A week of super visitors

On Monday Room 5 celebrated 100 days at school!

We had a fun filled day which started with making our One Hundred Days Smarter crowns.  We completed other 100 day activities while we waited for our super hero friend, Zero the Hero to arrive. Finally, after counting all of our pieces of food and having our shared morning tea, Zero the Hero flew through the air to congratulate us on knowing all about the number one hundred and his special number - zero!

We also had a visit from Ronald McDonald who talked to us about keeping safe while walking and putting on our seat belt while in the car. Stop, Look and Listen and Make it Click!

On Friday we had an author come to share with us his books.

Lastly, congratulations to Albert and Sylvester for becoming independent writers and gaining a certificate during our syndicate assembly.

OUR ENVIRONMENT

This week we had a focus on How we live in the world. 

First of all we looked at the environment with the help of the teachers at The Tread Lightly Caravan. We learnt that we can help our environment such as planting a seed or how keeping our land and seas free from rubbish makes for a better world.  
Our class goal is to pick up rubbish if we see it, even if it's not ours.

To end our fire safety unit, we met and talked to the firemen. They were very impressed that we knew how to keep safe, where to go and what to shout if we were in a fire. We practised how to stay low and go to the safe meeting place.

 On Friday, we participated in the school's Respect Our Community day. Two teacher's brought in their dogs and we learnt how to be safe around dogs.

I'm freezing

The last two weeks at school we have been investigating temperatures. We have made our own temperature gauges and have looked at pictures of hot and cold places. We have put our hand into water and decided if it was warm, cold or freezing!

This week we will use ice-blocks to find the hot spots and cold spots in our classroom and will dress up for hot or cold weather.

At home you could do the same experience. Use the melt-times of ice-cubes to help your child find the hottest spot and coldest spot in your house. These need to be spaces you can stand in so the oven or freezer can’t be used.

This term we have also focused on positional language.  Here we are using our positional words to go over an obstacle course on the senior playground.

Congratulations to the people that received certificates in the school Assembly on Friday. We also say goodbye to Ismaiah and her family at the end of the week. We have loved having you in Room 5. All the best at your new school.

Production Snapshots

Congratulations to all of our wonderful, amazing Ants!!  You did an awesome job and worked as a team to make our show amazing!!

You can now have a rest until our next big adventure!

Maths Challenge

Congratulations to those people that completed a maths challenge activity last week for Maths Week. We had a variety of items and it was great to see the children taking responsibility for their own work when they shared it with the rest of the class.

As production practising is taking up a lot of our time, we have been focussing on positional language, ordinal numbers and the language of probability during maths time.

Term Three Information and Update

Welcome to Lily Liu, Mason Eddington and Jayjay Havealeta to Room 5!  Our class is now complete for the time being so it is great to have everyone on board.

We have had a very busy start to the term. This week we had two trips to the Life Education van, a rippa rugby session and we have also started practising for our production. Whew!

I have also included some pictures at the end of the blog from the end of Term 2 festivities for you to look at.

Spellathon:  It is great to see everyone has started learning their words and finding some sponsors. I have a few spare sheets, so if you did not receive your Spellathon information at the end of Term 2, while I was away, please see me.

Holiday Reading: Well done to those people that completed the Holiday Reading Programme and for everyone that kept on reading right through the holidays. It really makes a BIG difference to their literacy progression.

Assembly - We have our School Assembly with Room 8 in Week Three. We would love it if you could come and watch us.  We will be practising for this over the next two weeks.

Production:  We have already started practising our songs and dances for our performance. As this takes up a lot of time this term, normal activities such as reading, writing and maths, may not occur every day. At these times, seen books from their reading box or thier poetry book will come home instead.  If you are able to sew or paint the props, please get in touch with Anna Blair in Room 6. Thank you.

Maths: Over the next few weeks in maths we are studying position and direction. Encourage your child to use language such as over, under, left, right high low, near, far to describe where objects are in relation to each other. Ask your child to describe the path they would follow to get from one end of the garden to their room. Ask them to describe the route they take to get to a friend's house.

Oral language: Encourage your child to use complete sentences whenever they are speaking, instead of just a word or two. This will help them during writing to form whole ideas and to show that ideas need to make sense.

Reminders: Rocket word testing continues this term. Library is on Friday. Raincoats should always be in school bags.

I look forward to meeting with people on Thursday for interviews.

Children's Voice:
I liked seeing Harold. - Leonie
I liked seeing a movie about Harold's friends. - Mason E
I liked going in the caravan and we saw Harold. - Archer
I like listening to stories. - Ismaiah
I liked writing about fairies. - Lily
I like to play on the golden monkey bars at school. - Jahzelle
I like the creative table where we can make things- Sienna
I like playing with Albert. - Mason A

Goodies and Baddies Day

Rippa Rugby

Room 5 meets Harold