Tuesday 11 November

Mrs McGimpsey was at Sunflower Club today. She took us for a walk around the playground to see where we line up if there is an emergency or earthquake.

Two children had their last day at Sunflower Club because they are turning five next week.

Today we talked about measurement and we had to put some pictures in order from the shortest to the longest.

Tuesday 28 October

Last week at Sunflower Club we learnt all about Annie Apple who lives in the apple orchard in Letterland.

 

Tuesday 23 September

There were four children at Sunflower Club today. Welcome to Ben and Isla. 

We learnt all about Red Robot and the sound he makes at the beginning and middle of words.

The children practised writing the lower case r and their names.

Then new children made their sunflower to go up on our wall.

Then we made repeating patterns with concrete materials.

Movies at Discovery

This week the children have been preparing for movie time at Discovery. They have been making money, tickets and decorating popcorn bags.

Today The year one classes went to the movies in Room 13. Everyone had to buy an admission ticket, get it clipped as they went into the room, then line up for a bag of popcorn. The children enjoyed sitting in the darkened room watching the movie.

Thanks to Mrs Hurren and Mrs Turner for this lovely learning experience.

Tuesday 5 August

The sun was shining today at Sunflower Club. Today we looked at letters and words and used the magic pen to find things with a's' sound.

Then we listened to a story about Annie Apple. She is clever and can make sounds at the beginning of words like alligator, astronaut and ant. 

We made ants. Can you see our scary faces?

Reading Together Programme

On Wednesday evening we had our second workshop of the Reading Togethe Programme. We started off by enjoying some pizza and Danny from the Upper Hutt Public Library talked about his role. 

Our focus in the workshop was assessing if texts were easy, instructional or too hard. 

The parents and their children had time to read together and put into practice some of the strategies we had talked about in the first workshop. 

Tuesday 1st July

It is hard to believe this is the last week of term 2! 

Today at Sunflower club we practised writing the letter 'n' and learn't all about Noisy Nick. It is his ninth birthday and like lots of children he likes to make noise.

We also looked at numbers fro 1-10 and make sets. Everyone enjoyed the story about Grandma's toybox and everyone could recognise and read the numbers in the book.

Tuesday 17 June

Today we helped develop our fine motor skills by cutting and pasting. We found lots of words that started with a U sound and discovered there are two sounds - up, under and umbrella start with the same sound and uniform, unicorn and use start with a different sound.
We had a story about Uppy Umbrella and sorted an umbrella puzzle.

Tuesday 10 June

We had some new children start at Sunflower Club today and some children have their last day.

On your first day at Sunflower Club you make your very own sunflower that is dispalyed on our wall. On your last day you take your sunflower home and get to choose a book to keep. The children love choosing a new book then sharing it with their family at home.

Tuesday 20 May

We had a wonderful time at Sunflower Club today. We made some more repeating patterns and we talked about Dippy Duck. The children loved finding all the things that started with a 'd' sound using the magic pen

Tuesday 13 May

Today we made repeating patterns with concrete materials.

We had a lot of fun making the patterns and reading them to our friends.

Reading Together Programme

Today we had our first Reading Together workshop. 10 mums joined Janine - our school librarian, Danny from the public library and myself in the school library.

We talked about how to help with reading at home and I modelled a reading session with a five year old from Room 19. She did a fantastic job reading in front of so many people!

Everyone went home with some suggestions to try In the upcoming week.

Tuesday 6 May

Today we talked about Annie Apple being at the beginning of words like astronaut, animal and ant. We practised forming the letter a by going 'around, up and down.

We read a big book called Dancing Dragons and talked about the patterns and colours the dragons wearing. Then we sorted pictures into three groups - stripes, spots and flowers.

Phonics Song

Tuesday 25 March

Today at Sunflower Club we talked about bigger than and smaller than. We had to cut and paste pictures and sort them. We used lots of measurement language.

Here are two of our Sunflower Children working very hard.

Today at Sunflower Club we found lots of things that have a 's' sound. We were surprised at some - sausages, centipede, sand, cent and sandwich. Different letters can make the same sound! 

The children completed a worksheet of Sammy Snake and sorted pictures into groups. It was great to see all the children interacting so well with their mums.

Tuesday 11 March

Today we talked about the letter 'o' and the different sounds we hear in words. We made a list of words that start with o - otter, octopus, Oscar Orange, ocean and open.

Three new children started at Sunflower Club. Welcome to Trentham School. 

All new children make a sunflower on their first day and we put them up on our Sunflower wall.

When you visit The Sunflower Club you will have lots of fun
learning about the alphabet, numbers and practice how to write your name.  We listen to stories, use the i pads and complete learning activities that involve colouring, cutting and pasting.