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Kowhai Term 4

Published on December 16, 2011 in Kowhai - rm 2 - Lara Nemet and Uncategorized. 0 Comments

Term four is coming to an end – time sure does fly by. This is the last term the children in Kowhai will be Year 2’s! We have had a very productive year learning lots and having fun with our friends.

We ended term 3 on a high after the school production. The children worked very hard to learn all the words of the songs and their dance steps. I was very proud of how well they danced on the nights and they all looked fantastic in their costumes. They had lots of fun designing and making our scarecrow props, I’m sure Ma’a Nonu would be very impressed!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We enjoyed making cardboard bird houses with Caroline during our art session and some children made bird food with Jo. Ren’s mother helped us put our bird houses up in the rainforest, so keep an eye out for them. We climbed trees to find just the right spot. We made them to attract birds to the school and we hope the birds will like them! We were also fortunate enough to do some bird banding with the ‘Birdman’ Peter. The children’s faces said it all, they were delighted to be able to hold and let the Yellow Eyes free after Peter put bands on their legs.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A highlight of the term three of course was the unexpected SNOW! We wrote some wonderful Haiku poetry about the day it snowed at school. We have started this term off by training for our school athletics. This involves throwing, running and jumping.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This term we have been learning about ‘Our Amazing Bodies’. The children have come up with some very interesting questions. They have learnt to gather and use information from different resources to write explanations and reports to answer their questions. We had a very exciting visit from the Life Education Caravan Harold the giraffe and Charlotte. We helped Harold do his homework and learnt all about ‘Air to Live’. This term has filled with lots of fun learning. We are all looking forward to our summer holiday. Thank you to all the parents in Kowhai for their help and support throughout the year. I wish you safe and enjoyable holiday and a happy New Year.

Lara Nemet

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kowhai Happenings – Term 2

Published on May 27, 2011 in Kowhai - rm 2 - Lara Nemet and Uncategorized. 0 Comments

Tena  Koutou, welcome to Kowhai.

 In Term One we had a wonderful start to the year, establishing routines, learning about each other and training hard for the cross country. We have all trained hard to reach personal goals and ran our best on the day of the cross country.

Together we created a class treaty that we all agreed to abide to. You will find it on our classroom wall surrounded by our gorgeous photos.

 Kowhai’s environmental responsibility is ‘Birds of the Valley’. Together we have developed this year’s action plan. The children have come up with lots of great ideas. We are hoping to make bird feeders/houses, learn more about the plants and trees birds like help band some birds and plant some flax and kowhai seeds. Dave our caretaker came and shared his knowledge about birds with us. He is a very clever artist and we are enjoying his bird quizzes he leaves on the white board for us to ponder over. If you have any bright ideas on how we can bring more bird into our school and Houghton Valley feel free to let us know.

 

 

 

                                                                                                                                             

Dave talking to us about the anatomy of a bird,

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                                                                                           

Term two is well underway. We have been working together to come up with lots of great ideas for our Art and Enterprise discovery topic. We will be exploring different art techniques and artists work over the next few weeks as we create and make masterpieces for the art exhibition. There are many very talented artists in Kowhai. The children are going to select two pieces they would like to display in the exhibition and the rest of the art will be displayed around the classroom.

 In week two we had a very productive art day with Caroline creating pieces of art based around Impressionism. The children were very enthusiastic and enjoyed using pastels. We are looking forward to working with her again later in the term.

  

                                                                                                                                            

                                                                                                                                            

                                                                                                                                            

                                                                                                                                            

We have decided to buy a puppet theatre and puppets for our class with the money we make from selling our enterprises. Keep posted to find out more. We have just completed a maths unit about money in preparation for selling our goods. We are hoping to make a small fortune to buy heaps of puppets. We are also working on improving our recall of basic facts to 10 by playing lots of fun games so keep learning them at home too.

 We are currently writing creative responses to music and pictures using our imaginations and descriptive language. It is interesting how everyone has such a different interpretation of a piece of music or a picture.

Kowhai have been working very hard and have produced wonderful work over the past four weeks of this term, Tu meke Kowhai Kids.

Lara Nemet

Soccer Fever

Published on July 1, 2010 in Kowhai - rm 2 - Lara Nemet and Uncategorized. 0 Comments

TERM TWO IS OVER

Soccer Fever has hit Kowhai! We have had lots of fun over the past three weeks following the Soccer World Cup. This term we researched some of the countries that have taken part in it. We have been learning to find, use and record information as a report. We have also learnt and practised new soccer skills and enjoyed challenging Mahoe at Number Soccer, it has been great fun and very exciting to watch. Who knows maybe one day one of us will be an All White!

Soccer World Cup dress-up day

We were given a wonderful opportunity by Dave our caretaker and the Birdman to experience ‘Bird Banding’. We helped band many Yellow Eyes and had great delight in letting the banded birds free. So keep an eye out and you may spot one of the birds we helped band. We learnt that birds are banded to keep track of how far they travel and how long they live.

 

Setting the banded Yellow Eye free!

Our classroom is very bright with colourful works of art. We have explored mixing colours, using colour expressively and creating art from other countries. We are currently in the process of making papier mache shakers, a new experience for some children.

Good Luck Hand - African Art Work

Colour Mixing and Contrast Colours

Exploring Tone

We have also had a wonderful dance experience with Ms Cossey who taught the children how to Morris dance. It has helped Kowhai become champion skippers.

 

Getting ready to Morris Dance!

The term has flown by and we are getting ready for the holidays. The holidays are for recharging and relaxing! Please enjoy and don’t forget to read, read and read lots of books!