Star of the week, 12th May 2016.

Our super star this week is Emma for her great progress and growth mindset. She is the first to say 'I will try' if something is hard for her and really encourages her peers to have a go. She is learning to read beautifully, is writing using her sounds and grasps mathematical concepts quickly. Keep up the great attitude, Emma, you are a real asset to Ngaio class.

Our first week in Term 2, 2016.

Show and tell - Haylie brought a cat which then produced kittens! Very exciting!

Karen enjoyed telling us all about his new shoes especially bought for starting school.

Eddy was proud of his new school bag too!

We went on a walk around the school on our first day back to help the new children get to know where places are and who they can find. We met Mrs Smith and Mrs Little...

...then went to say hello to Mr Herrick.

Kobie was our special helper and she was a super leader.

We have been writing our numbers without any help at all to find out our starting points for numeracy this term

Kaden loved using his board and new pen.

Kayla knows she is missing some numbers and has left space for them up to 10.

Goodness, day one and Haylie can write her numerals up to 16 already!

We have been painting ourselves and talking about thinks we like to do - do come and see these hanging  in our class.

Time for some i-pads.

Emma chose an alphabet puzzle today.

Making things together is a super way to learn co-operation skills.

Karen busy at work.

Ewan is flying with his early morning Early Words programme and can read six high frequency words, can write them and recognise them really fast!

Zane has completed his first writing target, good work young man!

First day at school presentations for Eddy,

Haylie

Kaden

and Naleah, great to have you, guys!

This week we have been learning how to make repeated patterns in maths.

Zane and Ewan had great fun together working out their plan for a pattern.

This is our Giant Discussion book and the children loved being 'teacher' and explaining the patterns they could see.

Sol made a repeating pattern with brushes and hammers.

Our poem which came home in our poetry books this Friday is about Sleep and if you come to the purple corner you an see all our students sleeping! (Just pretend!!)

Dancing to our music and using our new shakers we made.

Kobie has completed her first sticker chart.

Miele came for her first visit and loved the morning with us.

We had a visit from an amazing magician, he kept the whole school enthralled for an hour! His topic was healthy eating.

How this bunny appeared from the box is totally magic, one minute the box was empty, the next, hey presto!

Now we all know about healthy food choices and what we should eat every day.

Discovery time, making friends. New puppet theatre.

Making necklaces to wear for the morning.

Making bridge and spiders.

Digging to the end of the earth.

Sharing time - these students were chosen to share their learning with the others in Pohutukawa and Ngaio classes.

After school on Wednesday I had a visitor!

Sharing time on Thursday - all totally engaged as usual.

We are learning about our teeth and how to keep them healthy, Sol showed us he has already lost a tooth and we made little boxes for our first teeth to be saved in, Mrs Savill took them home to make up on Thursday night and they took ages so Bronwen very kindly finished them on Friday morning. Thanks, Bronwen, I would be lost without your help! They will go home on Monday - Friday the children brought their Mother;s Day cards home for you and would have probably squashed the little boxes!

Oh my goodness me, how tall can we go?

Taller than Mrs Savill even!

On Friday we wore red mufti and had helicopter hair to raise funds for the Westpac Chopper appeal.

Bell has finished her first level of Lexia, good job Bella!!

We have had a great week, two new children join us on Monday. I hope you have a restful weekend.

Week one, term two, Ngaio.

Hi everyone, I got too excited and wanted to publish 45 photos - too much for the blog to cope with so after an hour and a half of waiting for them to load I have given up and gone home. I will try again tomorrow (Saturday) with less pictures please bear with me!
Mrs Savill

Star of the week, week one term 2.

Kobie is our star this week and apologies in advance for the poor quality of the photo, it is dreadfully blurry! She has really stepped up this term with her attitude to learning, helping, making friends and has even taken a teaching role doing our 'robot' words and explaining patterns in our girant discussion book. Ka Pai, Kobie, this is great to see!

Final week in our first term - goodbye to some of our friends!

Wow, Emma has completed her number 2 sticker chart - what a great helper, friend and learner you are, Emma!

This is the last blog for term one and what an excellent term it has been, loads of learning, heaps of progress, friendships made, visitors welcomed and then this week, transition for some...

Careful counting: 'what is your favourite number? Can you write it and show that many?'

Counting is fun...

...so much fun that our black cat friend came to help - does anyone know where this gorgeous creature lives??

Dressing up time in Discovery.

James!

K-Nex making models.

Our finale for our Still Life was painting our class plant - seen on the table next to our bubble table - the final art works are having in our class, do come and enjoy them.

Emma was so careful with her model!

Everyone in Ngaio always makes a book to keep forever, a 'Book about Me!'
Here you can see Vince and Lillybelle enjoying theirs. If you are reading this and were once in Room One with me, see if you can find your copy and enjoy it again!

Our Topic this term is all about ourselves and keeping ourselves healthy. We have studied food and know about everyday and special day food and now we are learning more, sun safety is very important too.

In pairs the children made their own suns smart posters and know about Slip. Slop. Slap - Slip on a t-shirt, Slap on a hat and Slop on some sunscreen.

Our posters show all these important aspects and you can come and see them on our health wall.

Miecke had her first visit to school this week and made friends straight away!

Beau also came to visit for the first time and settled straight into life in Ngaio.

Sharing time, Jayden, one of our visitors, showed his new library bag to Kaden, another visitor who had brought his Hot Wheels track to show.

Sol was fascinated by Miecke's new school bag - Frozen themed. 

Kayla enjoyed a follow-up activity for her Core 5 programme.

Clinton working on Core 5 too.

Ewan making a mat from our letters.

It's all too much for a cat!

Everyone helped assemble the letters into an alphabet track and  Kayla was very careful to walk the track singing her A,B.C carefully with one little foot step for each letter. You can see the cat asleep!!

Maths open ended problem solving...

....the task was to make shapes from 6 cubes only...

...matching the examples in our workbooks was a challenge.

Making caterpillars for this weeks' poem.

Emma can recite the poem word for word.

So can Sol - can you?

Writing our letters in the sun. 

Ewan writing 'here' , one of the 'Early Word' programme words he knows well now. Go, Ewan!

Guided reading, Alex is reading to Emma who will then read back to him.

Kobie is really listening carefully to her buddy, Sol.

Kayla has completed her first writing goal sheet!

Ewan has too...

...so has Emma! All of these children can write a simple sentence for themselves using beginning letter sounds for each word, finding high frequency words from their word cards, leaving finger spaces between each word and ending with a full stop. Ka Pai!

Leaving certificates - again, every child who has been in my class has one of these with a photo collage on the back! Good-bye to Lillybelle, off to Pohutukawa.

Ella is off too!

So is Vince! We must not forget James but he had a fall and Mum collected hime early today so I did not get to take a photo of him with his certificate but I hope he likes it!
HAVE A SUPRE HOLIDAY!


Sorry for the late posting of the blog but I went home early on Friday!! :) Mrs Savill.

Oh yes, next term we start our rotation of recorder and ukulele groups which will mean my class go up to Room 10 on alternate Mondays at 2.30 pm for 30 minutes to share maths games with their 'big' friends whilst I teach beginner recorders in my room. The following week the students from Room 10 not playing ukulele will join us in our room. This is a new programme and we are sure all children will benefit. See you next term .