Arabella

2/2/2012 Arabella had a great first day back at school today. She has clearly been working hard on her reading during the holidays. She was able to read me all of a book with no help at all. Ka pai Arabella, what a star weka!

8/2/2012

Great writing today, what a star you are finding all those words.


10/2/2012 We went to the beach today for beach education. Arabella loved being in the waves and building sand castles. She is really getting to know the three safety rules for being at the beach. 

13/3/2012
====This is Arabella doing her silly sentence in phonics today. She has listened to the sentence and then tried writing it out all on her own. You are working so hard to learn that vowel sounds in the middle of words. Well done.====

=15/3/2012 - We are learning to recognise numbers to from 0-100= ====Arabella and Jake 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.====

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=22/3/2012=

Arabella worked so hard on her handwriting today that she was sent to Mr Kemp for a principals award sticker. Keep it up!


=15/3/2012 - We are learning to write a description.= ====Weka have been writing descriptions. Here is Arabella'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= ====Every Wednesday we have news. We call it Banana Split news because we sit in two lines and share our news, and then one side splits off so we can talk to someone new. In this photo Mateo and Arabella are showing what great listeners they are by sitting still and looking at the person who is talking. It is great to see them both so interested. I wonder what they are talking about?====

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 Arabella asking her question to Mr Sidey.====

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=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. Arabella always shows wonderful respect at school. Here is a photo of her showing respect by using her scissors with care. She was very careful about collecting and retuning her scissors holding them the correct way. Well done.====