We are learning about the letter h. H is for Hundreds and Thousands

Hundreds and Thousands for Fairy Bread

The focus genre in our writing programme in the first term was writing procedures- instructions.
Ruma G made fairy bread. They created a visual plan to follow. After making and eating the delicious treat the instructions were written.

Here are Brianna’s instructions.

How to make fairy bread.

You need sprinkles, bread, butter, a knife, a plate.

1.Wash your hands.
2. Put the bread on the plate.
3. Put the butter on the knife.
4. Spread the butter on the bread.
5. Spread the sprinkles on the bread.
6. Cut the bread into pieces.

We are learning about the letter g. G is for Get wise.

GETWISE

Captain Cash visited our school.  She helped us learn to Getwise about cash.

She taught us....

• about the different money
• how we can earn money
• the difference between wants and needs
• how to ...Save ...Spend...and Share.

Look at our Getwise pose!

We are learning about the letter f. F is for folding fox faces.

Folding fox faces

We are learning to read and follow instructions.
We created these fabulous fox faces.

We are learning about the letter e. E is for eggs

What is in the egg?

We described what could be in an egg.

Read and guess.

What was Pippa describing?

  It was a crocodile.

What was Aroha describing?

It was a snake!

We are learning about the letter d. D is for dinosaurs

We created these dinosaurs from a lower case letter d!

Can you spot which ones are back to front?

 

We are learning about the letter c. C is for a curly cucumber

C is for a curly cucumber

Paige brought a curly cucumber to show and talk about at sharing time.

We wrote a description.

Paige brought a curly cucumber to school for sharing.

It look like a bumpy, green water slide going up then down.

The cucumber felt slimy.

The crunchy cucumber tasted juciy and delicious.

We are learning about the letter b. B for being a Bucket Filler

B for being a Bucket Filler

We read the story of how to be a bucket filler.

We are learning about the letter a. A is for our apple tree.

A is for our apple tree.

Ruma G headed down to see how many apples were on the tree this year.

We are learning to talk about our artworks.

Print Making

We created images of robot and printed multiple copies.

We focused on using different shapes and creating texture in our prints.

Mackenzie selected this print as her favourite.
She wrote:
I created a pink and blue robot that has lots of texture and detail.
I like this print because I like the colours I used and the yellow makes the print look like a star.

We are learning to write a response.

K is for Kale

We headed down to the garden and harvested some kale.
We cooked kale chips. Read our responses.

 Aroha

Kale looks green.   Kale feels bumpy.   Kale smells like corn.

Flynn

Kale looks like long green grass.     Kale smells like sweet grass.

Kingsley

We cut the kale.       We put oil on it and put it on a tray.

Brianna

We made chips with the kale.

Krystal

I like the green kale chips.     They tasted crunchy.

Pippa

I cooked some kale chips.     I snipped the kale.     I had to put oil on them.

Skye

On Wednesday Ruma G made kale chips.   I have never made kale chips before.

I tasted them at school.  They tasted yummy.

Fletcher 

I like kale.   It is tasty.    It looks green.    It feels bumpy.     It smells like corn.    

We cooked it in the oven.

Mackenzie

The kale looks like fluffy green sheep.

It feels bumpy like the carpet.

It smells like yucky cow poo.

After we cooked the kale we ate the kale chips. They were nutritious.