Thursday, 26 November 2015

Star of the week, week six!

Our star this week is Keira and the fabulous thing is that when I was reading our the attributes of this weeks award winner, the children actually spotted it would be Keira! How great is that? She is a super friend, very reliable, kind and helpful. Keira is always in the right place at the right time and loves to help new children settle into our amazing classroom. Thanks, Keira. You are superb!

Week seven in Room One, November 2015

Show and tell - Roman brought a camera, one which used to take film!

Tennis coaching began on Monday, it was great fun.


What amazing listeners we are in Room One!

Playing 'squash the bug'.

We have been painting our salt dough hedgehogs.

Aren't they gorgeous? Just varnishing to do next then they can come home!

Gosh, Cooper has completed his third sticker chart.

As part or our transition, we went to visit Birchwood Kindy and they sang to us.

Ozzy loves the swings.



Clinton is very happy.

Frankie is very brave.

Te Pakira borrowed an Elsa book.

Addison pretended to have another birthday. if you would like to see a full book of our Kindy visit, come to our purple corner, there is a page for every child in our class.

Noah filled his first sticker chart this week.

Our maths strand is capacity and we have been learning about full, empty, half full etc.




Roman has completed his first sticker chart as well.

Laura and Parker brought their red eared slider turtle for us to enjoy - he is called Jeff.

The class decided he is 'stretchy'!

We all made little books about rabbits as part of our animal topic.

Brodagreen house were super, they lent us a lovely lady for the day and she visited our classes and told the children all about Christmas in Victorian times. Everyone made a Christmas decoration on Friday and brought them home - do go and visit Broadgreen House if you can, they have lots on for children to enjoy!

Look at our decorations!

Dantae is on the Early Words course every day and has received his first certificate for learning six sight words so well.

Ella's first homework was excellent!



Addison has progressed so well in writing he has completed his first goal sheet.

Imogen has also shown great understanding of the writing progress and her goal sheet is also filled out!

On Friday afternoon we had time int he sandpit and Chelsea from the seniors joined us.

Clinton was a superstar at breakfast club with his great manners, he will be  a helper in the kitchen next Friday morning! Ka Pia Clinton!

Saturday, 21 November 2015

Week 6 Star of the week.

Alice is our star this week to reflect her amazing enthusiasm and participation. Alice is incredible, she always has great ideas, listens so well in class, has lots of questions (always on task and related to the topic we are discussing) and is a really keen little worker. She applies herself fully at all times and is a real treat to be with. Ka Pai, Alice!

Week 6 in Room 1, Nov 2015.

Frankie is learning to knit and brought her project to show and tell.

These are some of our precious things we shared.

Cohen has completed his first sticker chart .

Imogen has too!

In our problem solving maths we made Suki snail using just four colours of blocks...


We are making hedgehogs from salt dough as sculpture.



Aren't they fabulous?

Wow Cooper knows heaps of numbers in order now!

Te Pakira has also completed her first sticker chart.

Ready for Athletics.

Hurdling is great!

Dantae has finished his third chart!

Alice has also completed her first sticker chart this week.

Lillybellex visited and loved it so much she didn't want to go home!

Matching beginning sounds game after our writing task.

My daughter Kimberley happened to be home from Uni so helped set up and run the obstacle course, what a help she was!.

Noah competing - didn't realise the course was so long!



Alice brought a nest to share on Thursday.

Cooper has his own set of castanets.

I though you'd like to see our writing - all boys on task and loving it.


My goodness, it must have been a week of completing sticker award charts!

Working together problem solving a number lone challenge to use for dice games and learning how to count on.

Nearly done.

Hooray!

Playing together.




And finally, thanks for homework - Te Pakira and Frankie have been producing excellent work every week all term! Well done girls.