Week 5

Danika and Anahera handpainting birds on their hands at JET time.

The children have all been working very hard with their learning, everyone is making great gains with their progress, well done everyone.
Last week we looked at the stories of Joy Watson, the children enjoyed looking closely into her books and especially the Grandpa series. They designed a new shirt for grandpa to wear at the beach etc. On Friday we looked at her story - Zita the Zebra- we then pencil sketched an elephant and invented a name for our elephant that could be put into the story.
 This week we will look at the stories and amazing illustrations of Gavin Bishop.
Our maths learning will continue with maths changeovers for number.
Our sound of the week is the three letter blend "scr"
Our word of the week is "yellow"


An umbrella to help a kiwi to fly?

Marshall with his amazing domino track.



Have a great week.
Annette

Week Four

It is getting so scary how fast the weeks are flying past - we are almost half way through the term.

This is also Mr Jones last week with us before he returns to Massey In Palmerston Nth. We wish him all the best with his future teaching career. It has been great to have him working with children at our school.

Last week was such a busy one with the seniors PRep market day being held on Friday. All of Room  4 had an amazing time and a huge amount of money learning took place - no teaching about money can beat having a real life experience with deciding how far the money they had earnt could go.


Tai and Marshall waiting to spend their Bled dollars.



Abby spent some money throwing water bombs at Mr Jones.


 

We completed our pictures for the PTA card/calender fund raiser. These pictures are now being displayed on our wall.

Jorja and Madison had fun spending some money  - they went into the dance tent.

This week we have "every" as our word of the week.
Our sound of the week is "wr"

Have a great week.
Annette

                                           Anahera and Dylan with there wallets and purchases.

Week 2

Sorry about the delay in updating this blog, but we are back on track.

What an amazing day we had yesterday creating fantastic art about flight.The day was cut up into 3 blocks, each block was spent making a piece of art about flight.In Room 3 fantastic kites were made and decorated, in Room 6 hot air balloons with textured baskets, and in room 4 we used the art of Don Binney as motivation to create wonderful backdrops for a kiwi - this will be finished off shortly by inventing a way for our kiwis to fly.A fun day was had by all.



Artists busy creating
 

We are carrying on with our reading, writing and maths along with all our other valuable learning  areas.

 It is great to see the sun again today after the rain and hail yesterday - let's hope it lasts for the rest of the week.

Thanks
Annette

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.