ROOM 18 GYMNASTICS

Today we were learning our balancing skills and jumping skills.

We used the gymnastics equipment to practice jumping safely- watching were we were going, putting our feet together to jump and landing with our feet together with a slight bend in our knees.

We also used the top playground to practice our balancing!

We had lots of fun!!!

Cross country winners!

Well done....

Nathan D for coming 10th,

Poppy for coming 7th,

and Nathan T for coming 8th in the race!

They all competed with over a hundred year ones! 

Congrats!!!! 

CROSS COUNTRY STARS!

Congratulations to all our runners in the Cross Country today.  We all completed it!  Yay.  Did you know that Sir Edmund Hillary climbed Mount Everest 60 years ago yesterday?  We learn resilience and perserverance just like Sir Ed, when we complete challenges like Cross Country.

Congratulations to Poppy who came 7th out of all the Year 1 girls, Nathan T who came 8th out of all the Year 1 boys and Nathan D who came 10th out of all the Year 1 boys!

Thanks for taking photos Toby!

MARVELLOUS MATHS

Today we watched a You Tube Clip which is helping us skip count in 2s.  Then we went into our Maths groups and did our Maths activities.  Some of us spent time with the teacher learning more marvellous maths!

Here is our You tube clip- you can help us learn to skip count in 2s to 20, and then all the way to 100!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykAhScPdFNg&safe=act

LETTER BINGO

Today some of us learnt how to play letter bingo!  This helps us learn our letters.  We had a lot of fun
Pragati won!

Getting our books out!

Rachel the librarian showed us how to scan our library card and where to put our book so that the computer can recognise it!

We are experts at getting our books out and we can even show our family what to do!!!!

Rachel has a very special certificate for Ara Teina if we go back to the library and say hello to her!

ROOM 18'S LIBRARY TRIP PICS

We had such a great time at New Lynn library today.
We walked down to the library and met Rachel the librarian.   She taught us about the Dewey System and how it can help us find books about any topic.  
We searched for different kinds of books and these are some of the topics we found:
★ milking
★ farm animals
★ sharks
★ games
★ cockateils
★ fairies
★ food

It was so cool!
Rachel read us a story before we went home.

A big THANK YOU to our parents who helped,  and came to visit! 

OUR TRIP TO NEW LYNN LIBRARY

WHAT WE THINK ABOUT OUR TRIP TO THE LIBRARY:

Anya said "I had a lovely time at the New Lynn library reading my books, and I had a wonderful time eating lunch."

Ava said "I had a great day.

Poppy said "I had a good time at the library.  I like having lunch, and we looked at books about farming, animals and cows."

Nathan T said "We had fun and I read books quietly with my mum."

Arlo said "I had a nice time and I liked the library.  I had a good time looking at my book."

Persia said "I had a good day walking from my school to the library, and I like reading books."

Isabella said "I liked the library because I like the librarian.  She is really nice."

Wether the Weather

Despite the rain overnight,  the forecast is still saying there won't be rain in New Lynn today.
If this is the case, we will go ahead with our library trip. 
Raincoats,  sensible walking shoes, and an extra layer of clothing is required.

The weather forecast for next Wednesday looks like rain and winds,  so fingers crossed that today's forecast is accurate!

Thanks, Miss Ellis and Mrs Manu.

Brrrrrr... Weather Update!

What a cold day it has been!  Tomorrow we are meant to be walking to New Lynn Library.
Our teachers will decide in the morning wether the trip is on, or if we will go next week instead.

We are crossing our fingers!  Especially because the librarian at New Lynn said we can eat our lunch in the library if it is too wet outside!  Wow- what a treat!

The weather forecast for tomorrow says:

Chance of an early shower, with sunny spells.  Westerley breezes.

Sunny spells?  Who knew that the weather was magic?

Rainy day playtime in the hall!  Check out our commando moves- upper body strength!

CROSS COUNTRY TOMORROW!

Cross country is tomorrow.  You can meet us on the field just after 9 if you want to watch.
We might need extra spare clothes in  case we get hot and sweaty,  or wet and muddy.
We will need shoes that are good for running in.

GO ROOM 18!

Rain date: THURSDAY ★

D I S C O!!!!

We had such a great time at the Disco tonight!
We dressed up in 'Kiwiana' and danced the night away!!!!!

STUDENT OF THE WEEK

Congratulations Poppy for a great attitude to learning and using your great ideas in class discussions!

CROSS COUNTRY ON TUESDAY

Cross Country is on Tuesday.  The Year 1 races that we are in start early at about 9am.

You can come and cheer us on.

We need running shoes and running clothes as well as extra water!

We have been practicing!

STAR QUALITY WORK

Today we listened for the 'b' sound in pictures.  We coloured, cut and glued them.

When we were finished Miss Ellis chose the top 5 that were Star Quality Work.

Star Quality Workers:
★ try their best- better than best
★ finish their jobs on time by using their time wisely
★ follow instructions

Here are this week's STAR QUALITY WORKERS! Well done team.

JUST FOR LAUGHS

Action Learning Question

We have decided on our question to learn about!
HOW DID MILK GET FROM THE COW TO THE FRIDGE?
What a cool question! We will just have to visit a farm to help us find out. We need to think about how this happened in New Zealand history.

These photos show us voting on what question we want to answer.  8 of us want ed to learn about sheep shearing and 23 of us wanted to learn about milking! Do you think we were tempted by chocolate milk and ice cream?

Poem of the Week

In our poem of the week we are looking for the letter b, and the words you and see. Every day we go on a letter and word hunt!

Loving the Library

Today we learnt about Contents Pages.  They are in non fiction books and tell us what is inside the book. The numbers tell us what page different information is on.

Look at us enjoying reading ♥

RAINY DAY MONITORS

We are so lucky to have such good rain monitors from the senior school come and look after us on a rainy day.
Here is one of our monitors reading us a story after we played and tidied up.

We Are Learning To:

Here are some of the things we are learning!

Handwriting/Writing:
♥ use Casey Shapes to form letters and words correctly
♥ write a simple sentence
♥ use the Spelling Blocks to spell words we don't know

Reading:
♥ read our stories fluently
♥ look at the first/middle/last letters to read words we don't know
♥ read words we use a lot

Maths:
♥ recognise patterns to 10
♥ say the number before any number to 20
♥ solve simple addition and subtraction problems

Look out for more to come in Action Learning/Social Sciences,  Art, Music, Gymnastics, e-learning, fitness and Maori. Ka pai Room 18!
We are hard workers who love to learn!

CLASS PHOTO REMINDER

Please remember we have our very first class photos on Thursday.   We need to be in correct uniform.
Handy hints:
☆  shirt buttons done up
☆  no skivvies or long sleeves under shirt
☆  best smiles :-D

Deciding what question we want to answer!

Part of Action Learning is deciding what question we want to answer.  Here are our ideas. Please help us decide what question to answer!

CONGRATULATIONS TO HAZZIE!

Well done Hazzie for winning your trophy for Horsemanship. What a huge achievement!  We asked Hazzie awesome questions about her trophy and horse.  We had a really good talk and learnt a lot!

More Action Learning Photos!

LOCK DOWN DRILL

Today we had a lock down drill where we practice what to do in an emergency.  We closed the windows and curtains,  locked our doors and quickly went undr the tables to be safe.
We did a great job and our teachers were very impressed!

Action Learning!

We are learning how to brainstorm and map our ideas under key words.  We brainstormed what we know about farm animals and got into groups to catergorise what we know.
Our key words are:
★Farm animals
★People on farms
★Things on farms
★ Other animals

Check out our mapping photos!

Our Farmer Parade!

On Friday, we dressed up as Farmers to take part in the Parade at School. The Parade helped us learn about New Zealand History. It started with some children dressed as the first Maori settlers and ended with well known New Zealanders.
Here are Room 18 as Ye Old Farmers!

Some silly farmers...

 Serious Farmers...