RED ROOM STARS

Congratulations Red Room and Caernarvon Room on a great show today.  You were wonderful.

Mrs Claus gave us a lollipop.

 

Red Room Update

Our Junior Show is on Tuesday afternoon and it starts pretty promptly at 1:30 p.m.  Get here early to get a good seat!  The junior syndicate will sing songs and classes will present an item.  We are performing with Caenaravon room.  

Costumes:
 Everyone is to wear Christmas colours on Tuesday - red, green, gold.  If Oliver, Harvey and Tylah have a Santa hat to bring, that would be great.  But don't go and buy one if you don't as we have a few here.

Ned needs black gumboots. 

Otherwise I think between Margie and myself we have everything that we need.

What have we been learning this week:

• Safe walking with Constable Beth and Kirsty 

LITERACY

• About the letter S 
• To look at the picture for clues when reading 
• To read left to right
• To point to the words as we read
• The word 'to' and revising 'the'  

NUMERACY

• To write the number 4 and revise 5
• Ordering numbers to 10
• Finger patterns to 10 on our fingers
• Counting a set of objects
• Pairs of numbers that make 5 
• Recognizing a missing number on a number line to 10 and stating that it is 'before or after' a number

We are still busy working with our Room 3 and Caenaravon room friends and Thursday we enjoy having our Pre-School friends to visit in the morning.

We have virtually finished our 'Flora and Fauna' topic, although we have been doing puppets with kiwi, stoat and possum characters with Caenaravon room.

Otherwise we have been learning words to lots of songs and having assembly practices!  Well done children.  You try very hard.

Have a lovely weekend Red Room children.

Our Thursday Visitors

We had 15 children come for a school visit on Thursday.  We enjoyed having them. 

Hugo is reading his reading book to Lido and Thomasin.

Willi is a super reader.

Ruby has a captive audience.

Evie is looking at Lucia's alphabet card.

Oliver reads the balloon story.  Did you see our balloon sentence on the red room wall?

Tylah is reading to Jack.

Jacob enjoys having Harvey read to him.

Great finger pointing Ned.

We also shared our published stories folder with our friends.

Ruby reads her 'click' cards.

Fabulous pointing Willi.

The girls work together to do a puzzle.

The boys are playing 'SNAP!'

Rachael and Ned do a Buzz Lightyear puzzle.

The boys worked together to do this tricky puzzle.

Isla and Tylah made the puzzle and then ordered them from 1-10.

Great job Girls!

See you again next Thursday everyone!

SAFE WALKING

Today Constable Beth and Kirsty taught us about walking safely around the roads.

To cross the road we need to:

• Stop
• Take a step back
• Look and listen
• Walk smartly across the road when it is clear
• Continue to look and listen as we cross

They also talked to us about:

• using a pedestrian crossing
• walking on the house side of the footpath away from traffic
• sneaky driveways
• walking on the grass when there is no footpath

We have a poem that we will bring home on Friday to help us remember how to cross the road safely.

The pedestrian crossing

A sneaky driveway

We can't go yet.  There is a car.

The boys look and listen as they cross the road.

Willi's Grandma has a sneaky driveway.  She told us that she backs out of it every morning around the same time as lots of children are walking to school.  She told us that she always looks very carefully.

There's no footpath so we are walking on the grass.

Constable Beth's police vehicle.

Thanks Constable Beth and Kirsty for teaching us about walking safely.

Lucia and Tylah have stepped back from the kerb to look and listen

What another busy week in the red room!

The children did very well in our sports day on Wednesday.  It was very hot, but everyone managed to give it their best.

Today we had Montessori visit us.  Lots of children have a birthday in the holidays so they'll be feeling happy and excited about starting school now that they've spent a lovely morning with us.

Lot of our red room pupils got their 'Welcome to School' certificates in assembly today.  Willi and Tylah got certificates for being super school kids too.

Sitting in assembly with our Montessori friends.

Montessori performing 'Twinkle, twinkle little star'.

Willi with his certificate.

Lucia with her special certificate.

Tylah with her certificate.

Ruby is proud of her certificate.

Hugo with his 'Welcome to School' certificate.

Ned is pleased with his certificate (I think!)

Oliver is a big school boy now.

Harvey with his certificate. 

Tylah with a super pattern "purple, purple, yellow, yellow ..."

Ruby is doing the long jump.

 Have a lovely weekend everyone.  

Thanks for being such great children.

Welcome to the Red Room Harvey

Today our eighth pupil started in the Red Room.  

We have grown quickly!

Harvey had a great first day at school.

Reading Time with Caenaravon pupils.

Reading Group Time.  Harvey is reading the book 'Sailors'.

Great looking at the picture for clues Lucia.

Wonderful finger pointing!