Athletics day

Yesterday was our athletics day. It was a fun but exhausting day! Today we wrote about our experiences of athletics day. Our focus was to use an interesting story starter to grab the readers attention and to use the 5 W's (who, what, when, where, why) and H (how we felt) to include lots of information.

Here are few wonderful examples...(note: ngenge is the Maori word for tired).

Run, jump, throw! Yesterday was a splendid day at Discovery School. Do you know why? Because it was athletics day! 5 year olds, 6 year olds and 7 year olds did games like long jump, high jump, hurdles, shot put, sprints and javelin. It was amazing! Rylee

Run, jump, throw! On Wednesday it was athletics day and we did running, jumping and hurdles at Discovery School. It was all the 7 year olds, 6 year olds and 5 year olds. We did 6 events. After we were ngenge! It was exciting because we watched Garfield after we did athletics! Jack

Phew! Phew! Phew! I'm so tired! On Wednesday it was athletics day. In fact, I was so ngenge because of all the athletics events like shot put and high jump and long jump! Isabelle 

What a splendid day! On 27th March at Discovery School all the juniors had athletics day. 5, 6 and 7 year olds did javelin, shot put, high jump, long jump and hurdles. I felt exhausted! Niamh

WOW! What a splendid, excellent day! Yesterday, on the 27th of March we did athletics. There were six events. We threw, ran and jumped. We did it on Discovery School field. I felt ngenge! Addison

Run, jump, throw! What an exhausting but lovely day yesterday at Discovery School's athletics day. Yesterday was the 27th March. We did javelin, shot put, sprints, hurdles, long jump and high jump. We did six events. 5 year olds, 6 year olds and 7 year olds did it too! We did athletics on the school field. I felt exhausted! Rhian

Run, jump, throw! What an exciting day at Discovery School. The 5 year olds and the 6 year olds and the 7 year olds had athletics day. They did little hurdles and races. It was fun. Lailah

Wow!!! On the 27th of March it was splendid day because it was athletics day at Discovery School. 5 year olds, 6 year olds and 7 year olds participated. We did 6 events. We did shot put and javelin and sprints and hurdles. After all of that I felt tired! Oliver 

Happy Easter everybody!

I hope everyone has a safe and enjoyable Easter break and that the Easter bunny is very generous!

Below are some fun Easter games to play. ENJOY!

Easter Egg Hunt

Easter Egg Designer

What's happening in Maths?

Our class focus at the moment is Place Value.

WALT: Identify ones, tens and hundreds in different numbers.

Below are 2 fun videos, teaching us all about place value. 

Now put your place value knowledge to the test by playing these cool games....

http://www.ictgames.com/dinoplacevalue.html

http://www.ictgames.com/LIFEGUARDS.html

SUPER Verbs!

This week AS Class have been learning about verbs! We call them super verbs because they are words that describe an ACTION! Verbs are 'doing words.' We found that a lot of words are verbs - see if you can spot them in our reading books.

Below is a fun game to practice our verbs and our reading. We LOVE playing this at school (hey, and speaking of love - LOVE is a verb)!!!

http://www.eslgamesplus.com/action-verbs-esl-interactive-grammar-vocabulary-game-present-tense/

Maths Term 1

Our Maths focus this Term is Number Knowledge.

One of things We Are Learning To (WALT) do is order numbers (in both forwards and backwards sequences).

Below is a fun game you can play at home to practice ordering non-sequential numbers. You can adjust the sliders to play with lower and higher numbers. Have fun!!! 

http://www.ictgames.com/caterpillar_slider.html

What's happening in AS Class 6/3/13

Kiaora Everybody!

What a busy term it has been already - we have been super busy at Discovery School. Here are a few highlights so far...

• The Toro Pikopiko Puppet Theatre
• Swimming
• Training for Athletics day
• Getting some class fish
• Learning Te Reo about huarere (weather) 

Now that our blog is up and running we will be regularly updating it so keep checking in to see what has been happening and to see our wonderful work!