Week 8

Oh my!!!! Where oh where has the term gone?

I have been so very proud of the Room1 children this week. They were all so amazingly responsible and resilient during our first ever school swim. We had no tears and every one was prepared to give it a go at their skill level. What a shame that the rain came and it meant we only had 1swim this week. Fingers crossed for next week?

Room 1 had a picnic lunch on a rainy day.

The children then blew me away with their wonderful manners, and approach to out junior market day. During J.E.T each Friday we practise the key competencies, these are skills to assist us in life. At market time these key competencies of managing ourselves and within that, taking turns came to the fore. Children thought about what they wanted to buy, then they waited patiently for the product to be available, independently they formed cues, without any teacher intervention. Wow!!!

Marley counted his money carefully before buying.

 

 

 

 

Maia looking after one of our produce tables. 

All children managed their money well, and on reflection time in the class we talked about value for money, were we happy with our purchases?

This week we will be our last week of formal reading before the holidays. A stock take of all books will take place -

'Wow, look what I bought!'

Our sound of the week will be Jj
Our words of the week will be 'she' and 'he'
Our maths focus is shape names and attributes.

Have a great week 

Week 6

It is so hard to believe that we are going into week 6. Last week we looked at the letter /sound Cc. We had lots of fun making cats from the letter C cut out of paper plates.

 

 

Jet time was lots of fun as always. Our focus was to manage ourselves, and ask if we wanted to take a turn.

 Fishing for objects in the water tray.

 

Spinning in the Dizzy Lizzy is lots of fun.

This week our sound of the week will be 'Rr'
Our word will be either look or said
Our maths focus is 'what number comes next?'

Have a great learning week.

Week 5

It has been a busy few weeks. I have begun testing the older children in preparation for accumulating information on their learning levels.
All the children have enjoyed making our pet rocks in preparation for selling at our junior school market day. The children have been earning Bled Dollars ready to use to buy products from the other classes. The children have all exchanged some of their one dollar bleds for two dollar bless.

The boys enjoy working together on the I-pad to help their learning.

Flying our letter Hh helicopters was lots of fun.

 

Chopsticks music helps us develop rhythm and beat.



This week our sound of the week will be 'C'
Our words of the week will be 'come' and 'and'. Different groups will have different words.
Our maths focus is number order, which number comes next?



Have a great learning week.


 

Week 1 Term 4

What a great start we have had to new term. It is great to welcome Mrs Wyman into our class and our school. The children have all remembered our routines and have quickly got back into learning mode.

We have begun our new topic, 'To market, to market'   by making wallets to keep in our chair bags. We will keep our bled dollars that we earn in these wallets. Later in the term, after we have made some products to sell, we will be able to buy products that other classes have made, with our bled dollars.

Please remember that next week is a short week so we will, do formal reading for 3days and treat Thursday as a Friday.

Our sound of the week is Bb
Our word of the week is 'to'
Our maths focus will be numbers that come after, and before.

Wow Shayden, how clever writing our word of the week all by yourself, well done!

 

Lucy and Karina enjoyed using our shop during J.E.T time.

 

Mercedes had fun making a walkie talkie with the wood and milk bottle tops.

 

Have a great learning week ahead.

Week 9

Sarge using the iPad to take a photo of his puzzle.

Wade taking a 'selfie'.

Another busy term is quickly coming to a close. The children continue to impress me with there learning. They have all made great gains with their learning, especially with their reading writing and math skills. All of the children have enjoyed about hot and cold, a highlight being ourntripmto the Faraday Centre and our experiments using ice and heat.

Sadly the end of term also sees the end of Miss Woods placement from teachers college. The children and I will all miss her hugely. We wish her well for her future teaching career.

All classrooms have been allocated an I-pad. Below are some photos that the children have taken of their classmates using the I-pad.

Relax and enjoy the holiday break.

I look forward to seeing you all ready for learning next term.

Week 7

The children were all very excited to visit the Life Education caravan on Thursday.

They were all eager to take part in the sessions. Being a V.I.P. was the message that they all received, and how to look after themselves .



We learnt about what our body needs to stay healthy.

We met Anne and she told us about what we were going to learn about.

Tam is a model of what our body looks like inside , we learnt about the important parts of our body

and what they do for us.

Next week our sound of the week will be ' Mm'
Our word of the week is 'the'

We will all look forward to going to the caravan to see Anne and Harold again.

Have a great week ahead.

Week 6

What an exciting time we have over the past two weeks. Our visit to the Faraday Centre was lots of fun and we all experienced lots of great experiments.

Activities at the Faraday Centre

The wind machine was a favourite activity.

Miss Woods had us doing some amazing experiments with ice, salt and food colouring.

The firemen came to visit and taught us how to 'get down, get low and get out fast!" in an emergency.

Face painting for the Magpies Day. Thank you to Sophie's mum for coming to help.


A busy exciting learning time.