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!

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.

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.

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.