Principals Challenge

Rocco received the Principals Challenge award today for excellent communication skills. Whenever there is something to discuss, think about or explain, I know I can always count on Rocco. He has a clear speaking voice, thinks carefully before he talks, can explain himself so well and is totally reliable in terms of oral language. He was my first choice for this award within a couple of weeks of his start at school. Well done Rocco!

Week ten!

We only have one more week left in Room One as a class as nine children will be moving on to Room Three after the holidays! Today we had a whole class photo although four children were absent -it looks great and I hope you enjoy seeing the proofs next week. Individual photos were taken too so that is worth waiting for, the children all loved the experience of being 'superstars'!
I hope you enjoy our Blog this week….

Isla has finished her sticker chart :)

Don't we eat beautifully? This is morning tea-time on a rainy day, eating yogurt and jellies at the bubble table to keep the carpet clean!

Riley is so excited, he can now make the 'c' or 'k' sound when he is talking - superb progress Riley!

Roman has completed his first set of writing goals...

Gracie has too - super progress ion Room One!

Our first 'hockey skills' lesson was such fun with Craig.

Wow Sam has also completed her writing goal sheet :)

Playing kittens and mice together. Girls vs. boys.

Sharing time - Lydia has a new onesie!

Negotiating is part of our learning. Well done Sophie and Jacob.

Lydia is so snuggly!

 Art.
We have been learning how to draw this term with a focus on self-portraits. As part of this we concentrated on drawing one of our eyes accurately using a mirror during one art lesson and for the next, putting this into context and drawing a whole face using pastels and pencil. All of our portraits are up in class for you to enjoy, do drop by and admire them! They will be the hall display for Room One in Term Two.

Number writing is so important too and this is Rasharna with her numbers to 8. We often write our numbers as high as we can go and these are often put up on whiteboards in our windows for you to see after school.

NEXT WEEK
Monday - Show and tell, bring something to share if you can.
Tuesday - Hockey skills. Children moving class will spend most of today with their new teacher Mrs Affleck and Mrs Probert who will be leaving to have her baby at the end of the week (baby is not due then but she is going on maternity leave)
Wednesday - Library day today and discovery time (Easter activities too) with Room three.
Thursday - Tabloid Sports after morning tea, parents welcome to attend too - I think it is mufti today, no charge - check with the newsletter.
NO SCHOOL ON FRIDAY.Holidays begin.

Star of the week, week nine.

Zara was chosen to receive our star of the week to reflect her learning and progress. She is a super little student, very keen to improve her knowledge. She helps others, sets a great example and her work is always really good - what a delight you are to teach Zara!

Week nine in our classroom

Well, how amazing, it's Friday of week nine and I am posting the Blog for you to enjoy - A super week with a focus on our letter of the week D so we had 'Den Day' on Thursday afternoon - in New Zealand I think these may be called 'cubbies'? Anyway the children thoroughly enjoyed snuggling up under the tables covered in duvet covers and towels from my home, eating their left over lunch, reading with each other, playing, reading and generally having a great time! Hope you enjoy looking at the photos and have a great weekend!

Keana has finished her first star chart...

…Sam has too, well done girls!

Gaye came over from the Kindy with some of the children who will soon be five - they came to collect Amy who was on a visit to us.

 Caterpillar Maths! We have been exploring number stories involving addition - caterpillars and their legs, here are some photos of our work and our caterpillars.

Buddy reading on Thursday afternoon with our friends in Room seven...

Den day - our dens under the table were a source of great joy!

Finding high frequency words for our writing using our Jolly Phonics word cards before our writing time...

Domiinic and Liam in their den.

Who can you see under the tables?

All about two - come and see our wall display.

Lydia has completed a star chart too.

Kaden has completed his first goal sheet in his writing book, he can write a sentence using his sounds, uses finger spaces, correct punctuation and can find words he needs on his word card. Well done Kaden!

Riley has completed his goal sheet too and shared his writing in school assembly this week!

Music in the hall - we are learning about the beat and here the children are enjoying one of our pieces of music - Mother and Father and Uncle Tom, who ride on a pony and then fall off!

Whoa! Stop that pony Uncle Tom!!

Amy came on her first school visit this week.

Discovery sharing time - to see Discovery photos come to our cloak bay where the new display will be up on Monday.

Next week we have school photos onFriday.

Room One at Birchwood School: Star of the week

Room One at Birchwood School: Star of the week: Tyesha is the star of the week, she gives her best all the time, helps others and is learning to read so well now we are very impressed with her. Tyesha also has great problem solving skills:)

Week eight in our class

Well here we are and it is the middle of week nine already and only now am I making time to put these lovely photos up pin our Blog. Thank you all for your positive comments I am so glad you enjoy reading about and seeing Room One on our Blog.Hope you enjoy these and I am hoping to also do a little slide show of our visit to the Suter Art Gallery.

Wear Purple day supported Epilepsy NZ and the children of our school took this on board really well we raised $267 Thank you all - Joshua and William looked great!

Tyesha has completed her sticker chart on Purple Friday :) We even changed our Activboard register to show purple and love it so much may have to keep it that way for a wee while!

Wearing purple made the children so proud - look at our cloak bay it's never been this good before!

Busy doing our Alphabet work.

…and eating Brain Food!

Learning about tens frame patterns in Maths - Zara and Riley are concentrating.

"I am wearing a tie like Daddy!" (I wonder if Daddy has a purple one or is this it, Kaden?

William and his tens frame.

Roman can count carefully too.

Buddy reading with Room 7 - we love it!

Isaac reading so well.

Gracie using Lexia programme in school.

Lydia sending a postcard in Discovery time.

Riley using our new Mini Rainbows reading resource.

Our trip to the Suter Art Gallery was excellent!

Rhythm work - Ryah taking the lead at Discoverytime (do come in and see our Discovery Display - it changes every week and is outside Room2 , the Big Book will be in Room 3 this week and has a record of every weeks' Discovery Learning. Please enjoy it with your child.

Making the outline of the pots we liked using wool was very interesting.

Sharing out discovery models.

Zara is amazing, she has completed her sticker chart too.

So has Kaden!

William showing us how to hold and bounce his basket ball.

Our new visitor this week was Zach.