Match the letter game.

Room 13 has moved out of the classroom and into the sunshine.  We have taken some of our intital phoneme games outside.   We turned the letter game into a relay game which got us thinking and moving.  Learning is fun!

Our trip to the Zoo

On Friday Team 1 excitedly climbed on a bus and headed to the Auckland Zoo.  We were very excited to see all the animals.  Our favourites were the giraffes, the monkey and the tiger.

We all agreed we had a fabulous day!

Making maths fun with Ms Adina.

We have made a movie about all the fun we have had learning about numbers with Ms Adina.

We shared it with the whole school on PENN.  You can watch the movie here.  We hope you like it!

Athletics Day @ PES

Today our whole school had athletics day.  We competed in lots of fun events.  We had running races, high jump and some fun games as well.

Lasalle loved the sack race.  He hopped as fast as he could.

Donovan concentrated hard during the egg and spoon race.

Timothy flew over the high jump.

What a fun day!

Art Expo

 Today we exhibited our amazing art works in the PES Art Expo. 

We created cubism inspired self-portraits which showed two emotions.  We had one side of our faces sad and the other happy.   We had to think about what our faces look like when we feel different emotions.  

We had to think about what colours feel happy and what colours feel sad.

We were so proud of our amazing work

The second part of our celebration of the arts was a special assembly where we sang a song together with the other team one classes. 

We were SUPERSTARS!

Cross country fun.

Friday was the PES annual Cross Country day.  Everybody at school dressed up in their house colours and came together on the field.  We lined up with all the other Year 1 tamariki to get ready to race.

Then we got called over to the start line.  Mr Burt lined us up and we then we were off!  

We ran as fast as we could until we reached the finish line.  Everyone cheered for us!  It was a great day.

Fun with F and S

This week we have been learning all about the letters S and F.  We have learnt to write them, read them and hear the sounds the make in words.  We have used what we know about the sounds of words to read.

We play fun games to help us learn about letters.  We went outside with chalk and we wrote down the letter we heard at the beginning of the word.  

First Samuel and Malakhi listened hard to the sounds and wrote some enormous letters. Ka pai te mahi.