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.