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.
Nadia and Vanessa are doing a duck project after reading a book about ducks. They even did some research on the internet and are now putting together a poster to share with the class.
While the children wait to read with the teacher they do different literacy activities around the classroom.
Hope you had a lovely weekend. Olivia’s laser tag party was a huge success, I think Mr Brown ended up being the happiest commando combat player at the party! Big kids and little kids really harnessed their inner Star Wars rebel alliance vibe. Great fun.
Didn’t they do well!!! It is a lot of pressure and lots of hustle and bustle to get use to. Well done to the Room 5 little people. Your first cross country is a big achievement! I couldn’t be more proud of everyone.
We did some Cosmic Kids yoga – namasta.
Some cute Hillary bunnies!
We have Olivia’s 12th birthday party on Sunday. We are entertaining 12 competitive twelve year olds who will be harnessing their inner ninja at Laser Tag.
Children grow up so fast! I loved this little verse I saw yesterday – so funny and so true.
My girls were little once too.
All the teachers are allocated a school house to be in, along with the children. Guess which house I am in? Families/siblings are always in the same house, so Georgia and Olivia were/are in Te Kanawa (red) with me. Fingers crossed for cross country today! The four houses are Sheppard (yellow), Hillary (blue), Snell (green) and Te Kanawa (red).
Next term I will be sharing with you an app called Seesaw. Some of you with older children will be use to this system of seeing your children’s work already. It is a private way for your child to digitally share their work with you and you can comment on it. We are working on it at the moment in Room 5 and our big buddy class will be helping us to get up and running. We will still have the blog for class sharing. Seesaw is a lovely way to be personally connected with your child’s learning throughout the year.
Ms Ali (Bella) is in Room 5 today. She is the reliever teacher that comes in three days a term to cover my release. Bella use to teach year one at Kohia Terrace nearly five years ago – I remember how amazing all the art was in her class back then. We are lucky she is doing a gorgeous space art project with our little people at the moment, it is a real strength of hers. Ms Ali has two children, Jacob and Jamila who are adorable. If you don’t see Ms Ali today you might get to see her over the next two terms.
I was in the office this morning and these two super stars whizzed past doing some leader jobs for Ms Ali – returning the roll to the office. Well done ladies!