A Yummy Cold Treat

At the end of last week Hannah's Mum bought in some yummy ice blocks as a treat for the whole class.  We really enjoyed sitting in the sun as we ate our ice block.

A huge thanks to Hannah's Mum for this delicious treat from all the learners in Room 19!

Mele's glasses!

Mele has a new pair of pink glasses which she wore for the first time at school today!  The class recognised that Mrs Belt has purple glasses so we took a picture of the pink and purple glasses.  Room 19 then decided to write about them in our story today.

"Mele has pretty pink glasses, to help her see close up."

Golfing around

We had another Golf session today with Shannon.  We combined with Room 16 and it was great to see our friends as we learnt some more golf shots.

We used a new club which Shannon helped us with!

More Kid Pix ....

We welcome Mrs Fester to Room 19 on a Wednesday to help us with our computer skills and using Kid Pix!  The learners of Room 19 were able to build on the activities we completed the previous day and today we created multi-coloured blankets.

Because we only had five learners we were all able to work on this at once with the help of both Mrs Fester and Mrs Belt.

This is Mele's blanket - we really love how many colours she is using!

Kid Pix on the Computers

After lunch today Mrs Belt introduced us to Kid Pix on the computers.   After learning which icon we needed to click, we practised drawing a square with a small black pencil.  This reminded us of the squares we made with Mr Barks at MakerSpace yesterday.  We had to be careful to close our square completely and then we were able to fill it with a colour using the paint pot feature.

We only had five learners this afternoon and we were able to all have a try at the same time.  It was hard getting our fingers to work with the mouse and using it to click in the right space.  Mrs Belt gave us lots of time to practice.

Mele created five shapes using the black pencil and filled them all in a different colour.  Its great to see that she closed all her shapes up!

Heading outside ...

A beautiful sunny Auckland day and an opportunity to head outside with our iPads today!  After reinforcing the rules we headed off out under the trees.  I gave the learners very specific instructions as to what photos to take.  Our first photo was of a tree.

Photo by Whare

Learners then had to find something blue to photograph (surprisingly none of them tried to photograph the sky!  I really liked this image created by Hendrix - he carefully climbed onto a lower platform on the playground to position himself for the photograph.

Photo by Hendrix

Lastly I asked for photographs of something that was moving - it was great to see the different interpretations of this - litter on the ground, a classmate, a blade of grass, and cows through the fence.

Photo by Riverson

A Kindy visit and our class grows some more :)

We've had an exciting day in Room 19 today, with a visit from the Pt England Kindergarten.  We met some wonderful learners who will be starting at Pt England School this term.  Mrs Belt had some wonderful alphabet activities for us to complete and we all made a very hungry alligator!

Today we also welcomed Mele to Room 19 - we now have five wonderful learners and will continue to grow over the coming weeks.  Mele enjoyed her first day with us and particularly enjoyed using the iPads for maths today.  We were using teddy bears to show a certain number and taking a photo on our iPad to record and share our learning.

Photo by Whare