What Makes Ten?

We have been working hard on building up our number knowledge in Room 20. We're trying to get faster at working out our bonds to 10 and 20, and our doubles and halves. We need to know these pretty well to help us learn our addition and subtraction strategies.

Kahurangi group, tomorrow we're going to try and say our bonds to 10 even faster than this!

Pirate Day at the Quarry

Ahoy me mateys! On Thursday, 150 pirates and their captains made their way down to the Quarry for a day of initiative challenges, and a lot of fun!  Make sure ye check out our snaps from Pirate Day!

Happenings at Halswell

Yesterday some huge machines came and started drilling and mixing! They are testing a new way of making the ground underneath us stronger. Look at what we saw!

Look at us - clever cookies!!

Hi everyone!

We are now onto our 4th daily - Listen to Reading. Today we worked on our stamina for 4min42sec. We also did Read to Self, Read to Someone and Work on Writing all at the same time today! It was a really exciting taste of what's to come. Check us out!

Daily 5 - Work on Writing

Here are some photos of us working on our stamina with 'Work on Writing' - our third Daily from The Daily 5!

It's our first day of Work on Writing today, and we managed to get to 3.19!!!!!



And a video - gosh aren't we doing well?!

Read to Someone - Daily 5!

Here is a video of us working on our stamina for Read to Someone. We are checking for understanding with each page we are reading!

Sophie's Poem Written during Free Writing Time

Today I'm getting a pet,

But I don't know which type I'll get

Maybe a cat,

Or maybe a rat.

I could get a dog,

Or I could get a hog.

What if I got a pig,

Can it do the jig?

I'd like a lion,

It's name would be Brian.

Today when I get my pet,

I'll have fun, I bet.