Te Oro Art Festival

This term we have been learning about keeping our water clean. Ricky went to Te Oro today to represent Sommerville school and talk about our classroom and what we have learn this term. Well done Ricky for sharing our learning.

Reflection and Mirror Images

This term we have been learning about reflection for our Maths topic. We wrote our names on a whiteboard to see its reflection in the mirror. We can see that is backwards. Ricky wrote "Tamaki Primary" using words from our word wall and said that the words "looked funny" in the mirror.

Cleaning up our enviornment

This term we have been learning about cleaning up our environment. We have been picking up rubbish from around our school and learning about sorting the rubbish into paper, plastic, food scraps and aluminium. Last week we went to visit Point England Reserve which is our local beach. We found lots of rubbish at the beach and put it in our buckets. We found lots of different items like socks, goggles, glass, bottles and plastic. We all know how to find items at the beach that do NOT belong. Well done boys!

Tamaki Primary Picnic

Tamaki Primary invited us to their fun day. We had sausage and bread, iceblocks and played on their bouncy castles. We had so much fun.

Imaginative Play

Hugo likes making birthday cakes in the sandpit. He fills up a bucket of water from the water fountain, adds sand, pats in down and puts a candle in it. Lauren is helping Hugo to blow out the candles. Great cake Hugo!

Ribbon Dancing

Look at the patterns we can make with our ribbons! 

Predictable Chart Writing

Each week we write a story altogether as a class. This week we are writing a story about places we like to go. We put our name next to our sentence each day and read our sentence out loud. We also put our sentence in order and find a picture to go with our sentence.

Swimming at Lagoon

This year we are continuing our swimming lessons at Lagoon Pools. We are fortunate enough to have our instructor, Helen for term 1 this year. We are learning how to float in the water, roll onto our backs and swim the length of the big pool. Look at us go!

Shared Reading at Tamaki Primary

This week our big book is, "The Pig in the Pond". We are learning about onomatopoeia words in our book. We were each given a word from the book and when our word was read out we had to hold up our word and read it out loud. We had so much fun!

Dance with Sarah

We are lucky to have Sarah again for Dance this year. We are learning lots of new dance moves and are creating a dance about the ocean which links with our topic " cleaning up our waterways". 

Our favorite activity is throwing fish in the ocean at the end of our dance session. 

Welcome to Tamaki Primary

Welcome to Todia who has joined Tamaki Primary from Room 2. Welcome to the classroom Todia!