Month: February 2023

I Like Toys

Our focus for the last two weeks has been on Toys I Like.  This has been an extremely motivating topic as we have had different toys to investigate and play with.  This has been an enjoyable and fun part of our day.

We were also fortunate enough to have the Life Education Bus come to Marfell Community School during the last couple of weeks.  The educators linked into our Inquiry about Toys and encouraged what we are practising in the classroom with sharing, waiting, and taking turns.  These skills are so important for our tamariki to continue to practise in their everyday life and what better way to learn these skills than through play.

Later in the week we had a lot of fun watching and learning about the game of skittles.  We had several games of skittles and even created our own using recycled plastic bottles.  We stuck on our own numbers so we could recognise which skittle was knocked over.  Great mahi Ruma Wha!

         

Gg is for Giraffe

Our letter of the week for Week 4 was Gg for giraffe.  We linked and revisited our work with Harold the Giraffe by creating a cute craft giraffe with the letter G.

We hope that you can revisit our alphabet google slide on our class site with your tamariki as well as enjoy the photographs captured during our craft activity.

 

Welcome back everyone!

Welcome to 2023!  I am looking forward to working with your tamariki again this year and hope that you enjoy reading and sharing this Blog and Class Site with your family and friends.

We have been busy in Room 4 for the past week and a half focusing on routines as well as having fun with our Inquiry topic of ‘What I like.’   Our first topic was a favourite pastime of swimming/water.  This has been a high-interest activity that we partake in every day.

We have been learning about different animals which swim in the water as well as how to keep safe in the water ourselves and different uses for water.