Numeracy - Pāngarau

Week 7: Cut and glue activity.  Cutting out the shapes and gluing them into the template to complete the picture of the mini beasts.

Lots of opprtunities to strengthen their fine motor skills.

Cut and paste, cut and paste.

Week 7: Connecting the shapes to make a long line.

Aaron tries a few of the different coloured cards.

Great conversations about shapes, sizes, colours and life in general.

Week 7: Kyloh builds her city using small lego pieces.

Gabriel and Daryn use their fine motor skills to connect the pieces of lego together.

Jordan talks about the colour orange that he is using. Group work offers the chance for tamariki to have conversations with others, and to practice using language.

Week 8: Number of the week: 3.

Task: To find 3 natural resources from outside.

Vaibhav has found a piece of bark, a leaf and a stone.

Lots of questions and conversations using math terminology ie; soft, squishy, nice, cold, red, blue, green, shiny, push, squeeze.

Whaea Karen, "I like diggers" and I can pick up the stones with the digger.  "I can build the castle too".