Hippity Hop!

Happy Easter!

We celebrated Easter in Area 1 by decorating eggs. We mixed shaving cream and food colouring to get our creative "paint". We also added designs to them by using Vivid.





Before we received our very own egg, we talked about the responsibilities of taking care of it in order for it to not break.

After we decorated our eggs, we realised that we needed to think of ways to take it home, responsibly. After some discussion, we decided to make a basket! The children created their sturdy baskets out of paper plates and pipe cleaners. Hopefully the eggs got home in one piece!



For Maths, we received a handful of colourful M&M's. Yum! But, before we could eat the chocolaty goodness, we had to do some learning first! We first sorted the M&M's based on colour. Then, we counted each colour and recorded it on our graph. Finally, we had to analyse our data by discovering which colour we had the most of, the least of and if there were any colours of equal amounts. Then......eating time!

The Easter Bunny was definitely on our minds a lot this week! We inquired into what responsibilities the Easter Bunny has and wrote about them in our writing books.



To conclude our week, we wrote cards to our family wishing them a very Happy Easter!

Saint Patrick's Day!

The students learnt all about Saint Patrick's Day during Week 7! They read numerous books about leprechauns and their mischief, their pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, luck and shamrocks.

In the beginning of the week, the kids took home a shamrock to decorate and added pictures to it that symbolise why they are lucky to be a family. The children were so proud of their lucky shamrocks and enthusiastically shared them with the class during nifty news!



The kids put their listening skills to the ultimate test by drawing a leprechaun step-by-step. Then, they wrote a description of their wanted leprechaun. Have you seen any of these mischievous leprechauns?



For Science & Inquiry, the kids learnt what Science is, the responsibilities of scientists and the scientific method. They explored what happens to celery when placed in coloured water. They also were diligent scientists, recording their findings and observations every step of the way!

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Step 4:  Observations After 3 Days


Stage 5:  Observations after 5 Days


The children wrote about what or who is worth more than gold to them. They also created the number 5 by making links!



I absolutely love songs that teach the kids important things! The children learnt the colours in Te Reo by singing a very catchy song! They also made their own rainbows out of paper plates and labeled the colours in Te Reo. Lastly, the kids wrote about each colour!

Here's the link to our song!







For Developmental, the kids got to choose from 5 different art projects that the teachers were hosting in their classrooms. The boys and girls who chose to come to Area 1 for art, got to make a leprechaun mask!

Mrs. Wishy-Washy!

The book, Mrs. Wishy-Washy, is an all time favourite amongst all of my kids! We had so much fun reading the book in our funny fluency voices, making observations and exploring mud for Science, writing poems with many WOW words describing our Science experience, becoming the characters and acting in our own play, inquiring into pigs and writing about them and we ended the week with a splash of maths; adding how many animals we have on our farm!