Kohia Terrace School. Year 1. The life of 5 year olds. We want to invite parents and family into our classroom. Come and watch our adventures and learn about what we are learning. So when the children come home and you ask, "What did you do today?", the children will never be able to say, "nothing" ever again…our days are busy and learning constant. We love sharing our special first year of school life with you.
Ms Ali has put so much of her own time into the amazing space art work that will be put up tomorrow. Come and have a look! Jess will be revamping the classroom tomorrow, moving current art around to make room for the beautiful space art that the children have done over three sessions. Ms Ali was in here late yesterday afternoon in her own time finishing them off and I know she has done lots at night also. Isn’t she amazing? Love and dedication – it is much appreciated Ms Ali.
A sneaky peek…
We talked some more about orbitting today. The sun, the earth and the moon and how they orbit around each other. We had a go pretending to be the sun, earth and moon.
We had a go at some buddy reading today.
Julian and Alexandra had a busy reading session doing lots of activities.
Jess taught Alexandra and Julian how to google facts about Mars. We always google and add ‘for kids’ at the end.
We did some great Mars writing today. So many of the children have finished their first writing book. In year one I believe children need to be writing every day to learn the skills required.
I know picking your children up early today is an inconvenience to you so apologies for that. As a Mum I know it is a tricky juggle, (although Olivia was thrilled to have a half day hee hee hee). For me this action teachers are currently taking is as much about being a Mum with children currently in the education system as me being a teacher.
The teacher shortage is horrifying to be honest. I won’t bore you with the stats but the numbers are alarming. For me this campaign is about the recruitment of great people into the profession and the retention of so many fabulous teachers. Education is so important and some value needs to be given back into the profession in order for children to thrive in the future. Most things always come down to people in the end, you need good people. We need to fix this.
We played a skip counting maths game called Buzz today.
Phonics knowledge is great for working out unknown words. We have words that we want children to recognise instantly – these are the words that are commonly used in the English language and are essential for reading and writing. Other words we need to learn techniques for sounding out.
Alphabet and phonics work is so important for our new little friends who have just started school.
Olivia brought little puppy Poppy into Room 5 to show the children. Poppy lives at Mr Brown’s house and the girls love their new little doggy friend.
…and most of you will know we sadly lost our much loved dog Milo in March. He was an English Springer Spaniel – the lord and master of our house. The girls and I will be getting a golden retriever puppy at the end of the year, we will get a little girl and we will name her Molly Willow Brown, (I wanted to call her Maggie but the girls out voted me). We have lots of friends with golden retrievers so they are special to us.
3-Way Learning Conference booking is now open.
Please click on the following link www.schoolinterviews.co.nz
Go to Make A Booking
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Reports are out next week and 3-Way Learning Conferences are in the last week of term. Tuesday (3 July) all day, (no school for children but please bring them to the teacher conference if you have booked that day), and Thursday (5 July) afternoon/evening.