Thursday, 8 May 2014

Our first week back in Room One.

Hello everyone and a very warm welcome back to school after the easter holidays. This is our Friday 'reporting back' Blog of the week - thanks for viewing our post earlier this week that the children helped put together showing our shapes learning in Maths time.
We've been busy as usual and welcomed Amy to our classroom - we are missing our friends who went to Miss Affleck's class, but still get to see them at break times and during Wednesday Discovery time.
If you would like to see a full report of Discovery Learning come into the cloaks bay where each week is presented on display.
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A is our letter of the week and we are learning to form it the right way around - here you can see Dominic loving using our Activboard.

Hockey coaching - we were so fortunate to have good weather and to learn from Jamie on Wednesday, we even had a little game!

Shapes were a focus for us this week, classifying shaped according to the number of sides they have and describing the number of corners - we were grouping different shapes.

Teamwork makes the alphabet!



Looking for rectangles in class.

A close-up view of shape sorting into groups.

Some children chose two dimensional rectangle shapes, some spotted 3D shapes with rectangles.

Discovery usiing mosaic shapes.

Well done Sophie, completing your writing goal sheet!

Lyda spotted that the mat is a rectangle with four sides, two long and two short.

Lydia has completed her writing goal as well :)

Look at the square with a circle in the middle.

The door handle is a rectangle.

Discovery making wrapping paper...

Rocco make a vehicle with Klikko.

Dominic made a BMX bike in discovery time.

Timothy is in a square.

We are all sitting on a rectangle.

Ssh! Don't tell Mum we made gifts...

Keana and Sophie inside a rectangle.

Karen came to help us this week.

Playing in a circle.

Admiring the wrapping paper we made.

Music with our home-made shakers.

Rocco has dome great homework in the weekend for Janice.

The class were amazing and made themselves into a square then a rectangle by adding more bodies.

Welcome Amy who is now five and had her birthday in the holidays.

Here is our rectangle.

Show and tell is Monday and Thursday.

Ready for a drink and story after lunch!

Dominic has completed his sticker chart - well done!

During Topic Time we explored how the land changes from storms and floods - we went out to see the silk tree which fell down from outside our classroom.

Making cards for Mum - don't look too closely until after Sunday Mum!

Remember the tree?




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Remember sharing time on Monday and Thursday, library time Wednesday as well so please bring your books back and remember to bring your library bag on Wednesday to keep your book safe.

Monday, 5 May 2014

Children finding shapes at Birchwood School.

Timothy found a rectangle near the office.

Dominic found a circle outside.

"I found a cylinder - its a pole" by Zach.

"I found a shape" by Amy.

"I found a rectangle because two sides are short and two are long" by Isla.


"I am standing in a square because it has four long sides the same" byTimothy.

"The whole Room One were sitting on a rectangle" by Lydia.

"We are in a rectangle it has four corners" by Keana.

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Today we were finding shapes because we were learning about triangles, rectangles, squares and circles.We were counting how many straight sides and how many corners each shape has.

Sunday, 4 May 2014

Leaving Room One!

Today we began back at school after the easter holiday and all of these children below (including Roman who was absent on the last day of term due to illness) have left Room One. Jacob has moved schools and the others are now in Room Three! The photos below show the leavers and their special certificates - on the back of each one is a little photo collage of their time in my class :)
We will miss you all but know you will have a ball in Room Three - good luck!