Week 4: Wednesday

We are having an exciting week in Room 1. Amidst all the routine learning activities we have managed to fit in so many exciting activities.

The week began with our usual Monday Music lesson from Adrienne Hale who is our visiting music teacher.
Drama lessons continued on Tuesday afternoon. 

Today we all had a turn to sit on Mr Williams big blue motorbike - a Kawasaki named Ninja.  Mr Williams showed us the carbon fibre exhaust, the mirrors, flashing lights and the petrol tank. He showed us where to hold on while we were sitting on the back seat. Mr Williams revved up the engine and tooted the horn. When we went back to our room we drew a picture and wrote our story. Everyone thought this was very exciting and noisy.

Today we also made ice-cream in a bag as part of our Kitchen Chemistry unit.  Gus's mum Luisa helped us so we were able to work in very small groups. We made 3 different flavours of ice-cream  - vanilla, plum and cookies n cream. Ask the children how to make ice-cream at home.  

Tomorrow is our PE afternoon. Please make sure your child brings a change of clothes and sports shoes for their PE sessions.  Don't forget that we have uniform PE shorts for sale from the Office


Last Friday we finished writing our booklets that outline the all the steps in making Gingerbread 

Hands.


The children are showing you some of the work they are most proud of - their favourite pages!

Please feel free to make a comment that we can share at school.

Wednesday

Yuan went on a message to Mrs Gibson's office. Yuan was also very responsible at reading group time. He taught new people how to sit nicely and to point to the words when we read them.

Zaria enjoyed reading time today - she did good job too.  She read Purr-fect again and got a new book called T-shirts.

Carlyle forgot to put his lunch away - he thought this was very funny and he has finally remembered to take home his windmill. Carlyle was writer of the day today. He learned how to put a comma between the words in list. 

Kerri said, "Thank you for a great day - I enjoyed playing with Zaria and Summer." Kerri got a sticker because she can now recognise all the letters of the alphabet by name and she also knows the sounds they represent.

Summer said, "I finished all my work and I played with Kerri and Zaria." Summer was very happy at school today.

Fynnie said, "We all played together and we played chasing games."

Lofi said, "I liked playing with Fynn."  Lofi was Handwriter of the Day because he made many beautiful 'h' & 'H' in his handwriting book.

Lennard liked his time in reading group and he got a sticker because he can recognise all the letters of the alphabet by name.

Gus went to the library at lunch time and he read lots of books with Mrs Williams.

Mrs Baker said her maths worked really hard today.

Mrs French thanked all the children for a great day.  I enjoyed my duty in the playground and loved  talking to all the children. I think we are getting very good at singing our Maori waiata and using our poi.

Tuesday

I asked the children what they would like to share with their parents today and this is what they offered:

Father Pat came to visit us and we introduced ourselves using sign language. We sang Jesus loves me  for Father Pat and we used sign language as we sang it.

At writing time we started our book which will tell you how to make gingerbread hands.

Zaria and Carlyle thought their reading book was a bit hard today.  It was called Purr-fect. They did enjoy the story and were very proud of their reading when they had finished it.

At Maths time some children learned to explain more than and less than. Other children learned how to subtract from 10 using materials.  

This afternoon we had our second drama lesson.  We pretended we were Saber-toothed tigers and cave men. We had to do the actions to music in slow motion and we had to make freeze-frames when the music stopped.  Our teachers said we were very good at this activity.

In Religious Education we learned that the Holy Spirit is like water. The Holy Spirit helps us to grow strong - just like water helps the plants to grow and be strong.

Monday

Good things we did today in Room 1.

Zaria said "We shared."

Carlyle said "I had fun playing with Yuan."

Yuan said " I am going to show dad my writing."

Gus said " I liked playing with my mum and playing with Lennard."

Fynn said " I read about rock pools."

Summer said " My favourite  page was about the little fish."

Lennard  said "I played with Gus and Cobi and Carlyle."

Evelyn went home early with her dad. Evelyn's dad had his traditional Tongan clothes on - they were going to the Tongan Mass at Our Lady of Victories Church.

Mrs French had a great day with all the happy children.

Mrs Redman liked working with Yuan and the other children in Room 1.

MOTHER'S DAY BULBS

The first of our Mother's Days bulbs has flowered at Zaria's house.  Thanks to Zaria and Carla for the photo.

Friday

Making handprints for our class friendship quilt!

Thursday

We made and decorated gingerbread hands with Mrs Redman (our Resource Teacher for the Deaf).  Some of the bigger children from Room 6 also helped us.

Next week we will use the photos from this experience to make a recipe book using Book Creator on our iPads.

We also showed the Room 6 children how we can introduce ourselves using Sign Language.  They were very interested and had lots of questions about hearing loss.

Tuesday

Evelyn has been working really hard and has learned how to spell her name in NZ Sign language.

This afternoon our class took part in the first of our  six drama workshops. The children learned to do 'silly walks' and to mirror the actions of their friends.

In Religious Education we learned about the Holy Spirit being like the breath of God in us. The Holy Spirit helps us to be the loving people God wants us to be - just like our breath makes a balloon what it is meant to be. The children have all taken a balloon home today.

WELCOME

We are enjoying the fine autumn weather. Our bulbs are growing beautifully.

Yuan had a great day at KIT (Keeping in touch for his deaf community).
This week is New Zealand Sign Language Week so we will be learning to introduce ourselves in Sign Language.