Welcome to Te Maunga Iti (room 4) 2017. Your teachers are Lisa Tatum and Raewyn Ritchie. This year Raewyn will be teaching on Mondays and Tuesdays and Lisa for Wednesday, Thursday and Fridays. We look forward to teaching your children this year and developing a love of learning. Please visit this blog regularly to see the learning they are doing. We love to receive and read out your comments. Library day is Tuesdays and swimming most days. Lisa and Raewyn
Wednesday, 17 May 2017
Halves and Wholes from Fairy Bread
In Maths we have been learning to recognize what a half and a whole looks like. Here are some photos of us making fairy bread. We had to have a whole piece and then cut a piece in half. Then we got to eat it!








Tuesday, 16 May 2017
Learning how to tell the time
We are learning to tell the time using the hour and minute hands.
We can show different o’clock times on the clock.
We were learning where the big and little hands go to show o'clock times.
This week we worked with a buddy to tell time. We took turns at asking our buddy to show a different time on the clock .
Monday, 20 March 2017
Project Energise
Teamwork:
Today we had Bodean from Project Energise in our school . He taught us a game we could play as a team . We had to find bean bags, tennis balls or discs that he had hidden under cones . We had to work together and help the other members of our team by giving encouragement , telling them where to find the objects and running fast to find the next item we needed. The children enjoyed the games. We have timed ourselves and we have promised to work on helping each other so that we will get faster at finding the objects. The fastest team gathered all the objects in 1 minute 30 seconds. We want to beat this time.
Friday, 10 March 2017
Nature and us!
Over the past 4 weeks we have had tadpoles in our room. About 2 weeks ago the tadpoles began to turn into frogs! We have loved watching the process of how they change.
Here are some pictures of our frogs and a leaf moth we found outside. We found out that the leaf moth likes to eat nectar from flowers and rotten fruit.
After we looked at the moth for a while we set it free.


Here is a photo of Khloe making sets with the teddy bears.
Here is a photo of Khloe making sets with the teddy bears.
Wednesday, 8 March 2017
Learning The Alphabet
We do word works everyday. The children are learning the alphabet by seeing, saying and hearing the sound and the name of the letter. They then use the whiteboards to writing the letters .
Friday, 17 February 2017
Thursday, 16 February 2017
Writing
Today Room 4 Children were learning how to use the app Explain Everything. They learnt how to change the thickness of the pen, how to delete, how to change colour and how to make a capital letter on a keyboard.
Then they drew their favourite animal or toy. They used the keyboard and their alphabet and word cards to write their stories with support from the teacher.
Then they drew their favourite animal or toy. They used the keyboard and their alphabet and word cards to write their stories with support from the teacher.
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| Aiden |
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| Olivia |
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| Sienna |
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| Frank |
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| Khloe |
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