Week 10 Term 1

This week has been so busy I am not sure where to start.

On Monday we had 90 minutes of scooter training, it was a great hit with everyone and the children were so proud to share their successes with me the next day. Watch the movie compilation below to share in our learning.

On Tuesday we went to the Nelson Museum to look at the interactive plant exhibition. Thanks to all the parents who came along, you were amazing at bringing the exhibition alive for the children and as always a big thank you to Nikki from the museum who made it all happen for us.

When we got back from the museum we worked in 2 groups to write a recount of what we had done there. Take a read of them here:

On Tuesday we went to the museum. We took the petals off the model flower. We put animal pictures  into a food chain. We drew flowers. It was marvellous.

Today Room 10 went to the museum. We saw one big, brown snail, a pull-apart  flower and two beautiful eagles. We loved walking in the rain.

Also during the week we enjoyed another story from Lilly's mum and her baby brother.

Look how our handwriting is coming along, especially now we are using our special sky, grass, ground sheets to help us think about  letter size. You can download these sheets for free from this link, just stick them onto a piece of card and cover in contact and you will have one to use at
http://www.sparklebox.co.uk/thumbs7-14/sb10-groung-grass-sky-drywipe-handwriting.html#.U0h9uvmSySo

Here we are modelling our line in fashion gumboots...what a sensible choice for the wet weather, I really must get some myself.

 There was some great cooperation going on when we played our maths probability game this week.

On Thursday we enjoyed a mini-ball session and on Friday, despite the wet weather lots of creative ideas were flowing indoors during Discovery Time. Look at the highlights from these 2 activities in the slide show below.

Week 10 Fun Times on PhotoPeach
 

What are we learning in Term 1 Week 11?

Letters and Sounds: 'ai' and 'j'

Tricky: Words  'see' and 'went'

Writing: shared writing and captions

Maths:  problem solving and  probability

P.E.: catching 

Maori: morning greetings, mihi

Topic: People Who Help Us and Easter

Art: Painting: Easter

Reminders

School finishes for the term on Thursday 17th April at 3pm

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

Week 9 Term 1

This week saw more of our Monarch butterflies emerging from their cocoons and enjoying bring released into the Junior Playground.

In maths we continued to work on our number recognition by playing number twister.

 With Sam we learnt a new probability game which we will be extending further next week.

One of our sounds for this week was 'l' for lion.

 We also learnt some 'l' tricky words including 'like' and 'look'. We are getting very good at remembering to leave finger spaces when writing sentences.

 We love our library reading sessions after lunch and sharing our favourite books together.

 A whole heap of art work was appearing in class this week. We compiled our colourful ice cream cones using the colour tints and tones we made last week.....very tasty.

 Check out our fabulous faces now on display in the class.

Discovery Time Week 9 Room 10 on PhotoPeach

What are we learning in Term 1 Week 10?

Letters and Sounds: 'f' and 'b'

Tricky: Words  'for' and 'be'

Writing: shared writing and captions

Maths:  number facts to 5 and to 10 and probability

P.E.: catching 

Maori: morning greetings, mihi

Topic: People Who Help Us

Art: Painting: tones and tints painting

Reminders

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

Week 8 Term 1

This week during circle time we had a younger visitor. It is lovely to see younger brothers or sisters coming to share the end of day mat time with us.

 We have been busy writing using play dough to form our letters correctly and practicing using our tricky words in full sentences.

 

 There was some good co-operation going on in this week's maths probability lesson.

 We have been doing some more team work whilst learning to play some new memory games.

In art we continued with our work on tints and tones and our portraits are ready to go on display , watch out for them later this week.

Victoria  did a shared reading of Chicka, Chicka, Boom, Boom with a little help from a friend. The new list for story reading in April will be up this week so make sure you sign up. All it needs is for you to be at school around 2.50pm with a book your child has chosen from home. Then pop in and share it with us.

There was much interest this week when a new peg chart appeared. Ask your child to show it to you and explain how it works.

Friday was a very active day with buddy time and discovery time to keep our bodies and brains active abd healthy.

Fun Friday Week 8 Room 10 on PhotoPeach

Have a safe and happy week.

What are we learning in Term 1 Week 9?

Letters and Sounds: 'u' and 'l'

Tricky: Words  'like' and 'look'

Writing: shared writing and captions

Maths:  number facts to 5 and to 10 and probability

P.E.: catching 

Maori: morning greetings, mihi

Topic: People Who Help Us

Art: Painting: tones and tints painting

Reminders

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