Maths Discovery

We had a Maths Discovery time on Friday. There was all sorts of Maths equipment set out for us to choose from. Blocks, balances, maths games, marble tracks, 100's boards and mats, beads and threaders and lots more. We had fun discovering with the activities. Here are some of us discovering!

A visit from the Room 17 Chicks

On Friday, some of the girls from Room 17 brought their newly hatched chicks over for us to meet. They had 12 eggs in the incubator and 12 chicks hatched. We are going to get a visit from them again in a week or so , so we can see how much they have grown. They don't have a Mother so the Room 17 children have them in a special box with a heated light to  keep them warm.

Summer told us the chicks eat mash and drink water. When they get older they can eat seeds and scratch around in the ground for yummy things like worms. Thank you for sharing Room 17.

A visit from The Dental Nurses

Welcome back to Term 3. We are starting the year with taking a good look at our Dental Health and making sure we have sensible food in our lunch boxes.

Today we had a visit from Nicola and Jane to teach us how to clean our teeth correctly.

Nicola and Jane brought huge teeth and a huge toothbrush with them.

Riley is learning to do flicks from the inside.

Daniel is flicking the front teeth.

Stevie is doing circle on the outside.

Asjah is doing circles on the outside teeth at the back.

Ava is working out which type of brushing to do.

We also learnt these important things:-

*We must brush our teeth for 2 minutes in the morning after breakfast and after tea.
*Mum , Dad or another adult or big person must help us until we are 8 years old.
*We mustn't rinse the toothpaste off our teeth when we finish brushing with a soft brush.
*We must only use a small piece of toothpaste the size of our small nail,

And the song that helps us is:-

"Round in circles, round in circles,
Scrub, scrub, scrub.
Flick around the inside, flick around the inside,
Teeth are clean, teeth are clean."

Grandma Jenny Reads To Us

Grandma Jenny comes and reads to us on a Tuesday afternoon. We love to have her visit our class and talk to us. She is a special Grandma and she asks us really good questions about the  stories she has read to make sure we understand any tricky words. Thank you Grandma Jenny. :)

Visiting Author Sophie Siers

Today we visited the town library to issue books. But we had a really big surprise. There was a visiting author called Sophie Siers who has a book in the NZ Book Awards as a finalist. It is called Allis the Little  Tractor. Sophie read us her wonderful story about a little tractor that is standing alone in a paddock and wants to get going like John Deere the big tractor. Toby and Uncle Jack finally get some oil, water, petrol and a new battery and get Allis going - you have to crank her to start the tractor. And away they go having adventures. It is an excellent children's picture book and we loved it. We got a signed copy for our school library too. Sophie let us ask questions. We had a great morning.

Nikki is reading us a great story called "Grandpa" before Sophie arrived.

Here is Sophie and Nikki.

Sophie read her wonderful story to us and we loved it so much that we didn't make a sound!

Mrs Gyde's Alice made the tractor on the wall. She is so talented. It made an excellent artwork