Helping Mr Rob in the garden.

Today Mr Rob needed some help in the garden. Some of the Pohutukawa children were super excited to help. Mr Rob showed the children how to use the rake and talked about the bushes he was trimming. We can see the birds will have lots of berries this winter. We collected the branches and loaded them in the trailer for Mr Rob. Then we made sure we washed our hands. We wrote about helping Mr Rob and can't wait until he asks us again.

We love Friday free choice writing

Every Friday we have free choice writing time where we are able to write about whatever we want to. We are also allowed to independently choose where we want to do our writing. We love Friday free choice writing time!

Dress up day story and milk

This afternoon Mrs Hefferman got to read to a bunch of children who were all dressed up. What a fun day today and we also raised money for people in need.

EEKKing for writing

You may be asking What is EEKKing? Well it is simply elbow to elbow, knee to knee. It's that's simple.

Over the past couple of days we have been using this to brainstorm what we are going to be writing about. 

As you are aware today was dress up day so we were lucky enough to EEKK in our dress ups. Check out the photos below. 

Duffy Role Model Assembly Term 1

          We were so lucky today to have our special Duffy Assembly. 

Our special visitor was Brock Ashby from X Factor band Moorhouse!!

His favourite Duffy book from he was at school was...Captain Underpants!!

He told us 3 things about reading...reading makes you smart, reading helps you dream big, and reading is lots of fun!!

            Brock helped Mrs Walkinshaw give each class their special box of Duffy books.

              Then he tried to sit up as nicely as the Kowhai and Pohutukawa Kids!!

                                                     Now for a funny one!

                       We had so much fun and we love our Duffy books too!

What have we been doing this term?

Check out what we have been doing this term in our learning space.

Christchurch Football Acadamy

The inflatable football pitch!

Coach Ricardo explaining what to do next.

We were so lucky last week to have an inflatable football pitch at Sockburn School with 2 coaches from Christchurch Football Acadamy.

We had fun trying to score the most points.

Bubble blowing fun!

We had a go at using different bubble blowers to make some bubbles at discovery time. It was so much fun!

Geometry in Pohutukawa

We  are having so much fun discovering how shapes are different and how to describe them. Look at some of the fun activities we have been joining in with this week!

Kaleb and his shape pictures

Amber and her shape pictures

Matthew and his person

We are learning to describe shapes using mathematical words like sides and corners, straight and curved.

Discovery dress up challenge!

What do you want to be when you grow up? We think we have created some new careers!! There was some fantastic problem solving going on when the children had to create their costumes. We can't wait to read the writing that will go along with these fantastic ideas next week!

Discovery! Lego challenges!

What a busy morning during discovery today!

In the green space we were doing Lego challenges. 

Some were only building using one colour brick 

Some were building things from the sea

We also had a free design group. 

What could you build? Take a photo and share it with us!