Pyjamas in the Pool!

Well I can certainly say that Room 14's highlight this week was getting to wear pyjamas in the swimming pool as the final lesson.  The water safety lessons this week have been fun as well as very valuable, adding to our knowledge around being safe in the water.

We had our first visit to the library.  We were the first class in the library for the year so we had first pick of the wonderful selection of books we have in our school library.

Our basic facts in maths is rolling along very nicely now, we are well into the routine of it.  We will see improvements in knowledge of times tables and speed of basic addition and subtraction as the year goes on.  

We completed some lovely writing this week about ourselves and about being a good friend.  If you keep an eye on our individual blogs this week you might be lucky enough to see some of this writing.

Please feel free to comment on our class blog so we know you have read it.  

The Week that Was...

 As usual we seemed to fit a lot into our school week.  We started swimming lessons, some days were warmer than others!  The lessons are fun as well as instructional and I know one student was very excited because she learnt how to do backstroke this week.

We completed an activity about Waitangi Day and also the Chinese New Year.  We have created some lovely artwork for our classroom wall which I will share in the next blog.  Some students might also share their artwork on their blog.

Our Circle Time focus was on Moving around the School - we discussed what this should look like and then took some photos to model walking together in an organised way and holding the door open for each other.

Beginning 2021

Welcome back to the new school year.  We have had a very sporty start to the year, with SportStart, swimming and Summer Sport.  We also had the lovely Pauline visit us from the Dangerous Decibels programme to share lots of information and fun experiments about the importance of our ears and our hearing.  

The students in Room 14 are beginning to think about how successful they would like their year to be and are aware they need to focus on the values - Care, Share, Learn and Grow - to help them with their goals.  There will also be a focus on a variety of the Virtues.