Literacy time

Wanwan and Scott's literacy groups worked on a variety of independent activities today.

We are learning to work with others and share our strengths. The students have taught each other how to post onto seesaw, visit Kiwikids, and our class blog.

We have also been working on keeping our voices down when we are on the study stage.

Welcoming our new families at the Powhiri

We are learning to add to Seesaw

We have been learning to add things to Seesaw independently. We took photos and added drawings and labels. Some of us added voive overs. Our next steps are to say what we are learning to do. 

Friday Japanese

We started Japanese lessons this afternoon. 

The students sang a song, introduced themselves, and counted to 10. Sugoi!

Tautoru Treaty

We have written a Treaty for Tautoru. We talked about the way we need to behave so that we can have a happy time together this year. We all drew a picture of ourselves and signed our name to say that we will do our best to be respectful, kind, caring and inclusive. We are looking forward to a great year together.

Bucket Fillers!

For a few weeks now in Tautoru we have all been finding out what it means to be a "Bucket Filler". 

We began by reading a story called "Have you filled a Bucket Today?" by Carol McCloud

Bucket Fillers are people who show kindness, appreciation and love by filling an invisible bucket that we all carry around with us each day. 

There are many ways we can be Bucket Fillers. Each and everyone of us in Tautoru have thought of ways to fill the buckets of the people we see everyday.

We have all been trying to do and say things that will fill each others buckets. Here are some examples:

Measurement

We have started talking about and exploring Measurement in maths. 

We began estimating the length of objects using 1 metre personal benchmarks (parts of our body that are 1m in length).

Then we headed outside with tape measures to find as many objects as we could that measured 1 metre exactly. 

We found many things that were either 1 metre long or 1 metre wide!