Hi Everyone

Wow what a huge few weeks! Lots of assessment and report writing. Reports are home and now time to have an awesome fun week with my amazing class. So looking forward to the week ahead. Fun times.

An insight into an independent Māori activity on a Friday afternoon

Look at what these wonderful boys did in their choosing time today.

Kahu had a busy day building up a storm, he was just about to extend when it was time to pack up!

Some of our news photos from during the week

Jack and Ruby on holiday in Rarotonga

Jack feeding the fish in Rarotonga with dad

Beautiful island girl Ruby

Emily won lots of ribbons at the Ellesmere Show

Jack all ready for his first game of cricket

Jack hitting the cricket ball, great action shot!

Freya and Nia after a walk in South Africa

 Nia dressed up as a Sesotho girl from Lesotho

Ophelia with her mum on the ferris wheel at the Ellesmere Show

Ophelia playing on the water in a ball at the show

Callum and Ryans visit to the Lincoln Dental Centre

 Callum and Ryan outside the Lincoln Dental Centre

 Callum in the big seat!

All done and still smiling! Thanks for sharing with us boys!

 Learning Detective Skills

We took imprints of our teeth on foam cups.

We then shared each others imprints to look at the similarities and differences.

It was fascinating looking at the different patterns our teeth made.

We are working hard on sharing our ideas and opinions and listening to others.

We did lots of different symmetry activities. 

We had to draw half a symmetrical flower using shapes and then swap with a buddy.
We then had to draw the other half of their flower, it was very tricky!

More symmetrical flowers.

You really had to think about how to draw half a symmetrical flower!

Some of us got to complete a spider so it was symmetrical.
This was hard!

Working hard on a symmetrical spiders.

We have been learning all about symmetry. 

We found some examples of symmetry in our gardens!

Jonathan bought quite a collection from his garden!

Ryan found symmetrical leaves too!

Tiffany had two symmetrical leaves to share.

Chris found a symmetrical leaf in his garden!

Hannah found some symmetrical garden equipment.
Very clever Hannah!

Grace found some flowers in her garden.

Gosh the children have adapted to the new learning environment so well. They are all trying new places to work and are loving the new layout.

 For maths today we were making symmetrical patterns. We did this by cutting out symmetrical butterflies and then colouring them in while trying to make both sides look exactly the same. It was very tricky!

 We were all very busy even our little visitor!

 We all choose to work in different places.

 Thanks Mrs Cridge and Mrs Johnstone for all your help when we painted our symmetrical butterflies. We couldn't have done it without you!

 These amazing boys were the first ones to put our New Zealand puzzle together. They were feeling very proud of themselves. Great team work guys!

The finished masterpiece!

Our first day working in our modern learning environment!

 Tui kids working in the classroom the way they choose.

 Choosing to sit on different things.

 Kids using all the spaces. 

 Kids all working in different ways.

 Kids sitting at different furniture.

 Kids choosing to kneel rather than sit.

Rooms all done! It looks fab, I am so excited. I hope the kids like it tomorrow morning. Its going to be both an exciting and challenging week ahead. New way of teaching and learning...bring it on! Looking forward to seeing all those gorgeous faces tomorrow. Sleep tight Tui Class.

Well been working on the classroom most of the day and its almost done! Gosh it looks quite different, will be fab to see the kids faces and what they make of the changes. Its going to be an exciting journey and adventure for us all :)

Welcome Everyone, we are going to try and post on here regularly so you can see what we are up to in the classroom.

Hi Everyone!

We are going to give this blogging a go this term. We look forward to your feedback.

Meet the Kids from Tui!

These are the awesome kids from Tui Class at Prebbleton School. We are    looking forward to using this blog to communicate with our families. :)

Welcome!

Hi Everyone

Well we are going to try blogging in Tui!