Week 6 update

This is our shared writing for today:

We have been enjoying learning different languages. We have been focusing on encouraging and supporting others for our social skills. We are working hard at learning to use part whole strategies instead of counting on and back. We have been looking at pace value and learning about place value houses. We have been getting ready for cross country and it's going to be on tomorrow, we hope. We have been learning a Sir Ed song that we will be singing at the Week 11 assembly. We have been learning about local heroes and people that make a difference in our community. We have had a doctor, fire fighter, Police person, and a paramedic. We have been reading and learning to really think about what we read. Understanding what we read is really important. We've been looking at newspaper reports too.
We have been learning to blend pastels and are looking forward to working with the new chalk pastels that the school has bought.

Stu Duval was awesome come and see the portraits we made at the workshop. They are up the hallway outside Room 1,2,3, & 4. Hiwi the Kiwi came to visit with the Minstrel. We learned all about water safety.
Check out the website below or just search Hiwi the Kiwi- password is hiwi

http://www.hiwithekiwi.co.nz/


We watched Grace play the keyboard today for one of her homelearning challenges.

Gym fun starts today so we need to remember to wear sensibly clothes.

New Zealand Sign Language Website

Hello,

In Mana we are currently learning 5 different languages in different classes. Room 3is teaching and learning NZ Sign Language and we are enjoying it. Did you know that NZ Sign is one of New Zealand's three National languages. What are the other two? It was NZ Sign Language week last week so have a look on this website and see if you can learn some more.

:-D
copy and paste this link

http://www.nzsign.co.nz/?page=nzsl_videos