Merry Christmas from R29

Colourful Handprints

Here we are carefully painting our hands for our artworks called 'I ain't gonna paint no more '.

Disco Dancing

Rosa and the Shark by Hawk

Rosa and the Shark by Izzy

Rosa and the Shark by Oliver

Rangoli patterns made using classroom equipment.

Rosa and the Shark by Hugo

Rosa and the Shark by Elsie

Rosa and the Shark by Charlie

Rosa and the Shark by May

Rangoli Patterns

Rangoli patterns are made to welcome visitors at Diwali. We have been looking at and making Rangoli patterns in our class this week. Here are some patterns we made using chalk.

Some children even made a Rangoli hopscotch.

Baking Gingerbread Men

Today we baked some gingerbread men as we have been doing lots of work about the story of The Gingerbread Man. 

The Gingerbread Man

We told the story of the Gingerbread Man and then based our work learning about length around the story.

First we found things in our classroom that were taller and shorter than the Gingerbread Man.

Next we built some bridges to help the Gingerbread Man get safely across the river. We tried to work out whose bridge was the longest. We decided to use the big ruler to help us.

After that we decided to use uni fix cubes to measure things around our classroom. Finally we had to try and make a bed for the Gingerbread Man that was 7 uni fix cubes long and 6 uni fix cubes wide. We worked out that we had to use the uni fix cubes to keep checking our beds were the correct size.

Money, money, money.

Today Gary from ASB bank came to talk to Room 29 about money. The children learned about our different coins and notes. They also learned about spending, saving and sharing their money.

Jessie's ebook

Rosa and the Shark - written, illustrated and narrated by Jessie

Stella's ebook

Rosa and the Shark - written and illustrated by Stella

Dress Rehearsal

Here we are ready for our dress rehearsal.

Here is Bonny's book telling the story of Rosa and the Shark.

Daffodil Day

Counting to 100

Today we checked our sets of 100 to make sure they had exactly 100 in them. Some children sorted theirs into groups of 10. Lachie sorted his into groups of 5. Some children put one object in each space on a 100 board.