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.

Star of the week, week four.

Bodie is our star of the week to reflect his great attitude and the fact he has really 'stepped up' in terms of readiness and willingness to learn. Bodie is now one focussed boy, keen to try new (often out of his comfort zone) things and is even using his sounds to write new words he wants for his stories. Keep it up, Bodie, you are becoming a role model for new children and are a star for others to follow now :)

Week three in our lovely classroom!

We were totally transfixed by the amazing new cover for our sandpit - this means the sand cannot get used as a litter tray any more and we know the sand will stay clean for us to play in.

The latest page we made for our books about ourselves was 'I like these things' and here you can see some of the class looking at each others' pages and discussing their likes and interests.

Making our Mothers Day cards took lots of concentration (we hope you liked them, Mums!).

English has completed his special dinosaur chart - well done, English!

Amelia-Rose started in Room One at the beginning for he week and settled straight in.

Eli came on his first visit and instantly made friends.

One of the books we enjoyed this week was 'The otter who loved to hold hands'. In this story the otter holds hands(paws0 with this family every night to make a family raft so that the animals do not drift apart and he hates letting go even in the daytime. Here the children tried holding hands - even Nardia from Room 11 joined in. No-one was left out.

We are getting fit for the cross-country.

Dantae had his first visit to Room One this week too.

So did Rebecca! What a lot of lovely children to welcome.

After we have written our stories in writing time there can be time for more learning and here you can see some of the games we have - matching upper and lower case letters of the alphabet and making up the ladybirds - two halves of the same object (on the back are alphabet letters but the children wanted to use the objects today).

Maths box time - the 'triangles' stitching numbers.

Learning about tens frame patterns.

Jump jam led by the seniors - great exercise!

Concentration...

Lead violinist from the strings orchestra who entertained us as a school on Friday morning.

Locklan and his necklace earned for kind hands - good lad, Locklan.

Wow, Locklan also completed some super homework and this certificate celebrates his work with the letter 'S'.

Macey also did great homework - her work was with 'P'.

Sam has completed her first writing goal 'flower' int he back of her draft writing book, all the children have this goal sheet and when a new skill has been mastered (i.e.using a full stop at the end of a sentence) then they colour in the relevant petal.

Bella has completed her 'flower' too.

Bradley's homework was so intricate he deserved another certificate!

Mr Laing hard at work distributing the new sand into our sandpit. The children were very excited indeed.

Star of the week, week 3.

Phoenix is our star this week, she has come so far with her attitude, she is prepared to help others, engages fully now, wants to learn and try her best and is making lots of friends. keep it up, Phoenix, a delight to see!