What has Team Seuss been up to this week?

• We learnt some new Jolly Phonics sounds this week.  They were ee/or, z, oi, ai
• The Kapa Haka performed at our assembly and they were fantastic
• Team Seuss were on assembly and we got to sit up the front of the whole school.  We taught everyone a new song called "Peanut Butter".
• Rishika and Musab got our classroom certificate 
• We read a big book called "Mice in the Kitchen" and the mice scared the big monsters away. 
• Some children have been learning a new word family.  We can write lots of words that rhyme with 'cat'. 
• We got to do sports with Arne - our new sports coach.
• We had buddy class and we did some GoNoodles. 
• The pentagon maths group have been learning how to add 2 numbers together. The circles have been ordering numbers from 0-10.  The squares and triangles have been playing around the world with 10s frames and learning the buddy numbers to 10.
• We have been practising our song for the Wearable Arts Performance. 
• Today was the last week that we have Miss Gardyne and Miss Parish in Team Seuss.  We have been lucky to have them in our Team and we will miss them! 

Remember that our Wearable Arts Extravaganza is coming up soon in week 9! Tickets are available from the office - get in quick as there are limited numbers. 

Superhero Day!!

On Friday we had some New World Super Stars come in to our school and cook us breakfast.  We were so lucky - they made us eggs and bacon, toast and cereal, smoothies and there was lots of yummy fresh fruit.  The best part was that we dressed up like our favourite Superheroes.  It was so much fun.  Thanks New World!

What has Team Seuss been up to this week?

We have been...

• We had a superhero breakfast at school and we all dressed up as super heroes.
• Reading the big book windy day about a king who loses his crown
• Counting backwards and forwards in maths
• Doing the jolly phonics sounds l, b, f, ai and j
•  reading the poem humpty Dumpty
• Singing and dancing to our under the sea song.
• Welcoming our new children Phoenix and Alexander
• Making Oobleck and writing about it.
• Making jelly fish, octopus and CD fish in visual art
• Practicing under arm throwing with bean bags.
• Writing using describing words.

What has Team Suess been up to this week?

We have been 

• writing about snowmen in summer and animals under the sea. 
• learning word families for pig and the phonic sounds of g,o,u,l
• to the show Maui and the sun. Maui was trying to slow the sun down. Maui had to take his time and work together with others.
• to see Ronald McDonald at the road show and we learnt how to be safe around the road- STOP, LOOK AND LISTEN!
• counting forwards and backwards from 20, skip counting, playing buzz
• reading bad luck duck.
• learning the poem hickory dickory dock and we made mice.
• learning to dance to under the sea.
• learning what sad and tired in Maori means- pouri and ngenge.
• reading books and learning words like and, up, is, I, that, in. 

We welcome Alexander and Phoneix for there final visit and Manaiah started in Team Suess this week. 

What have we been up to this week?

We had a great week in Team Seuss!  This is what happened... 

       - Our buddy class taught us a new Go noodle activity called ‘Hey Joe.’

       - We listened to a song and then we all created a new story using our describing words about winter.

       - We read a new big book called Shoo Fly.

       - Our Jolly Phonics sounds were m,d, h, e.

       - We learnt rhyming words that rhyme with "en".

       - We went for a walk to Redwood Library and we decorated CDs for wearable arts.

       - In PE we played skittles, crazy tag and learnt how to under arm throw.

       - Shyla and Maddie finished their alphabet charts. 

       - Te Rau now knows all of her letters and all of her sounds. 

       - Deana stayed until lunch time and played in the playground.

      This week we were really lucky as we had Miss Gardyne and Miss Parish teaching us.  We also had 3 new students visit us on Friday - Phoenix, Manaiah and Alex.  We can't wait for them to start school and be part of our team.