinds of food. We then did some writing about what we had found out.



We have also been doing place value. We have been making numbers with the place value blocks and seeing how many ones, tens and hundreds are in each number.



Blends

We have had a big focus on blends lately. This week we were looking at CR, DR, FR, GR. Check out some of our blend activities:







Writing

On Thursday we got to make rockets! 

We had to:
1.       Colour in the rocket,
2.       Glue the outline of the rocket
3.       Put the straw at the bottom of the rocket
4.       Fold the paper in half
5.       Cut around the outline of the rocket
6.       Blow on the straw
7.       BLAST OFF!

We all stood in a line and got to watch our rockets fly. We then did some fabulous writing and tried to use some interesting words.



Maori

This week we started to learn our Maori numbers. We practised how to count to ten in Maori and got to do several different activities to help us learn.








Handwriting

Most of the time we do our handwriting in our books but some of the time MR Class likes to use the iPads to practise their handwriting. This is a cool app that shows us how to form our letters properly:





Friday, 21 February 2014

Week 3 in MR Class

For statistics this week we got to sort little people.  We are learning to find different ways of grouping objects. We sorted the little people counters into a number of different groups. We sorted them by the colour of their hair, their skin colour, if they were boys or girls, by their clothes and by the colour of their shoes.






We have been practising to count in 2's, 5's, and 10's this week. Here is a cool song to help us practise at home:

For art this week we drew some minions! We had to follow step by step instructions to draw our minions. We were all super great at listening to the instructions that’s why our minions turned out so well! Check them out:




We focused on running for athletics this week. We were looking at our running style and then we had some races!



On Friday afternoon we got to have some choosing time. This was so we could make some new friends and talk to different people in our new class. We made some awesome robots and all sorts! We also practised our writing, read some stories and played with the toys. I wonder if anyone in the class knows ALL the names in the class yet!?




We ended our Friday with some buddy time. We had photos with our buddies and started colouring photo frames to put the photos in. We are so lucky to have SJ class as our buddies. They are big Y7 and 8’s and they take such good care of us!

We did our first language experience this week. It was a cool science experiment! We put milk into a tray, then added food colouring and then added dishwashing liquid. As soon as we added the dishwashing liquid something awesome happened. Miss Rowe forgot to film it but this is what it looked like: