Week 6 in BD Class

It was another really busy week in BD Class. We had more people reach their next Nights Reading stickers. We done to Blake & Vincent (100), Maddison (125) and Harrison (150).

On Tuesday we went on a bear hunt with RG Class. We did this for our language experience this week. We had lots of fun singing the Bear Hunt song and walking around the neighborhood. Miss Griffin videoed our bear hunt. Check it out here.

After our bear hunt we did some writing about what we did. We were trying to tell a story by having a beginning, middle and an end.

We also watched the Three Little Pigs. We had a go at writing introductions to the story. We had to make sure we wrote about the characters, the setting and the problem. Here is what we watched and how we had a go at writing the introduction.

We also had a talk about times when we feel safe. We came up with some great ideas.

Weeks 4 and 5 in BD Class

We have had heaps of fun over the past two weeks in BD Class. We have done some great learning too. There have been lots of people who have got their next "Nights Reading" stickers.

Well done to: Makayla, Caleb and Mason (100 Nights), Holly (125 Nights) and Rebecca, Olivia, Harry and Zoe (150 Nights.) There are a whole lot of the class coming up who will be getting their next nights reading stickers real soon. Watch this space!

We have nearly finished learning all of our consonant blends. The latest ones we have been learning about have been:

Mr D and Mrs Berney have been really impressed with the writing we have been doing in class. It has been great to see everyone using their writing cards, checking their work and writing more ideas. We have also had some great fun doing some interesting language experiences. Last week we touched, smelt and ate jelly. It was great fun. We had a go at doing some descriptive writing.

We had some great fun with the story Pete the Cat and His White Shoes. We had fun singing the song and reading the book. We had a go at writing our own version of the story as well. Here is the author of Pete the Cat reading the story in a live performance.

We brainstormed all of the things that Pete the Cat could have walked through. We came up with some creative ideas.

For Discovery Time we had some great fun doing activities all about fairy tales. We had some great fun building sandcastles in the sand pit and making paper bag puppets.

For PE we have been doing gymnastics. We have been working with Abe from Big Air Gym. Check out what we have been up to.

Last week we had a visit from Madison C's granddad, Jim. He is a crime scene detective and he came to do some fingerprint stuff with the class. He showed us how to take fingerprints and how our fingerprints are all unique. It was really interesting. Oliver and Vincent checked out their fingerprints.

Week 3 in BD Class

It has been a pretty crazy week in BD Class. We have had Maths Week this week and we have done some really cool challenges.

On Tuesday our challenge was to make the longest paper string from a piece of A5 paper. These were the top 5 paper strings. Harrison was the winner.

Mr D made a paper string that was 2m92cm long. Wow!

Here are our efforts!

As part of our work with Life Ed, we made our own VIP pictures on the iPads. We have a pretty awesome class!

This week we have been looking at the "st" blend. There are heaps of "st" words!

Whats Been Going On in BD Class? Weeks 1-2

There has a been a whole heap going on in BD Class over the past couple of weeks. We have had a lot of people getting their 50, 125 and 150 nights reading. We have also had people get syndicate awards for doing great work. Well done everyone.

We have been doing some great writing. It has been great to see people using their writing cards to help them write ideas in their writing. We are also getting better at using our hearing sounds to write letters in order in the words we don't know.

We have been lucky to go and see Harold in the Life Education caravan. We have been learning about being a V.I.P. That means we are a very important person. We also learnt about the things we really need to live.

We also got to see Harold again and show hime some of the great work we had been doing in class. It was lots of fun.

Today we had our first Maths Week challenge. We had to  guess how many tennis balls would fit into Mrs Harvey's clown pants. We guessed 75, but there were 176 that fit in! Wow!

Week 9 & 10 in BD Class

We had a really busy, last couple of weeks in BD Class. We have done some great writing and we have had some interesting language experiences.

Miss griffin made some sherbet. we dipped our lollipops into the sherbet and described how it tasted and what we thought about it.

 Mr D shared about the telescope he got. He saw the moon and the starts. They looked amazing.

Mrs Arrowsmith did an experiment with mentos and coke. It looked really cool when it all poured out.

For reading, we shared the book Number One by Joy Cowley. It is a really fun book. You can check it out here:

We have a whole heap of people who have got their next Nights Reading stickers.

50 Nights

75 Nights

100 Nights

125 Nights

   

On the last day of term we had another go at using the Halftone app on the iPads. We took pictures of our buddies and wrote about something they were good at.

Week 8 in BD Class

The rest of this week was all a bit crazy. We had cross-country on Wednesday. Harry got first in the Year 1 boys and Madison C got third in the Year 1 girls. Great stuff guys!

On Thursday we shared all of our Science Fair work with the rest of the school, Here is a summary of all the work we did this term.

We looked at the "sk" blend as well on Friday. Now we have to learn the different between "sc" and "sk".

On Friday, Mr D broke out the iPads and we did a really cool activity using a photo app called "HalfTone." We chose an object around the classroom and had to say what it was is Maori. They look really awesome. Check them out!

24/06/13-25/06/13 What's Going On In BD Class?

We've had an interesting couple of days in BD Class. On Monday, we started to look at all our blends starting with "s". First up we are looking at "sc".

We did some great writing this week. We're still focusing on using fullstops at the end of ideas and using interesting vocabulary. 

On Tuesday, we went for a "Winter Walk" to check out the forest. Some of the big trees came down in the storm, so we did some good describig writing about it.

For our science topic, we did an interesting experiment with a piece of paper. Check out what we did.

What will happen when I blow across the paper?

Prediction: (What we think will happen)

Catch the wind (Caleb)

It will float (Amy)it will whip (Harry)

It will go up (Dylan)

It will ripple from side to side (Blake)

It was amazing...the paper flew up!

Here is why we thought it flew up.

The air sneaks under/through

The paper is light

The air pushed it up

Mr D found an interesting video about why the paper flew up because it is like an aeroplane wing..

Today we looked at using our bodies to make different sounds. We got people to combine different moves to make different sounds. It was really interesting the different sounds we could make. Mr D showed us a really cool song by a choir that only use their bodies and voices to make music. It is pretty amazing.

Here is another cool example of body percussion.

Holly's missing her class mates, but is having an Travelling Adventure with Goliath....!

Hi everyone! I'm missing all my class mates and teachers too, but am having a great time exploring with Goliath and my family. So far we've been to Australia, Singapore, England (if only briefly!) and are currently staying in Germany. My Grandparents live in Germany, in a small Spa town called Bad Wildungen, I have it here and spending time with my Omi & Opa (German for Grandmother and Grandfather!). Firstly we left Wellington and flew to Auckland, where we waited in the lounge before boarding a bigger airplane to Singapore. We spent a couple of day there before the long flight to London-Heathrow and then the last leg onto Frankfurt. My little sister, Chloe, and I loved the flight and our Daddy said we did really well with the long flights.

 

Yesterday me, Goliath, Chloe, Mummy and Daddy went to a shopping Mall near a place called Kassel, which is about 45 mins from where we're staying. We had a great time and I had a ride on a Merry-Go-Round Unicorn .........and a 'real one'! I will updae you all again soon......bye for now.