We Are All Growing!

Student of the Week.

Congratulations to you Hayden for being our student of the week.  Hayden has become a true fearless writer as seen by his wonderful narrative called "Lost".  

We are growing fast!

We measured our growth this week, and as you see the children have been making lots of growth, not just physically, but also as little learners.

This week I have continued my individual assessments of the children.

All the children are very keen to have their turn to show me all that they know, and so they should.  I have been thrilled at the wonderful growth that they have all made.

Here is Gracie showing you all how I assessed her reading.

Sport

Sport with Mrs Krake consists mainly of games.  We focus on following the rules, playing fairly, being 

co-operative and inclusive. 

Here the children are playing 'Stuck in the Mud'.

Ask your child how we play this game at school.

We learnt how to play 'Tunnel Ball' this week.

This took a bit of practice to get right.

Once we all got the hang of it we all had great fun.

Ask your child about this game.

Another favorite is 'Everybody is It'.

Ask your child how we play this game too.

Maths

We have continued to work on our skill to sequence random numbers from 1 to 15.

This week in 'Racing Rockets' the children had to write their numbers on the rockets.

Look at how well they did in this activity.

Well-done everybody!

Zara here is proud of her very clever work where she had to filled in the number grid.

Week 5, Term 2

This week saw the start our my formal assessments in preparation for report writing.  It has been an exciting time to have this opportunity to stop and reflect on how far we have come so far this year.  I will continue to assess our progress next week.

Student of the Week

Congratulations to Aniston who was our very worthy student of the week for caring for our school.  Aniston has led an enthusiastic little groups of children who buzz about our school grounds collecting rubbish which has been thoughtlessly discarded.  Well-done Aniston, we all need more people like you!

The Writing Workshop

This week we have been writing our own short narratives about being lost.  

We wrote our 'books' over 3 days, focusing on the beginning, middle and end of the story.  

Each session begins with me demonstrating how I do my writing for each section.  I think aloud so the children can see how I compose and then write my story.

We had a big focus on the illustrations for our stories, which we do first.

Our illustrations act as our planning for our writing, and need to contain lots of detail.

The children all wrote wonderful varied stories that were such a joy to read.

Just look at some of them here.

Their ability to hear sounds in words is growing by leaps and bounds.

But it is the creation of these stories with their wonderful creative ideas which is so outstanding.

You must pop in before or after school and ask your child to show you their work in their 'Wow' books, you will be very proud.

Hovering Helicopters

In craft we made these hovering helicopters to tie in with our letter of the week, 'H,h'.

Maths

This week we have been focusing on the value of numbers.  

In our game of 'Racing Rockets' we had to sequence random numbers from smallest to largest.

The children greatly enjoyed this game.

They seemed to tune into the concept here of number value very quickly.

Do ask your child how they played this game.

Health

In our study of Health we have been looking at the importance and value of fruit. We learned about how fruit contain vitamins that keep our bodies healthy.  

We made these amazing fruit baskets in craft as part of our study.  Look closely and you will see that we used different techniques for each fruit.