Class Two wānanga ā-ipurangi: Rāmere

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We started our day with April Fools tricks. First I asked someone else to unlock the door while I hid behind a curtain. The children came in saying that I was late and they were going to tell me off and saying things like "I am going to tell Stacey she needs a new alarm clock". Very funny to overhear.

I had also put a question mark on the board instead of painting and handwork. Once we had all arrived, completed the obstacle course and the roll had been taken I told ngā tamariki a story....That I had organised a helicopter to come and pick us up and take us to an ice cream factory where we could eat as much as we liked. Exciting enough to be a wish come true but not quite believable so nobody got their dreams crushed.

We then shared funny stories of what had happened in households that morning. Someone even had a toothpaste sandwich for morning tea! Very funny tricksters indeed.

For Main Lesson we retold the story of Saint Michael and the dragon. We then got into pairs and though of what we would say to write the beginning of the story. I reminded them that the beginning of a story should grab the attention of the reader so that want to keep reading. After hearing ideas and combining parts of different sentences, this is what we came up with...

This took longer than anticipated and was well worth continuing to after morning tea.

As it was raining our recorder lesson was postponed. Instead we had a maths challenge. I put the group into three teams. Then I gave them some place value block, hundreds, tens and ones. The challenge was to create the tallest tower with structural integrity. They could exchange the blocks for other blocks of the same value eg: one hundreds block for 10 tens blocks. It was very fun!

After lunch we had painting and handwork. We painted St Michael and the dragon, here is some of the finished products hanging in the corridor.