Painting with Sam!

On Wednesday the 16th we had our first day with Sam in our class. We all thoroughly enjoyed having her teach us and we all helped her to get to know the routines in room 12A. During our afternoons with Sam we will be doing lots of exciting forms of Art work. This week we tried mixing Primary colours. We learnt that mixing Yellow and Red make Orange; Yellow and Blue make Green and Blue and Red make Purple! We really enjoyed painting with our hands and managed to not get it all over our new classroom.

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Our lovely first week!

Wow, what a fantastic first week we have had together in room 12a! As well as getting to know all of our daily routines we have been doing lots of fun things in and out of the classroom. The children will and have found the transition from kindergarten/pre school and or home life to school life very tiresome but are all beginning to settle into school life well..

We have just started an Inquiry unit on Magnets. To begin this we were lucky to have a parent who is also a Science teacher come in and do a presentation. We joined up with room 10 for this and the children were able to experiment with different kinds of metals and magnets. We had so much fun exploring and discovering!

Our friends in room 12a have also been learning about Matariki. We have read some stories and created art work which we have displayed in our room. To celebrate the beginning of this we had a shared lunch with the rest of the Kowhai Syndicate and then we had a lovely afternoon together participating in a range of Maori activities. We learnt some Waiata and the Rakau Sticks , made a print picture of the 7 Stars of Matariki and played some traditional Maori Games. We have some photos to share with you!

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