Star of the week, week six.

Mira is our star this week, for her super attitude, kindness and willingness to help others. Mira is a talented artist who enjoys making things, draws and colours very carefully and has a real flair for art. She enjoys learning and does her best at all times, she listens attentively and can answer questions well.
Keep up the great attitude Mira and thanks for waiting patiently for your turn to receive our award! Enjoy the class 'cuddly blanket' you have taken home this weekend!

Week six in our classroom.

Hunter and Mikaela from Room 3 brought our share of beans and garlic front he schools' edible garden  - we will make something to eat with them next week (watch this space!)

Hello everyone, welcome to our class Blog for week six this term. Sorry it is shorter this week than usual but I have been off school with an injured calf muscle (that'll teach me to go running in the evening without making time to warm up! Anyway, enjoy...

Do look at our big Discovery Book, a record of our Wednesday Discovery sessions with Room Two.

Show and Tell (sharing time on Monday)

Making a number puzzle up in a small group in Maths.

This is how we share our toys on the mat - we call it doughnut sharing.

Two of the boys making up the number train to 20.

On Friday we all watched the first round of Birchwood's Got Talent - here is Emily singing to us all.

Rylee has been counting carefully 1:1.

Watching the Talent show.

Nathan and Lexi sharing her books.

Playing the car game on the mat learning to read dice patterns and moving the cars correctly space by space.

Mira enjoying the Friendly Farm and counting her animals.

Leo can count up to seven now.

Shhhh! These are a surprise for Christmas!

Nathan started school this week and loves the Maths computer games.

Welcome, Nathan.

Breanna in the Talent show.

NEXT WEEK

Monday - Show and Tell, bring something to share. Art this afternoon.

Tuesday - Mrs Savill is on CRT so Mrs Corcoran will be our teacher today.

Wednesday - No reading homework tonight, Discovery Time this morning and library this afternoon.

Thursday - Show and Tell.

Friday - Whole school assembly today at 2.30 pm all welcome to join us :)

Thanks for sharing our Blog see you next week!

Week 5 in Room One.

This week we have been fortunate enough to have some visitors here at school and on Monday one of the circus girls came to show us some of her act. She was totally amazing and flexible - look!

Reading aloud to our class.

 On Friday, Rebecca Metcalf, a local author came to read us her books, The girl who loves to sing. Rebecca visited every junior class for a reading and the children loved her book. It will be released on November 17th so we were very lucky to see it first!

More circus skills!

We have been drawing our Mums and describing them as M is our letter of the week. Do visit our classroom and look at the hanging Mum display! It is great. Leo is showing his here.

Welcome to Dan who started in our class on Monday this week.

Leo received a certificate for being so brave!

Rylee experimenting with our new Mini Rainbows reading books - they have an audio pen and are excellent for helping youngsters learn to read!

Tour of the school.
As we have so many brand new children in our class we went for a little walk around the school this week mainly visiting the office area to meet the staff there and learn about their jobs.

Mrs Smith is the office manager.

Mr Herrick is our principal.

M is our letter of the week this week and we made monster masks … can you recognise these monsters??

Who do you know? We showed these off in assembly this week.

Luca has completed his first sticker chart already!

Communication….
For our sign language lesson this week we were visited by Bridget from the Hearing House with Cathy our teacher and she brought along ear muffs, enough for every child to wear a set in order to discover a little about being hard of hearing. It was amazing how little the children could understand when they were wearing these - I tried a pair too and lip reading is difficult!

 Discovery time…

Building with big blocks was popular.

Handling pins - a super life-skill.

Adding more pieces to our class 'blank' hopefully all our children's names are now on this lovely throw which comes home every week with our star of the week for a weekend of snuggling!

Boston was a Daddy.

Vinny enjoyed making a puppet show using our new puppet theatre.

Tyler the pirate was captured by Connor!

Mira loves to dress up!

To see more Discovery photos every week check out our every changing foyer display.

Maths games..

Car racing with Reuben.

Lotto with Sophie.

Tens frames ordering.

Tens frames matching.

 Athletics training…
Next week we have our Athletics sports day and we have been learning lots of new skills… her you can see us learning how to do the long jump!

An interesting visitor!

NEXT WEEK
Monday - Show and tell as usual, bring something from home!
Tuesday - Athletics, sprints in the morning, field events in the afternoon. See newsletter for timings.
Wednesday - Library day and NZSL as well as Discovery time.
Thursday - Buddy reading with Room Seven also show and tell again.
Friday - Whole school assembly in the hall at 2.30 a all welcome.

Hope you enjoyed the Blog again!