At the end of the day

One of our reading groups read this lovely book at reading time this week - At the end of the day.  It is the story of a classs that have a massage circle at the end of the day.

We decided to follow their instructions and see if we could make a massage circle too. 

We got into a circle, put our hands flat on the person in front of us and moved them around in big circles.  We wrote words on their backs for them to guess and used our fingers to dot rain drops all over their backs.

When we were done we leaned forward and gave the person in front a hug.  Everyone liked being hugged.

Then we leaned back and had a wee stretch, this was really fun!

We finished by thanking our friends.  We have decided this is a fun way to end the day!

How does your garden grow?

It was great to share some of our learning about what a plant needs for growth and development with our expert today.

Nana Joan (Miss Gargan's Mother) came in and shared her knowledge on gardening with us.  We had lots of knowledge too and instead of asking questions were able to answer lots!

We learnt about lots of the things she grows in her garden, what plants need and what is harmful to plants as well as seeing some of her gardening tools.

Thanks Nana Joan!

Kapa Haka

Redwood School Kapa Haka performed at the Tawa Cultural Festival recently.  They worked hard and their performance was well received.  In Room 3 we are proud of Sasha who looked fantastic for her part.  Well done Kapa Haka.

I NOTICE... I WONDER....

In Maths today we looked at this car park picture.

We were talking about the things we noticed.  The children noticed these things...
* there is one yellow car.
* the yellow car is going out of the parking lots.
* there are 4 bright blue cars.
* there are 7 spaces empty.
* there are lots of white cars.
* there are 4 people.
* there are more dark cars than light cars.
* there are 9 more dark cars than light cars.

We wondered these things...
* if this was parking lot.
* if there was snow on any of the cars.
* if there is more than 16 cars/more than 85 cars/if there are 36 cars.
* why there was only one yellow car

Miss Gargan wondered how we could work out how many cars there actually were?
We decided to count in 2's because it is faster than counting in 1's.  We got 71 cars.