This week Room 4 tested out Sunshine Online. Everyone had so much fun reading different books on the iPads. We then completed some activities online. Some of us then recorded ourselves reading the book.
Sunshine Online
Old MacDonald
Welcome to Term 4!
The Big Book of the week, ‘Old MacDonald’, has been an absolute hit. We have enjoyed singing the song, making hand rhymes as well as creating some sheep for our puppet show which you can view on slide number eight below. We also listened to different animal sounds, named them on our talking devices, and recreated these sounds. What a lot of fun mahi we completed this week!
Happy Halloween
For the last two weeks we have been looking at Halloween.
We have had a lot of fun creating, singing, counting, reading, and sharing our wonderful work with Room 3. We have even worked hard with our fine motor skills to thread wool through holes. This involved a lot of patience, persistence and precision on behalf of all our tamariki. I commend you all for demonstrating these skills.
To conclude the week we invited Room 3 to join us for a Halloween song or two and share our display of work. Thank you so much for joining us Room 3, we always enjoy your company.
Amazing apples
Our Letter of the Week for Week 1 was the letter Aa. The story of the week was “Ten Apples Up On Top” which proved to be a popular story especially when the song was played alongside the story. You can check this song out with your tamariki by clicking on this link: Ten Apples Up On Top
We also had a little bit of fun and tried to place apples on our heads just like in the story. We only managed to balance the maximum of three apples before they would all fall down.
We also completed fine motor apple activities and counted the pom pom apples which the children placed on different trees. Great mahi Ruma Wha!
Lizard Loses His Tail
Crimson and Zinzan have been working on the reader ‘Lizard Loses His Tail’ last week. They watched a couple of video’s to extend their knowledge of lizards losing their tails. Then they both created a lizard of their own with playdough and took a photo of their creations to share with you. Great mahi Crimson and Zinzan.
Check out their Learn, Create, Share reading task here.
Crimson and Zinzan’s pandas
Last week Crimson and Zinzan were working on the reading book “Baby Panda.”
Part of extending and broadening their knowledge of pandas involved watching different video clips about pandas’ habitats and the food they eat.
Crimson and Zinzan then watched a video clip of how to draw a panda. The steps were broken down and they were able to pause the video to complete the simple steps at their own pace. What amazing focus both the boys had while drawing their panda. A great achievement and what gorgeous looking pandas you both drew!
Click on this link to take you to the task on the class site
I’m a Little Teapot
Our final nursery rhyme for the year is I’m a Little Teapot.
Our goal was to be able to complete all the actions of this rhyme. We hope you enjoy this little video of Vaea joining in at music time to the actions.
We also created our own tipping teapot. We firstly decorated the teapot with Christmas colours. The next step was to cut out our teapot and stick it onto a paper plate which was folded in half. We then gently tapped the teapot and it would rock backwards and forwards while we sang the rhyme.
We hope you have all enjoyed seeing some of our learning which is happening throughout the week.
Old MacDonald Had a Farm
This week our rhyme was Old MacDonald.
I would have to say that this rhyme was probably Room 4’s favourite of the term. It has been a true delight to hear the rhyme being sung at different times throughout the day.
We were lucky enough to have Helen and Billy rejoin us today as well as some Room 3 students to help us sing Old MacDonald while we joined in with different instruments.
We were also learning about animals that live on farms compared to animals that live in zoos. We had fun with a Lego Farm where we had to listen to an instruction as to where to put the different farm animals on the Lego Board. This was a great hands on activity.
One of our many Old MacDonald songs was about a lion being on a farm. The children all found this funny and would say “No, lion!” Following on from this idea we made a lion for our craft this week. This linked in well with our Letter of the Week being ‘L’. The children enjoyed using a fork dipped in orange paint for the mane of the lion.
We hope you enjoy the photos and video of our learning this week.
Jack and Jill
This week’s Nursery Rhyme was Jack and Jill.
We listened to and sang the short and long version of the rhyme.
We were also fortunate enough to have Room 3 visit us and we all sang the rhyme together and then acted out the rhyme with our friends. What a lovely time we all had singing and acting together.
Later in the week we decorated our own pail with paint, attached our own handle, and stuck down the sentence “…..(name)………. went up the hill to fetch a pail of water.”
Hickory Dickory Dock
Our Nursery Rhyme this week has been Hickory Dickory Dock.
We have been learning about what mice eat and where they like to live.
We have also touched on telling the time, particularly the o’clocks. This has been reinforced through songs and actions relating to different times.
Our writing has involved sequencing the Nursery Rhyme as well as matching the characters in the rhyme.
Our craft activity was a lot of fun once the mouse and clock had been coloured. We sang Hickory Dickory Dock as our mouse was running up the clock. The children all enjoyed this activity as their eyes tracked the mouse while their arms pulled the wool apart so the mouse travelled upwards and downwards.
