PHONICS TIME

Phonics is learning the sound letters make.  Today we learnt the sound for the letter "c".  Once we had mastered the sound and how to form the letter we went back in our brains to remember how some other letters we had learnt recently and made 2 words.  Because...... did you know.... letters make words!  Aha!  They do!  Our brains know that too!  Check us out with "cat" and "sat" - ohhhhh, hey - that rhymes as well.  Super stuff!  Miss T had to try and get one good photo of us all ............... 

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!

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!

WEEK 2 IN TEAM TAHI

Remz joined Team Tahi today with a great big smile and great attitude!  Welcome Remz

 We worked together to make a number puzzle on the floor. We had to share the pieces and help each other.  Sometimes the pieces didn't fit so we had to turn them or try another piece.  We did it in the end and we were pretty pleased with ourselves!

We are learning about full stops and capital letters.  Did you know that full stops are in our reading, our writing and in our shared books!  Amazing!  They are everywhere.  

Did you know capital letters start a sentence?  These are everywhere as well.  Amazing!  

We are learning to identify these in our reading, writing and shared stories.  We are full stop and capital letter detectives!

 Our very first story writing today.  We used spaces, capital letters and full stops.  We are awesome Mahora learners with the right attitude.  

Tino pai rawa atu Team Tahi!