Emma

=7/2/2012=

====10/2/2012 - Emma had a great day at Waikuku Beach at Beach Education. She spent a lot of time with a variety of friends making sand castles. She is always ready to share with others and listen to other people's ideas.====

=29/2/2012= ====Emma showed great empathy today. When reading her book 'Megan's new school', Emma made a connection between what the main character was feeling and the new girl in our class. Great to see Emma thinking about the world around her and making these valuable connections.====

This is Emma doing her silly sentence in phonics today. She has listened to the sentence and then written it out all on her own. Great work Emma, time to move on to the next stage.


=14/3/2012 - We are learning to recognise numbers to from 0-100= ====Emma and Lily have been helping each other in maths this week. We have been using the number fans to show a number to each other to see if they know it. We take turns, and make sure that the numbers are not too hard. We set challenges for each other to develop our thinking.====

=15/3/2012 - We are learning to write a description.= ====Weka have been writing descriptions. Here is Emma's work she has published. I am sorry that some of it is hard to see, the light was not great when I took the photos. Feel free to come into class and the real work up on the wall. It is always much better in person.====

=21/3/2012 BIG IDEA - CHANGE IN OUR COMMUNITY - WHY THE PAST IS IMPORTANT TO PEOPLE= ====We have looked a lot at the past and present this term. Looking at the buildings around Waikari and trying to understand why looking after things that are old is important to people in our community. All the Wekas had to come up with a question about the building they had chosen. Once we decided on our questions we invited a range of people from our community in to talk with us. We found out some very interesting things about our community. Here is Emma asking her question to Frazer.====

=22/3/2012= ====Emma and I have spent this week reading about Rabbits. We learnt lots of interesting facts, talked lots about herbivores and decided to try and make the rabbit salad recipe. Here is Emma making and hiding her rabbit salad. We will give you an update on Monday morning when we check it after the weekend, to see if rabbits really like this combination.====

=25/3/2012= ====It's official, rabbits like rabbit salad. Emma went back to the hedge this morning when she got to school and it was all gone, even the whole carrot! We decided that we wouldn't feed them too much though as we didn't want holes to end up in the field from all the bunnies.====

=27/3/2012= ====Every term we focus on one of the school's PRIDE values. This term we have been looking at respect. How we show respect to other people, to ourselves and our things. Today we talked again about what we can do to show respect and had some time to show some of the skills we have been working on. Emma is showing amazing respect in this photo by helping Eloise to learn how to take turns. She showed great patience and friendship. Well done Emma, it is great to have you as our oldest Weka.====

=28/3/2012= ====Emma has been working very hard to make all her lower case letters the same size in handwriting. She did so well today, I sent her to Mr Kemp for principal's award sticker. Great work Emma, keep it up.====

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=2/4/2012= ====Emma and I read another book today about rabbits. Emma made great connections about 'The Rabbit Dance' and 'Rabbit Rescue'. She knew that rabbits thump their foot when there is danger near them. The rabbit in 'The Rabbit dance' did this today, and Emma could tell me exactly why. Great work Emma!====

=TERM 2= =Week 1 and 2= ====We have been working on our big ball skills this term through soccer. Emma has been learning how to kick and trap a ball with increasing confidence. She can kick the ball well over 5 metres and works hard when playing games with others to tackle the ball off the opposite team. Check out these great photos of her progress.====