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!

Week 5 - star of the week!

Tyler is our star of the week this week for having such a positive outlook on life. He is brave and daring, tackling every new challenge which comes his way. He is kind and caring towards others, has empathy for everyones feelings, tries his best at all we do and gives fully of himself at all times. He even chose to show Room Two how to do the long jump yesterday - no mean feat! Keep it up Tyler, I am proud of your efforts.

Sharing

sharing time - test photos on PhotoPeach

Week four in Room One!

Welcome to our photo record of this weeks' learning - we have had a super week with lots of activities including a trip out his morning (Friday) to the Thetre Royal for a great show called "Seasons" by "Capital E a Wellington based drama company. Sorry, no photos, but you can find out more if you visit their website www.capitale.org.nz

Sharing Time - Monday and Thursdays every week.

Luca sharing his train set - a real hit with us all!

Lexi and her Barbie books - she was so kind sharing her stickers with us too!

Boston brought his medal from Touch and Chantelle loved wearing it.




Sticker charts - once our charts are full we take them home, we get stickers for being kind, helpful, tidying the class and for good work.

Peer Mediation role play.. Our Peer Mediators do a fabulous job, and this week they visited all classes doing role plays of how a mediation takes place, what it involves and the importance of solving our problems together. Here you can see Sophy mediating a conflict over a bean bag between Hayley and Maria. Thanks girls! 

Athletics!

We are getting ready for our athletics by practising many skills here you can see us running races!

C.O.W Computer on wheels, every week we have the C.O.W in our room and learn how to use Kidpix and the keyboard effectively to produce drawings and stories of our own.

New members of our class - Edward and Leo started this week and have settled in very well! Welcome boys.

Kindy visit - we often go back to Kindy to play with our friends and share their learning, here you can see Boston, Cody and Mira with the fabulously blue water!

N.Z.S.L

We are so fortunate to be able to learn to speak 'sign' and this week our visitor was Kareen who has grown up deaf - she came to talk through Cathy her interpreter to tell us about her life at boarding school for deaf children - VERY different from our schooling here at Birchwood!

Cricket - Chali's Dad, John came to give us all a taster of cricket - its was really good fun! I hope he comes again.

Thats all for now - next week will be just as good as this week and Dan starts school. Remember to bring something to show and tell and to return your library book each Wednesday. We have a  visit front he circus on Monday!!!

star of the week

Cody you are our star this week for your lovely smile, great friendliness and willingness to help others. You are always happy, try your best in class and have waited a long time to receive our certificate. Keep up the great attitude and enjoyment of learning, Cody!