Star of the week, week 4

Cameron is our star of the week - well done Cameron! You always have a super answer for any question I ask in class, you listen very carefully to stories and think sensibly before offering an answer. You work hard, you a e a great friend and have settled really quickly into our class. Receiving this award  so early in your time in my class is awesome! :)

Week four in Room One (and a few pictures from week three!)

Corey has finished his sticker chart - well done, Corey!

Hello everyone and welcome to our Blog. Some of theses photos were from week three but I ran our of time to post them last week... Hopefully you will enjoy sharing them!

Jack has been visiting - he cannot wait until her turns five!

Mia has completed her sticker chart too !

We had a lovely visit from my friend Marnie who came to fix our Activboard.

We made musical instruments - following our visit to the museum, we experimented with making percussion...

 TENNIS COACHING
We are having expert tennis coaching now from Suzanne at Grasshoppers and the children are loving it. Here you can see the concentration keeping our tennis balls on the racquet..

Making our shakers - filling them partially with rice or soup mix worked really well! We used the deck in case of spillage (there was lots) which ensured we kept the carpet in our classroom clean - we received the We Care award last week because we always try so hard to make sure our learning environment is clean and tidy - go Room One!

Suzanne helping Cody.

DISCOVERY TIME
Our new discovery time is working very well with a variety of interesting options available to the children every week. The 'scrapbook display' changes every Monday morning in the foyer of Seaview block so please come and enjoy our record. Once the week is over, these lovely photos and records of your childrens' oral language are stored in the red file in out purple reading corner - everyone is welcome to borrow it for a read1

Captain Cashtastic visited in week 3 to teach us about money management courtesy of the ASB bank.

"Look at us, we're Ninjas!"

Wow! Stella has completed her sticker chart as well .

Our poem last week was about the dragon in our kitchen - it's a toaster, so we made toast and used this as the  experience for our instructional writing.

Painting discovery - Mia loves rainbows now we know how to mix colours.

Just a little bit of toast!

OUR INSTRUMENTS!

Evelyn has a boogie on the deck...

Joined enthusiastically by Ben..

Making labels for our shakers...

 DISCOVERY...

"We're making a race track!"

"Look I have made a rocket!"

How do we get in?

"Things I like" (for our own books).

Learning to use the sticks in Te Ao Kori.

So, that's a snippet of our time here at Birchwood..

NEXT WEEK;
Monday - Grasshopper tennis and sharing time - remember to bring something to talk about in class please!
Tuesday - Bible in Schools and Mrs Savill is on classroom release this afternoon so Mrs Lawrence will bet eating.
Wednesday - Library day, bring your book back in order to borrow a new one :) Tyler starts school today.
Thursday - Sharing again today.
Friday - Whole school assembly at 2.30pm all welcome.

Star of the week, week 3.

Our star of the week this week is Corey.

Well done Corey for receiving this certificate this week. You are a kind and polite boy who is always ready to help others especially our new visitors when they come to our class. You are good at sharing and understanding the feelings of your peers. You are learning rapidly and are a real treat to teach. Keep up the great work!

Week three already!

Welcome to the Blog for our third week this term already. This has been another wonderful week which saw us visiting the Museum in Nelson for a wonderful workshop with Nicki finding out about instruments from all over the world!Many many thanks to those fabulous parents (you know who you are) who made themselves available as drivers - it made running the trip possible).

Room One listening to Nicki explaining where we were going in the museum.

We wear special gloves to handle special instruments.

We love sharing time!

Tyler had his second school visit - and loved it!

A little photo of some of the class handling their instruments and listening carefully.

Chali has a Maths game she shared with her friends.

These are the 'blowing' instruments.

BOOSTER ROOSTER
We had a visit from Booster Rooster who came to tach the children about the importance of safety in cars through using booster seats. Booster Rooster recommends a car seat until your child is 148cms tall - special height charts and a certificate came home this week in order that you may measure your child and record their height. The new law which is coming into force in November is that children should be in a booster seat until the age of 7 .

 THROWING SKILLS
Janice Oliver from Get set go, Tasman, came to help us learn how to throw correctly. Remember 'start low, muscle man, throw!'.

 PAINTING
This week we painted rainbows - they are fabulous and brighten the classroom.

More museum shots - we made a band!

Throwing outside int he sun - just room one this time - combining the classes means too many little people to help!

I do have some more pictures but at the moment my laptop will not let me load them! Apologies!

We had grasshopper tennis this week and this continues into next week and two weeks after that.I am signing off now as it is very late and I need to go home to tea!

Cheers, Mrs Savill.

Star of the week, week 2.

Our star of the week this week is Carey!

Well done Carey, you have waited a long time for this moment and this is a well deserved award. You are now able to manage disappointments which upset you before, you are writing sentences of your own using your sounds knowledge, your reading is really taking off and you are moving through the reading levels really well. Added to that, your art is always meticulous and really detailed. You are a delight to teach. Well done!

Our second week in term three.

Wow! What an amazingly fast week that was, with so many things to do - Gymnastics, Kapa Haka, Discovery with Room two, NZSL, a visit to our friends at Birchwood Kindy,
 Bible in School and Library as well as 'mass' in Maths, Writing, Reading, making our own books, learning to colour mix paints... the list goes on!

Thank you, parents, for our 3-way goal setting meetings, it was a joy to have the opportunity to chat with you all, I really appreciate your time.

I hope you enjoy our photos record of this week and look forward to our visit to Nelson Museum next week!

Monday was sharing time, a great opportunity for oral language. Ella is showing Mira and Keira her headband.

Gymnastics - balancing on the 'high beam' now!

Vinny loved showing Malachi his transformer.

Kapa Haka for the Juniors in the hall on Friday with Mrs Malthus.

Corey and Ben sharing Corey's toys.

This week was Peace Week and we celebrated this on Friday by children being allowed to wear white mufti as white is the universal colour of peace. Room Fiver were incredible - by far the 'whitest' class so I wanted to share them with you - well done everyone for donating so kindly to The Peace Foundation - we raised $217. You are very generous.

Keira and Ella playing one of our Maths games - where do the numbers go?

Cody and Ben exploring an abacus each.

Evelyn and Mira chose to lace number cards.

Stella is learning to order her numbers to ten - she spotted that her numbers eight and nine needed to be moved around.

Some of the children loved the bean bag Maths challenge!

 Mass in Maths. We have been finding our about volumes this week and predicting whether or not a pot full of beads will fill another pot of a different shape. Many of us expected that if one pot was full then the other would be too...

"This one is not full!"

"How about this one?"

"My pot needs more to fill it!" After lots of hands on experience the children decided that pots of different shapes and sizes do not necessarily hold the same amount.

PAINTING. We are learning to mix colours to make new ones and to keep our brushes clean in between. This week everyone painted fruit on a colour wheel where the colours of the fruit on either side of a central fruit make the colour the middle fruit needs to be. If that is a confusing explanation, your children should be able to talk to you about that or come into class and enjoy our wall display.

Cameron started school this week on Monday - welcome Cameron!

Wow, look how many words Chali can write all on her own - all her own ideas too.

Hadlee was delighted to have completed his reading bookmark sticker chart.

 A VISIT TO KINDY. We love to go back to Kindy to see our friends and teachers there. it is a really important part of childrens transition to school, to be able to meet the older children who are already in Room One and to get to know me, their 'teacher to be'. Many of our New Entrants were at Birchwood Kindy before they turned five so going back is great for them too and we all look forward to spending time together.
To see more photos of our time together, again come into class, I have made a book about the visit, it will be ready by Tuesday.

Singing together.

Chantelle and Cameron helping out with the calendar.

Stella made a plane with only a little help.

DISCOVERY TIME.

As Discovery with Room Two was such a success last week we are so happy to be having this every Wednesday morning. Here are some of the activities from this week - again there is a display in our foyer you can enjoy with more photos. Mrs Probert was the 'camera person' this week.

Enjoying Big Books in the purple corner.

Dinosaur creative play.

We have fabulous artists here!

Vinny used the K-Nex to make insects and was chosen to 'share'.

WET PLAY.

When it is wet at breaktime, we are so fortunate that the older children choose to be monitors and spend time in our classes with our children so we can have a break for a cup of tea. Here you can see Bree and Sophie eating morning tea with my class.

 SHARING TIME.
Doughnut sharing is a super time and on Thursday we almost ran our of day! We quickly squeezed this opportunity in before we had to go home for the early finish due to Goal Setting Interviews.

La La loopsie fans! (Gorgeous!)

Welcome to Bella who turned five this week and began school on Wednesday , it is great to have Bella and Cameron with us now.


NEXT WEEK
Monday - Sharing time, art, i-pads and learning to throw with Janice Oliver from Get Set Go!
Tuesday - Museum visit for musical instruments from all over the world and Bible in Schools.
Wednesday - Grasshoppers tennis starts, and we have Get Wise this morning (all about money!) Remember the library.
Thursday- Discovery time today (due to Get Wise yesterday) and we begin Te Ao Kori. Sharing time today. There is a reading presentation after school at 3.15 in room one should you wish to attend. All welcome.
Friday - normal day! Whole school assembly this afternoon at 2.30pm.

Please remember to return permission slips for the museum trip and swimming information, You may pay for Grasshopper tennis and swimming at the office.

Thanks for reading this Blog and have a super weekend!
Mrs Savill