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.
The letters of the week are Cc and Kk (because they make the same sound), so we wrote about cooks and cakes in writing today. We did lots of work on how to use our writing cards properly. The most important thing is we are giving writing a go and remembering mistakes are how we learn.
Namaste…we started our day with some yoga kids for fitness.
With Alison in Wellington doing busy Principal business, I got to take Room 5 to the library today which I loved. We got some new books to read for the classroom also!
We had a lovely surprise today. Mrs Turner turned 30 yesterday so Room 4 had a little party just before lunchtime and invited us!!!!!
Room 4 made invitations for us and came into our classroom and read them out loud. We were very excited to be included in the celebration! Happy birthday Mrs Turner.
We had a cute little dinosaur in the classroom today…very relaxed in her reading attire.
Mrs Hall is Nadia’s gorgeous teacher grandmother. She is taking Room 5 for the morning block while Mrs Brown does teacher jobs. Every teacher gets a certain amount of classroom release time during the week – team leaders get 1 day release every week and also beginning teachers while the rest of us get blocks here and there. This happens in all schools. We are so lucky to have Mrs Hall today 😍.
I know your little people are years away from being teenagers but here is a snapshot into my world this weekend and hanging out with teens – photos must have filters on them ALWAYS.
We went to Wagamamas on Friday night for dinner to celebrate our certificates. Georgia was studying very hard for a couple of year 11 exams she has this week but we did manage to sneak out to the movies on Saturday night as a study break.
The girls were better at our bunny breakfast competition than my attempt!
In Room 5 we have 2 Paddington Bears that go home with the children for weekend adventures. Families get to take photos, draw pictures and write about what they get up to when they are not at school. It is a great way to get to know each other. Paddington Bear was Mrs Brown’s favourite story when she was 5 years old. The latest Paddington Bear movies are family favourites also! Can’t wait to see what Nadia and Isabella get up to this weekend with their Paddington Bears.
Some children use our Reading Eggs system at home. We have lots and lots and lots of children through out the whole school who use it BUT the first person to earn an online certificate in the ENTIRE school for this year is our Martin!!!!! We are so so proud of you Martin!!!!!! So Martin here is a Room 5 certificate to celebrate your success.
Congratulations to Phoebe and Avery who got school certificates today.
What a lovely surprise that Mrs Brown got a principal certificate today. Was such a lovely treat especially because Olivia, my daughter, got a principal certificate too for all her fundrasing work for Tonga. We will be going out to dinner tonight to celebrate!