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.
In circle time today we talked about what makes us happy. We taught Brownie Bear that if you are feeling a bit sad or you have a bad dream, thinking about things that make you happy can help. Mrs Brown thinks about Whittakers Wellington Supreme Coffee Chocolate and that makes her happy. We also closed our eyes and thought of our favourite places.
This is how we do our sponsorship forms in our house. We just donate a final amount no matter how Olivia goes; we figure it is about participating and contributing to the school in this instance. She is still motivated to take part of course but it has just been how we have always done fundraisers like this. Just an idea for you anyway. Otherwise you donate money for every question your child gets correct in the quiz options or for every minute they do Jump Jam or skip; for example $1 per question correct or $1 for every minute – with a total of 20 in both instances. By the way for every $20 you raise you go into the draw for an Ipad mini. If you have any questions, please just ask.
For measurement today in maths we looked at language such as taller, shorter, wider, thinner, thicker, bigger and smaller.
I know I said we were not expecting any more little faces in Room 5, but we will actually be now welcoming lovely Shanaya next Wednesday. She visited us with her four month old baby brother Kenneth. Welcome Shanaya, we know you will love being part of the Room 5 family.
We helped Brownie today. Some children were chasing him and he didn’t like it. He even said,”Stop it I don’t like it”, and they kept chasing him at playtime. We gave Brownie Bear some great suggestions to help him.
With all our cross country training we haven’t had time for our cosmic kids yoga, but we enjoyed our session today.
We have a wonderful collection of fancy plasters in Room 5. I use to be a bit worried that it would create a classroom of hypochondriacs but surprisingly it doesn’t. But when the children are in need of a plaster, our fancy ones always seem to make the ouch better.
Vanessa and Nadia are very talented writers and so they were thrilled that one of their published works made the school newsletter. Not bad for year one huh? Super proud teacher!!! These two are quite incredible.
Poor Miss K was sick today so we didn’t have Te Reo. We did a BIG phonics session instead on Zz. We looked at z words and practised writing the letter Zz for handwriting.
