25/03/15 Week 8 (So Far) in BD Class

We have been working really hard in BD Class this week. Mrs Berney and Mr D. have been impressed with how well we are doing in our reading, writing and maths. Mr D. showed us this really cool counting video. We can practise counting to 100 and get fit at the same time.

Here is some of our awesome writing based on Dad's Snore from last week. There is some great descriptive writing here.

Part 1

Part 2

We have also been practising our mihi mihi this wee. Our mihi go like this:

Tena koutou

No ____(place)____ ahau

Ko____( dad's name)____ toku papa

Ko____( mum's name)____ toku mama

Ko____( child's name)____ toku ingoa

Tena koutou katoa

17/03/15 Today in BD Class

We had a great day with Mrs Berney today. She was teaching us about the marae, the different building and what happens when people are welcomed onto a marae. We watched two little movies about what happens at a marae. We all presented to be the manuhiri (visitors) or the tangata whenua (people from the marae.) We even got to practise doing a hongi. Some of us did a hongi with Bugsy.

This song is called Ko Tōku Marae Tēnei ...it is about the things that happen on a marae. Sing along.

We also watched a story about a little girl who goes to marae with her friend. Watch what happens.

Here we are playing with our puppets and welcoming them onto the marae. 

In maths, we are learning about "teen" numbers as well as "ty" numbers. This rap can help us with remembering that a "teen" number is 10, and some extra one.

Kyra was the Star of the Day today.

16/03/15 Today in BD Class

Look at all our amazing 25 Night readers. Well done Eadie, Manaaki, Sam, Casey, Caleb, Liam and Jack for working hard at your reading.

This week we are reading the book A Busy Day. We were looking for lots of words that have a short vowel sound in them. See if you can find some short vowel sounds.

Sam was today's Star of the Day.

13/03/15 This Week in BD Class

We have been having a great week in BD Class. After reading "Dad's Snore" we did some fantastic descriptive writing. We were using verbs and prepositions in our writing.

Our swimming has really improved. We are getting more confident and we are starting to use our straight arms and floppy feet.

We have done some amazing portraits with Mrs Berney. We used skin coloured paint and pastels to make our artwork look amazing.

Here are last week's Stars of the Day.

09/03/15 Today in BD Class

We had a great day with Mrs Berney today. We did some great writing this morning. Mrs Berney is really proud of how well we are all writing.

This week we are reading Dad's Snore for our shared book. It's got lots of more positional words. See if you can find them in the story.

Week 5 in BD Class

We've been doing some really interesting things in BD Class. Jennika brought a cicada shell to school so week looked at it up close with the visualiser. Mr D found a movie clip about how a cicada sheds its skin.

We continued our writing about Walking the Dog. We added some more ideas. You can check out our stories here:

Congratulations to Sophie, who is our next 25 Nights reader.

02/03/15 Today in BD Class

It was lovely, sunny start to the week. We did some great writing this morning. Mr D was impressed with our "hearing words."

For reading, we read the story "Walking the Dog." We read the story then looked to see where the girl and her dog went on a map. Check out the story here:

Click on the map. See if you can see where they went.

This morning we practised doing high jump. We were learning to jump onto the mat rather than flop onto it. Paige, Harry and Eadie did really well.

We have our first 25 Night readers. Well done to Ellie, Marissa and Jennika.

Today our Star of the Day was Daniel.