28 March 2008

We have had a busy day today. We have been getting ready for our Italian restaurant we are having on Thursday. This morning we finished off our menus with our partner on the cows. We are going to send these home so our parents can ring up and book a seat and order what they would like to eat.
Next we went off to our maths classes. Children in room 1 have are learning to count backwards to solve subtraction problems. We are trying to do this in our heads.
After lunch it was time for our school assembly. It was room 10's turn to lead it and they all did a fantastic job. Caleb got the certificate for being a respectful member of the class and always using his manners.
We then looked at some art work by a famous Italian artist called Botticelli. He used to do some of his art work in a circle. we then tried to give this a go and drew a picture of a gold fish pond in a circle. There are some great artists in our class.

Thursday 6th March

We started today off with the roll and then we shared some great jokes and poems with the class.

After that we got straight into reading. Some of us are working at understanding what we are reading. After play we went to our new rooms for maths. Oliver's group is learning to count on from the biggest number first. Ben's group is learning to skip count in 2's and 5's and 10's. Robert R's group is learning basic facts.

After lunch had silent reading then we went down to Maori Park for swimming. We are learning to do lots of different things at the pool. We got back at 2:30 and missed out on our fruit and vegie break.