Library Week

These pictures were from our visit to the Suter Art Gallery to look at the Bing Dawe exhibition about some of our less loved animals. We had great fun making our own clay models of birds and can't wait until Esther has fired them in her kiln and we can paint them.

During the week we continued to acquire information for our inquiry unit by interviewing Jane, who helps us in our classroom and is visually impaired. We asked her about the things around school that help her and ideas she had for improvements.

We then used this knowledge and de Bono's yellow thinking hat to list all the great things at NCS that help visually impaired friends to get around, learn and play just like the rest of us. Finally we photographed all our ideas. This week we will using the green thinking hat to help us come up with some creative ideas for improvements around the school.

On Friday we celebrated Library Week by dressing up as our favourite book characters. We shared our costumes with our other friends at the Kowhai assembly.

This week we will be revisiting the digraph 'th' and looking at the different sounds it can make e.g 'th' as in 'thumb' and 'th' as in 'this'. In maths we will be focusing on instant recall of number bonds to 10 as a whole class as well as continuing our specific focus for each group. This week's social skill is " Doing Our Best", look out for our ideas on this around the classroom later in the week.
Reminders
Monday: Library books are due back
Wednesday: Walk to school day
Friday 28th August Wacky Hair Day
Tues 1st September Suter visit 1.00 John Bevan Ford, Maori Art , helpers needed