PINK PARTY PIGS, P, P, P

When we learn phonics we sing a little ditty, follow some actions, and learn the sound a letter makes.  On Tuesday we were learning the letter sound "p".  We made some Pink Party Pigs using crayon and dye.  We did not know how to draw a pig so we relied on our shape knowledge and used ovals, circles, triangles, curly lines, and the letter "w" to make our pig.  Then we dyed our pigs.  We were really surprised when Miss T wrote our names in white crayon on the page because we could not see it.  But then magic happened, when we dyed our paper, our name appeared.  AMAZING stuff!

WELCOME TO JACK AND WEEK 3 TRANSITION LOVELIES

Welcome Jack to Team Tahi - you have shared your fantastic "give it a go" attitude today and we are thrilled you chose Team Tahi to be your first experience at School.

Transition was awesome last week when Amelia, Jack and Dylan came for a visit to Team Tahi on Thursday.  We cannot wait until you join our Team for lots of great learning experiences.  Check out our Bear's on the wall in the cloak-bay when you come in this week.  

SWIMMING IS AWESOME

Swimming is always fun in the summer.  With a warm day in the Bay we decided it was a great day for a swim.  We are learning to enter the pool safely, walk across the pool and float.  

CYCLING

Today we went cycling...... and what a great day to go cycling!  We missed the rain by an hour and ....... we had one of our Team move from 4 wheels to 2 wheels!  Well done Kalani and that smile on your face said it all.  Miss T held onto Kalani and secretly let him go.  Kalani did not know he was by himself until he stopped looked around and said "Hey - your way over there!  How did that happen?"  "You biked over there Kalani - all by yourself!"  Your smile Kalani spoke a million words - you were so very proud of yourself - 

well done!  

Another fantastic learning opportunity at Mahora School!

LEARNING AND AKO TIME

At Reading time we are allowed to write on Miss T's whiteboard table.  At first we were a little reluctant, because, after all, this is the teacher's table.  But Miss T said - go right ahead, write the words we are learning today...... so we did.  How cool is that?  We get to write on the teacher's table.  Awesome!  We wrote "I am".  We can remember to leave spaces and write "I" as a capital letter.  We are awesome learners!

AKO TIME

In the afternoon it was our very first Ako Time experience.  Ako Time is our version of Discovery Learning.  Miss T and Mrs McKinley took time to plan each station and we were allowed to visit any station we thought we might like.  We could use Duplo, go upstairs to our fruit shop, build with blocks outside (or sell these to Miss T and Mrs McKinley for exorbidant prices!).  We used the musical instruments to dance around the tree and sing songs.  We used the felts to decorate our boxes.  We used boxes as tunnels.  

As 5 year olds we are so very creative and it was a blast to be able to display our creativity to Miss T and 
Mrs McKinley.