Bees and Honey

 Take a look at our awesome bee experience over the last two weeks. We were so lucky today that Miss Lisa brought in a real honeycomb for us to see and taste! mmm, how delicious! 

The Lorax Challenge

 Wow! Check out Boston's Lorax Challenge. 

Boston's nana has sent in this collage and said 

"Today Boston found a nest fallen out of a tree and safely put it back and he saw a bird flying on the wire looking for it’s nest. 

Boston said he is helping the Lorax look after nature."

Awesome job Boston!

Week 2 learning

 I have been so impressed with all of the learning Room 16 has been doing this week, you've been sending me so many pictures I haven't had time to collect them altogether!

Here are just some of the amazing things Room 16 children have been up to this week:

Awesome job developing your understanding of the book 'Oh, no!' Rara. You've really challenged yourself to read it and I'm very proud of you!

Waris has been up to a multitude of things including building her own fort/castle and practicing her 'oo' sounds. She has been joining in with lots of meets as well. Well done lovely!

Robert has been doing lots and lots of work over our online learning. He is so excited to try our science experiments that he sometimes even does them in our online meets! Here is some of Robert's maths work from our maths afternoon session on Tuesday Robert (alongside Waris) helped me to work out how much $4 + $4 would be and what we could buy with it!

Here is Boston's science experiment! He is doing our experiment from when we added food coloring, oil, and water together. It looks like it was a big success, awesome job Boston!

Here is Aqua doing her science experiment at home too. It turned out beautifully and Aquarius looks like she was concentrating very hard. Brilliant job!

I know a lot of you are working really hard at home both online and on home learning packs. Thank you all the adults and lovely children for putting in such a lot of effort and pulling together to make our ODL awesome!

I can't wait to see you all on Monday.

Cross country

Term Topic: Money

Kia Ora everyone, and welcome back to PCS after a lovely 2 week break. This term we will be looking at the topic of 'money' and developing the children's financial literacy.
If you'd like to be more involved with your child in this then have a look at the ideas below!

- Show your child different coins and currency that you might have with you. What do the different colours mean?
- Let your child hand money to a cashier and talk about the change you get back.
-Look at food receipts with your child and figure out how much everything cost.
-Practice using 'niceties' when shopping such as saying, please, thank you and excuse me to retail staff.

On Monday we set up Room 16 as a supermarket and labelled all of our items depending on how much value the children felt they had. We had some interesting ideas! My favourite was certainly that our classroom television cost only 6 dollars.
We dressed up as shop keepers and customers then shopped around for items in the classroom. We had to make sure we had to right amount of money, and that we were responsible and looked after it carefully!


Check out our pictures  below :)

Matariki and the end of Term 2

Have a look at the pictures of the room 16 children sharing some time with room 12 and creating beautiful Matariki stars together. Thanks for helping us room 12!

LCS Discovery - Maui and the Ika

Many of you will have seen the brilliant matau that the children came home with this weekend. You might remember that a couple of weeks ago we were investigating Maui and the ika- the story of how Maui stuck aboard his brother's waka and caught the giant ika using a matau created from jawbone. It has taken us a while because we wanted to try our best, but our matau are finally complete and you can see the picture of us all holding them below. We are very proud of ourselves!

Well done Room 16!