Week 11

Week 10

Marshall helping Anne to identify body parts.

The children all so enjoy going to visit the Life Education Caravan - seeing Anne and Harold, but also learning about why we are such important people. We will visit the caravan again this week on Wednesday.

All together J.E.T last Friday was its usual success - the children enjoyed discovering in a huge variety of ways - one group discovered and had to persist to complete making the climbing dome that will stay up in our library corner for the week, well done to all of you, it was not an easy task.

On Tuesday morning we have the Dog Safety Officer from the Napier City Council coming to visit us in Room 4, this is all part of our learning about keeping ourselves safe - he will be teaching us what to do when we meet new dogs, to keep ourselves safe and to know how to treat the dog with respect.

It is great having Mr Jones in our room on placement from Massey University in Palmerston North, the children are really enjoying having another set of hands in the room to help out, as am I!

This week we will stay in our own classes for Maths, the learning is based around Geometry and shapes, with a learning unit called "Arty Shapes" - it involves lots of exploring and creating with  2 and 3 d shapes.

Our sound of the week is "bl"
Our word of the week is "now"

Have a great week.
Annette

Week 9

This week we welcome Mr Jones into our room, Brendan is a graduate student teacher who is on placement with me in Room 4. The children are excited about having another teacher in the room with me to assist their learning.

I was so very proud of all the children and their efforts during our cross country run on Wednesday - their resilience and persistence was fantastic, let alone the health benefits for them all.

Our Keeping Ourselves Safe learning has provided a forum for some beneficial discussions about this important topic. The children treated the topic in a responsible and respectful way. Thank you also to Kevin Marshall - our local police education officer who assisted with some of these sessions.

Thank you also to Rachael, who came in and shared with us some of her experiences and knowledge she had from her days as a marine aquarist ( marine education officer.) The children had lots of awesome questions and were all very interested in the knowledge she had to share.

This Wednesday sees Anne and the Life Education Caravan arriving at school - this will follow on fantastically and compliment our Keeping Ourselves Safe learning.

Enjoy your learning week.

Week 8

I know I say it each week – but what a busy week we have just had, and another busy week is coming up.

This past week saw us look at sharks – what amazing creatures- and the children have astounded me with their desire to learn more and more intricate facts. We had a group of visiting maths teachers from the Masterton region visit our school on Thursday. They were very impressed by our children, their maths skills and their amazing behaviour.

“Week 8” is gearing up to be very busy. This week sees us begin our Keeping Ourselves Safe unit – Kevin Marshall, our local police education officer will be in the school taking session.  These sessions look at ways to enable children to keep themselves safe. Tuesday ( weather permitting) we will hold our Bledisloe Cross Country event. We have been practicing for the past few weeks. The juniors run starts at approx. 12.00pm – this time is just an estimate as it depends on how quickly the other events are completed. So if you are free and would like to come and cheer on the children we would love to see you out on the field.

Our sound of the week is “sm”

Our word of the week is “can’t”

Maths in Room 4 continues to look at groups of, in relationship to multiplication.

Have a great week.