Presenting a Play

Today the lions reading group presented a play to some of the other Pohutukawa children - The Ant and the Grasshoppers. They did very well with using loud voices and acting out the story.

Term Four

Welcome back to Term Four! We are ready for a busy term with athletics, Sockburn School 60th anniversary celebrations, the cultural festival and of course continuing with our literacy and mathematics programmes. Check out this tall tower that Mesake built at action station time today - he was very proud of himself!

Reading

We love taking turns at reading to the class!

Creating in Pohutukawa Landing

This morning at action station time in Pohutukawa landing a group of children were very busy constructing with the rods, plastic animals and vehicles. They used great team work skills and could tell an amazing story to go with their creation!

Art Day

Today we had a busy day full of art art and more art. We have been working hard to create amazing artworks for the school art exhibition next week. Make sure you come along to the art exhibition next Wednesday or Thursday to see what we have created!

Reading

We love reading in Pohutukawa! Every day we enjoy reading library books, poems, big books, our writing, and small books with our reading group.

Making Rainbows

Today we learnt about how rainbows are made. We then did two science experiments-magic milk with food colouring and dishwashing detergent, and making sugar water density rainbow layers. These led to awesome oral language and writing activities.

Afternoon Artwork

This term we are busy creating some amazing artworks. We have been enjoying making clay coil and pinch pots and then painting them.

Statistics-Graphing

This weeks for maths we are learning about statistics-graphing. Today we made favourite fruit pictographs. Here is Riley's fantastic graph.

Cultural Celebration Day

What a fun day we had on Friday! We had an amazing cultural assembly where flags representing the different nationalities at Sockburn School were presented and we sung some of our favourite songs. This was followed by a shared lunch in house groups with some delicious food to try from different cultures. In the afternoon we had a discovery time with different cultural activities. One of our favourite activities was Polly's Mum helping us learn how to write our names in Japanese. This is how to write Finehika's name in Japanese!

Measurement

This week for maths we are learning about measurement - length. We have been measuring things using objects like rods and cubes and learning to cut and stick pictures to put them in order from shortest-tallest or tallest-shortest. Today we had lots of fun measuring how many rods tall different mountains are.

PE

On Wednesday afternoon we had lots of fun with Mr M learning how to kick a ball with the inside of our foot and to trap the ball with our foot.

Music Time

We loved learning about keeping the beat with Miss Smith on Wednesday afternoon.

Cafe Role Play Area

Cafe Role Play Area

Cafe Role Play Area

Our new cafe role play area has been very popular today. We are practicing our oral language and communication skills, being imaginative, writing and drawing to take orders and using our counting and money skills to pay for our food.

Zoe's worm writing

The worms are slippery. By Zoe

Writing about worms

Worms are under the ground. By Ciara

Drawing pictures of worms

Visiting the school worm farm and garden