First Language Group

Last week we made counting posters in our first language. Then we shared our work by counting in Tongan, Samoan, Cantonese, Fasi, Hindi, Fijian, Afrikaans, Cambodian and Filipino. 

Where the Wild Things Are - 6 Hat Thinking

We read ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ again today. Some of our foundation learners then played a game of Bingo based around this wonderful book. The other children coloured masks for our wild rumpus next week. 

While we were working we did some 6 Hat Thinking around Max’s visit with the ‘Wild Things.’

First we did some yellow hat thinking. What were the good or positive points

• Max was happy he had friends
• He was really happy when he left
• Max was glad when he was made king
• He liked playing with them.
• He got to be their king.
• The ‘Wild Things’ listened to him.
• He got to ride on the ‘Wild Things’ backs. He didn’t even have to walk
• Max liked being at the wild rumpus

Then we used our black thinking hats and looked at bad or the not so good points. 

• The wild things made him cross.
• Max was frightened by them at first.
• Max was sad because he missed his mum.
• He was alone and really hungry.
• Max might get super hungry.
• The ‘Wild Things’ are creepy. I would scream.
• The ‘Wild Things’ might eat you up like a hamburger when you are sleeping.
• They might eat you up in one go.
• They might throw you in the water or break your boat

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'Where the Wild Things Are'

Today we read ‘Where the Wild things Are’ by Maurice Sendak.  Then we put on our ‘Red Thinking Hats’ to talk about how Max was feeling throughout the book. 

Here are some of the feelings the children came up with. 

• When his mum called him ‘Wild Thing,’ Max was mad and grumpy. He was angry at his Mum and said, “I’ll eat you up.”
• Max was sent to his room and this made him angry. He was mad and hungry because he had no supper.
• When Max first saw one of the ‘Wild Things’ he was scared. His face looked terrified.
• The ‘Wild Things’ made Max their king. He was very proud and happy.
• Max felt very happy and excited when he took part in the ‘Wild Rumpus.’
• When the ‘Wild Rumpus’ stopped, Max felt upset. We think he was tired and hungry and missed his home.
• When he got home, we think he was glad to be back. He was happy and relieved to be in his own room. 

 Wow! 
What Great Red Hat Thinking.

Art Attack

This year our art attack was based around water. We found all the words for water in the children's first language and made a big wall display in our school hall.

Rosie's Walk

This week we read the book called 'Rosie's Walk'. It has a lot of prepostions in it. Then we watched a video on teacher tube. It was a funny video about Rosie and the fox. 
Then we played a Bingo game that used all the prepositions from Rosie's Walk. It was from Sparklebox. 

Prepositions

Dino the dinosaur came to school with his beautiful pink bucket to tell us all about prepositions. He is a great teacher.

Dino is on the bucket.

Dino is in front of the bucket.

Dino is behind the bucket.

Dino is next to the bucket.

Dino is in the bucket.

      Where is Dino? 

Lazy Ozzie Black Hat Thinking

We read Lazy Ozzie and then put on our 'Black Thinking Hats'.  Here are some of the things that might happen if Ozzie doesn't learn how to fly.

• he will fall and get hurt
  
• no dinner
• the other birds will be mean to him
• he will get hungry
• he will never get a friend
• his owl friends might not play with him
• he will be sad

Lazy Ozzie Green Hat Thinking

Ozzie is a lazy little owl who likes to sit around all day and doesn’t want to learn how to fly. We used some green hat thinking to come up with some ideas to help him to get down from the high beam.

• he could use an umbrella and jump
• he could jump on the hay piles
• he could get a big, big ladder
• he could just slide down the horses back
• could he just jump
• someone could to push him
• he could ask someone to teach him

Caring for the Earth

This week we have been learning some new vocabulary for our topic ‘Sustainability is Forever’. 

We used some pictures about taking care of our earth.  Today we took turns to talk about each picture. Pavi has just finished her turn and is letting the others know by putting up her thumb. Pavi talked about picking up rubbish and keeping our playground clean and tidy.

Samoan Language Week

Manuia le Vaiaso o le Gagana Samoa!!
Happy Samoan Language week!!

Today was the first day of Samoan Language week. All the samoan children were given a 'Samoan Week' booklet and one for their classroom teachers. The children are going to be the teachers this week and teach their teachers and the other children in their classrooms some Samoan words. Well done to Victory and his teacher Ms Blackburn who have already taught all their classroom how to count from 1- 10 in Samoan.

The Night Iceberg - Red Hat Thinking

 We read The Night Iceberg... then we put on our red thinking hats. We wanted to find out how Tofta was feeling...

• She was grumpy because she didn't want to share
• She was not happy with her little brother
• She didn't want to share
• I think she would be sad by herself on the iceberg at bed time
• She didn't want to share the iceberg with penguins
• She starts to like playing with the penguins and that makes her happy
• She was happy on the iceberg
• I think she is sad and misses all her family
• She is wanting to go home. I think she is feeling sad.
• I think she will share things with her brother and not so grumpy

The Night Iceberg - Green Hat Thinking

What would you take if you went to visit an iceberg... we put on our green thinking hats to think up some interesting ideas.

• Chocolate fish... then you wouldn’t have to fish
• Fishy flavoured ice-cream for the penguins
• My wind up torch... we got it for when the lights go out in an earthquake
• A soccer ball so that I could play soccer with the penguins
• Some fish fingers
• My big boots that are real warm
• A coat and my new beanie
• Some fishy stuff