We are a Year 1 class at Nelson Central School, Nelson, New Zealand. Most of us are 5 years old,
except for our teachers, Tracy and Sam and our teacher aide, Victoria, who are a little older. This blog lets you know what we
have been up to and what our next learning steps will be. We love to find out what people
think about our class so please get typing and leave us a comment.

Saturday 1 March 2014

Week 4 Term 1


This week we had our first trip out of school when we went to the Sunstroke exhibition at the Suter Gallery. The children were so well behaved and engaged by the work. A big thank you to all the adult helpers who came along with us and remember you can go and see the exhibitions at the Suter for free on  Saturday. Have a look at what we got up to.

Sunstroke at the Suter 2014 on PhotoPeach

 
Back in the classroom we have started work on our portraits. First we practiced altogther on white boards, learning about the proportions of our faces and we used a mirror to see what our own faces looked like.


Then we drew our faces on large sheets of paper. We will be painting the faces next week.

It was great to see so many of our Room 10 families enjoying the school picnic on Tuesday evening and the weather was perfect.


Our tricky words for the week were 'me' and 'my' we have been practising making the tail of 'y' hang underneath the line like a possum tail.

In maths we continued our work on graphs by looking at which months our birthdays are in. Watch out for the results on display in the class later this week.

On Friday we enjoyed another Discovery Time with a focus on turn taking, a skill covered by the 'Relating to Others' key competency.
Discovery Time Week 4 Term 1 on PhotoPeach


We finished the week off by making paper fortune tellers with our buddies from Room 5.

Our pink pigs are on display in the class and also on our Kidzstuff blog. We will be writing captions to go with our paintings next week.

What are we learning in Term 1 Week 5?

Letters and Sounds: 'k' and 'e'
Tricky: Words  'no' and 'go'
Writing: shared writing and captions
Maths:  number facts to 5 and simple graphs
P.E.: catching and swimming
Maori: morning greetings, mihi
Topic: Class Treaty: Rights and Responsibilities
Art: Painting: Portraits

Reminders

Swimming: Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
School Photos: Thursday 6th March
Purple Cake Day Friday 7th March, dress in purple, helpers needed for face painting
March 17th,18th,19th Parent Teacher Interviews
Museum Visit: to 'Starting with Plants" exhibition Tuesday 8th April, leaving school 9.10 back around 11am. Adult helpers needed.

Term Dates

Term 1: Tuesday 4th February to Thursday 17th April
Term 2: Monday 5th May to Friday 4th July
Term 3: Monday 21 July to 26th September
Term 4: Monday 13th October to Friday 19th December
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1 comment:

  1. Anonymous2 March 2014 at 10:18

    Hello Room 10. It is Fin's Opa and Nana here. Hi Fin.

    I see you have had a busy week with trips out of the classroom. I was so impressed with the pictures that you all drew at the Suter Gallery. You can draw pictures of your faces better than I can!

    Opa

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