Pyjama day

Just a reminder to parents/caregivers that our pyjama day has been re-scheduled for Thursday this week.  When we were planning these fun days for writing, we did not take into consideration that Ash Wednesday would fall on one of these days! I hope you all got the notice pinned to you child's bag this afternoon.

Last Friday morning we had the first of our Discovery Learning sessions. These sessions are built around the Key Competency for Term 1 - Using language, symbols and texts. We had 2 activities for the children to take part in.  Some children took the story of Little Red Riding Hood and created Granny's cottage complete with wardrobe, bed, blankets etc. All that remains is for these children to gather foliage to make the forest and the set will be ready for their storytelling.  We will use the iPads to record their images and oral story telling.  The second group of children took the story of Brave Father Mouse.  They made the main characters - Father Mouse and the Cat - and will use these to tell the story. So watch this space for preliminary photos and later the little film.

Happy New Year and welcome back to our class blog for 2015.

We welcome Ondrej, Richard, Edward & Hercz to Room 1 and to Sacred Heart School.  

We have been super busy in Room 1 re-establishing classroom routines, beginning instructional reading groups, filling the knowledge gaps in maths so we can move on to teach simple addition and subtraction strategies, and gathering baseline information about writing skills.

Maths time - learning about ordinal numbers

                           
                             

                                       

                                         
 

    

              Writing motivation - hiding from the wind!

This year we really want to work hard to develop the children's writing skills. Here at school, we have organised a series of fun activities that the children can use as motivation and sources of inspiration for their writing.  We ask that you give your children every opportunity at home to write their ideas down on paper. If you can, it would be really helpful for the children to access to scrap paper to write on and felt pens, coloured pencils or crayons to write with.

Today the Junior School held the first of our motivating activities. We held a Teddy Bears picnic complete with games and activities and tiny teddy biscuits to munch on.  We saw a great array of soft toys of all kinds having all kinds of fun in the playground.