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.
It is my Mum’s birthday today and Olivia’s birthday tomorrow – big week in our house. It is lovely to see so many grandparents in and around Room 5. I think grandparents are really special people in children’s lives and it is wonderful to see so many doing pick up and drops offs and following our little blog – being part of our world. We have always been a close family and it is lovely to see many grandparents being a big part of your world too.
RAK stands for Random Acts of Kindness and some of you might remember our RAK week we had in term one. It means we do little kindness projects in the playground (and in the classroom). We are extra mindful to do something nice for our friends. In term 1 this meant we gave little notes to each other, asked different people to play with us, picked up a pencil that had dropped, went and got someone’s book bag who had forgotten – just lots of different little things to help make someone happy. There are endless ideas. It is always a nice way to finish the term, especially with tired little people.
Some ideas are…
Next week is our school Pick-n-mix competition. It is our major school fundraiser this year so hopefully you have been able to find sponsors for your child’s yellow form. We will be doing the different events next week. Thanks everyone for your support.
There are lots of teacher helpers in Room 5. Thanks Nadia for writing up the schedule for tomorrow.
The duck project was finished today. Well done ladies. It looks wonderful! This was a follow up activity Nadia and Vanessa did after reading a book about ducks.
Hope all the reading is going well at home. In year 1 getting children up and running with reading is the hardest thing we do. It is all about mileage – the more children read, the easier it gets.
We are learning family names in Te Reo. We also went over our colours. We did Te Reo Rainbow Fish.
Stella was the big ole sun so didn’t move but Finn (earth) and Vanessa (moon) showed the class how the sun, earth and moon orbit around each other.
We know so many facts about the moon! Tomorrow we will write about earth.
Finn has really taken Gabriel ‘under his wing’ and being a lovely big buddy to him. Such kindness. It is everything we promote in Room 5 – leadership and looking after each other.
Paddington had a wonderful weekend with Avery!