Welcome to Ngaio, 2016!!

Our first day, learning to play together.

Welcome to Room One, Ngaio's Blog. Through this medium I hope to be able to give you, as parents and visitors to our Blog, an insight into the learning in our vibrant classroom. Please leave a comment for us to enjoy together ....

Trying out some of our puzzles.

Exploring the to basket.

Enjoying the train table together.

The children set up shop...then a cafe.

We love the sandpit too.

We had five lovely new students who all started on the same day, here they are!

We have been writing our own names on the whiteboards.

It was SO exciting to go outside and find our own work, looking into the class from the path and new garden.

We can write our numbers too.

Show and tell is twice a week and a great opportunity to share our interests and toys with each other. Alex brought the monster truck he had bought with his own money, saved from doing chores. Ka Pai, Alex!

Clinton had a new drink bottle - it is lost now so if you find it please return to Ngaio classroom, thanks!

Zane showed us his musical tortoise all the way from Sri Lanka.He played a little tune for us to listen to.

We have a buddy class for reading and went to share our books with them on Thursday.

Reading buddies is great fun.

Here we are on the way back to our room, we can't wait for next week to buddy read again.

Way to go, Clinton, your first sticker chart is now full.

We have been exploring how to sort and group objects.

The children decided to 'sort' or group themselves into boys and girls - they were so quick to do this on Thursday.

We have less girls than boys.

NEXT WEEK
We begin our swimming programme next week, notes came home today, please check your childs' bag for this. We will have sharing time on Tuesday and Thursday as we do not come to school on Monday.

Have a great weekend.

Week ten and Merry Christmas to you all!

What an exciting last week of school we had, as we presented our Celebration of Learning and the most incredible thing was that four of our class only started school last week (week nine) yet still joined in our waiata and sang so beautifully, learning the actions and loving every moment. This meant that 21 New Entrants all played a part - well done everyone!

The girls moko looked great!

Here is Clinton loving having his applied to his upper arm.

"Lie still Imogen, nearly done!".

We are awesome!

My girls ready to go - all seven of them.

The boys lining up - two photos with half one one side of the girl group....

... and half on the other!

Ella is a little whizz and completed her first sticker chart.

This was my class on the last day, before sending home photos for those moving on to Room Four.

On the last day of school I donned my 'Santa's little helper' outfit and Cooper took this photo before my mad hat played tunes and the children received their gifts.

Great excitement opening our pressies.

Look at my Christmas tree rubber/eraser.

 It is now traditional that every child who leaves my class receives a laminated certificate from me with a collage of photos of there time in Room One on the revers so here goes with all my 'movers' leaving us for 2016.

Te Pakira also completed her flower goal sheet for writing progress too this week!

When I was printing Keiras photo sheet I pressed print twice, so she got two collages!

I hope you all have throughly enjoyed this term, I know I have. Thanks so much for the lovely gifts and special cards, so thoughtful, and some of you Mums wrote the most amazing comments. Thank you! Have a safe and restful Christmas and enjoy the New Year.  I know I will be taking a break and we will probably bump into each other in the holidays. xx