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.