WHO ATE BABY BEAR'S PORRIDGE?????

This morning when we came into Team Tahi there were the Three Bear's sitting at one of our tables.  All appeared ka pai, until........... we noticed Baby Bear's porridge had been all eaten up!  

Dilemma!

Who had eaten Baby Bear's porridge?

That was the question.

We needed to put our detective hats on and find out:

*  Who was the person who did this?

*  Was it a boy or a girl?

*  What was the person wearing?

*  Should we put the person's name in the Black Book, or should we look deeper and find out if there was a good reason for this person eating Baby Bear's porridge?

We had to get to the bottom of this!

We had to ask questions.

But what are questions?

We had lots of answers.

But asking questions was quite difficult.

1st:  We had to think about what we wanted to know

2nd:  We had to think about what questions to ask 

3rd:  Our questions would have to lead us to the answer

Mmmmmmmm, that's easier said than done. 

We'll have to turn, pair, share and discuss this situation.

In the meantime, we might eat the rest of the porridge! 

After eating the delicious porridge, and sharing some with 

Miss Smith - who loved it!, we sat down and thought about:

What we are learning to do:  Form and write a question that will lead us to the correct answer

SC: (student ideas)  Capital letter at the start and question marks at the end

We then wrote our questions in our writing books and Miss T made a Google Form to send the questions out lots of teachers who were around before school and may have seen the culprit.

The questions we asked were:

Did you see the person come into Team Tahi?

Where did you see this person?

What was the person wearing?

Should we put the persons name in the Black Book?

Was the person a girl or a boy?

These questions will help us find out who ate Baby Bear's porridge.

Some of the suggestions from the children were Goldilocks, or as Ali rightfully pointed out - it could of been the man from the story Stone Soup we read about last week because he was hungry and the villagers did share with him.  So maybe the Bear's were sharing.

Kalani thought the person was hungry and needed to eat so eating the porridge was ok.

Some our members think whoever ate the porridge was naughty and shouldn't of eaten it.

Tom pointed out that she was naughty because she did not listen to her mother and stay near her home.

Mmmmmmm, interesting points Team Tahi.

We are looking forward to unpacking the answers to our questions tomorrow and finding out who saw what!  

We were awesome detectives and we look forward to become "question experts"

TRANSITION TIME

Transition on Thursday took a new look - especially when...... Ma and Hora turned up in a colourful, 

multi-shaped, balloon car!  Ma was driving and Hora was a back-seat driver.  We had enormous smiles on our faces and shared lots of information we could see.  As you can see - we were mesmerized by Ma and Hora driving this exciting contraption.  A big thanks to Shane who lives down the road from our Kura who generously made us a car for 

Ma and Hora to drive in.  We did some fantastic writing after discussing the attributes of the car.

After all that excitement we made some "Meanies".  We read the "Meanie" big book and then we made our own.  Come in and check our "Meanies" out!  We had to pause for some milk to keep our energy levels up.  Then we had an explore on the big playground.  We love that playground.

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!

We Love Our New Classroom!

Today at Writing time we wrote about what we liked in our new classroom.  Here are some of our stories - 

I like the TV in our new classroom.  It looks awesome and we get to learn.  I like our whiteboard table.

By Alize

I like the couch.  I like the writing table.  The couch is comfortable.  I like the new room.  I like the butterflies.  I like the pictures.

By Jamie-Lee

I like the whiteboard table so much in the classroom.  We get to draw and write.  It is so good.

By Logan

I like the writing table.  I like the butterflies.  They are pretty.

By Bailey-May

I like the writing table and I like the couch.  It is soft.

By Eternity

I love the couch and the clock and butterflies.

By Elena

I like the window shades.  I like the couch.  It has sun.  I like the sun.  I like the magic tree.  I see the magic tree climbing the stairs.

By Caleb

Day One of Term 4

Welcome back to all children and whanau!  We had an awesome first day in our brand new classroom ... we love the new learning space, and our learning today was...

RIGHT UP THERE!

Jynav brought back his holiday diary today.  He sounds like he had an awesome time over the two week break.  Check out this super holiday writing - 

Fabulous Writing in Room 1

Last week we were reading a story about wacky hats.  One day for writing we created our own hats and then described them.  Check out our awesome stories!