Thursday 28 November 2013

Welcome to the Red Room Lucia

Lucia started school on Thursday.  We are so lucky to have such a kind and hard working girl in our classroom.  We now have three girls and four boys in the Red Room!  

Next week Harvey will start on Monday and we will have Jack to visit on Thursday.

Arrowtown Montessori will be joining us on Friday morning.  Friday is assembly day and lots of Red Room children will be receiving their 'Welcome' certificates.

Next Wednesday 4th December is our Junior Athletics Day.
We will start at 10:00 a.m with running races.  After Morning Tea (11:00) we will begin our tabloids/athletics rotation.  Parents are welcome to stay and join their child for lunch after sports at half past 12.

Welcome to the Red Room Lucia.     

Thank you for a great week children.  Have a good weekend.

Tuesday 26 November 2013

Welcome to the Red Room Ruby


Ruby started school in the Red Room today.  
She was very lucky to go on a trip on her first day of school!  
We love having you in the Red Room Ruby.

Our Trip to the Kiwi Birdlife Park

Today we had a great visit to the Kiwi Birdlife Park.  We were lucky enough to see the two kiwi called Atar and Naioni feeding and moving around in the kiwi house.  After that we watched the show and learned some interesting facts about some New Zealand wildlife.  Some birds even flew right over our heads!  Thank you to Mrs Chisholm and Mrs Norman for coming on our trip with us.

Tylah and her Mum look at the big kiwi egg.

Ned and Hugo look at a stoat.  Stoats kill kiwi eggs and chicks.  

















Watching the conservation show.

Did you know that ...
  • A kiwi can live to be 50-60 years old.
  • There are 30 million possum in New Zealand.
  • The stoat is the worst predator of the kiwi.
  • A kiwi can lay up to four eggs a year.  It takes 3 months to hatch.
  • The size of the kiwi egg is like a human giving birth to a 3 or 4 year old child.
  • A tuatara can live to be 100-200 years old.
  • A tuatara is born with a third eye which closes over.
  • If we plant lots of native trees, it helps our native birds to survive.
  • The female kiwi is bigger than the male.
It was fun going on the bus.


We sit in the cafe and have a chat with Nicole.

A kakariki

Possums are pests and the best way that we can we can bring their numbers down is to buy products made with their fur.

A woodpigeon (keruru)

Some people were lucky enough to touch a tuatara.

Kiwi lay a very very big egg.

Monday 25 November 2013

What's happening in the Red Room?

Tomorrow we are going to the Kiwi Birdlife Park to learn about New Zealand wildlife.  Hooray!  Remember to bring a warm coat.

Some of our questions are:
  • Can kiwi climb?
  • Why do kiwis make a noise?
  • Why does the girl kiwi kick the boy kiwi?
  • How can we help to look after our special New Zealand wildlife?
  • Why do kiwi sleep in the day?
In handwriting we are studying the letter 'f'.

In reading groups we are learning:
  • to look at the pictures for clues
  • to point to the first word and read left to right
  • to point to each word as we read
It is sausage day tomorrow.  We will be back from our trip if anyone wanted to order a sausage.

Welcome to Arrowtown School Oliver

Oliver started school today.  He had a super day in the Red Room.
Number recognition.  Put a counter on the number that Mrs Culling says.

Maths Time

We are learning about pairs of numbers that make 5.
We have great mathematicians in the Red Room.
We use our fingers to make 5.

Making 5 on the fives frames.  Oliver has made 4 and 1 makes 5.  Ned has 3 and 2 makes 5.

Ned is making 2 and 3 make 5.

Can you say what Tylah has made?

It is fun using the dice to for maths.  Hugo and Ned have 5 and 0 makes 5.  Oliver has a double: 4 and 4 makes 8.  Wow!

3 and 2 makes 5.  2 and 3 makes 5 too.

We used a peg and a number line to help us do a tricky maths sheet.


Sunday 24 November 2013

A fun website to help with learning the alphabet

http://www.starfall.com/

Hugo and Ned started school today!

Ned and Hugo had a wonderful first day of school.

  Well done boys.

Maths Time


4 and 1 makes 5

2 fingers and how many more make 5?

Reading Time


The bubble race.  Today we read a book called 'Bubbles', then we went into the hall and blew bubbles.  We watched the bubbles go up, up, up... down, down, down... and pop! pop! pop! pop!

Working with Room three after lunch.

 


Thursday 21 November 2013

PRE SCHOOL VISIT US IN THE RED ROOM

PreSchool came to visit us for the morning.
They sang the National Anthemn in our assembly.  They watched Willi and Tylah get their 'Welcome to School' certificates.
We took everyone for a walk around school to show them the playground, the toilets, the library, the office, the dental clinic and the sick bay.  The children met Mrs Young in the office and they met the Principal, Mr Harris.
After morning tea we looked at their lovely profile books and then we played together.  We had a lovely time.











Thanks for coming to visit PreSchool.  See you again soon.

 

Wednesday 20 November 2013

WE LOVE THURSDAY

On Thursday we have visits from the children who are counting down the number of sleeps until they turn five.  On Monday our class size will double to four pupils when Ned and Hugo start.  Yaa hoo!


Ned is writing h on the whiteboard.

Good job Ruby and Willi.


We said "Down the pole and up over the valley", to help us form a beautiful h.

h for house.

This is Tylah and Willi ordering numbers. They had to count the pictures on the card and then order the cards from 1-10.


Tylah and Willi said that 7 is an odd number because one plane is flying on its own and doesn't have a buddy. Willi said that he was an odd number until Tylah started school.  Now there are two children in the red room ... an even number.
Lovely work girls.
Willi and Tylah were making groups within five. Three yellow counters and two orange makes five counters.




Tuesday 19 November 2013

CROSS COUNTRY




Tylah is warming up for the big race.

And she's off and racing!


On your marks, get set, go!

What a great finish Willi.


Congratulations Willi and Tylah on a great cross country run.  

You were both so fast.