Tawa School Room 14 (2019)

In week five our provocation was bubbles. The students were engaged in lots of activities throughout the week. These included: Fine motor bubble popping, blowing bubbles into coloured dye to make planets, pom pom threading and dot pictures. Our provocation for Week 6 was incorporating our words of the week look and see. This included the students making their own binoculars at the craft table. The students have also been involved in muscial experiences through Kapa Haka and from music specialist Anna. The students have been making great improvements during their swimming lessons over the last two weeks. The students have also been making great improvements in their gross motor skills and hand eye coordination at PMP over the last couple of weeks.

Our art activity last Friday was based around our gingerbread man theme. We had to follow a series of instructions to complete a gingerbread man glyph. We also used our fine motor skills to cut and paste the details. After we followed the instructions we looked at the gingerbread men and worked out whose each one was. The children also wrote a sentence to go with their gingerbread man collage creations. Room 14 is getting very clever at listening for sounds and recording them. Look at how neat our handwriting is too. Tino pai tamariki ma! Our word of the week this week is 'like'. Today during Investigation time we tasted some food and wrote a list of food that we like and don't like. We then counted the things that we liked and didn't like. This was a statistical investigation and also helped us with our handwriting. Another inspiration from this weeks provocation was some students created their very own 'I like' books. ...