Room Tui
Whaea Charmaine
We are Year 1 and 2 students and there is 11 of us in Tui class. We love learning through play and are practising our Rocket Reading every day with Ruru class. We have Erin helping us in Tui class too. We are really lucky to have Whaea Charmaine teaching us in 2021. Lots of us know her as she used to be our teacher at Ngatea Kindy.
Wow what an amazing first term in room Tui. We have had 3 amazing leaders that were in room Tui last year and have been a huge help to Whaea Charmaine and her team of Tui chicks. In just 11 weeks of school we have learnt how to be big school kids. We have learned all about letter sounds and how to turn these into words that we can read and write. We have had so much fun learning about numbers and how to count these, add them and write them. We love to keep our minds and bodies in shape learning to count to 100 while we work out.
So much learning through play and discovery has extended our experiences in our first term of school for 2021. Outside the classroom we have learned to swim and be confident in the water in the pool and how to play as a team for the Hockey Big day Out.
We have learnt about New Zealand history, exploring Easter and Anzac day. Making Easter baskets, planting poppy seeds and baking Anzac biscuits has helped us learn through all of our senses and experiences. We have been discovering how reading, writing and maths can be so meaningful in our lives through baking, planting, art activities, playdough, sand and water play, block and hot glue creations and team games.
It has been an ‘epic’ term for Whaea Charmaine and her wonderful Tui chicks and we can’t wait for term 2.
Wow what an amazing first term in room Tui. We have had 3 amazing leaders that were in room Tui last year and have been a huge help to Whaea Charmaine and her team of Tui chicks. In just 11 weeks of school we have learnt how to be big school kids. We have learned all about letter sounds and how to turn these into words that we can read and write. We have had so much fun learning about numbers and how to count these, add them and write them. We love to keep our minds and bodies in shape learning to count to 100 while we work out.
So much learning through play and discovery has extended our experiences in our first term of school for 2021. Outside the classroom we have learned to swim and be confident in the water in the pool and how to play as a team for the Hockey Big day Out.
We have learnt about New Zealand history, exploring Easter and Anzac day. Making Easter baskets, planting poppy seeds and baking Anzac biscuits has helped us learn through all of our senses and experiences. We have been discovering how reading, writing and maths can be so meaningful in our lives through baking, planting, art activities, playdough, sand and water play, block and hot glue creations and team games.
It has been an ‘epic’ term for Whaea Charmaine and her wonderful Tui chicks and we can’t wait for term 2.
