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.

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

Shining Star time and Mrs Barlow

Welcome to Archer.

Teacher Voice: Along with the usual reading, writing and maths and the other myriad of other subject areas that we cover in a week, I try to make sure that every two weeks at least, we have a Shining Star time.  Shining Star time is where I put out special play items such as dress ups, train set, painting, puppets and other developmental items.  This gives the opportunity for children to extend their friendships, oral language skills and mathematical concepts.  It is great to see the enjoyment and roles that the children give themselves during this time.

Mrs Barlow takes the children for music every Monday in the music room. The children really enjoy the time they spend with her. Every three weeks she also comes into the classroom and teaches the children a special topic. This term she is teaching about the maths concepts of rotation and symmetry.

This weeks focus sounds are s, sh, th and the focus words are little, am, have.