Cultural Festival Wednesday 28 August

Thank you to those who have returned their permission slip for our trip to the 'Cultural Festival.'

 If you have not done so it would be great if I could have these back by Friday 23.
Thanks!

It's Always A Good Time in Room 1!

Thank you to you all for such a great week! Hopefully you have had a chance to see this weeks newsletter with our children's stories about the Kahurangi Dance Group visit, our' Kids Can Cook' lesson on Monday and our dance show tonight!

 A reminder that you can order your own DVD of the show if you wish.

 Our thanks again to Carolyn Yang and Annie Redman for sewing the girls' skirts.

 The children made up all their own dance moves during our lessons last term.

 We had a number of children away with illness and it was great to see how the other children could fill in the gaps!

 Gee those boys are groovy break dancers!

 They did a fantastic job of remembering all the moves they had created.

Well done to Penny, Jordyn,Ethan, Klaudia and Annabelle who sang in the choir.

Thanks for coming along. I am very proud of the children.

Literacy Evening for Parents...

How to help your child at home...

A reminder that this Thursday 8 August we are holding a parent evening to discuss how you can help your child at home with their reading and writing.

The session will be held in Room 1 from 6-7pm.

 Ngaire Sigmund will open the evening with an explanation about classroom organisation for 2014 and National Standards.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Welcome back!

Welcome back to Term 3! 

We have a very exciting start to the term with our parents' information evening this 

Thursday 8 August on 'Helping Your Child with Reading and Writing'

 and our dance show on the 15th!

 Emilie was awarded one of our good work certificates at assembly this week. She is such a positive person to have in Room 1 and she always gives new activities a go!

Ashlyn earned this certificate for improvement in dance. 

Good for you Ashlyn!

 At cafe this week we had hot chocolate with Fiona and discussed our holiday adventures!

 Thomas, Tyler and Tamai made their own glorious gardens at 'Rising Stars'.

 At Discovery on Friday Ashlyn went to cafe and practised meeting someone new and sharing her news.

 Charlotte enjoyed eating mandarin. You can see the discussion card that she discussed with Matthew from Room 7

David is visiting our school from Korea.While his Room 15 classmates were out on the road participating in their safe cycling programme he came to help us with our reading. He was a great help and we hope he comes back!

The Big Sad Wolf

On Tuesday we had a visit from the 'Playhouse' drama company.Here are some of our stories...

 I went to a show. I liked the Big Sad Wolf. The Big Sad Wolf was very funny! by Emilie

I went to the hall and saw the Big Sad Wolf. It was funny. I laughed when the Wolf blew the man's trousers off! by Stacie

I  liked the part where the Big Sad Wolf blew the Judge's underpants to the floor! by Stacie

I went to see the story of the Big Sad Wolf.  By Ashlyn

It was great to attend the show as a whole school!

Perceptual Motor Programme

Every Monday and Tuesday the children in Room 1 attend P.M.P

 (Perceptual Motor Programme) in the hall. 

The children are in 5 small groups and they rotate around 

5 different activities.

Parent helpers come every morning to help organise one of the different activities. We couldn't run the programme without their very kind help.

Look at how well Tamai and Charlotte are working together!

Some of the activities are designed to develop the children's upper arm strength and 

co-operation skills.

Many of the activities are to help the children practise catching and throwing.

Emilie is watching where the orange arrow is pointing so that she knows in which direction to jump.

The equipment was purchased by our school P.T.A. One of the children's favourite activities is to complete the obstacle courses that use wooden boxes, the ladder and platform.

During every session the children practise eye tracking exercises on the stage.

It is wonderful to see how the children's confidence has really developed with using the equipment. Look at Thomas!

This activity involves throwing beanbags into the hoops to help the children develop their 

co-ordination. 

Hannah and Jordyn are practising balancing skills.

 This programme is a great way to work on developing the children's fitness!

 Each week one of the activities is designed to help the children work on their 

hand-eye co-ordination.

P.M.P is one of our favourite school activities!

We wish you a wonderful weekend!

Exploring our Questions....

This week we have started to explore our own questions about bubbles. We have watched some great YouTube clips about making bubbles.

Can we make different shaped bubbles? How do you make bubble mixture? How can we make bubbles get bigger?

 In pairs we explored making bubble with shampoo.

 We compared these bubbles to bubbles made from dish washing liquid and glycerol. We found this recipe in one of our science books.

We even tried mixtures using soap and washing machine powder. Gee...we thought of so many questions!

 Some people found they could make bigger bubbles when they blew through their hands rather than using the bubble wands.

 Penny and Emilie discovered that when your hands are wet you can put your finger through the bubbles and they won't pop.

 If you blow too hard the bubbles always pop!

 Shampoo made the biggest bubbles.

 The glycerol bubbles had the most colours.

 We had fun getting bubble mixture everywhere.

 Bubbles made out of lux flakes felt really slimey!

Now we have even more questions than when we started!