check out what we have been up to over the past weeks

 As part of our provocation we are learning lots about our animal world. The children love to create.                         Shaquille is very busy creating a farm. 

Here is Noah creating a Zoo with his blocks and wild animals.

Check out this groups awesome dinosaur world.

Each group started at one of the animal world stations and created and then other children could add to the station but could not move or break what was already constructed.

 Sea world using the bubble rap to create the water effect.

This is one of our new literacy stations where the children are finding the lower case letter to match the capital letter.

Over the last two weeks we have being doing the mathematics strand  Geometry . Here the children are sorting shapes into groups decided by them.

Here are the sorted selections of the geometry shapes 

Lots of triangles

Then as a class we walked around the school finding all the shapes they could find. Then they had to tell me the shapes and describe them Using the correct terms.

"What shape have you found William?" "lots of circles, William replies.

Big discussion with Jaxon and Noah describing this part on the Junior playground.

Great pose on the big circle/sphere  by Peyton and Jaxon.

Love this photo the crazy space kids with their  circular shapes  turned  into hats and eye glasses.

Watch out Dan Carter here comes William with his oval rugby balls

Jyuvana and Shaquille checking out this awesome rugby tackle bag. "It is a cylinder shape," said Jyuvana

Rikki-Daley and Peyton put all the different shape blocks and other materials to create this awesome castle.

Here is an example of the children's information report on Kangaroos. The children create their art piece then told me facts about Kangaroo which were typed up and added to their work.

The children all chose and animal which we found a photograph then they all had to sketch and colour their animal.