Magic Key

We have been enjoying reading and listening to the Magic Key books. The Yertles created their own magic key stories. Hope you enjoy them.

Subtracting Money

The Kakariki maths group have been learning to solve subtraction problems. 

They have been shopping with $10 and working out how much change they will have left.

They worked so well independently practicing their subtraction and writing their number stories. 

Chicken writing

We were so lucky to have some visitors at school. Harkirat brought in her chickens. 

The Kakabeak Kids were fantastic authors. Read some of their stories about the chickens.

 The baby chickens squeaked when we were quiet and the chicks were scared of us. There was a white chicken and one was spotty and they tried to fly when Mrs H tried to pick it up. They had some chicken food. Mrs Bassett had to clean the poop up from the ground in our classroom floor. 

Author Hanna

 Aww! 3 little chickens. They are so cute. They are baby chickens. Two of the chickens are white and one is a black chicken and one of the chickens are colourful. I love the black one. "Get back here"said Mrs H. Mrs H put the food by the chickens. They went to the food. Mrs H grabbed the white one. They pooed on the classroom mat. Slimy yucky poo. 

Author Cody

 I can see the box. It was 3 chickens. The chickens pooed on the floor.

Author Dilpreet

Squeak squeak went the chicks. One of the chicks had some feathers. They can only fly a little bit. They were baby chicks but they couldn't fly yet. They will grow up. They had food from Harkirat's Mum. They were white and one was spotty and one was white and black.

Author Eliana

Wow we got to see chicks. They tried to flap their wings. They had wonderful feathers on their feet. They eat grains in the morning and night. They played around with each other. The best is the white fluffy one. One looked speckled and the other looked like an eagle with patterns and one was white and fluffy. They pecked each other with their sharp beak. The have shiny claws. The surprise was they all pooed. 

Author Arkalias

Squeak went the chickens. I like their feathers. Next the white chicken came along to me. The baby chickens were cute. When a chicken tried to fly they dropped to the ground. I like them because they are fluffy. Finally they are going back to their house.

Author Eliza

I have chickens at my home. We have a box with chook food inside. Everyday we feed the chickens. the chickens have fluffy feathers they also have fluffy feet. They don't lay eggs anymore. I want eggs they are my favourite. When the chickens got born their feet came out. The chickens ran with the egg still on them.

Author Cooper 

Jumping

We have been learning about jumping. 

We figured out that to do the best jumps we need to

 Bend our knees and swing our arms back 

Swing our arms forward and up 2 feet leave the ground together 

Bend our knees to land 2 feet land together 

 Our challenge was to create an obstacle course for people to practice jumping. We worked so well collaboratively. Watch the video to see some amazing obstacle courses created by the Kakabeak Kids.


Untitled from tracey hill on Vimeo.

Radio Stories

We listened to some of the Lynly Dodd radio stories. There are so many different stories to listen to. 

Here is a link to listen to them http://www.radionz.co.nz/collections/storytime-treasure-chest.

Just click on it and listen and enjoy the stories.

Some children chose to make masks from the  Hairy Maclary books.

The Kakabeak Kids were thinking creatively and problem-solving. 

Bottomly Potts front and back

Listening to story and using our puppets

Scar Face Claw

Muffin Maclay

Hairy Maclary

Hairy Maclary

Slinky Malinky

Hairy Maclary

Hairy Maclary

Bottomly Potts

Come in and see more of our puppets. We might even tell you a story with them. 

Worms

Some of the Kakabeak kids have been writing about worms. They made some ooey gooey worms.

I felt good when Mum made me worm soup because I love worm soup. It has wiggly worms. It is tasty very tasty.
Author Demetry

Ooey gooey worms. They slither around the place. They go in the ground. they help the plants and help the flowers and they eat the dirt.
Author Addilyn

Mmm  they taste delicious. Jelly worms are my favourite. Gobble gobble they are orange and pink

Author Ruby

Ooey gooey worms are good for the grass because they help the grass grow for your backyard.
Author Lucian

Reading Instructions

The Fox and Socks reading group read a book teaching them how to make a toy telephone. 

They read the instructions and made their own telephones

Buddy Hub

We are so so lucky in Kakabeak Whanau because we are a buddy hub with Kauri Hub. We all love working with our buddies. 

We have challenges we are going to work on throughout the term with our buddies.

- Building a hut for a bear to hibernate in with Mrs Kelly

-Building a house for a weta with Mrs Miller

-Creating a trap with Mrs Love 

-Creating a kiwi carrier with Mrs H

We have been working so well together solving problems

We can't wait for our next buddy hub day