Week 4

A big welcome this past week to our 4 new children. They have all quickly settled into our class routines and it is great to have them join our class.

Monday will be an exciting day as we head off on our trip to the Faraday Centre, looking at things relating to 'hot and cold'.

Making the umbrellas for our art was fun.

What fun we had with our experiment, when we froze a glass jar full to the top of water. The children were all amazed that the ice 'grew bigger' when it froze, but also that it shattered the glass. They were just a interested in watching the ice melt and with it the jar break into pieces.

Miss Woods planned a great art session for us about umbrellas, which look fabulous. They will be up on display shortly.

                                           Learning on the mat is part of our busy day.


This coming week our word of the week is 'can.'
Our sound of the week is 'Cc'
And our maths focus is numbers, using a number mat to help our learning.

Have a great week.

Week Three

I say it each week, but what a busy learning week we have had. The children are all trying hard to learn the word of the week and their bank of known sight words is increasing. These sight words are so important in the process of learning how to read and to write.

The children enjoyed walking around as a class during Spooner Shield day, having a look at some of the games and how busy our school grounds were. We then came back to class and discussed what we had seen before we began to write about this.

It is wonderful to have Emma Woods, a student teacher from Victoria University working in our room. The children (and myself) are enjoying having another teacher in the room.

Below I have included some photos of the children sharing some of the activities we do to reinforce learning of the sound and word of the week.

Karnia has made playdough numbers.

Dylan has matched magnetic letters to word outlines

Isabelle and Lucy are using the computers to help their reading skills.

Wade has completed a worksheet and is pasting it into his word book.

School photos will be taken on Tuesday, if you wish to purchase these, payment must be given to Sharyn on Monday.

Next week our word of the week is 'went.'
The sound of the week is 'a'
Our maths focus is numbers to 10 or 20.
Have a great learning week ahead.

Week 2

 

A collage of J.E.T activities

What an amazing week we have had weather wise and learning wise.

Sadly , but also excitingly, on Monday 5 children will be moving through to room 5.
Numbers are starting to build up again in Room 1, hence the push through. Although they have moved room number we will  still see them often.

Monday we are also very lucky to have Emma Woods, a student teacher at Victoria University on placement working in Room 1 alongside myself. It will be great to have her joining our room till the end of the term.

Thank you to those parents who have returned the  Faraday trip note and the $4.10 for our upcoming trip. Hopefully we will have these all returned soon.

The week ahead will be a busy one. Thursday is Spooner Shield Day. This is a huge event where many school from the nearby region visit with their year 5and 6 sports teams to compete for the prestigious Spooner Shield. For Junior school children it is school as usually, but it does mean that there are a lot of cars in the car park, and the courts are not available for parking on before school.
Bledisloe PTA uses this event as a fund raiser by selling morning teas. A paper plate will come home prior to the event . If you are able to bake a cake, biscuits, muffins etc the PTA ( and school) would be extremely grateful

Our sound of the week will be 'Yy'
Our word of the week is 'we'.
The maths focus is numbers to 10 or 20.


J.E.T time is always fun and provides some great photo opportunities.

 

Jacob and Noah creating hot and cold chalk pictures.

 

 

                                        Isabelle with a masquerade mask.

Sophie using the camera to photograph others

Enjoying J.E.T time

 

Have a great week ahead.

Week 1

We have had a great start to the term. Welcome to Sophie who started school on Thursday, also to Wade who began the last week of term 2. The children are all excited about our up coming trip to The Faraday Centre, ( this is to do with our new topic, hot and cold) the note for this trip went home on Friday.

We had a great J.e.t time on Friday. The children all enjoyed the variety of activities - especially as the weather was not so great.


Rhys was busy designing a mask.

Lucy and Isabelle also enjoyed making a mask.

Our sound of the week for week 2 is 'Nn'
Our word of the week is 'come.'
Our maths focus will be to correctly write the digits for numbers.

Last weeks maths focus was weight.

Aria found something that was heavier than a book.

Wade thought that the play dough was heavier than a pen.

 

Next week we will be having a busy week with Rita Palmer the literacy advisor visiting as well as Dinah Harvey the maths advisor. It is great to have these people visiting and assisting with the lessons that we take.

 

Enjoy the week ahead