Team Time and Similes!

As most of you know, on Monday afternoons Otakaro have Team Time.  All of the Otakaro children have been put into 4 mixed groups and they rotate around the 4 different teachers twice a term.  Each teacher takes a different focus:

Mrs Pringle - Visual Art

Mrs Nancekivell - Dance/Drama

Miss Harris - Te Reo and Tikanga Maori

Miss O'Neill - Sporty Fun

As it was VERY cold yesterday afternoon I decided to run some inside games from 100 years ago (which fits in with our Life Without Electric Energy theme this term).  My team rotated around the following games:

• Hopscotch
• Naughts and Crosses (or in our case, it was bananas and apples!)
• Marbles
• Spinning tops
• Tiddlywinks

Team Time 26.5.14 on PhotoPeach

Today at writing time we talked about 'similes' (comparing something using the word 'as') so we wrote similes this morning about how COLD it was.

Sophia's nose was as cold as strawberry ice cream!

Adela's fingers were as cold as ice cream.

Oliver's fingers were as cold as a fridge.

Kaci's car was as cold as a frozen lake.

Xavier woke up this morning and found his hands were as cold as ice cream.

One of the maths groups used the iPads this morning to recognise patterns to 10, then 20.  The children had to compete with their partner to find the pattern first!