Swimming!!!

Well, we are certainly enjoying our Swimming so far!!

Our first day of swimming was sorting out who could do what so the teachers could group us. We are now in our groups and the groups are learning; water confidence, floating and kicking!

We are certainly very lucky we have such a fantastic swimming pool here in Gore! Here are some photos of us in the pool!

MONKEY'S SHOES - Shared Reading Week 6

For shared reading this week, we read Monkey's shoes.

We have been learning to use a clear voice (not mumbling) and not speaking too quickly.

We found that our next step is to keep working on using the right volume as some of the reading was hard to hear.

Taison was our Monkey.

Sophie was our Parrot.

Tyler was our Man.

All the children in Room Totara were the narrators.

Here are some other focuses during shared reading of Monkey's shoes this week:

Predicting (these were our predictions):

• A monkey with shoes
• A happy monkey who likes shoes
• A monkey who finds some shoes.
• A monkey in the jungle.

Start:

Monkey found some shoes.

Middle:

Monkey wore the shoes, he climbed in the trees, danced in the trees and hopped in the trees.

End:

The monkey fell out of the tree and the shoes fell off. The man took his shoes back.

We also focussed on the language used in the story:

Dancing - moving around to music

Stomping - thumping your feet noisily

Screeching - making lots of noise

Bruise - blood under your skin which makes your skin go black, red, brown, purple, yellow.

Synonyms (words that mean the same thing)

SCREECHING - screaming, shouting, loud, yelling

Day and Night

We learnt about day and night. We brainstormed all the things that we do during the day and all the things we do at night. Come and check out our displays in class!

We all recorded one fact we learnt about day and night, this is to share with our parents/grandparents at the end of the term on a "sharing day".

We also recorded 2 kids showing how the earth spins around (this takes 24 hours which is one day), as it is spinning around it moves slowly around the sun, this takes 1 whole year to get right around!!

We learnt that when New Zealand is closest to the sun it is day for us - but it is night on the other side of the world!

Days of the Week

Earlier in the term, we learnt the days of the week.

We learnt which days are "school days" and which are the "weekend"

Cross Country 2010 - Friday 14 May

Wow! What a great Cross country we had last Friday!!
The weather turned out just perfect (a shame it had been a bit soggy a couple of days before which made the grass a bit mucky!)
All the children put a lot of effort into their run and I was proud of all the Room Totara kids!

Here are some pictures of us starting off!

Term 2 - Swimming

**Reminder**
We will be off to the Gore Multisports complex in weeks 9 and 10 for our swimming lessons. The cost for juniors is only $15, please make sure you've paid this before we go. Thank-you!

Numeracy 13.5.10

Working together in groups we moved around a couple of "stations" where we had to use cards to answer the questions. The questions were: find the largest number, put in order to count backwards, put the cards from smallest to largest, Largest to smallest and find the number that comes before; 5, 3, 6, 8, 9.

Here are some photos of us: