Building a Sky Tower

We have been learning about important places in Auckland. After our trip to Auckland City last Wednesday we used different boxes and containers to build a tall tower. We enjoyed knocking it down too. Look at the tall buildings we made. 

Making Maths Fun!

In our classroom we love to play games, use our hands and move around the classroom. It doesn't feel like were doing maths because we are having so much fun. Todia is building a tall tower by counting to 20, Ricky is adding two numbers together by putting pom poms in the cups and Conrad is learning ordinal numbers by playing a car racing game. Learning is fun at Tamaki Primary Satellite!

Trip to the Sky Tower

We are learning about important places in Auckland. We went for a trip to the Sky Tower and then drove through the Domain on the way home. The Sky Tower was so tall! We walked over the glass which was very scary and saw someone doing the a Bungy Jump and the Sky Walk.
What a fabulous trip!

Games, Games and more Games!

We practice social skills throughout the day but we also spend time teaching and learning how to appropriately communicate with each other, learning skills like turn taking and following rules. We are getting much better at playing without adult support. Go Tamaki Primary!

Futsal at Riverside Sports

This term we have been lucky enough to Martin from Riverside Sports taking us for Futsal lessons. We have learnt so many new skills this term and we are getting very good at controlling the ball as well as scoring goals. Thank you Martin for taking the time to share your knowledge with us. We have had so much fun this term.

Out and about at Fruit World

This term we have been learning about healthy food. We can classify food into different food groups and we also learned the names of many different foods. We went for a visit to the fruit shop. We got to pick a piece of fruit to eat for morning tea. We loved looking at all the different fruit and vegetables that they sell.

Sommerville Cafe

Today we went to the Cafe at Sommerville which is run by the fabulous students at Te Hapori. We were so impressed by the service and food served to us. We had such a great time learning how to order food and pay the bill at the end.

Healthy Eating

This term we are learning about healthy food and how to categorize food into groups. This week we sorted different food items into fruit, vegetables, dairy, grains and protein.
Based on the programme "My Healthy Plate" we chose food items that we like to eat and made a plate by sorting items into the above groups. We are able to identify food that is good for us!

2D and 3D Shapes

This term we are learning about shapes. We played some fun shape games. We ran to the shape that was called out and sorted shapes that looked the same into groups. We also practiced drawing some shapes on the concrete.

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.