Group Drawing Projects

Today, we had the opportunity to work in a small group to design, draw, and colour a scenic picture of our choice.  First, we had to sit with our group and decide together what our picture would be.  Then, we worked together, using pencils and stencils, to draw our amazing scenes.  When we were finished drawing, we had another team decision to make.

   We had to decide what we were going to use to colour our pictures with. We could choice either "skinny" crayons, "fat" crayons, or oil pastels.  Of course, we ALL picked oil pastels!  We had so much fun working in our groups, and we even learnt that we could use a tissue to blend the oil pastels together!

Kharizma, Persia and Leah showing off their beautiful zoo!

Kauri and Teingoa show off the amazing garden they created with Sauma and Cherish!

Victoria and Jemma worked hard with Keyana to create this amazing garden and sky picture!

The Colour Wheel

Today, after we finished our writing tests, Mrs. Moala brought out the paints that we had mixed together last week, and we were able to paint our very own colour wheels!  It was so much fun, and we were so well behaved!  Surprisingly, almost all of the paint ended up on the paper!

We put each paint colour on a plastic plate to share.

Teingoa, Sauma, Persia and Kharizma and doing a fabulous job!

Exodus T is showing off his final project and Kauri is still working hard!

Some of the finished projects drying on another table.

Kharizma, Persia and Keyana worked hard to create this beautiful painting together!

How Many Sticks Are You Tall?

In Class 24, we have been talking about different ways to measure things.  Today, we decided we could measure how tall we are using Mrs. Moala's cool ice block sticks!  

Measuring with Sticks from Team 1 PES on Vimeo.

Leah and Bryston are counting Kauri's sticks

Victoria is taking a break while Sauma sees how tall she is!

We had to measure Kauri twice!
This time Exodus T and Peni are seeing how tall Kauri is!

Keyana is being measured by Leah, and Bryston is trying to join in too!

 How many sticks tall are you?  Come visit us in Class 24 and maybe we'll measure you, too!

We even learnt what 1/2 meant because a whole stick was too much for some people's heights!

Our Writing Process

Class 24 is becoming amazing story tellers, and they are doing an excellent job learning how to put their ideas into sentences on paper.  Yesterday, Mrs. Moala captured portions of our writing lesson to show how well we are doing.

First, our class "used our own brains" to look at the funny monkey picture Mrs. Moala showed us. Then, we were allowed to "talk with our buddies" and share our ideas about the picture.  After sharing with our buddy, we had a whole-class sharing time.

Monkey in a Field Sharing from Team 1 PES on Vimeo.

During our class discussion, Mrs. Moala helped us create a writing web.  The writing web helps us with special words when we are writing our own sentences about the picture.

When we finished writing our sentences, we read them aloud to Mrs. Moala, and she even recorded some of us!

Keyana from Team 1 PES on Vimeo.

Sauma from Team 1 PES on Vimeo.

Leah writing from Team 1 PES on Vimeo.

Class 24 Persia 2014 from Team 1 PES on Vimeo.

Presents from the USA!

Class 24 had so much fun using their new Dr. Suess pencils and animal stencils today!  They worked very hard to create their very own pictures.

Bryston, Sauma and Keyana are so excited to sharpen their new pencils!

Working hard to outline their animal shapes using the new stencils.

Exodus S. and Cherish both have blue pencils!

We had to carefully punch out the shapes to make the stencils usable.

Students had to decide to use the outside of the shape or the inside of the stencil.

All of our drawing was done in pencil before we were able to add colour.

Persia even added an amazing "Zoo" archway across her paper all by herself!

Be sure to check back another day to see some of our finished products!

Class 24 Athletes

During Term 3 we are learning what it means to be a champion.  We are also training for our school Cross Country race later this term, and learning how to do gymnastics with our fabulous coach!

We had gymnastics with Class 25 this week.
Look how well we are listening to coach!

Alexus practicing her dismount on the trampoline.

We learnt how to do forward rolls.

Check out Keyana's forward roll!

Coach is giving Sauma some helpful hints.

Team 1 is practicing for Cross Country everyday after morning tea.

Marvelous Maths!

Class 24 has been working very hard to read, write and count our numbers from 0-20.  Check out all the different ways we are learning in Class 24!

Sauma and Amelia put the numbers 1-20 in order and then counted out the correct number of sticks for each number.  They even sorted the sticks by colour while counting!

 Leah worked very hard to put the numbers 1-10 in order using our new puzzle.

Israel and Bryston were working hard to match the number with the right number of objects.

  

Persia and Kharizma are such clever girls!  While colouring their maths pages, they decided to sort their crayons by colour!

Peni is working hard learning to write double digit numbers.

Keep up the good work Class 24!  Mrs. Moala is so proud of you!

Friday Fun!

Class 24 had an amazing time playing at the park on Friday afternoon!

Leah and Sauma are just hanging around!

Israel, Jemma and Leah are showing off their cool moves!

Keyana loves the Flying Fox!

Israel is a little monkey!

Teignoa has no fear going down the slide with his arms in the air!

Learning Double Digits!

Class 24 has been hard at work learning how to count to 20, and we have been learning how to write our numbers.  This week we learnt how to write the numbers 11 and 12, and we are so excited to share our learning with you!

Exodus T. was able to count 12 teddy bears.

Exodus T. drew 12 balloons after learning how to write "12".

Sauma used the stamp on KidPix to "stamp" 14 lollipops!

Leah and Keyana were able to count 11 sticks and they are so excited to show you how amazing they are at counting!

Class 24 Counting to 11 from Team 1 PES on Vimeo.

Our Special Guests

Class 24 is so lucky to have amazing guest teachers come in to help us learn during the week!  Every Thursday, we have a special new friend come from Tamaki College to help us learn and her name is Rasil.  Rasil is helping us learn to write our names, and learn our numbers.  She also reads us a story every Thursday!  We love colouring with her, and playing with her during lunch playtime.  

Our other special friend is our new Get Set Go teacher and her name is Coach Stephanie.  She comes to play with us every Friday after our school assembly, and she always teaches us new games to play.  We are currently learning how to aim and throw.  She taught us to point to our target with one hand, and raise our bean bag (or ball) up to our ear before we throw to hit the target.

Coach Steph giving us instructions for our next game.

We played a very fun game on Friday trying to "smash" down the cones when we threw our bean bag!

Sauma and Bryston doing a great job following Coach Steph's throwing instructions!