Last week of our third term...

Happy Holidays everyone! Can you believe we have come to the end of term already? Nine of my lovely children are moving on to Room Two so at the beginning of term four there will be a class ready for our new five year olds. I hope you enjoy the photo record of our last week, when we had swimming every afternoon and a jolly shared picnic last Friday.
Thank you for visiting our Blog!

SHARING TIME
Everyone loves bringing something special from home to talk about..

Hadlee and Evelyn

Stell has a magic Barbie whose skirt changes colour...

Amazing!

Corey has a spiderman car.

We looked at the physical changes of popcorn for our science and used it as a writing focus (also got to eat it - added bonus!)

Maths games - Three Bears Bingo.

'Shopping' counting one to one.

Ben loves popcorn too.

More Maths games with dice and number identification.

Cody is writing for himself.

Look at Vinny swim!

Bible in school - everyone was presented with their very own bible to keep forever!

We even have one for our class too.

Enjoying looking at the bibles.

Wow Ben, you have filled your sticker chart - awesome!

Shared picnic on our last day at school.

More swimming...

Playtime in the pool.

Maths - tens frames.

Have a super break and see you next term - good luck to Chali, Stella, Mia, Hadlee, Ella, Evelyn, Malachi, Vinny and Carey as they move to Room Two. It has been a pleasure to teach you all...

Week eight in Room One.

Welcome to another week of photos from our awesome classroom, it has been a great week with a number of new faces coming on visits, swimming every day at the Aquatic Centre, Loud Shirt Day on Friday and the Scholastic Book Fair in our library. Enjoy the photo record!

Welcome to Boston who had his first school visit this week.

Mrs Corcoran came to take us swimming on Thursday afternoon.

Bible in schools with Lesley and her old bear, Rupert.

Ella is dressed up in our Bible lesson like a person from Jesus' time.

Sharing time, a great opportunity to share our toys with our friends.

Rylee was visiting too this week. He will join our class after the holidays.

Loud Shirt Day- some of our class.

Tyler is so excited about his goggles and swimming lesson he wore them to show and tell!

More loud shirts!

We have been learning to sort and group in Maths this week - this is a group of children with brown hair.

Clifford the dog knocked on our window today! He came with the book fair and children have been looking for him ever since!

This group of loud shirts completes our class.

Ben has a zero waste lunch box. We are working towards this at school now we are an Enviroschool. Tubs and boxes rather then 'sad' wrap (Glad wrap is sad wrap as it cannot be re-used or re-cycled and has to go to landfill) are welcomed.

This group of children have blond hair.

Lexi came on her first school visit too this week.

More hair grouping - light brown this time.

Buddy reading with our Buddy class, Room 7.

Swimming lessons are super fun. We have had lessons every day this week and will continue with these next week also - the progress the children are making is fabulous,every day they get more confident in the water!

 DISCOVERY TIME.

Discovery time on Wednesday - taking turns to lead, making a structure from the big blocks.

Playing with the dinosaurs...

Writers workshop.

Quilt making - we are all contributing to a 'throw'. Mrs Savill is stitching it up and every child is putting their name in vivid on a piece of fabric to end up with an amazing throw for the class to enjoy on the mat - it is so snuggly! The children are amazed it keeps growing.

Sorting us into class groups on day one of swimming.

Carey can nearly float on his back.

Learning to use a kick board.

NEXT WEEK
Monday - More swimming - bring your togs. Sharing time again.
Tuesday -  Swimming, Bible in Schools.
Wednesday - Discovery time, swimming and library - bring back your books please. No reading homework tonight.
Thursday  - Swimming and sharing, also Buddy reading.
Friday - Last swimming lesson, shared morning tea (information will come home) . Last day in Room One for nine pupils....


Thanks for reading the Blog, please leave a comment if you wish! Mrs Savill.

Star of the week this week.

Keira is our star of the week this week for showing great enthusiasm for all we do. Keira, you are reading well now, applying your sounds knowledge to begin to write words of your own and have a cheery disposition. You are a delight to have in Room One! I know you have been really looking forward to getting the certificate and sorry it has taken a while - thanks for your patience! Keep up the great learning.

Week seven in Room One.

Welcome to the Room One Blog! This is an opportunity for you to enjoy some of the learning from our busy, exciting week at school. We have enjoyed a visit back to Birchwood Kindy (there is a little laminated book from this visit for all to enjoy in our purple corner) in addition to welcoming visitors, raising funds for Canteen and exploring new science.

Connor came on his first school visit this week.

Letter of the week - our letter of the week this week was 'e' so we loved making elephant masks and these went home with the children this week . We sang the elephant on a spiders web song with the ukulele and had a ball.

 Signing with Cathy - our sign language lesson this week was in our classroom as the lbrary is being set up ready for the Scholastic Book Fair. Cathy taught the children a super game again.. apple, banana and orange...

 Exercise in the morning - Hearty Fun!!

 Visiting Kindy - what a super morning in spite of the rain!

Listening carefully to the story and music.

Kindy listening to Gaye - a super group.

 Lollipops - recently 'l' was one of our new sounds with Jolly Phonics and I promised the children a lollipop each (naughty teacher!). The pack I bought from the supermarket only had 17 so I collected more at the Wellington University open day recently and shared these out. This was the stimulus for our writing on Tuesday.

Which elephant do you recognise?

Mmm our lollies were delicious!

Bella carefully colouring in her elephant mask.

Bandanas! Raising money for Canteen - children with cancer.

 Science experiment - our experiment this week involved placing Skittles in water and waiting a LONG time to see what happened . Some of the children expected explosions and were really fascinated to see the colour come off the sweets and go to the bottom of the water. Colours did not blend as long as the water was still and the S on top of the Skittle floated off. Ask your child if they can remember why these things happened! (Well done Cameron for remembering today!)

Elephants on the web.

The boys loved watching and waiting.

More elephants!

Look what happened...

Read the student voice - amazing for five year olds I think!

Luca had his second school visit - this photo was taken on our Kindy visit.

Jack making music.

Wow look at Tyler - he is awesome!

Swinging - Ella and Evelyn.

 Discovery Time - During discovery, we like to introduce new experiences and I wanted to show how a sewing machine worked... each child had the opportunity to choose a piece of fabric, write their name on it and to watch it being made into a 'throw'. One comment was "ooh look, it's getting bigger!" This is an ongoing project.

Listening Post in Discvoery Time - Jolly Phonics is a hit!

"How does it do that?"

Making junk models - Carey's was superb.

 Our own books - every term my class have the chance to make a book of their own over time and this week these were laminated and finished. They were given out to those who made them and now are hanging on the wall in the purple corner for all to read. Please come and enjoy them with your children.

NEXT WEEK

Swimming starts. We will be in the pool EVERY day so please make sure to bring your togs and a tog bag! Information has gone home about swimming , meet us at the pool for our lesson at 1.30 if you would like to.

Monday - Sharing time.
Tuesday - Visit to the library for the book fair and Bible in School.
Wednesday - Discovery (no library books out this week)
Thursday - Buddy reading with Room 7 and sharing time.
Friday - We will not be in assembly today. Sign language lesson with Cathy.