Today in BD Class (29/10/14)

We were honoured to have a visit from Craig Smith, the author of "The Wonkey Donkey." He writes really funny songs and books.

Here are some highlights from the show. Danielle got to be the green, wiggly worm!

We also had our second Ready, Set, Go session.

Week 2 in BD Class (20-24/10/14)

We have had a great week celebrating Book Week. We did buddy reading with our buddy class. We read to them and they read to us.

On Friday we had our dress up day. Check out our awesome costumes.

We also had our very first Get, Set, Go PE session with Tim this week. we were learning all about balancing. We made some alphabet letters, played line tag and had a whole lot of fun.

Week 1 in BD Class (13-17/10/14)

BD Class has made a great start to the term! We have been working hard in class, especially maths. We have been learning to skip count in 2s and 5s. We have also started learning about multiplication. 

On Tuesday we had a cricket skills session. We learnt to field, bowl and bat. Check it out!

This week we have also been learning about the parts of a book. We looked at the parts and why they are in a book.

This Week in BD Class (24/09/14)

We have had another busy last week of the term. We have been doing some great learning with our vowel sounds. We have been learning about the "oo" sounds. One is short and one is long.

Today we had lots of fun with balloons. We hit, caught them and chased them. Check it out.

Then we did some great writing about it. Check it out!

Today in BD Class (08/09/14)

Today we had a visit from the team from Strike Percussion. It was an amazing show. Check out the highlights from the show.

03/09/14 This Week (So Far) in BD Class

It has been a really exciting week in BD Class. We have had lots of fun celebrating spring. On Tuesday we went down to the daffodil field and did a photo shoot with Mr D. You can check out the video here:

We did some great descriptive writing about the daffodils and what spring is all about. You can check out our awesome writing here:

On Tuesday night it was the Discovery School Art Exhibition. Mr D was really proud of how amazing our artworks looked. But, when they were put with the rest of the school...WOW! All of the artworks were awesome!

This week we have been learning about a new vowel sound. It can be made in two different ways.

Here are all the word that we came up with using these vowel sounds.

Art Exhibition Sneak Preview

Today in BD Class (12/08/14)

We had another great day in BD Class. Oscar's mum brought in a whole heap of yo-yo's. We had a play, but we found them pretty tricky but we did some amazing writing about them. Check this out!

Today in BD Class (11/08/14)

Our week got off to a great start today. We got to go and see Harold again in the Life Ed Caravan. We did some great writing and maths today. Mrs Arrowsmith paid a visit so she could see how our class runs. 

When the Mr Key came to visit

Today we had a visit from the prime minister of New Zealand. We got to ask him questions and he visited MR Class. We found out that his favourite colour is yellow and that he likes One Direction. He also told us that being the prime minister is a tough job.

Mr D also got a "Selfie" with the prime minister too!

Today in BD Class (05/08/14)

We has a great time today. We went for a frosty walk down on the field. It was pretty chilly.

Then we did some great descriptive writing about it too.

This afternoon we got the musical instruments out and did some more rhythm patterns. We played beat detective then used the instruments to make a different pattern.

This Term (So Far) in BD Class

We have had a really fun and busy start to the term. We have been learning a lot about different vowel sounds. So far we have have been learning about the "a", "e" and "i" sound. There are lots of different ways of making these sounds.

 

We have also found lots of words that have these sounds in the beginning, middle and end of words. Mr D has been impressed because we have been finding these words in our reading books.

Last week we did some art workshops with Stephanie Woodman. We have been learning to use water colours and pastels to create awesome artworks.

We have also been learning about beat and rhythm. We have come up with some different rhythm pattens and we have been using notation to show pup patterns.

Week 8 in BD Class

We have had a great week so far. On Tuesday we went to the Cosmodome.

We have been learning about Matariki and why it is a special time of the year. We read this book and listened to the story as well. You can check it out here.

We had a great time at Discovery Time today. We were celebrating Matariki and did lots of fun activities.

Week 6 in BD Class

We have had a great week in BD Class. We have been doing some amazing writing, amazing maths and amazing reading.

This week we have been looking at more "s" blends

On Tuesday, it was a rainy day. We did some rain dancing for language experience. It was great fun!

On Wednesday we watched, read and listened to the story Watercress Tuna and the Children of Champion Street.

For writing we made our own innovation of the story. We illustrated our stories and you will be able to see them next week.

Week 4 in BD Class

We have had a great time celebrating Samoan Language week. We have been doing some great work learning to speak Samoan. Check out our awesome counting.

On Friday we had a big assembly where we celebrated what we had been doing in our school.

We tried eating coconut as well.

The other big thing that happened this week was our school cross country run. Well done to Bay who was 1st in the Year 1 boys and Alana who was 2nd in the Year 1 girls. Great effort guys!

26/05/14 Today in BD Class

Today is the start of Samoan Language week. We learned to count to ten in Samoan and we also learned the days of the week.

Tasi-1

Lua-2

Tolu-3

Wha-4

Lima-5

Ono-6

Fitu-7

Valu-8

Iva-9

Sefulu-10

We also read the book Uncle Timi's Sleep. This story happens in Samoa. It's really funny.

Week 3 in BD Class

We have had an awesome week in Bd Class. It has been Science Week so we have done some cool things all to do with science.

On Wednesday we did some cool experiments with dry ice. We did some great descriptive writing about it too. Check out the video of our dry ice fun.

This week we have been learning our "r" blends. We are getting so good at finding them in our reading.

On Friday we had our Science dress-up parade. We looked amazing!