Duffy Theatre

 The Pohutukawa children enjoyed watching the visiting Duffy Theatre Company with the rest of Sockburn School last week. Duffy invented a time machine to visit the past and help his friend learn to read. 

Next week we have a visiting role model coming to talk to the school about how reading helps them and present some Duffy books to the children.

Maths time in Pohutukawa

You can see we are learning to count accurately, write our numbers and know the numbers before and after another number.

Easter learning activities

Some of our learning at our stations this week. We have been doing lots of cutting and colouring in to help develop our fine motor skills.

Buddy Reading

We are so lucky to have big friends at Sockburn. The children from Kahikatea came to buddy read with us in Pohutukawa. 

Eekking in Pohutukawa

Today we learnt about a way to talk and listen to our buddies in class. It's called Eekking!

Maybe you can try Eekking at home too!

Using kind hands

Yesterday the Pohutukawa children practiced using our kind hands in a massage circle. We have been talking about using kind hands as part of the Keeping Ourselves Safe programme.

Keeping Ourselves Safe

We have been learning about the rules we can follow to keep us safe and happy at home and at school.

What kinds of things do you do to keep safe and happy?

Using i Pads in the classroom

This morning we learnt how to hold, turn on, swipe and open and close apps on the i Pads. Then we used the app doodle buddy to write our names. We love using the i pads!

Fundraising for Fiji

Today we had a mufti day at school to raise money for the people in Fiji affected by the cyclone. We put our coin donations onto the word Fiji. We sang the National anthem and had the flags of Fiji and New Zealand to show our support.

iPads

We have been learning about how to keep safe when using the iPads and how to take care of them. Today each child coloured in our iPad rules to take home. We are excited about starting to use the iPads to help our learning in Pohutukawa.