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| The children were very excited following the visit to see the orchestra to have their own percussion music session with Mrs Head's husband Murray who is a very talented musician. Murray demonstrated all his amazing collection of different instruments and talked to the children about how and what they are made of. |
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| All of the children got to play the drums and the other instruments. Love your drumming Erika. |
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| Jyuvana and Montana are rocking it out. They definitely had the beat |
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| Josiah is going to be a rock star he really made a noise great drumming. |
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| Noah just loved his drumming experience. |
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| Following up our music session with Murray we got out the instruments and created our own music and leant how to do a variety of beats and rhyme with the instruments. Check out the children having a go. |
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| Aria and Noah counting 1,2,3,4 1,2,3,4 great concentration. |
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| The children loved our first session of making music. So we created our band and played along to a variety of snags and rotated the instruments. Jaxon just loved the Cymbols check out that action. Noah on the drums. |
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| Noah William and Peyton on xylophones and Aria on the clickers. They were awesome. |
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| The children created a Penguin colony just like at the Antarctic centre. |
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| Searching through the National geographic Magazines the children cut out lots of animals so we could make our own animal world A-Z Alphabet poster. |
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| Last Thursday I took the class on a trip to Orana park to check out all the animals we have been learning about during our literacy and provocation. |
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| Shaquille is holding a Rhino's horn we learnt that it is the same as humans finger nails. |
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| The Giraffe feeding was a huge success with the children. |
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| "Come on Giraffe eat my leaves," said Shaquille. |
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| The Giraffe is really enjoying his early breakfast of banana and other fruity bits. |
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| Noah, Hailey, Jyuvana and Jaxon all having a go at feeding the giraffes. |
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| The giraffes are feeding on Willow leaves . |
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| The baby giraffe is enjoying feeding on this fresh basket of hay. |
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| Time for a train ride around the park. Noah looks a bit tired from all the walking. |
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| Tim to meet the baby cheetahs whose Mother didn't want to feed them. So the zoo keeper is their new mother. She bottled fed them from the day they were born. |
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| Big surprise of the day was a surprise trip to the antarctic centre to see the snow room and to feel how cold it is for the Penguins who live at the antarctic. Shaquille,Peyton and Aria in the Igloo. |
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| "Lets go for a ride on the snow mobile Peyton," said Levi. |
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| "Look at me i am sliding like a Penguin," said Jaxon. My little Penguins sitting quietly. |
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| Its getting dark and the storm is coming it is going to get very cold. |
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| The children then created animals out of clay. This is Peyton's Penguins and eggs. Well done Peyton. |
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| 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. |
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| Here is Noah creating a Zoo with his blocks and wild animals. |
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| Check out this groups awesome dinosaur world. |
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| 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. |
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| Sea world using the bubble rap to create the water effect. |
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| This is one of our new literacy stations where the children are finding the lower case letter to match the capital letter. |
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| Over the last two weeks we have being doing the mathematics strand Geometry . Here the children are sorting shapes into groups decided by them. |
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| Here are the sorted selections of the geometry shapes |
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| Lots of triangles |
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| 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. |
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| "What shape have you found William?" "lots of circles, William replies. |
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| Big discussion with Jaxon and Noah describing this part on the Junior playground. |
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| Great pose on the big circle/sphere by Peyton and Jaxon. |
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| Love this photo the crazy space kids with their circular shapes turned into hats and eye glasses. |
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| Watch out Dan Carter here comes William with his oval rugby balls |
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| Jyuvana and Shaquille checking out this awesome rugby tackle bag. "It is a cylinder shape," said Jyuvana |
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| Rikki-Daley and Peyton put all the different shape blocks and other materials to create this awesome castle. |
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| 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. |
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| The children all chose and animal which we found a photograph then they all had to sketch and colour their animal. |
