Week 10

This term has just flown past - we have had so many amazing learning experiences with both our everyday learning and added extras.

* Rita Palmer visit
* Dinah Harvey visit.
* Rei Hendry visit
* Liz Fitzsimons visit
* Parent /teacher conferences
* Strike visit
* Aquarium trip

Blake playing the recycling game

Busy, busy, busy with our recycling picture frames.



 and that is just to name a few highlights.

Our word of the week is "can't"
This week we will be looking at opposite words in place of a sound of the week.

The maths focus is algebra looking at patterns and relationships - being able to identify a pattern and then continue it .

Have a great week.
Annette

Week 9

What a great learning week we had last week. Dinah Harvey ( maths advisor) was in last Monday assisting with maths groups. Tuesday Liz Fitzsimons was in our room with a new ICT activity for us to do - we are well on the way to having this completed. When it is we will post it onto our blog for you all to see. We also had fun on Friday making musical shakers out of recycled drink bottles, along with reusing old newspapers to make frames for our ICT learning.
Friday was amazing - such great goodie and baddie characters from books that we came dressed up us - Anahera even tried to give us poison apples in her Witch from Snow White costume - she didn't fool us!!!

A selection of our costumes

It was also fun to go to our whanau classes after whole school singing - we met the new members of our class and we read a story to finish off readathon - our story was Michael Recycle - who I just happened to have dressed up as for my goodie from a book.

Monday we are going on our trip to the Napier Aquarium to visit the recycling officer. Hopefully the weather stays fine for our picnic in the park before we go into the aquarium.

Our word of the week is "three"
Our sound of the week is "St"

Enjoy the week ahead.

Batman x 3

Annette

Week 8

What a great week of learning experiences we had last week. Rita Palmer ( literacy advisor) was visiting, she has provided teachers with more interesting ways to add depth to the children's writing. We started making our recycled container's - by putting paper mache over the outside of the old containers.

Table 3 busy with paper mache.

Paper mache is so much fun.

Friday we had altogether JET with Rooms 1,2,3,5,& 6 Lots of fun and discovering happened. It is also great to hear the children discussing our Bledisloe 3 R's in our pre -JET  discussions., esp how to be resilient during this time.

Olivia, Ruben, Scarlett and Abby sharing their "Munch Monsters" at the after Jet discussion time.

Recycled paper planes.

 Notices went home on Friday for our trip to visit the Napier City Council Education officer ( at the Aquarium) This trip will take place on the 18th of June. We do need parents to assist with transport and supervision for this. It also includes a $2.00 charge, ( the additional cost is being met by the school.)

This week we have Di Harvey ( the maths advisor) visiting on Monday, then Liz Fitzsimons is visiting on Wednesday to provide us with an ICT challenge for the next few weeks.

This will also be my last week for parent / teacher conferences.

Also on Friday, after whole school singing, all children will be revisiting their Whanau classroom for a story. This is to compliment our readathon that has been happening for the past week. In Room Four we have been reading more stories each day, some of these have been read by me, some by the children and some on the Interactive White Board. We have also had Heather Murphy come in to read to the children.

This week our maths focus changes to Algebra - looking at patterns.

Our sound of the week is "sp"

Our word of the week is "ready"

Enjoy the learning week

I hope that you have all had a great relaxing long weekend. Winter has certainly settled in. Thank goodness for our fabulous heat pump.

What a busy week we had last week - Rei Hendry  ( art advisor) visited. The children were so excited and motivated by Rei's enthusiasm and knowledge. We are still working on our recycled paper paintings. We used newspaper to tear and paint the parts of our pictures.

Dylan and Emily so engaged in their painting.

Parent /teacher interviews continue - I know I have said before how valuable these are. To be able to share the children's learning and their future goals is fantastic.

This week our sound of the week will be " sl"
Our word of the week is "this"
Our Room Four maths focus continues to be strategies to use adding and subtracting larger numbers.

Rei hendry working with some children.

Enjoy your short week.
Annette

Hoani was happy for us to video ourselves during our Maori lessons this morning - aren't we fabulous singers. The song   "He Tangata"  is about the most important thing in the world being people.

I am enjoying so much catching up with parents at interviews - filling you in on your children's progress. I will be continuing on with these for the next few weeks.
Last week we completed our recycled paper crayon containers. We also started using all the bread tags you had supplies to make photo frames. The children decided that they wanted these painted - so that is the next step.

Dylan adding the bread tags to his photo frame.

Thankfully the weather was so amazing last week, we got out for our big ball skills on Friday. During this time the children go to different stations where they practice catching, throwing, and kicking the large balls skills. We are seeing a big improvement in lots of the children who are now ready to catch or thro before they start - it sounds weird I know, but holding your hands in the right position can make such a difference.

Something to keep in mind for the future is we are going on a trip to visit the Napier Recycling Education Officier - this trip will take place on the 18th of June, and we will be needing parents to assist with transport - more details will come soon.

Our sound of the week this week "tr"

Our word of the week " one"

The maths focus in Room Four continues to be adding larger numbers - leading into to subtracting larger numbers.

Have a good week
Annette

Cassidy, Iriaka, Abby and Danika making paper windmills at J.E.T.time.

 

Week 5

Parent /teacher conferences begin on Monday  - the school interviews site should send you a reminder of your time. I am so looking forward to sharing your child's learning with you, along with their next steps.

What fun we had on Friday turning our old Lucky book brochures into mulch, which we then moulded into new crayon containers - they are presently drying out before we varnish these before using them.

Ohhhhh the mulch is so slimy.

We also designed Rubbish trucks ( out of coloured paper) remembering we are trying to reduce the amount of rubbish we create.

Abby with her rubbish truck.

Friday's whole school assembly was such fun - with "Mighty Bledisloe Kid" sharing with us the 3 Bledisloe R's - Responsibility - Respect and Resilience. The children have been offered the opportunity to enter a competition , making a poster than reflects these key words.( this is only if they want to.)

This week our word ( s) of the week involve the word play, plays, playing and played
Our sound of the week is pl.

Enjoy the week ahead.

Room 4 ready to plant our seeds in our weeded and composted garden.

Annette