Wednesday, 2 March 2016

Beach trip

Dear Parents & Caregivers,

We plan to go to the beach on Wednesday 8th March weather permitting. We are going into two groups.

Year 1's and 2's: Shona & Chrissy
9.15am - 10.15am

Year 3's: Nicola & Scott
10.30am - 11.30am

If you are a parent and able to help walk the kids up and down to the beach as well as be at the beach with the kids please let us know. If you can please identify which year group you're child is in and please tell the teacher responsible for that group.

Children will need:
Sunhat
Drink bottle
Sensible walking shoes

thanks, 

Team Tautoru

Tuesday, 1 March 2016

We have been asking questions for our research...



As part of our inquiry into rock pools, we have been thinking about different animals that live there. We have been working in groups to ask questions about an animal of our choice. 

We have begun to put together links to different sites for the students.

Find out more by clicking the links below (we will be adding to these as our inquiry progresses):

Generic Resources for the Rocky Shore

Crabs


Mussels


Jellyfish


Sea Anemones



How does your garden grow?


We have been excited to watch things grow in our garden. Look how big our courgettes are...

Rock Pool inquiry

 As part of our inquiry we have been creating our own rock pools with the creatures we found at the beach.

We have labeled them and then thought of questions we want answered. We are going to begin investigating and researching more about the rocky shore.


Friday, 26 February 2016

Powhiri



Our new families were welcomed to the school today. What a wonderful experience. 

Our first ideas for our change inquiry...



We are learning about change. We wrote on a piece of paper: Why do things change? What changes? How do things change? Nothing changes (This was a provocation).

We wrote what we thought that goes with all the questions. These are our first ideas about change.

By Leola



Here are some of our first ideas:



Thursday, 25 February 2016

Maths games

In Chrissy & Scott's Maths groups we have been playing different games to learn our groupings to 10, facts to and from 10 and facts within 10. Take a look at the video to see how well they are doing...

Space Place - Learning Celebration

We had a great learning celebration -  Our students got to share all of their learning with whānau.  We also topped off our Inquiry with a v...