Achieving my Writing Goal

Darcy has been working really hard on his writing goal.  He can now accurately identify and write all the sounds he can hear in the words.

Darcy can now work on his new writing goal of putting an end point to his sentences like . ? !

You are a great author, Darcy.

Snakes and Ladders

Noah is teaching Darcy how to play snakes and ladders. 
There is lots of counting and adding on with the dice.

Riding Our Bikes

Reading and writing about things you enjoy makes literacy fun.  We have been reading lots of books about bikes and racing.   We wrote a letter home asking if we could bring our bike or scooter to school.  We had lots of fun and we shared our bikes and scooters with the children who couldn't bring their bikes that day. 

We were all a bit tired after all that racing around!

Alba helped Lawrie ride her bike.  "Look ahead Lawrie I'll push 

  

 you!"

Charley supporting Lily on Kairangi's scooter.

Kairangi demonstrated to the other children how to use the brake on the scooter to help you to stop.

My Sailboat

Here is my sailboat. It was hard to make. 

Lawrie helped me by holding the mast while I stuck it on. Then I helped hold Lawrie's boat. 

 My sailboat is going to go to the islands to find treasure. They are going to look under the ground of the sand. They might find treasure.

Working on Reading

Darcy is learning to look at all the words and check that they look right, sound right and make sense. You were thinking carefully about the words 'little' and 'big' Darcy, well done!

Snakes and Ladders

In a maths workshop some of the children were learning how to count in twos, fives, tens.  We went outside and used the  numbers on the snakes and ladders grid to help us learn our goal. 

 The next day Darcy, Jesse and Alba went outside and played Snakes and Ladders using a large dice Jesse had found. When Mrs Johnson went outside to see  what they were playing she was amazed how they were independently playing snakes and ladders and how they were all following the rules of the game.  Each player was supporting each other to count on  and move to the right number which was a bit tricky as the numbers on the dice went up to nine!

My Snake Dinosaur

This is my snake dinosaur. 
He has sharp scales on his back. 
He has sharp fangs in his mouth and they are poisonous. 
He has a sharp point at the end of the tail.