Room 10 Nelson Central School 2015: February 2015

Sunday 22 February 2015

Term 1 Week 3

Welcome to our 2nd Room 10 blog for 2015. This week we have been learning the sounds 'i' and 'p' and making them out of playdough. We have also been learning the tricky words 'my' and 'we'.

In Art we continued to think about the sound 'p' by drawing and painting some spectacular pink pigs.

Later in the week we made and tasted some p...p..pp...popcorn.

We got out the iPads this week and worked on the Letter School app to practice our handwriting. Check out the image below to find the app on Google Images.

In maths we have been ordering numbers to 10 and thinking about numbers that come before or after numbers in this range. We also made a pictogram of our birthdays which is on the wall in the classroom...take a look next time you are in.

We have also been practicing the days of the week with our favourite song of the week.

Thursday was Chinese New Year and we learnt about the Chinese New Year story with the help of the video below and found out which animal from the Chinese calendar represented each of our Room 10 friends. We have rats, tigers and ox's in our class.

On Friday Room 7 shared their Chinese New Year play with us.

This week we started using our browse boxes for extra reading practice after morning tea. It is great fun to share books with our friends. We bring home a book from our browse boxes for the weekend.

On Friday we met our Room 5 buddies again and had our photos taken together. watch out for them on the wall in our classroom later this week.

Although our Discovery Time this Friday was quite short I spotted some excellent examples of this week's key Competency of Relating to Others, especially when positioning the giant tube we were using.

Finally don't forget to check out our scary spider paintings and writing on the Kidzstuff blog, follow the link at the top of the side panel on this page.

What are we learning in Term 1 Week 4

Sounds: 'n' and 'c'

Tricky Words:

Writing: Pink Pig Story

Maths: Saying, counting and ordering numbers to 10 then 20

P.E. Throwing

Maori: Greetings and Classroom Instructions

Topic: Getting to Know Each Other

Art:painting 'Colourful Cats'

ICT: All About Me posters

Reminders

Monday 23rd Feb: School Community Group Picnic, 5.30-7.30 front field

Tuesday 3rd March: Museum visit, Parrot workshop 11.00, leaving school at 10.20, helpers needed

Wednesday 11th March: School photo day

Monday 23rd March: Parent Teacher interview week

Friday 20th March: Purple Cake Day

Thursday 26th March: Suter Gallery trip, leaving school 10am, helpers needed

Term Dates

Term 1 finishes Thursday 2 April
Term 2 starts Monday 20 April
Term 2 finishes Friday 3 July
Term 3 starts Monday 20 July
Term 3 finishes Friday 25 September
Term 4 starts Monday 12 October
Term 4 finishes Wednesday 16 December

Friday 13 February 2015

Welcome to Room 10

Kia ora and welcome to our first Room 10 blog post for 2015. We have been starting to learn some of the class routines. Here we are drawing and cutting out the rainbow letter for the sound 's'.

We have been practicing our names.

In maths we played number mat twister.

On Thursday we had our first session of Fundamental Skills with Jane from No Child Left Inside. We cooled off with a sponge and water relay.

We found some interesting solutions to how to carry 3 sponges at once.

On Friday we met the Year 3 and 4 children from Room 5 who are going to be our buddy class. We had great fun showing them around our Junior Playground.

Discovery Week 1 on PhotoPeach

What are we learning in Term 1 Week 3

Sounds: 'i' and 'p'

Tricky Words:

Writing: spider story

Maths: Saying, counting and ordering numbers to 10 then 20

P.E. Throwing

Maori: Greetings and Classroom Instructions

Topic: Getting to Know Each Other

Art:painting 'Pink Pig'

ICT: All About Me