Learning Targets

Today Carolyn showed us this picture:

We thought they were circles or a disc or a CD or a swirly lollipop.
Carolyn drew some circles on the carpet (it's OK - they will vacuum away!) and we tried to flick counters all the way into the middle:

It was tricky - here are some things we remembered saying:
I can't do it!
Yes you can - keep trying!
Can you help me?`
I can help you - do it like this...
It's embarrassing!
It's annoying!
That took me SEVEN hops!
My finger was getting owies and red when we were flicking!
Give Reagan a clap! He did it!

What great learning language.
Now we have targets to show how we are doing with our number writing. We are learning to write numbers 1-10. Gold hi-lighter means I can do it, pink means I want to work on this one. Here are our numbers today:

Come and see what we drew on the targets next to them!

Playdough "Fast Words"

We have twenty "Fast Words" to learn as soon as we can. 

We do "Word Power" to help get these words into our brains. 

We made worms out of playdough and made the worms into letters. 

We made our four fast words.

Everyone at home: Can you guess what our four focus words were today?

Leave a comment to tell us.

Writing Our Names

What an amazing group of learners we are! We have all been working on writing our names. We have our own mini whiteboard with our name on it, so we have our name to look at as we write. Look at how proud we are!

We are open for 2014!

Today our very first five-year-olds for 2014 came for their second school visit. 

We read "The Jigaree" together. After reading the book, we drew our own jigarees. 

I think the Little Einsteins for 2014 are gong to be WONDERFUL learners!

What's a meerkat?

We were doing a maths worksheet today and we had to count these little creatures:

 

We wondered what they were. Someone said they were meerkats. Someone else said Timo in Lion King  is a meerkat. We looked on YouTube and found this movie. It shows some REAL meerkats - they are cute!

Good Learners Practise

Well done, Zoe and Bryah! This is great counting. Zoe and Bryah did this maths practise together when we were doing reading. They counted the correct number of 'gummy bears' into the jars. We always want to know whose learning it is - so they have put their name cards beside their learning and taken a photo on the iPad.

 

Matty and Benjamin practised fast words, tracing the shape of the letters with beans. That takes a lot of patience. They asked someone to take a photo of them sitting with their practise - great work, boys!