How plants and animals survive in the forest

Room 1 Fabric & Fibre Art

Last term we found natural materials on our forest floor to create our fabric and fibre artwork.  

We placed our natural treasures on a piece of fabric, took photos using an ipad and then we returned our materials to the forest floor.  

My art  is a  catapult. I  found  berries and a  flat  piece of wood in the forest.

Room 1's Fabric & Fibre Art work

I made a person.   It  is a face.  There is a skeleton leaf on top  of  the  leaf. By Artus

Welcome to Room 1Term 2, 2014

The year our learning theme is SURVIVAL

     This term we will be learning about...

SOCIAL STUDIES:
How the past is important to people and how people make choices to meet their needs and wants


LITERACY: 
Reading books. Writing about our personal experiences, report writing and retelling narratives

MATHS:
Number knowledge and strategy.  Measurement - Time. We are learning to: name the days of the week in order; use a calendar to read the months of the year; read time on an analog clock in hours, half hours, and quarter hours; read digital times on a timetable


VISUAL ART:
Drawing and painting - WALT mixed media and Maori motifs to create an artwork
HEALTH & P.E & Sport: Cross Country & Jump Jam.  Te Reo Kori (Maori action games)
e-LEARNING: blog, kidpix (to share on our class blog)


HOMEWORK...

Reading: Books go home Monday to Thursday and our poem of the week on Fridays.
Spelling:  Spelling notebooks go home each night with 3 words to learn.
N.B. Please ensure the notebook is in your child's book bag every day as they will be learning these words at school and testing each other (buddy testing) each Friday.

Important times...

                           Library: Monday
                           Music: Thursday 9.00 a.m. with Ros

                           School Assembly: Every Tuesday of odd numbered weeks

                           Singing Assembly: Every Tuesday of even numbered weeks

    ​Pohutukawa Sports: Every Friday at 9:00 - weather dependent
    N.B. Please send your child to school wearing appropriate footwear for playing sport. For example: trainers or sneakers.
     

We have been writing about when the Cracker Jack visitors, Maia Jackman and Jordan Cruickshank, came to talk to us at our school assembly. 

Pohutukawa Posters 2014

                                 Welcome to the Pohutukawa Poster's Room 1 blog

This term we are getting to know each other and learning classroom routines. 

We are learning all about Statistics and becoming "Data Detectives"!
We are asking questions, finding answers to these questions and displaying data (information) on a picture graph, also called a pictograph.  

We began by asking everyone in our class this question:  "When is your birthday?" 

We each drew a picture of ourselves and made a picture graph or pictograph by gluing our drawing above the month that our birthday is in. 

We were able to talk about the months of the year that had the most, the least or the same number of birthdays. 

Here is a photograph of Emily, Meera Bai and Silvie who all had their birthdays in the Christmas holidays.  They are standing near Room 1's birthday picture graph or pictograph.

  Happy birthday girls!