Week six in our lovely classroom.

Our letter of the week this week is 'm' and we made ourselves place mats with our own idea of a 'marvellous meal' on it. We plan to dye these and have them laminated next week so that we can bring them home and use at home when eating our meals at the table.

In maths our focus has been making a whole into two halves and identifying half of a shape.

Bodie showing his two halves of the whole ball he made like Macey, above.

Phoenix is learning to write 1/2 as well.

Continuing our technology unit of 'I like to move it, move it' we explored making our own spinners from a pencil and a lid from a container - see how they go!

Part of the fun of halving was eating a half a piece of bread!

Maia had her first visit this week.

Cross country was on Wednesday and the weather was perfect! Off you go, boys.

The start of th egirls race for Room One, Ngaio.

Annelise has completed her sticker chart.

English has completed his, too.

A little musical moment (we have lots of these!)

We have made a class book about 'Something you need to know when you start school' and this was the photo for the front - thought you'd like to see it. Macey was off sick, though.

A visit from Captain Cashtastic from ASB bank on Friday was a hit. He taught the children about spending and saving and they have learned to 'speed to your needs, and wait for your wants'.

Sammy filled her chart as well.

Isla did great homework.

Friday afternoon, relaxing together in the sandpit, playing beautifully and sharing.

We are such a tidy class we were awarded the "we care " award as we look after our environment.

NEXT WEEK

Monday - no school.
Tuesday - Teacher Only Day.
Wednesday - Library day, remember to bring your book back. Those children who will be in Room Two from June 8th are beginning their transitioning today. Hockey this morning!
Thursday - Show and tell.This afternoon we have a special visit from Nicky from Nelson Museum she is sharing musical instruments with us.
Friday - Whole School Assembly at 2.30pm.

Enjoy the long weekend :)  Mrs S.

Golly it's nearly half way through Term 2!!

On Monday we were delighted to have a visit from some of the children who attend Stoke Montessori , so we shared our mat time with them, took them for a walk and run all around our field then had time getting to know each other on our Junior Playground.

On Monday afternoon the children learned about spinning tops and were presented with the 'make your own out of K-Nex' challenge....

Wow, look at Jahzel's go!

Gosh, Bella made hers with longer sticks and it went really fast!

Judah spinning his...

On Tuesday we went on at trip to Elim Kids who had asked Levity Beet the performer to come and do a show for them. It was super fun and we loved it. Thanks all parents who gave lifts and to Elim Kids for having us.

We are learning that print making is not just using a computer to print, it can be using paint to make art works. We made butterflies by folding paper butterflies and putting paint on one side only, then folding it shut and pressing down to make...

...AMAZING art! Come into our room to appreciate our beautiful artworks please.

Getting his second sticker chart full helped Bodie forget his sore sore chin from falling off his skateboard!

We have started our hockey training with Craig - here we are all enjoying 'creep up Jack!'

Off to a Suter Gallery workshop held at the Elma Turner library - here Ester the teacher is leading Room One into the library for their workshop focussing on the works of Eric Carle, who wrote and illustrated 'The very hungry caterpillar'.

We had lots of helping mums without whom we could not have managed, thank you all!

Amelia-Rose concentrating very hard to make her painted paper ready for her animal picture - these will be displayed in Room One when I have time to cut them out and mount them!

Out Maths this week was a strand - Time. We have been learning about night and day, morning afternoon and evening, how to sequence a day and what yesterday today and tomorrow mean as well as trying to learn the days of the week! Whew!

Hunter started school on Thursday - Happy Birthday to you, Hunter!

This is a good week for Bodie, he has completed his first writing goal sheet  too.

On Friday I spent my days CRT assessing my lovely children. It was fab to find out how much improvement they have made and here you can see Lockie so proud of his maths understanding.

Keira knows loads of maths too!!

Annelise has made super reading progress.

Sammy is reading really well too. I actually gave out a number of certificates to reflect progress but couldn't load them all so if your child has brought one home please be generous with the praise !

Special note - my reliever forgot to give out the homework and poetry books this afternoon, so do not be surprised to find your children book bags have readers and sight words only. We will have a week of alphabet homework!

NEXT WEEK
Monday - Show and Tell
Wedsnesday - Cross Country - Juniors at 11.30 please come and support your child if you can, they may wear running kit.Please remember to send a drink bottle. Today is Library day too.
Thursday - Shoe and Tell. New Entrant meeting for prospective parents.
Friday - Whole school assembly at 2.30. Do join us !

A record of week four for you all.

Hey Lockie,well done completing your sticker chart, you are rightly very pleased with yourself.

Isla started in Room One this week - here she is with her new sticker chart. 

For show and tell Bella brought her family photos and loved telling us all about them!

Gosh, Bodie brought in a REAL sharks tooth from his holiday!

Kiri had a bracelet from Daniella for Mothers Day and shared it with us.

Matthew enjoyed talking about his new toy too.

Ava has a puppy in a bag!

This is Isla with her first certificate, welcoming her to our classroom.

Playing a maths game together, Judah, English and Lockie.

Bradley and Matthew enjoying their dice game and taking turns beautifully.

The new girls made a chocolate cake!

Bodie and Annelise playing 'Under the sea'.

Bella is learning about tens from patterns.

Jahzel waiting for her turn with Sammy.

What a gorgeous class I have!

Lockie made a car with mobile.

Gosh Bradley has completed his sticker chart too.

A super game with the duple.

Isla and Matthew made tea.

Time for Potato Head construction.

Super homework from Amelia-Rose.

Great homework from Matthew too. Thank you all for your homework in the Alphabet books, keep up the great work.

NEXT WEEK
Monday - Show and tell. Stoke Montessori children are joining us.
Tuesday - Visit to Elim Kids to share their Levity Beet performance (we will leave school around 0915 for this). Thanks to all the parent helpers making this trip possible.
Wednesday - Afternoon visit to the Library in Nelson for our Eric Carle workshop with the Suter Gallery. We will leave school around 1250 in order to arrive for our start time of 1.15pm. Again, thank you helping parents. We will endeavour to have our school library time in the morning if Mrs Little can fit us in!
Thursday - Show and Tell, bring something to share if you can.
Friday - Remember our whole school assembly at 2.30pm if you can join us.