Sharing Equally

In maths we have been learning about sharing equally.  Today we used pretend pizza bases to help us learn how to share equally into halves and in quarters.  We made pizza toppings with  play dough.  We then shared these toppings equally in halves and in quarters.  We discovered that if you can skip count it sometimes helps to work out how many toppings in each section of the pizza quicker.

Hedgehog Fun

In our literacy group we are reading and investigating about food!  How to make food, different types of food even  buying food.  Today we read a book about making a hedgehog out of food.  We used skewers and pushed marsh mellows, grapes and pineapple onto them.  We poked the skewers into half an orange.  We used raisins for eyes as we didn't have cloves.  Autumn's dad showed her what cloves look like.
  "They smelt funny" Autumn said.

Thank you for sharing your hedgehogs with
Te Kakano.  They were very yummy!

Creating a Hut

Romeo decided to make a hut with the sheets and blankets in the classroom.  He had to use two tables and lots of chairs.  It looked like a great hut to play in.  Thank you Romeo for wiling to share your hut with others and let them play in your wonderful construction.

Writing Workshop

Romeo came to a workshop today to work on his writing goal. He is learning how to record the sounds he can hear in order. We looked at some pictures of three letter words. We needed to carefully sound out each of the letters and write them down. We had a lot of fun stretching out the words and listening for the sounds we could hear. Here Romeo is using his alphabet card to help him identify the vowel sounds. Great learning Romeo! 

Author's Chair

Romeo is writing across the lines during Write to Self time. 
He was being a great author writing his own story. He was also using the word card to help him. 
You are a great author, Romeo!

The Cat Sentence

Today in our writing workshop, we focused on our goal of recording all the sounds we can hear. Romeo chose a wonderful illustration from the 'Seed Idea' box. He decided on a sentence to write and stretched out each word to hear the sounds. He used his alphabet card to help him write them down. Fantastic work Romeo, you are listening very carefully to those sounds. 

The cats is scratching each other.

Achieving My Maths Goal

Today Romeo achieved his maths goal. He has been learning to read and write numbers to 20 e.g. 15, 17, 12. He was able to explain his learning to his teachers. Great learning Romeo!