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!

Jack's Reading

Jack was reading this page in his book today. He knows about hippos already. 

"They charge you when you give them a surprise," he said. 

We wanted to see a hippo charging and we found this movie on youtube. 

Hippos can run FAST!

What I know, I can teach!

We are all learning together! This morning Awhina was showing her mum how we practise number writing on the whiteboards.  One day soon, Awhina is going to lead our number-writing session, she know exactly how to describe the numbers and is a very encouraging coach!

WALT: Use Lines in Different Ways

We read "T-shirts" together every day this week:

We usually spend some time each week responding to our big book in some way. This week Carolyn gave a us a paper t-shirt to design. We talked about the different kinds of lines we can draw; curved, straight, zig-zagged, wavy...
Then we used a black crayon to design our t-shirt. After that, we dyed the t-shirts bright colours. Here they are:

The last page of the book says:

So our t-shirts are hanging up on pegs in our class, waiting for you to come and admire them! We hope to see you soon!

Orangutan Day at RSS

Liam loves orangutans and he is very concerned that we humans are making bad choices that are taking away the habitat (living place) of the orangutans in Asia. He has organised a wonderful awareness week at our school. Here is the newspaper article about Liam:

On Thursday, Jamie told us that her mum had seen some orangutans! Her mum emailed us some of the photos - here they are:

"These were taken in Borneo, Sabah (back in 2006).  The baby orangutan photos are of an orphan being cared for at a resort.  The Sepilok photos are an orangutan rehabilitation sanctuary.  As you can see from the pictures the orangutans were being fed and during feeding times naughty pigtail macques turn up and try to steal the orangutans food."
Thanks to Jamie and her family for sharing these with us!

This is the link to Liam's YouTube video. He is hoping to get 1000 views to raise awareness.
Watch the video here.