Week 9 of the term!

We have had a very busy last few weeks!

Awahono had their annual Fun Run, what an awesome day the children had!

Here's Jack coming through the tunnel.................Lincoln out of the tunnel!

 

Elizabeth......                                                                      Glenn.......

                                       

                                                                          Isla....

Brooke.....

even our awesome teacher aide, Chontal, ran around the course!

Room 1 were also learning about halves and quarters. We used the play-dough to make shapes and the we cut them in half and then into quarters. There was lots of discussion about 'pizza' and 'cake' when having to share them out.

Our topic this term was about Fairy tales. Room 1 played the part of the '11' dwarfs. There was lots of practice learning our songs and dances. We even made our own beards to wear on stage!

 

Here we are in our dress rehearsal, waiting for our call to go on stage for our dance and song...

The children had an awesome to performing their part in the production. I hope you all came along and enjoy the fun!

This is the last blog for the term, we hope you have enjoyed being part of our learning. Hope you all have a lovely break and we will be back next term.

WOW! End of week 6 and fast heading towards the end of term!

Week 5 was a messy week for Room 1 and the rest of the school. We started with a short week because of Queens Birthday weekend, then we had the Teachers strike day, and there was lots of children away across the school due to illness.
However, Room 1 children were still working hard on their maths by practising counting forwards and backwards from 10 to 20.

And other children were learning to count objects by making lots of ten.

Here is Brooke working out how many jelly beans she has by putting 10 into each little container. She found she had 4 lots of 10 and 2 left over = 42.

Our letter and blend for the week were P and cl. As there was a lot of children away, we had a lot less for sharing this week.

A green Plane

A pretty hair Clip

 A porky Pig.

In week 6 we had a few more children back at school (Yay!)

Week 6 sharing was the letter G and the blend gr.

We had a growly face from Skye,

 and a greenstone.

On Wednesday the school had a visit from Elgregoe and his helper, Sue.

Elgregoe had lots of tricks with his animals to entertain us.

And had some help from the audience.

We all had a good laugh, but Elgregoe also had a very good message for us to ...

Hopefully we all remember Elgregoe's words and try to follow them!

On Friday we had a visit from the playcentre. They had come into the school to see what a New Entrant/Year 1 class was like. 

Room 1 have been learning about shapes for our strand maths, so we made some play-dough to show and talk to our visitors about shapes we can make, how many sides and corners they have. 

"mmm", says Tiaan, "What shape am I going to make?"

Charlie tells mum he is going to make a train shape.

Ethan can't decide which shape he wants to use next!

Harper has made a row of shapes for her friends.

Well done Room 1 for looking after your guests.

Week 6 finished on a high with Room 1 winning the Big Bag Bay Challenge for the week!

Awesome work Room 1 looking after our classroom and bag bay, keep up the great work!

Week 4! Nearly half way through the term!

Room 1 has been busy working on our strand maths and topic over the last two weeks.

For topic we were reading Jack and the Beanstalk. We listened to different stories that had different endings for the Giant. 

In week 4 we tried creating our own story of Jack and the Beanstalk using a story board.
First the children drew their pictures, then with the help of Mrs A and Chontal, they wrote their story.

It was a wet day when we were writing these stories and I think that had an influence on the weather conditions in the stories......

The children were also working on art work relating to Jack and the Beanstalk.

First they had to paint the background, then they needed to colour in their characters and glue them onto their background. 

Their pictures look amazing, so colourful!

Our sharing has been up and running over the last two weeks.
In week 3 the letter was 'd' and the blend was 'ch'.

Dice

Dog

Charger

Chocolate

In week 4 the letter was 'b' and the blend was 'sh'. However, no one brought in anything to share for 'sh'!

Batman card

Building

Beaker

Ball

Looking forward to next week which is the letter 'p' and the blend 'cl'.

For strand math we are working on shapes. For last Fridays activity we chose 7 different shapes, put them together to make a picture, then drew an outline around the shapes. We then passed the outline and our shapes to another classmate and they had to try and put the shapes together inside the outline.

Lots of laughs all round!

Arranging the shapes

Drawing around the shapes

Fitting the shapes into the outline

Done!

Room 1 have been working hard on keeping our environment clean. Every Friday afternoon we do a walk around the school and pick up rubbish. We want our school to look appealing for visitors and to be a great place to play and learn. The children noticed that some bag bays were a bit messy, so they sent out a challenge to the whole school for the tidiest bag bay!  

And the winners for week 4...

Room 1! Yay!!

End of week 2!

These first two weeks we have been getting back into our routines.
Week 2 we started our daily homework and Murtle's visits home. Next week we start our sharing around the letter or blend of the week.

Last week Room 1 started with our greeting for the week in Te Reo, this was Kia Ora.

Next week we will have the Spanish greeting Ola.

In week 1 we made some progress on our topic wall. The children made leaves to go on the huge beanstalk after reading Jack and the Beanstalk. We had a huge discussion on what might have happened to Jack and his mum if the magic beans hadn't grown. Watch this space for some creative writing in that direction!

Next we plan to add some of the Fairy-tale characters that we will be studying.

At the end of May, Awahono School will be having it's annual Fun Run. To be ready for this, Room 1 has started having a practice run every morning. So far the weather has been kind to us and we haven't missed a day.

Here is Room 1 warming up for our run.

Week 2 was Road Safety week. Room 1 was learning about crossing the road safely. The children each made a picture about where was the safest place to walk or ride a bike by the road. They then stuck all their pictures onto a poster to share.

The end of week 2 was busy with making Mothers Day cards for the lovely, hard working mums of the children in Room 2. Lots of love and effort went into the great cards the children made.

Happy Mothers Day to all our mums this Sunday! 

Next Thursday is Support Staff Day. We are really grateful to all our support staff. They do an awesome job supporting the students and teachers.