Rotation Activities Week 9 Term1

This week we have more balancing activities to build our gross motor skills and hand and eye co-ordination. Mrs Johnsen made a 'bug hunt' game which we use tweezers and tongs to collect bugs with. This is also great for our fine motor skills. Some of the other activities are the wood work table for construction, shapes to build pictures, cutting and pasting mini beast activities, dress-ups, stories on the ipads, literacy and numeracy games, and workshops with the teachers. Whew! What a busy time.

 
Using the balance boards

                                           Shape pictures and wood work table

Dress-ups and Literacy games

Cut and paste mini beasts and 'Bug Hunting'

Mini Beast Creations

Freya and Juri made beautiful butterflies with their clay. They used pipe cleaners for their legs and antennae, and pieces plastic bags for the wings. The big eyes were made from buttons.

Pod 1 Mini Beast Creations

On Friday 24 March we all made our own mini beasts using clay and other craft materials. Come in and see them on our display table.

Rotation activities Week 8

This week we have introduced some new motor control activities for the children to do in the rotations. Kieran and Harper are using the balancing activities for gross motor control, whilst McKenna is doing a fine motor control activity.

On the ipads this week, Livi and the other students were woking on building their additions facts to 10. Ada took the opportunity to use the white boards to draw a fabulous stick insect. We have been looking at these as part of our topic and shared book this week.

Making our Worm Farm

Today we finally made our worm farm.  The children really enjoyed digging for worms and collecting them.  We are looking forward to watching them over the next few weeks...

Rachel's special snail shell

We were all very excited to see the Kauri snail shell that Rachel's Dad had found. The children were impressed by its size and the shininess of the shell. Thanks for sharing it with us.

Maori Alphabet Song - A Haka Mana

In our Te Reo lessons we have been learning this song to help us to learn all of the Maori sounds.

A Haka Mana

Alphabet Sort

This week one of our rotation activities was textured alphabet cards. Jason and Dylan decided to work together and put them in the correct order. Tino pai boys.

Visitors to Pod 1

This week we have been very lucky to have had visits from the children and teachers from ABC Kamo (on Tuesday) and ABC Pipiwai Road (on Thursday). They loved seeing what we do in Pod 1 and we enjoyed showing them too. Please come back again soon.

ABC Kamo

ABC Pipiwai Road

Swim For Life In Doors by Blake

My Bridge - By Kieran

My Dinosaur - By Thomas

Our Police Station

Hurupaki Kindy's visit

Today we were very lucky to have our friends - Aria, Ollie, and Sammy - from Hurupaki Kindy visit for the morning. It was also very special as it was Dene's last visit with the kindy children before she has her baby. We all wish Dene the very best as she waits for that special little person to arrive.