Cubes

The cubes have been learning how to count back from the largest number to solve subtraction problems. See if you can learn from their video.

After the Fall

This week Kōttuku have been reading the story After The Fall. We have been using this book for out Action Stations. Have a look and see what  we have created this week about this story. 

Check back on Friday to see if our predictions were correct or not. 

Hippos

This Week the Tigers read a story about Hippos. We used Explain Everything to show everything we learnt about Hippos. Have a read.

Our Maths Problem today

Jacob

Imri

Austin

Greedy Cat's Healthy food

Garden to Table Inquiry

Our Inquiry for Term 4 is about how we can keep ourselves healthy. We have started to grow our own fruits and vegetables with help from Mr Rob. We planted pumpkin, zucchini and butter beans. They are starting to grow already!!
Here are some pictures...

First Day of Term 4

Here are a few pictures of our first day back at school. We did lots of learning. 

 Retelling the story The Prince and the Parsnip

 Doing our reading follow up tasks

 Having a cup of tea in the role play area.

 Some boys reading in the library corner.

Still Drawing of fruit.

Jump Jam

Gymnastics

Kōtuku is working with Olympia Gymnastics for the next 4 weeks to improve motor skills and try new things. We are trying hard to show our Wigram H.E.A.R.T so we can keep going when it is tough and develop our Hauora. Here are some pictures!

Dear Weston

Hi Weston we miss having you in our space as well. Here is a letter that Francois has written for you.

Earmuffs

Today the Monkeys group read a story about earmuffs. We decided to visit Mr Rob in his shed to have a look at his earmuffs and ask him questions.

True or False

Today in maths we had to work out if this answer was true or false. Listen to what we thought.

House planes

We have been learning about the planes that our houses are named after. We have made our own Mustang, Skyhawk, kittyhawk and havard planes for our airport made of blocks. 

Action Stations

Have a look at what we have been creating this week. 

Tyler M and Andrew created a book about the Titanic because he and Andrew found a book about it in the reading area. 

Temple

Georgie and Dani created a Temple and a dog and a bird. They drew these because they thought it would look pretty and Georgie had seen a picture of a temple before. 

Mungo!

On Friday we were lucky enough to have Mungo the dog come in to visit us for the morning. Mungo is a golden retriever and he belongs to Mrs Thoms. He is very furry and cute. We wrote some descriptions of Mungo in our writing books.

More mihis

Check out our mihis!

In Kōtuku, we have been practising saying our mihis in front of an audience.
Here is a small selection of them:

Nina's Axolotls

Our Teacher Aide Nina brought in her pet axolotls. They are amphibians which means they can go in water and on land. Their names are Fish and Chips. We worked hard to learn how to ask Nina questions to learn more about axolotls.